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% USCbi Carolina fans, long able to fa basketball for comfort when ot let them down, are now faced w realization: something has ha Gamecock basketball. A proi was once among the nation's b languishing among the mediocr also-rans. This apparent demise haj slowly one could hardly notice ii compare the program to a chilc filled balloon, flying high and firet hut slnu/lv sinking as t gradually seeps out. That an; not be a good one, but what h; this. Carolina, once a team NCAA playoff bids seemed as not make a post-season tournan kind this year. And, with a 6-! date, USC's chances of winninf seem slim at best. Most unus To fullv aoDreciate the requires a look at what has hap year since Carolina was seem Tangc By Billy Cox The first Tangerine Bowl foot game was held in 1947. Just be; the event was scheduled to be someone noticed that the hosts forgotten to bring the game 1 Twenty-eight years have elaj since the Tangerine Sport Association's (TSA) first cracked, but somehow, early p setting tradition seems to alv muddle things up. With a 1 iuck, mougn, Tangerine n [are yo typica I T | JL JLJL.1^11 JL ! THE FR IFUTUR] ILOOK A Pi Kap | If you're I 1^11 771J ^ c* it & ? jl ? : | mail this? i|| Campus I I 85110 USC wmtmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmm _ 1 _ isKeioa By Sports Edit 11 Kontr An ik ^ ^.C fl%/% n/\11/\rfS n aa uaviv vii u1c tup til uic v^uucgia her sports Carolina basketball \ ith a stark 1969-70, when th ippened to Gamecocks won all gram that Atlantic Coast Confe est is now only to lose in the fina es and the when Roche was inju was the best a Carolii jpened so The next year saw t. One can Tom Owens era. as 1's helium- 23-6 and made it to th bright at Carolina's averag he helium tendance was 12,5 alogy may Coliseum listed seati appened is The next two to whom productive ones, wit sured may to the NCAA region lent of any now a curious 5 record to developing: fewer I 20 games attending home ga ual. longer a member of 1 situation weren't as interests penedeach play Niagara, Creij tingly near ture and Canisius trine Be ? Zo people may someday be ab ball exploit it's vast potential, fore Until only recently, gin, powerhouses such as Ju I 1 C..1 IlciU V/Uiicgc, mui 110 nai vcjr, oui, >all. and St. Vincent prowled with >sed fragile confines of the sta s walls. In the past three j egg however, the TSA has aim ace- grabbing bigger names /ays Georgia, Florida, and Caroli ittle hopes of drawing larger ci >owl into Orlando. |(J lliifiU I L FRAT1 AKE A LO * mi?X?lVT?rr,1 ,/i i ?ii\mi E TAKE lT THE PH A pet ^Lipua interested I 5)606 or joupon to |ca: *ox JCA Sport 11: wha tor George Morris te basketball realm. Carolina, < vas at its pinnacle in tendance v le John-Roche-led Two yeai their regular-season of a declin rence (ACC) games, evident. C ils of the ACC playoffs had a big c red. The 25-3 reecord to depend la team has ever had. Winters to the end of the Roche- winning 22 the Gamecocks went center Tor e Eastern Regionals. future seei e home game at- But the d 23. The Carolina yet fully u: ng capacity is 12,401. lack of Win seasons were also was the U h Carolina making it newcomer: lals both times. But Jackie Gil phenomenon was that Bosv Carolina fans were dissention. mes. USC was no Five in '75 the ACC, and fans just Perhaps id in seeing Carolina came on F ghton, St. Bonaven- in Coliseui > instead of North Canisius. JPWi oks to expi ile to And perhaps the biggest nai all-little-known but defei elite three-time champ Miami of anita has never gotten the even br Ross, deserves from the pollsters, in the irony s that the Redskins, a idium the nation's best teams, s - ?- ? ?? nii/i/i/\on rears, uicy ic|icai uicu auv-tcas ed at year, may not be invited -like because they draw less tha na--in couraging number of follower rowds The crowds did pour intc infested central Florida--m< OF THE SRNITY? OK AT V WITH A A KES f raternn .ME MPIJS BOX MPUS PHONE NC 8 t's wr 21emson, Duke, etc. T ;ac cfill nrattv crnnH thn r UU U V* A A |/? VVVJ gUUUy MIV rs ago, however, the firs e in basketball power b oach Frank McGuire no :enter, and the Gamecocl on scrapping play and win. The team surprised ! games, and with 6-9 tr n Bos well waiting to pl? med bright again in 1974 ecline continued for reas< nderstood. Perhaps it v> iters' backcourt leadershi eam's failure to adjust s Boswell and freshman loon. Some have even veil was a cause of Whatever the reasons " was profound dissapoir the crowning insult to th 'eb. 26 when the smallest n history came to see US Instead, they stayed h< ansion j me of them Carolina fa iding in attendance, Ohio- obvious the TSA eak it with a gorilla on The Tangerine Bowl mong be blamed for tr hould That was merely next Mother Natui back shivering spe< n en- Winnebagoes loi s buzzer squeaker * lake- what the fans ?st of they were part ?$$$$? which included :|i seats. The upf !' section of end | blocked off. In < Tangerine |i edition of seats finished and uns 30,000 lawsuits !;<; should the the ground, the ;;; off the area. patroling the e :j: required to sig the TSA from li of a collapse. I [yj| "If 1 D/ < 4 as I 121 ong? he at- watch Clemson pla; ugh. television. When Carol t hints to watch Clemson play, ecame wrong. longer So that brings us to t ks had no longer has Bosw Brian dissention he may ha\ 1 most, also miss his points i ansfer stead, Carolina has ha< ly, the frontcourt and an incoi -75. McGuire has been fore jns not man defense-somethii ras the longed for-but lacks th p, or it successful. A three-gu to the been implemented, bt guard already small frontcou hinted And if the first three hi team indication, the Colisei , "Top drop again this year itment. games with Notre Dan e team What is at the cru: crowd McGuire says players < JC play ome to Please See for bright ithful--but to those What 01 it was painfully many fans j was still operating ground levc AV. fkn it 1 1 I iu? uai.iv. wn, uic uieu iietKb s people shouldn't the tiny, m le rotten weather. zone scorefc an uncanny act of fortunate f< re that drove press who c :tators to their heights of th ig before the final there were 3. weren't too 5 > realized was that it doesn't r of a sellout crowd cold wind 1 over 30,000 empty purple, 'T >er decks and one rained. zone seats were There w< j rebuilding stage., blunders kn Bowl's newest joint press ? was deemed un- coaches--ai ;afe, and to prevent before Caro from flooding in posed to arr j structure crash to red carpet TSA wisely roped leaving the In fact, the police Or nearly t mpty stands were governorJan n releases freeing the stadium ability in the event a ticket nor Please BBBMnHHRMttMHHHMnflMHMSMfa O m. m m ^tO*. \YS and NK3? Ay after 2 p.m. I College St. y Maryland on ina fans stay home something must be iiis year. Carolina ell and whatever e caused, but they ?nd rebounds. Incl to rely on a small isistent backcourt. ed to use a man-tolg many fans have e players to make it ard offense has also it it puts Carolina's iff in uiArco oViono I* v AAA V? V/l QV OliU^V. ume games are any im attendance will (despite upcoming ne and Marquette). k of the problem? are the essence and. MORRIS, Page Six future le had, in effect, were E>erched amid wooden ;1 bleachers, craning :o look behind them at idget league-like end >oard. For the unjw members of the limbed to the dizzying e press box to find that iiu t>K?u> ten, incy surprised. "As long as ain,"said one, as the was turning his face 11 be all right." It ire other traditional a. Like scheduling a conference for both n hour-and -a-half linafs plane was supive. Or rolling out the for the Miami players plane-red side down. >arring South Carolina les B. 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