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I I Walsh a tor job i From staff reports Don nip Walsh Carolina assnria coach, has applied for the head c the University of Colorado and ! name from consideration for the Fred Cosotti, associate ath Colorado, said Tuesday that Wa office Monday and expressed "a terest" in the job. Colorado rec plication Tuesday. Walsh refused comment on th< Cosotti declined to say whet USC loses t By Greg Breazeale Virginia Tech defeated Carolina, 7-5, in the second game of a twogame series, to drop the Gamecocks' record to 15-6 TnpcHnv The Gamecocks trailed the Gobblers, 4-1 after the first four innings as Virginia Tech hit starter Ed Lynch for five hits and four runs. Steve King assured Lynch The H| Gamecock Am Opportunity has always follov j Walsh, USC's associate head t turned down promising jobs in pi years ago to coach basketball. The latest schools to consider are Fordham and Colorado. Fo: Walsh's boyhood home in New Y< Walsh turned down Yale for a h< has numerous others in the pasi uica ina niiiiu tin uic uiinwu . any decision could be the wronf Walsh has said he is just like ai a family to support. He is looking something a head coaching job should offer. Walsh is paid $26, f'Qrnlina inr>lllHpii rp^l'l USC's opponents. He has made much easier. AT T1IK NOT so ancient aee o desires to become a head coach. I prove himself as a head coach is r Walsh withdrew his name I Fordham Tuesday, but said last V Donnie Walsh (left) c assistant coach Bill Gi candidates among more for the head basketbe Colorado. Walsh withdi consideration for the jot pplies it Color; leading cont Director Mil te head basketball assistant c< oaching position at candidates ; has withdrawn his said Walsh ; job at Fordham. by Larry ] letic director at Basketball lsh telephoned his Cosotti sj i great deal of in- plications fi ? i i :civcu Yvctioii a ap- nuptxj a new Walsh, ai b issue. McGuire sii her Walsh was a byFordharr * _ T7^# 10 v irgmia would remain undefeated when he unloaded a three-run homer over the right-centerfield fence to tie the score in the fifth inning. But the Gobblers struck for two runs off of Jim Lewis, the second of four pitchers employed by coach < Bobby Richardson, in the seventh inning, and added another off Hal Hutchens in the eighth on a suicide squeeze play. In the Gamecock ninth, Greg ports ! ?-j; an with By Asst. Sports i ved the life of Donnie contacted I >asketball coach, who vacancies, restigious law firms 13 candidates Fnrriham him for coaching jobs praise for rdham is located near "Donnie t>rk City. Just last year the comple ead coaching job as he recruit. H< t few years. As Walsh rapport wi > to his future, he knows I one. DONNIK ly other American with McGuire a I for financial security, assisted D< at a major university played for (KM) for his services at *4I think uiting and scheduling last summ< Frank McGuire's job has put me "My bac! said. "I gr f 35, Walsh has said he named the: It appears his chance to Dean Smit lot faraway. irom ai na from consideration at "I haven week that he had been job even tl and North Carolina ithridge are leading i than 100 applicants ill coaching job at rew hi<; from ) at Fordham. ado ender for the lob. but Snorts Info ke Moran said Walsh and North ( oach Bill Guthridge are the among more than 100 applicants and Guthridge have been recoin Brown, head coach of the A Association Denver Nuggets, aid Colorado would be accepi or the job through April 1 and r coach would be named bv Anril' i assistant to USC head coacl ice 1965, was interviewed last 1 i officials about the job formerly : Tech, rec> Keatley homered to cut the margin to 7-5, but Gobbler reliever Orvin Kiser came in and retired the rest of the side. "We just haven't been able to get niir nifphinit (a ^aitio (tiPAliah f nr l/ui |iit.viiiii^ vvr wniv viit v/uf^n iv/i us," Richardson said. "They gave up seven runs, and that's pretty hard to come by and beat. Their reliever came in and did the job. That's the name of the game." King is leading the team in litting with a .414 average. Van 3ever, hitting .388, leads in triples vith two and stolen bases with 24 in J5 attempts. Hinkel, with a .314 average, leads the team in home runs with seven and is tied with Pankovits for the runs batted in A oppora r-i mil n 1 bailor Hilly Maker >y several other schools with head c Walsh was among the top three hoind rnncirlprpH fr?r RnrHHam Athletic Director Pete Carlesimo the USC assistant. Walsh has indicated to me that he < te coach," Carlesimo said. "I know ?'s conscious of the students, and th coaches and athletes." WALSH has been an assistant foi it USC for a decade, and before can Smith at North Carolina, where both McGuire and Smith in the earl I *\ # rv kn a \A71 i din i tau) iv# a nuau v uavn, v? i E*r. "Coach McGuire feels the same into every aspect of coaching one wot kground with coaches has been great, ew up under four of the best coach m in order: Frank McGuire, Buck F li and Clair Bee, a coach he learnc isketball camps as a youngster, lot been in a hurry to assume a head ( lough I have had the offers," Walsh rmation . Hal Wissel, who was f: ^aruiiiia remaining in me regU leading Tuesday, however, I. Moran statement, "After ta imended friends, I have dec idee merican candidate for the hea< Fordham is an outs! tine an- basketball histnrv and said tie the job will have a gn 7. Fordham athletic d 1 Frank Tuesday a screening < 'hursday choices to three or foui r held by among those choices. 1 V ora drops I lead with 26. Pankovits is hitting .310 and has stolen 12 bases. Catcher Greg Keatley has a .324 average. Grantz is hitting .246, Cook .244, Fleming .231 and McLean has a .227 average, but has stolen 18 bases. Pankovits leads in doubles with six, and Van Bever leads in hits with 31. The Gamecocks defeated the uoDDiers Monday, 4-3, behind me four-hit pitching of Tim Lewis, 4-1, and a four-run first inning outburst. Jeff Grantz had a two-run homer, and Johnny Hinkel singled in the other two runs. Tim Lewis has a 3.08 earned run average and leads the team with 42 unities oarhim* have alwavs felt that trv or four jobs at too early an age, e job, and voiced WALSH WOULD do wc in demand for head _*ould be McGuire s contract at I he can and Walsh has indicated 1 he has before then. For a man law career to coach bask after the best job for him r Frank Donnie Walsh is his that he associated with some f he had managed to develop ide .. nu'A'n y 13WJ S. V WIJUIU IIUl ilsh said derstood it only as a gairv way. He said. "I would like to beli ild neod "I think sometimes ? " Walsh coaching I feel very low ies." He think that it does not all 1 reeman, but in reality this is wha ?d much means more to me thar roaching WALSH IS needed at said. "I ... ... . : . (I ' I I 'hp # ired Febu 20 with two games lar season. Walsh said in a prepared Iking with my family and 1 to withdraw my name as a d coaching job at Fordham l^nHincr cnhfv?l with o uvtivA/i nivii U U11V i I am sure that whoever gets eat opportunity." irector Pete Carlesimo said committee had narrowed its coaches and said Walsh was to 15-6 strikeouts. Ed Lynch is 5-0 with a 1.95 era. Jim Lewis is 3-2, with an. 4.18 era. Chuck McLean, 2-1, has a 1.57 era. Scott Thomas is 1-2 and has a 5.82 era. Carolina split six games on its spring break trip in Florida, losing to Jacksonville, Rollins twice, and defeating Florida Tech twice and Wisconsin. Left-hander Rick Peterson of undefeated Jacksonville scattered four hits as the Dolphins defeated IISC, 11-3. The Dolphins Jut lour Carolina pitchers for 11 hits, with starter Chuck McLean taking the loss. Johnny Hinkei homered in a losing cause. See BASEBALL, Page 8 o many coaches assume head ven the successful ones." ;11 to leave USC now while he is coaching positions. Frank ISC does not expire until 1980, le would like to be a head coach who turned down ? nrnmisini? tetball, one can only hope he is self. The athletic philosophy of own. Although he has been *reat coaching minds he has as completely his own. be important to me if 1 un e of winning and losing," Walsh eve coaching is more than that, /hen I realize the realities of he said. "You would like to mil rlnu/n tn u/inmnf Aiiii Inline n ot it the coaching profession is. It i this." other places because he has a Sec BAKER, page 8 ^