The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, August 30, 1978, SECTION B, Page Page 7B, Image 43
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By Rick Mohn
Oamccock Staff Wrifo
The scene is familiar. The arena
floor of the Carolina Coliseum,
where basketball players are
participating in a heated contest
while USC head coach Frank
McGuire sits on the sidelines.
Occasionally he will yell a word
of encouragement or advice, but
mostly he watches, commenting
quietly to the visitor sitting at his
side.
BUT WAIT. A glance at a
calendar would reveal that the
month is not January, but June.
And the players on the floor are
not members of the USC basketball
team, but boys aged 8-13 playing in
an ail-star game which ends a
week of instruction for them in the
McGuire summer basketball
camp. The camp is just one of
McGuire's summer activities.
"Actually, we get no real
vacation, since the summer is in
many ways the busjpst part of the
year," said McGuire as he ant in
the arena last week.
"The players are all at camps
and clinics, and the coaches are
running our camp and recruiting.
In fact, I've done my best
recruitina in tho cumm??
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Russ Pate, an assistant profet
Physical Education who finishec
this year's 82nd running of the ?
set low goals for himself.
Pate's time of 2:16:39 was six
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noogers 01 meirose, mass. Koc
1975, finished two seconds in frc
closest finish in the history of
Running what he called "a lit
to hang back in the early miles
about 50th place, as the leads
champion Jerome Drayton ai
Frank Shorter.
unAi ium unurreu oui I
hamstring, while Shorter starte<
Pate remembers passing Shor
Hill," which stretches from the 1
In moving up during the mara)
whole race. I think I could have 1
Pate said his style is "mining
would not win by going out with
even pace."
"Because the first few miles
start you off at too fast a pact
When training for a marathc
ween, wording ouc twice a aay r
long run on the weekends.
Pate's best time of 2:15 <
significantly improve on this
changes in his training proceti
"I would have to put a bit
training/' he says. At the pre
willing to cut back on his worl
would require.
"I ENJOY what I'm doing ?
my job. It's hard to put as much
that much."
What motivates Russ Pate U
"I just like to run. It makes
! point for is motivating, and hav
not ready to let it slip."
i active yea
use FANS should not take this U
mean that a new blue-chip recrui
will be signed before September
since Carolina had but tw<
scholarships left, only one wai
used in the off-season. It was woi
by 6-5 Jack Twyman from Ohio
whom McGuire called "A strong
boy, and one of the ten bes
shooters in the country in higl
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scnooi."
The coach cited a major dil
ference in his camp and man;
others: "Our camp is no
Specifically geared to players whi
loqk like they'll play in college
We're here just to give some kids i
chance to learn the same."
The camp, which hosted abou
195 kids over two weeks, is quit*
important to McGuire, but th<
garrulous Irishman was more thar
willing to discuss other parts of hi:
"vacation."
Regarding the changes in hi:
coaching staff ? the promotion o
Kevin Joyce and the hiring o
former Baptist coach Danny Monk
McGuire noted that, "We have i
very good staff. I'm sure Kevin wil
fit right into his new duties, ant
Danny as a graduate assistant wil
do very well. He's an excellen
coach. And of course Charlii
Henderson is still here."
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(sor in the college of Health and
116th out of over 6,000 runners in
toston Marathon is not a man to
minutes behind the winner, Bill
Igers, who also won the race in
int of Jeff Wells of Dallas in the
the race.
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of the 2^mile event, running at
* included Rodgers, defenmng
id former Olympic champion
lit 3*4 miles after reinjuring a
i to fall back at around 10 rnifc*.
ter in the famed "Heartbreak
17 to the 21-mile mark.
thoti, Pate said he "fdt good the
run faster."
: my own race for the distance. I
i the leaders. I must start at an
i are downhill, Boston tends to
l"
m, Pate runs 90 to 100 miles a
ive days a week. He also takes a
came at Boston in 1975. To
time he would have to make
tores.
more time and effort into my
ssent time, however, he is not
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me feel good. Having races to
tag attained a certain level, I'm
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3 ACCORDING TO the head man,
t Joyce will be handling recruiting
and nenutina nr?H 'Moil
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? bench with me almost every night
s we play. Danny will be scouting a
i lot, and Charlie as my senior
assistant will be helping me do
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Gamecock basketball team,
McGuire nods in approval. "We'll
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* backcourt. A lot will hinge on the
9 guards, and we have four who can
play. We'll be so deep this year that
a nobody is going to have a spot
sewed up when we start practicing
t on October 15th. And that's good,
? because it makes everybody work
5 harder." ^ McGU|REt page 8
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