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^^rm^msaBSStnutntsaBBtKKBK^armammaaaaaam Co By Billy Baker Jim Carlen hi Florida and he snow drifts in C same day. Yes, recruiting athlet Carolina fans college football ] j finished the regu the Tangerine E Visions of greatn into the future. I onrl liic ctnff oon I uiiu Aito oiiiii. van i decide the realit "Recruiting g< said. "My coac j always how good athletes you reci ICarlen said he 1 three nights sin because it is imi recruit as the h "THE MOST f; the world of rec have this war b< . recruit when he ^ssi Carolina guard J ...Gilloon leac Jfr irlen ret is been to the orange groves ol has been seen trudging through >hio and Pennsylvania all in the USC's head football coach is bus> es for his program now. witnessed a small miracle in last season when the Gamecocks lar season 7-4 and were invited tc lowl in Carlen's first year, ess fill their minds when they peer lowever, whatever success Carlen find on the road as they recruit will ies of these visions. ets harder every year," Carlen :hing staff is finding out it's not VOU coach, hut hnw tfond arp thp uit." has been home with his family only ce Christmas. "I travel a lot portant for me to visit with each ;ad coach." ascinating business in the world is ruiting," Carlen said. "You car *tween the father or mother of a is deciding. And then there are BSk. % -mH M>'r' ' ' ' n|JEU^ 9B3niE?6&*v ackie Gilloon looks for openii Is Gamecocks with 9() assists bruiting, [ r By H^H Hj^HHr : > cases when his girlfriend wants nlarp and his nr?rf?ntc Hrm't All important to the recruit, i "More than anything, we te i football is not the only thing in "There are a lot more things to c i them about making good enough it, school is not easy for every< For Carlen, recruiting begins < into the night. "The other day I r in thp mnrnino p?r?H c*nt thrrmcrh c ... D O"" *. stopping for anything to eat," Ca i it again. My coaching staff is tY. and we all don't mind spendi recruiting." i REPRESENTATIVES OF i allowed to visit a recruit three t ; one of his assistants makes th I^BS Hf '' <w':'.^^HH^^^| H BB Photo by Rusie >g ; on the season 4 mer ??^ Ui 1 hi I h( ??J tv him to go a certain th of these things are g( le 11 the athlete that d( life," Carlen said, onsider. We talk to m grades. Let's face ar 3ne." Vi sarly and lasts well af started out at five id it midnight without vf rlen said. "I'll say le best in America, ing a lot of time st; w? to each school are be imes. Carlen said ' e initial visit and g Mor Carolina's b this week, bef( games. Coach Franl JB game winning p.m., Thursda I Saturday gam< series with Foi H and is 4-0 aoaii w 62 in Columbi English's tip-i English, wh consecutive Gamecocks in average and ii 10.2 mark. Enj John Roche a -? I airinuc atui ill BgHsR season ends. Forward averaging 17 rebounds to r categories. Gii is scoring at i H Bob Mathias ; BBBMB and 6.1 rebo Gilloon avera game and set? 16 assists ags week. Gilloon I season. Fordham h? ir in WV OtCfY 11 game losing ! top scorer is 5 1?$^ game. Kevin F Dunphy 9.1; ai Fordham de TC&jk and St. John's has defeated \ St. John's. |k Pittsburgh ? Panthers lost I defeated Tern] Marquette by ii Jeffeoat Carolina reti Notre Dame Furman 90-82 televised by tl ica 9s be sually shows a film of the ghlights. Carlen makes the s< id at this time he en i come visit the university if he ?serve the final visit for sign Although Carlen said he has ?st players in America this ye vo years before anyone can r< leir true football potential. >od an athlete is going to be," \ ast two years after he has ?termine how good a player 4There are people who thinl oment he steps on campus," e very mistaken. At Tex; rginia I never seriously eval ter his sophomore year. By tl ea what kind of recruitine ^ ;ars before." LAST SEASON Carlen and li art in recruiting after USC's aited until mid-December t< Paul Dietzel. Carlen and gan work on Jan. 1. forlnn onrl Uir. - J v^oi iuu anu Hid dldil e road gs 5 Gameco ordham, asketball foam h^nric < ??- m?... \r IU1 11CW I I are the Gamecocks come home f< < McGuire's Gamecocks take a streak to Madison Square Garden y before moving over to Pitts! 3 with the Pitt Panthers. Carolina -dham, including a U4-87 victory! ist Pittsburgh. The Gamecocks e O 1 O f# 'v? * 1 u iuoi jcdl (JI1 AltiX n at the buzzer. 10 has started 103 4k games, leads the jjHHH scoring with a 22.0 JK i rebounding with a glish should surpass s South Carolina's ^^HHh ig leader before the H ank second in both flHlii lard Mike Dunleavy B \ 14.6 average with weraging 8.6 points V unds. Guard Jack ges 7.3 points per a school record with linst Villanova last las 90 assists for the is a 7-15 record and ALEX EP ig to break a four ...leads streak. The Rams' -11 guard Stan Frankowski, avei allon, a 6-5 forward, is averaging id 6-10 center Kevin Collins 8.9 poii feated Yale and lost to Temple, I among opponents with the 'ale, Temple and Kent State, and ind Carolina have played three co ;o South Florida by seven points, t pie by 17. South Carolina lost to Sc 12 and defeated Temple by sev< urns home to play in-state rival F Feb 21 at Carolina Coliseum. r on Jan 31. The Notre Dame gai le NBC-TVS network. *st previous season's econd visit himself courages an athlete hasn't before. "We j ing," Carlen said, signed some of the ar, he said it will be ^;ilv rppllv J - J X.T rou never know how lesaid. "It takes at played for you to will be. k a kid is great the Carlen said. "They as Tech and West uated a player until len you have a good year you had two lis staff Kot a late Board of Trustees 3 select a successor his stall officially ! to places like Sec page 13 J lines >cks Pitt >rk City and Pittsburgh ar five of their final six 13-6 record and a six to meet Fordham at 9 )urgh for an 8 p.m., holds a 4-1 lead in the ast year in Columbia, dged the Panthers 64 wtja/Bgp 4GLISH ; USC scorers raging 13.1 points per 11.1; 6-5 forward Rich nts per game. <ent State, Marquette Gamecocks. Carolina lost to Marquette and mmon opponents. The o Marquette by 11 and >uth Florida by two, to in. urman on Feb. 18 and The Gamecocks beat ne will be regionally