The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, November 14, 1974, Page Page 7, Image 7
Deacons
provide
Dietzel
finale
New distribution meth
Home tick4
Tickets for Carolina's 13 regulal
season home basketball games wil
be distributed in a new manner this
season.
The old system of segregating
distribution times according to It
numbers has been done away witi
in favor of a system where all
students may enter the coliseum ail
any time during distribution and
tickets will be allotted until they
run out.
Of course crowd control will sti
be exercised at the door so as
prevent a flooding of the coliseur
concourse, but as students leav,
those at the front of the line will b
allowed to enter.
Another major rule change als<
exists. Students must now pick uj
tickets in their own class line. So
sophomore holding a senior ID, fo:
instance, will have to pick uj
sophomore tickets, not senior as he
could in the past.
Much of the cause of the change
in ticket distribution method:
resulted from the hassle created b:
the Notre Dame of last year, whei
tickets were denied to man:
students because they had run out
"We ran out of tickets fiv4
times," Roger Bocco, .the chie
ticket distribution man said of th4
Notre Dame game. "We ran out
the first time at 8:00 and we had t4
force people to wait until 9:30 andia
lot of them had to go to claps
"AMso, it wasn't clear in tli
student bill whether those left OVE
from the 8:00 pickup should no firi
BY JAMES P. HERSH
Asst. Sports Editor
In -Paul Dietzel's last
game coaching in
Williams-Brice Stadium,
Carolina will meet Wake
Forest Saturday night.
Wake Forest, probably
the worst major college
football team in the nation
is 0-9 this year and has been
outscored by an incredible
304 points to 37. That is and
average .score of 34-4.
In Wake Forest's third
through seventh games of
the season, it went through
a five-game streak in
which it did not score at all,
while it let its opponents
score 210 points.
The average score in those
games was 42-0.
The Deacons have
played some good teams.
For instance, they have
been beaten by. Oklahoma
(63-0), Penn State (55-0)
and Maryland (47-0) in
consecutive weeks. North
Carolina (31-0) and
Virginia (14-0) were also
involved in Wake Forest's.
long scoreless string.
In its other games Wake
has been beaten by North
Carolina State (33-15),
William and Mary (17-6)
and most recently Clemson
(22-9) and Duke (23-7).
All of these unusual
scores seem to mean that
Dietzel will close out his
career in the Cockpit with a
win over a school he has
beaten consistently
throughout his USC career.
Going into the game he has
a 6-2. record against the
ods
Rt procedurt
or get in the back of the 9:30 line."
Bocco said.
"Now we're going to take care of
most of the people interested. We
won't aggrevate people all day
long. People will be sure that if
they stand in line for a reasonable
length of time they will get a
ticket."
The new system would seem to
Ticket schedule
o The distribution schedule for
a USC home basketball games is as
* follows:
For the Dec. 2 Bucknell game:
Nov. 25.
y For the Dec. 11iSt. Josephs game:
Dec.4.
For the Jan. 4 Manhattan game:
Dec .12.
For the Jan. 6 Fordham game:
De c. 13.
For the Jan. 18 Davidson game:
Ja n. 13.
SFor'the Jan. 25 Marshall game:
Jan. 20.
For the Jan. 28 St. Louis game:
Jan.21.
-For the Feb. 5 Pittsburgh game:
Ja n.29.
For the Feb. 12 Georgia Southern
game: Feb.6
For the Fep. 22 Marquette game:
F eb.14 .
For the Feb. 26 Canisius game:
Fe b.19.
For the March 1 Georgia Tech
e game: Feb. 21.
r For the March 3 Villanova game:
it Feb. 24.
Deacons.
The game will also be the
final home game for a
nfimber of USC players
Who will be ending -their
careers following the
Clemson game 'next week.
All 12 Carolina seniors on
the squad will serve as
captains in the game.
.Jeff Grantz, the junior
quarterback, is expected to
be ready to play more this
week,after missing the past
three games except for
brief appearances in last
week's game with Ap
- palachian State. Grantz
has been hampered with
- leg injuries most of the
year, which has kept him
from living up to some of
his pre-season billing.
Grantz has gained 217
yards rushing and com
pleted 25 of 58 passes this
year.
Ron Bass, who played
two exceptional games
while Grantz was sidelined
leading Carolina to a .win
over North Carolina by
rushing for 211 yards and
to 27 points against*North
Carolina State, is still out
of action with-a shoulder
injury. He will not play
at all this week.
With Grantz expected to
play more, running back
Jay Lynn Hodgin will
spend more time at' his
normal position. Hodgin
was moved to quarterback
for rmost of - the Ap
palachian game, and did a
commendable job there,
rushing for 140 yards in 24
attempts and completing
his two passes for 78 yards.
changes
lend itself to the possible return of
the all-night sleep- out at the
coliseum.
Before the current semester
concludes, the University will
distribute tickets for four games,
two of which will be played prior to
the semester's end and two which
will be played over the holiday
break.
On Nov. 25, tickets will be
distributed to the Dec. 2 encounter
with Bucknell, which is the season
opener.
On Dec. 4, tickets for the Dec. 11
affair with St. Josephs will be
handed out, while on Dec. 12 and
13, tickets for games on Jan. 4 and
Jan. 6 with Manhattan and For
dham will be passed out.
Ticket - officials also announce
they are still accepting ap
plications for the first Carolina
Classic tournament on Dec. 20 and
21 in the Coliseum. Tickets, $12.00
each, -are available via application
at the USC athletic ticket office.
And students must pay $1.00 to
attend the Nov. 25 intra-squad
game, a charity affair with
reserved seats.
Tickets to the traditional con
cluding practice event of the
preseason will cost faculty -and
staff $2.00 and the general public
$4.00.
The tournament, which includes
LSU, Duke and Princeton, and the
intra-squad game, are the only
home basketball affairs which will
not see tickets distributed in the
usual way.
Steve Parker
Sports Editor
The Embarrassment Bowl
Much mention was made this past weekend of how
postseason bowl officials and several teams already
selected for postseason bowls became embarrassed by
losses experienced by several of the icipant.Ueams.
But hopefully more will come out of te long list of bowl
bound losers than just embarrassment.
Although losses by Cotton Bowl-bound Penn State and
Sugar Bowl-bound Florida can be easily written off
those teams have experienced good enough seasons to
merit their bowl bids-losses by some of the lesser bowl
bound teams will have to make officials pause and
examine the situation they've stumbled into.
Both teams in the Sun Bowl, North Carolina and
Mississippi State, went down in defeat this past weekend
making one wonder just what calibre of play the Sun
Bowl will entertain this year.
North Carolina not only lost its most recent encounter,
but the Tar Heel squad was embarrassed by a Clemson
Tiger team, 54-32, that appears more worthy of the bowl
invitation.
But, because the officials of almost every bowl ex
tended invitations during the first two weeks of
November there is no backing out now. The Sun Bowl
does not only have North Carolina as a participant. team,
but, because of the early bid offers, the bowl is stuck
with them.
The Sun Bowl is not alone in its apparent premature
error in selection. Vanderbilt, which has enjoyed a
fairly strong season including an upset of Florida, was
invited to thePeach Bowl prior to last week's meeting
with Kentucky. But Vanderbilt was ambushed in that
game, 38-12, leaving its probable encounter with the
third best team in the Southwest Conference, Texas
Tech, as unattractive to the football fans in Atlanta.
The two leaders in the Southwest Conference, Texas
and Texas A & M, also lost and dampened the at
tractiveness of the Cottorr Bowl, but those teams and
Penn State are still worthy of bowl participation.
All in all, although several bowl-bound teams lost this
weekend, a few of those losses point out the weakness in
extending bids during the midge of the season, as most
bowls chose to do this year.
Certainly all the losing bowl teams could rebound
these next few weeks and make the bowl selectors
correct in all their choices, but it would seem as if the
bowl selectors themselves wouldn't want to take such a
risk themselves of embarrassing the bowls they
represent.
It would seem as if the wisest course of action the
NCAA officials and Football Coaches Association could
make when they both meet in Washington, D.C. in
January, would be to reinstall the requirement that bowl
bids not be announced until the last week of November.
The rule was lifted this season and already the bowl
officials trying to outguess each other has shown why
the rule existed in the first place.
Interesting visitors
When Carolina's football team p lays home games, the
travelling party usually includes administration of
ficials, scholarship donors and the like. When the
football team ventured to North Carolina State the
travelling party included two members of the Board of
Trustees, reviving rumors of Lou Holtz as a candidate
for USC's next coach.
No gubernatorial candidates
Apparently some members of the Carolina com
munity believed the column which appeared in the last
issue of The Gamecock which jokingly mentioned Pug
Ravenel as a possibility for next coach at Carolina.
Ravenel, as far as The Gamecock knows, never has
expressed an interest in the job. However, Richard
Nixon has.