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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
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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has withdrawn his said Walsh ;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
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:civcu Yvctioii a ap- nuptxj a new
Walsh, ai
b issue. McGuire sii
her Walsh was a byFordharr
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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 !
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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