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The Sour;'. O-rolir.a Library g; Caiiijurs Volume LXX, No. 26 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Oct. 26, 19*79 McGu Veteran coa By Michael Gooding N?wi Editor and Brett L. Friedlander Sports Editor In a joint, written statemer issued by the chairman of the US" Board of Trustees, E. Markle Dennis and USC President James B. Holderman, it was announce Thursday that USC hea basketball coach and assistar athletic director for basketbal Frank McGuire, would continue t serve these positions until the en of this current fiscal year. The statement said th agreements were reached afte discussions with McGuire for th past few weeks. "We are please that these discussions were coi ducted in an amicable climal without rancor or ultimatum. W wish to commend Coach McGuii for his service to the unive sity,"the statement read. Reports earlier this week sai McGuire had been offered a publ relations position by the trustee but had turned it down. I DON'T KNOW WHY they wou want me as a PR man,if they didii want., m? 'AS ' a basketba coach,"McGuire said soon afti the statement had been issue McGuire was not present discussion sessions betwec Holderman and Dennis Thursd; aftornnnn 76ers' co being oj By IV Asst Copyright 1 Assistant basketball coach ol said Thursday he had never be< a successor to Frank McGuire. "This is all news to me, "Dal; | days ago, and I was at the Haw blue, and I didn't know what to t Daly had been rumored Tuesi 1 ISP hv WSPO rfiriin station ASSISTANT BASKETBALL Donnie Walsh, said Daly's nam to McGuire when Walsh was ass "I heard his name some yea left," Walsh said. "The first tir Greg Blatt and Sol Blatt Jr. 1 d< when I started hearing Chuck's Daly hag been the head coac head coach of Boston College ai before joining the 76ers. Daly said Greg Blatt wort I University of Pennsylvania, a Blatt Jr. Daly also spoke at cli; as well as having Pennsylvan about the extent of it," he sa anyone at South Carolina. You that area. I just don't know any HOWEVER, Sol Blatt Jr. der him. I have never befen in cont; or indirectly, and the only time [ newspaper,"Blatt added, i Daly said his contract with I j I960. After that Daly said he wi | knowledge, Frank has four mi . tends to fill them." H Daly said McGuire is one of ii j man for the profession." Rumors that Daly would be ficials either Thursday or tods 76er* practiced here today, ai Knicks at home. I plan to be i L game in the late afternoon Frid ire agr< ch will stay tl In another statement issue< under authorization of Dennis, i was confirmed at the Sept. meeting of the board of trustees the executive members of th< it board decided, "after thorougl C discussion and consideration tha y the board position and polic; ?. should be that the president, as thi d chief administrative officer, woul< rl n<?tiv#?lv nnrciip affiliation within : ~ it comprehensive conference; tha 1, upon the expiration of the out o standing contract incorporate d the position of head football coaci and athletic director in one ir e dividual, that they would be the: ;r and thereafter separate positions le that the present contract involvin; ri head basketball coach an i- associate athletic director shoul :e be negotiated to eliminate the dus 'e positions and replace the hea e basketball coach at the end of th r- 1979-80 season and invite him t serve in the university in som id other meaningful capacity." ic s, McGuire issued his ow statement at his office in U Carolina Coliseum. In it, he state Id that his attorneys, in discussic i't with the university and its s ill torneys "Thursday/ an if er derstanding was reached that 1 d. will serve in my present capaci at as head basketball coach ai ;n associate athletic director f< iy basketball until the end of tl present basketball year.'' ach denies ffered job lark Platte N?w> Editor 979, The Gamecock : the Philadelphia 76ers, Chuck Daly, en contacted from anybody at USC as y said. "I was on a scouting trip two ks game. I got 12 to 15 calls out of the :hink." day to be the next basketball coach at coach of the NBA Denver Nuggets, :e had been mentioned as a successor distant to McGuire from 1969-1977. irs ago which is one of the reasons I nf? T ever heard his name was through 9n't know if they're friends, but that's name, and I left soon after that." h at the University of Pennsylvania, nd assistant coach at Duke University Led at his basketball camp at the nd he knew Greg and his father Sol nics in Savannah, Ga. and Charleston ia play USC in basketball. "That's id. "I have not been contacted by 're the first person I've talked to from body." lied knowing Daly. "I never heard of act with him in my life either directly ?I've ever seen that name was in the Philadelphia will expire in November ill consider all possibilities but "to my >re years on his contract, and he iniis idols, and that McGuire is "a great ! in Columbia meeting with USC ofly were dispelled as Daly said, "The id tomorrow we're playing the N.Y. it home prior to the game and to the ay." ees to U! irough seasonal i THE STATEMENT CON- IS t TINUED that after the 1979-80 II 4 season, McGuire would stay on fl| , with the university in a "consulting 9 e position" until the end of the fiscal h year. After that he would be "free ; t todo what I want,"according to the y coach. e|| e Later, McGuire held a press |jj i conference and said he was ff a relieved that the entire situation E| t had been taken care of. "This is a happy day for me,"he said. "A big jjj g burden has been lifted from my || h hp?d Thp neoDle that wanted me i- out are happy, and I am happy. I n just thank God that it's all over." |i ; The coach added that he feels no |i g animosity towards the university |g d and will remain in South Carolina d after he retires. He expressed his ft| 11 appreciation to all of the people p d who supported him through his | e fight to keep his job. ~ 1' I hnim rtroo t rocno/>t fnr t Hi c U JL 11U * V ?)& V?4 V a vupvvv * v? HM e state, and I'm going to live in this $ state, "McGuire said. "The people in this state have been very good to 1 n me. They've been very good to my ?e son; he's over at Midlands being 1| id well taken care of, and I like that. >n I'm not going to hurt the people of gg it- this state ever. n- " "They should ask me because | "I there is nobody more capable of ty picking a successor than I am. M id Nobody,"he said. "In doing that, || or the recruiting will remain the >? coma Thoco frochmpn fKpvin il Darmody and Derrick Scott) who || are going to leave would stay, and this basketball program would stay on the top of the world. . "But this small group that has |j made sure that I had to be relieved f| of my job, I don't think there's any ^ way they'd let me have a voice in p anything,"McGuire added. Run-off By Jean Ralston Gamecock Staff Writer ! By a four to one majority, the can ruled to invalidate the second run-of <JCl. ID in District 3 idoutn jDuiiuing-cy which Nancy Scheffler defeated Gloru 47 vote. The court decided specific overwheli did occur when the elections commissi respond to Gault's dilemma cc unavailability of student IDs for vo i before the election. The court also stated that there w violation involving the substitutioi licenses for student IDs for vot However, the court ruled this violatioi [ overwhelming prejudice towards Gau GAULT ATTEMPTED to notify Jo! elections commissioner, on Sunday, O; unavailability of student IDs for Mon Gault was unable to contact Boswell after realizing that many students tu IDs in for block seating for the Oct. 21 against Mississippi. Gault was unable to contact Boswel during the election to inform him tha had the opportunity to vote because th their IDs, which are required for votir Gault the electfons commission would the election as planned since the poll open. He also told her if she felt she ha election, dhe should go to the stude office the following day. The major problem was there was could do until after the election once i commission about the problem on Mor to Sharon Bodgers, chief justice of the I There would have been a "good dea in calling off the election on Sunday SCprc Si? $ ;C. rank McGuire smiles after an fSC's basketball coach this se declared been informed a said. lpus court has "THE DATE C f election held . advance, and n< outh Tower) in tention, "Boswell * Gault by a 50- Friday, Boswell been called off. ming prejudice The court rule on neglected to 13-30 of the SG mcerning the voters should b iting the night following manm and fee receipt, as a technical for IDs." n of driver's The poll attem ing purposes. / their driver's 1 n did not cause cording to Gaul It. ' Shepherd said ei driver's license in Boswell, SG allow her to subs :t. 14, about the Poll attendant iday's election, with anything bi I Qiin/inv nicrht thft hflrk of the II id turned their I football game "I WAS UNAV "It was an hones II until Monday taken over as el< it not everyone did not have tir ey did not have commissioner, ig. Bos well told "I don't think I go ahead with one,"Scheffler i s were already again, and I thin d to contest the The decision nt government detrimental to aggravated that ; nothing Gault more, "Schefflei she notified the Gault said sh< iday, according and was glad sh campus court, she will be able I 1 of a problem'* No date forth night if I had time. >posal m BPfr mm. v, rum nouncing that he will return as ason. I invalid it the time of the problem, Boswell >F the election was posted four days in Dne of this was brought to my atI said. If Gault had talked to him on said he felt the election would have d that the election violated Section 6r Codifications which states, "The e declared eligible to vote in the t, upon presentation of student IDs Drivers license may be substituted font would not let students substitute icenses for their student IDs, actt and his witness, Pam Shepherd, /en though she tried twice to use her the poll attendant said he could not titute the license for the ID. s were instructed not to allow voting it a student ID because the sticker on 3 must be marked off. VARE OF this statute,"Boswell said, it mistake." Boswell said he had only actions commissioner Oct. 10, and he ne to research all the duties of the the decision they made was the right said. "But I'm going to campaign k I can win again,"she added. to hold another election might be Gault because "people might get the election has been drug out some said. e was very happy with the outcome e the help of the student advocates so to try again for the seat. le fourth election has been set at this