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? State trans now a Garr By VINCE MOORE Asst. Sports Editor When the Gamecocks travel to Raleigh USC's Scott Wade will have to be forgivven After playing with the Wolfpack for two Carolina this fall. Because of a NCAA students, he is sitting out this season. TWO YEARS AGO he could have hardly that. He started for head Coach Lou Holtz Holtz headed for the New York Jets and Wolfpack. And Wade was out of a starting j? "When Rein came in, he brought in a wh< him," the six-foot-one, 210 pound Wade said runner and a blocker. And Rein said he n< decided I had to go to a program that would Well. Bo Rein is still at N.C. State with th( is in a position to know what the Gamecocks "THEY ARE nothing outstanding on dt done. I think the thing that will hurt th secondary." Wade would much rather be playing S game from the sidelines, but it's been that been playing football regularly since high s spectator. "A person doesn't realize how tough it is i But there are a couple of transfers in the i together. You just have to have the right 01 going to make the best of it." Wade said he was recruited by Carolina coach but had decided to stay in his hom State, he talked to several schools but deci< to head coach Jim Carlen. f 01W Act At ? uiuiuoi vyviii iu ni nunaiia Ut-V it use Iflci now," he said, "but that was a little too far coach Carlen, I knew I wanted to come here WADE SAID he has no hard feelings tov stays in touch with several of his former tej you make a lot of good friends," he said. But there's no doubt where his loyalties w want the Gamecocks to beat anybody," h little riiffpwnf I uian? ?Ko < ?? mii? viiv vjruilltVWlVO IU I p?Amai Money a factor, sport! physician says !>ens< By CHRIS MYERS (IOC) Gamecock Staff Writer the ai Rule The trend of amateur sports in stand the U.S. is changing from the defin strict code of recent years to a allow more liberal attitude, according and io ur. Aiian ?j. nyan. nyan pocke stresses the economic conditions medic which are controlling the change the amateur athlete is now ex- "TI periencing. betwc the i ' "AMATEUR SPORT profe development is dependent on contr; economic support and television some revenue," Ryan said. "Support Des of sports by educational in- amat stitutions in the fiitnrp is - ? - ? - ? pi u?v< questionable." is nai i Ryan, editor-in-chief of "The such i Physician and Sportsmedicine" skiini journal which provides information on medical aspects of RY sports and exercise, spoke narr< Tuesday night at the Capstone, defini Campus Room. Ryan, who was profe presented the American College be of Sportsmedicine lecture tour "play and sponsored by USC's College used of Health and Physical take Education, addressed the topic, dorse no mcic n luiuic III ammcrui uilgiu sports?" The | He said increasing expenses of to be, athletic programs and an in- be ir crease in participation in club side-l competition, such as Pop Warner profej football and little league the di baseball, could lead to declining slowly fer tecock agggy to play N.C. State Saturday, if he feels right at home. > years, Wade transferred to ruling concerning transfer believed he would be saying as a freshman fullback, but *> Bo Rein took control of the >b. >le different philosophy with . "Holtz saw me as an inside HBHM seded auirkpr nmm>r? fin I use my talents." } same philosophy and Wade can expect Saturday. ;fense, but they get the job em most is their defensive Saturday than watching the way all year. When you've chool, it's tough to become a intil it happens," Wade said. same situation and we hang it look, say I'm here and I'm B9H9' when Paul Dietzel was head le state. After leaving N.C. led on Carolina after talking it's where coach Holtz is at from home. But after I met /ard N.C. State, and he still immates. "After two years, Carolina d< ill lie Saturday afternoon. "I surrounds UN< e said. "But this game is a at chapel HU1. take it to them bad. Awful ^ sur bve! slo st in high school and college Televlsh se same increasing ex?s have forced the In- DOSSiblt! tional Olympic Committee ^ i to reconsider the status of nateur athlete, Ryan said. 26, concerned with amateur [ Qy ing, widened the economic I * ition for the amateur I ing such expenses as food I lodging, transportation, V it money, insurance and ;al costs. One of the gre in this country IE ONLY real distinction amateur athlet< *en the modern amateur and professional. It i jrofessional is that the athletes to be p ssional has been under either a team or act for a definite salary at is considered a s time," Ryan said. He is not equal t ipite these advances for the he receives very eur, the gap between Amateurism, i ssionalism and amateurism is "a person whc rrowing, as seen in sports and not as a pre as ice hockey, cross country person shows pi g and tennis. tation to turn pi According to I AN ALSO said that with the of The Physiciai >wing differences in Tuesday in th< ition between amateur and professional sp< ssional, a third category can America becau* seen evolving, called television. With ers, a category already fallen in love wi in tennis. "Players" may professional ath! expense money and en- Amateurism i :ments but still remain Winning trophies le for amateur play. but can trophies trend for the future seems or a home to live concluded Ryan, there will Players are c< lore amateurs competing they make the de by-side with the in hopes of attair ssionals, as in tennis, while athletes. It used 1 ifferences between the two player would go / disappear. himself for a ch H&^bp^&i?|B JSBBs fmHKf ^ jBB E. -> p^p' I ^W'i iii1 ii'U" iiiilri 1 yn i>, .if efensive back Mike Tisdalc 2 tailback Phil Farriss Saturday The Gamecocks will be looking I tl iwiy aisap ig pro sports i cause of decline Matt Ward Columnist I latest problems concerning sports is the diminishing role of the e and the advancement of the is not uncommon for professional aid a king's ransom to play for a oarticular match TTi<? amatwir econd fiddle in the world of sports. 0 the professional so consequently little exposure, if any at all. according to Webster's dictionary, > engages in a pursuit for pleasure ifession." In today's society, if a oficiency in any sport the temp ofessional is usually irresistible. Dr. Allan J. Ryan, editor-in-chief 1 and Sportsmedicine, who spoke e campus room at Capstone, irts ha VP rPflrhoH on oivow in ?? - ? Wil M|/VA 111 >e of its close association with this affiliation, Americans have ith their new television hero, the lete. has been hurt by economics. \ and medlas is very good indeed, and medals buy you things to eat in? In America, it cannot, antinually getting younger when cision to leave the amateur ranks king the riches of the professional o be that a really good basketball to college four years to prepare ance in the pros. Now any good ? - mmm-j vaniTlCiVWATIgC 13 sports ^ ^Bk jKL"TJ | _^8 K m . ' ink njp|MHH|^MRM^^^g f il l Y'f m^Km i *' ' I Bill Bolncau-THE GAMECOCK I for their fifth win of the season this weekend I - - ?-- i *' Q ugainsi rv.i;. state (5-3). Carolina defeated N.C. State 27-7 last year in Columbia. ?pear:ng , basketball player can head to the pros after he finishes high school. The reason is simple: why waste time in college when all that money is staring you in the face after you complete high j school? Basketball players use simple mathematics when making their decision to go to college or the professionals. The average basketball salary is ! more than $100,000 a year according to Inside Today's Sports, whereas a college scholarship j may save you $4,000 a year. Hie difference in numbers is substantial. Players are not the only ones who have succumbed to the dollar. Sports institutions have also relented. In tennis, the two biggest backers of the amateur movement were Wimbledon and Forest Hills. As tennis boomed in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, there was great pressure on these two great sanctuaries of the amateur game to forsake their past policies and include such notable professionals as Rod Laver and John Newcombe. It is hard to believe tradition has fallen to the new czar of sports, television. Amateurs have also suffered because of the mnnmr t*a/?A oiw* mUi L ! * itiun^j >?v.c iu wmui aiiucic kcis uw nignesi j paid contract. Since American amateurs, for the most part, cannot receive cash they have been put out of the picture. Pele, the internationally-known soccer player, was at one time declared by the Brazilian government to be a natural resource! How much higher can we go? Are professional athletes the gods of our society? If they are, where does that | put the amateur athlete in this countrv? The amateur athlete has not fallen in line with television's way of selling sports to the American j public because the amateur athlete in America is not playing for the big cash. T^e amateur athlete is competing because he enjoys what he does, even if he receives no remuneration for his efforts. In the American way of thinking, it is very easy to sell two people playing tennis for a winner-takeSee AMATEURS, page IS -