The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, June 29, 1978, Page Page 8, Image 8
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By Mike Hunt
Sports Editor
It will be interesting to see if
Carolina's latest contributions tn
the professional basketball draft
are still contributing to the pros
when the season opens this fall.
Golie Augustus, picked by the
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i Russ Pate, an assistant profess
{ Physical Education who finished
this year's 82nd running of the B<
! set low goals for himself.
Pate's time of 2:16:39 was six i
Rodgers of Melrose, Mass. Rod*
1975, finished two seconds in fror
j closest finish in the history of tl
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to hang back in the early miles c
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champion Jerome Drayton an
Frank Shorter.
DRAYTON DROPPED out at
! hamstring, while Shorter started
j Pate remembers passing Short
Hill," which stretches from the 1'
In moving up during the maratl
whole race. I think I could have ri
Pate said his style is "running
would not win by going out with
even pace."
"Because the first few miles
start you off at too fast a pace.
When training for a marathoi
week, working out twice a day fii
long run on the weekends.
Pate's best time of 2:15 c
significantly imDrove on this t
changes in his training procedu
"I would have to put a bit r
training," he says. At the pres
willing to cut back on his work,
would require.
"I ENJOY what I'm doing ?
my job. It's hard to put as much
uiai uiuui.
What motivates Russ Pate to
"I just like to run. It makes n
point for is motivating, and havii
not ready to let it slip."
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Nets, and Jackie Gilloon, drafted
by the Nuggets, last season's cocaptains
and co-MVP's, are the
latest graduates of the Frank
McGuire School of Basketball to be
drafted by the NBA.
The fact that they enter their
respective rookie camps this
summer fresh out of USC is no
surprise. They follow such
Gamecock standouts as John
Roach, Alex English, Brian
Winters and Tom Owens, just to
name a few.
rne fact that they were drafted
at all is a surprise. While both
Augustus and Gilloon were instrumental
in Carolina's 16-12 NIT
season, neither were considered as
outstanding basketball players.
Until this year.
On first glance, neither appear
physically to be "ideal"
professional prospects. Gilloon, at
6-0,160 pounds, may be too small to
compete with the bijuzer NBA
guards. Golie, likewise, at 6-5, is
"too small" for an NBA forward,
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K)r in the college of Health and
16th out of over 6,000 runners in
>ston Marathon is not a man to
ninutes behind the winner, Bill
jers, who also won the race in
it oi Jen weus ot Dallas in the
he race.
le conservative," Pate elected
>f the 26-mile event, running at
i included Rodgers, defending
d former Olympic champion
t 3Vfe miles after reinjuring a
to fall back at around 10 miles,
er in the famed "Heartbreak
! to the 21-mile mark.
hon, Pate said he "felt good the
im faster."
my own race for the distance. I
the leaders. I must start at an
are downhill, Boston tends to
f >
1, Pate runs 90 to 100 miles a
ye days a week. He also takes a
ame at Boston in 1975. To
ime he would have to make
res.
nore time and effort into my
tent time, however, he is not
, which he says more training
research and working hard at
time into a occupation and run
run?
le feel good. Having races to
ig attained a certain level, I'm
not quick enough for a guard, and i
doesn't have the outside shot to be t
a swingman. \
A SECOND GLANCE at them, t
however, penetrates a little deeper
than physical appearance. Both,
stated plain and simple, possess an \
inner quality that allows them to s
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heart, intestinal fortitude, or t
whatever, Gilloon and Augustus t
have it. r
They had to have it in order to 1
have survived at Carolina.
Augustus, by his own ad- i
mission, was frustrated at the c
prospects of returning to USC after
his sophomore year. Recruited out 1
of Columbia's Keenan High School t
as "South Carolina's best prep b
basketball player," Golie was
collecting nothing but splinters and \
a lot of time to think. c
After a mediocre junior year, he
got his break as a senior. As ;
college basketball's answer to Paul \
Silas, Augustus never stopped t
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earn. It all paid off last season
vhen he was named NBC's Most
/aluable Player in a nationally
elevised game against Marquette.
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vas billed as a "star" from the
;tart of his college career. He
lazzled the fans with his |
jallhandling and shooting during
he Carolina Classic of his freshnan
year by winning the Frank j
VIcGuire Hustle Award.
His flair and style captivated his i
tuimicrs, uuggea nis critics and
tismayed the coaching staff.
McGuire never was known for
lis love for run-and-gun basket>all,
the kind of ball the New York
rid was raised in the streets on.
After problems with the coaches
ind the law, Gilloon finally settled
town his senior year.
And last season Gilloon became
i complete team player. He
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There was probably no better
ballhandler in the nation.
So don't be too terribly surprised
if the two nlnvprc u)hn woronH
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expected to make it in college ball
might end up wearing New Jersey
and Denver uniforms next year.
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