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m #*vVM Wtitmrn*^. ._** || ^.aPjj ^^ hs ^ k n J^BL IPIf^ Sm H^HL j ^ngm f $t *Mm -m* ^^ 1 Jf^j BHRSS^ B| BWiMAglii&flagSf .^^EP^ISw^^B^^Bi^BMMffliv^KySSBffl^l^^liittiMi^^^^^^^^BSBMiiSillMi^^s Photo by Joseph Garnott T" 1% r\ vinlt4 ?*?? i lie i lyiu way USC forward Jimmy Foster and North Carolina State head basketball coach Jim Valvano show youngsters the pre er technique during a basketball clinic at Carolina Coliseum Saturday. Valvano's Wolfpack won the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship this past season, while the Gamecocks particpated in the National Invitational Tournament. COUNSELING AND HUMAN I DEVELOPMENT CENTER j JtBKBk "The Counseling Service ^ A COUNSELING ACADEMIC '? ^ INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVE ? SOCIAL CONCERNS READING 5 . . i-n . ' I*!/' NII^I fc"rn\I 1IITII mvr 1 Si+i irlont III orr j | ^ W1UUV/I II L/IULI t; 1321 Pendleton Street |, i! 777-522:1 i 5 Place - Caroli B Confidential Assistance n ; ! ' { Time - 8:00 < USC HOMECOMING '83 I { One Ticket F M Y 6 T I C A L { No Student \ M A G 1 C A L \ No Guest Tic M A 6 CLU EDADE j Block Seatin! 5 i > I.? ? I ^ o i: I,_ __ BP DIUUK OfcJcllll K VOl EE I J Government* FOR YOUR I \ Tickets not c HOMECOMING QUEEN! I { distributed at TUESDAY OCT. 25, 9 am-6 pm { Tuesday, No< 1 Locations: Pickens St. Bridge j Russell Hous !l Russell House Patio, 2 Th^r^ will j Underpass to Coliseum { at 4:00 p.m. Recruiting college I 'l!l/n n ortniRfkoll ' ni\e a onuvvuaii, By Chuck Lundy Recruiting football players for USC is a year-round job involving the entire coaching staff and, according to (JSC's director of recruiting, coaches have covered more territory than in previous years. "Recruiting is more national here than it has ever been before," Ty Coppinger, USC's recruiting director said. "A lot of attention is placed on key areas in the region." USC recruits heavily in South and North Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Other areas of emphasis are placed in the northeast, the midwest and California. Coppinger said recruiting "is like a snowball.' "IF YOU succeed on the field you're going to have a better recruiting year; if you have a better recruiting year, you're going to have success on the field," Coppinger said. "It's really a cycle. Once you get that snowball .-^11;..... i?, a .,,i ,u? -:?K. ,1: ?" IWII111?, J'UU IV IICUUCU ill Hit Iljilll UIH.A.LII.MI. Recruiting is basically a selling, according to Coppinger. "We're trying to sell our program," Coppinger said. "In a word, that's what it is ? it's just a selling." The National Collegiate Athletics Association has set strict guidelines dealing with the recruiting of high school athletes. These rules are designed to protect the NCAA's member institutions as well as young athletes. BY RESTRICTING the contact a college coach can have with a prospect and the number of visits an athlete can make to college campuses on official recruiting trips, the NCAA hopes to ease the pressure 011 the school and the athlete. Athletes can make two types of trips to a university campus ? official and unofficial. On an official visit a college can pay for an athletes' transportation, meals and housing when he visits the campus. A student athlete is allowed five official visits, but each of these must be to a different institution. Universities can bring in 95 prospects on official visits during the recruiting year. USC's coaching staff does not like to bring athletes in for official visits during the foot ball season, Coppinger said. "THE REASON we do not is because he (the prospect) is going to take his four other official visits during the winter and by the signing date he is going to forget what he saw at Carolina." ii STUDENT | TICKET DBS L CIEMSC r FOOTBf bution Date - Oct. 30, na Coliseum i.m. - 4:00 p.m. er Student with Valid I 'alidations kets ) will be Available I I.D. Cards must be turi Dffice by 10:00 a.m. Moi istributed on Sunday, 0 l I r-t. . _ _ 11 ? i * * me nusseii nouse on mo I. 1, 1983 from 8:00 a.i e Lobby. 10 student tickets availat I Football players ?1 assistant says i Coppinger said he feels the school with the "best chance is who gets them (prospects) last." Athletes can make as many unofficial visits to a university as he likes while he is in high school. This includes underclassmen as well as seniors. The institution can give prospects three tickets to the football game he i.^ attending. No payment of transportation, meals or other expenses is allowed. Coppinger said he sees positive and negative aspects of this policy. "YOU CAN invite bunches of kids in from a close geographical area, but people from far off don't get to see the campus in a football setting," he said, "which is a minus." The recruiting process involves the entire coaching staff, according to Coppinger. "A ioi of people don't realize how much an assistant coach recruits," Coppinger said.^ Coppinger said each assistant coach at USC has an in-state territory and an out-ofstate territory. nnuiMr tiii" ~.u..11 i?v/ iviiivi ini'v luuiuaii >vci^uu uic tant coaches leave campus alter Thursday's practice to go to their assigned areas. They spend Fridays visiting high schools, talking to coaches and looking at game films. Contact with prospects.is against NCAA rules. On Friday night they attend high school games and then return to USC or meet the team at the location of an away game, Coppingcr said. In the off-season coaches are restricted by the time and number of off-campus visits they can make. Prospect cards are sent to^ high school coaches asking them to recommend athletes who they feel are college prospects. USC's coaching staff then reviews the prospect cards and sends questionnaires to athletes asking for personal, academic and football information. In May the coaching staff compiles a recruiting list of 750 to 1,000 prospects and Coppinger begins a mail-out program. Prospects receive a media guide, calendars, schedule posters and other information about USC and the football program, Coppinger said. WHEN THE season begins the coaching"^ staff meets every Thursday morning to review the prospect list and add or delete names. The area coach and the position coach decide whether or not a prospect remains on the list, Coppinger said. fUUIISfiLL ;trbbgtbon \ m m HOME \ ILL GfiME I 1983 \ D- l * i -?,, ?I iday, Oct. 31, 1 983. j ict. 30, 1983 will be j ^ rnday, Oct. 31, 1983, j T1 - zl ' OO r\ m i r\ A it. -r.v-/w p.III. Ill LI IC P \ )le after Nov. 1, 1983 2 - *.