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Linebackers from'] "If you"look around at all of the g you'll find that they have a good Singleton noted. "If a linebacker has all of the time he's not going to be in < "When they keep the lineman off c lot easier," Wade agreed. "It alsc defensive backs because they know time to throw the ball." While Sinflleton and Wade form b the reserve linebackers is one of Gamecocks. "Our backups have very little gai some time/' admitted Singleton. "J all have talent and I think they'll fo experience." That game experience might have the Kentucky Wildcats. THE WILDCATS return 15 startc two more players who were starters missed last season due to injury. "Kentucky is big and strong but v and Georgia Tech and they were t won't have to hunt for them; they'll "Kentucky is big and strong but v and Georgia Tech and they were i won't have to hunt for them; they'] they'll come out running but this ye we concentrate too much on the run, "Besides the huge offensive line, backs." Wade said. "Thev run har aren't afraid to block when they'r "I really really am looking forwa felling that if we beat these guys we season. I like to set high goals anc defeated," he concluded. "I expect a physical game and I h used to the heat and humidity," iirA??1rinrf An fVia IaaKmIaoI at/In a# fV rfvt lung i/ii UK iwiuuvai oiuc w* u start getting up mentally." Martz from page 18 USC he pitched for the semiprofessional team. Yet his astounding success at Carolina was as much of a surprise for him as it was for everyone else. "I never thought I could go undefeated," he said, shaking his head in disbelief. "But I realized that as I won more, game after game my confidence built up. That's what you need to win. If you have confidence you're going to win." ONCE HIS record was around 80, the scouts began to approach him. Most of them, Martz said, just wanted to know who the heck he was. He had hopes of getting in the major league draft; and had decided to play if the money was right. When the Cubs chose him as their number one pick (he was 12th pick in the entire draft) he was stunned, but realistic about the situation. "I decided to hold out for a certain amount of money or else not sign. If they hadn't offered me enough I would have come back to school last fall," he said. His negotiations went well. "The difficulty is how much they think you're worth and how much you think you are. The hard part is figuring out who's closer to the truth." He reached an agreement and signed with the Cubs, receiving his bonus and $4,000 for his continued education. His salary is now$l,000 per month for the five-month Hie Butch Door arts? 3d crafts Q supplies w A A VV (student (?P f Boozer Shopping ' *v.f, page 18. ood linebackers around the nation, defensive line in front of them," ka a## w iw ug>?tuig vu uuvusi v o uiraucu >o many tackles." >f us, it makes playing linebacker a > takes a lot of pressure off of the the quarterback won't have a long i solid starting tandem, the play of the main problem areas for the me experience so it is going to take oe Doyle, Stevie Lee and Bob Orkis 5 good football players with a little i to wait, for tomorrow USC takes on srs from last year's 10-1 squad, and t on the Peach Bowl team of 1976 who re've played teams like Notre Dame rig. There's one thing for sure, we come find us." re've played teams like Notre Dame big. There's one thing for sure, we 1 come find us. Offensively, I think ar they have the ability to open up if Singleton said. they have some extremely unselfish d when thev have the ball but thev e supposed to." rd to this game. I have kind of a gut 're on our way to a really successful 1 this season I think we can go unope it's hot because we're somewhat Singleton said. "Right now we're le Kentucky game but Friday we'll season, up from the! 500 per month he earned while at Midland. Life as a professional ball player and his recent marriaae. have changed his values. "Both baseball and my marriage are responsible for that. I used to enjoy the travel, since half our time is spent on the road. Now that I'm married, I don't like it at all. His wife, the former Laura Bradford, is a Columbia native. MARTZ ALSO dislikes the pressure placed on individual performances in pro ball. "In college, baseball is a team effort. You want to win for the team. In pro ball the emphasis is to win for yourself. Hie other players don't ATLANTIC I Blazing Zippers Mary, Mary ATLANTIC II -r I -Ll : - Ii norougmy ra Amorous Amy | Pony Girls I TRY US! Artist Supplies trofessional) j Center 772-7133 Jj'JS.S .Ml /i(S, Goff i r Singleton > sBBB^n aBGB|HH flBHeEH^ira^yKl^^wHimi Wade , care about you, and sometimes root against you because they're just looking out for themselves. "I'd rather be contributing to the team and have the whole team do well, but that's impossible in the minors and majors. There's so much pressure to do individually well, to think of yourself first. You never see that in college ball," Martz said. Just a reminder 1 Your your applic FORTHE KXTRi Get them sooi I + % a m dKk A I KJ Will Thanks t< for yo int II Fo MMMnOKBiartMMMMHMDIIHHHnMMi li'l < ' ,! I'll: . I t*'"/!' . / . . ? i ;off ? from page 18. Goff said that he will have no trouble pulling for Carolina in this jar's game. "I don't feel that I owe Georgia anything. I don't have any eat vengeance, but I do want to beat them awful bad. Of course, I >n't like to lose to anybody. I don't care who it is or where I went to :hool, I want to win." Goff said.that Carlen is the main reason that he is at Carolina. It took ro trys for Carlen to land Goff, but the young assistant coach is happy i is here. "Coach Carlen offered me a job two years ago as a graduate ssistant, and I didn't come. I felt like there were some things I needed ) do in Athens aUhe University of Georgia. Then in December he called ie up on the phone and offered me a job and I accepted without any ?ervations and came over in March." Now that Goff is on the Gamecock staff, he noted' there were sveral differences between the philosophies of Georgia coach Vince ooley and Carlen. "The maip difference is that we (Carolina) take a reat interest in the athlete. We snend a whole lot of time with mir layers, whereas, at Georgia they really didn't spend a lot of time with du. "I don't mean that to sound bad because I loved it there and en>yed every minute," he said. GOFF SAYS that Georgia fans are "kind of spoiled. They have had ig winners and if you don't win big every year, they want to get rid of very body." T%?tO kiUflMfl ? * Cn^ira/lAtf iAtaiA#! Vam*??aL?. aiuo jrwi ucguio ui wuucoi uaiiu itajf as uic uigiuy uiuicu IVUHUUI^ Wildcats come to town. "We're not going to try to do anything special, re are just going to try to win the ballgame," said Goff. "Our quarsrbacks are not going to try to do anything greatly different. 'There's oing to be more pressure on them because they are playing a better jam, but I have confidence in them and feel they will respond and do a uper job," he said. DrwmRi n?Tnnnn iU.i L..1L a. i _1_a 1 _ t! uurr nmibu uwi uuui i?un? migni piay a conservative game. We have got to keep from making mistakes. That's the kind of team bat Kentucky is. They try to beat you physically and take advantage fyour mistakes. 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