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USC-Clemson 198' 'Wilhelm t ws ma h h ***& m m h e ? By Johnny Boggs The "main reason" behind the dropping of 1984's USC-Clemson University baseball series is because Tiger coach Bill Wilhelm just "doesn't want to play," Carolina athletic director Bob Marcum said yesterday. Clemson officials announced the move to drop the series between the two schools for the upcoming season Wednesday, and both schools have placed the blame on each other. "It looks like they are trying to figure out ways not to play us," Marcum told the ^5KKaS?lll3BBI^^B^Bl-5fflMSHaHk m Mb^&i^V ^^HB^R|g|^J|i ; ' ' pM-^f t;??^ ?I ~~ ? l||OI piDfdl l/UIIIIOI>IO.i. In last year's 4-3 South Carolina win over Clemson. 1 the Gamecocks. Wolfpack win w By Kevin Sullivan llCf* Aside from a chance to up his record to an even 4-4, USC head football coach Joe Morrison said Saturday's Homecoming game p. against North Carolina State could I3CB. be "a nice present" for his boss (72.40C Bob Marcum. "Our athletic director's birthday is this Saturday," Morrison said. ExpGCl "Maybe we could pive him a nice prj nnr present by winning the game." UU,UUI "If we could score as many points or even half of his age, we'll K? \ 1 ~ SfiriRS uv ill tuuu .nidi)*., 1YIUIIIWI1 >illU. " " use le N.C. STATE brings into Willii.;r s-Qricc Stadium a 2-5 record follow.ng a 27-17 loss to S6dS0 Clemson last weekend. The llCp Q Wolfpack's only victories have UoL ?3 been over The Citadel and Wake N.C. S Forest. "We had a good performance against Clemson," N.C. State head coach Tom Reed said. "We've this y put ye u wen inrougnoui tnt season Riekey in the first hall." season State led Clemson 10 9 at the "W< half. games, "In relationto effoi. and per for- Carolii manee, we were right in there," said. " Reed said. "We have the ambition, be reac we just need to hang in there." "Wc ecu ting LEADING THE Wolfpaek runn- need a ing attack is junior tailback Joe run an Mcintosh who rushed for 124 yards against Clemson to put him at 690 MOl / yards on the season. Mcintosh, Reed < prior to the season, was State's fifth of the all-time leading rusher. "Of! Last season, in NCSU's 33-3 runnin defeat of the Gamecocks in quartei Raleigh, Mcintosh was injured ear- throw I I., I I I 1 ' ' f~w* 1 ly rtiiu lepiaeeu uy reserve running " 1 ney back Mike Miller. Miller rushed for Espc 158 yards and three touchdowns in Beach State's easy victory. Miller is back yards a Spo 1 baseball series loesn't wan Gamecock. "We want to play, but to tell us where to play at our own place is not fair. "THEY CAN throw out all the camouflage they want to, but the main reason is because coach Wilhelm doesn't want to play." Two games had been discussed for the '84 season: April 5 in Columbia and April i6 in Clemson. Wilhelm and USC coach June Raines agreed Aug. 4 to the games, Clemson associate athletic director Bobby Robinson said. Hger officials announced Wednesday that they wou ould be 'a nice ftl r* - ? eluding a 37N.L. otate tacts Healsotosse Reed critic civp linp O . I "WE'RE ' Williams-Brice Stadium i we've lost soi ) capacity) 8:12 p.m. I but we've mi ted Attendance: then^^ ha ) I ball," Reed I have done ai I ding a defen ; record: I offense." ads 21-20-4 Defensivel; I 43rd nations I yielding an a> n records: I samc.- The u 11 lc tion in passu -4 1 Reed citec tatP 9*1 guard Mitch l3ie L 3 Todd Blackv ' pin on the d( ear, along with fullback ..WK HA lsom who beat out pie- (who) did a starter Vince Evans. (against Clei ?'ve had good running particularly against Nortli . , la and Wake Forest," Reed wljhout ques Joe is fairly healthy and will Senior Dg ly to play on Saturday." returning st; are not a dominant ex- secondary. V ; team," Reed said. "We ? 1 better balance between the season, retur d pass." a ^ouchdow, PRISON DISAGREES with , "Defensive ;oncerning the effectiveness a?.^.res^? Wolfpack passing attack. sai ' ^inc fensively they have a fine any g back in Mcintosh and their esigne to c back (Tim) Esposito can Saturdays he football," Morrison said. e evflse ^ have a balanced attack." casting yste >sito, a transfer from Long e ween t e City College, threw for 151 series by igainst Clemson last week in- Sec >rtS zzzi dropped t tn nlau ' M piU|| 111 Related story, page 17 In a letter Wednesday to Marcum, Robinson wrote, "Certainly, nothing in those conversations indicated that our planned singlegame home-and-home series for 1984 would not be acceptable. Moving from a four-game home-and-home to a two-game home-andhome series gave us good opportunity to get out and play at other locations in the state, which again, we believe will be good for college baseball in South Carolina." Photo by Johnny Doges u mm* iu nui lenew nit: senes uyaniM present/ Morris yard touchdown pass. MEh I d three interceptions. ized his team's offen- O| ' I * ne people there" (due iSF :ed said. "We did not ;ainst North Carolina, *de some strides since se to stop the power y, the Wolfpack ranks vgljgSl? ^ illy in total defense, /erage of 338 yards per -*^1 :am is 27th in the naRushing, and tackles veil and Charles Flip- ., ( 1) tackles by linemen good job in there" nson), Reed said. "It ur better performances m Wilson is the only ?* irter in the defensive Vilson, a strong safety ^ 03 total tackles last k ned an interception for two teams. (JSC leads Runningback Joe Mclnta one game 21-20 4. N.C. State's leading ground i "Homecoming," page 18 ankle last week against Clem % 1 ? arcum says ? Marcum, however, said he thought Clemson was asking for too much. "CERTAINLY, CLEMSON has the right with scheduling whatever time they want to at their place, but to tell us we have to play in the afternoon during the week doesn't seem right," Marcum said. About promoting in-state collegiate baseball, he said, "Between 60 to 65 games scheduled, I don't think it is too much to ask to play two games between the two schools in order to help baseball. "We made two trips up there last year, and there aren't many schools willing to do that, and there aren't many with the money to do that." Clemson sent a contract to USC in August, but Carolina officials never agreed to the conditions. RAINES SAID, "Bill called and said '1 don't want to play, but our people want to play so we've got six dates open, but I'm not going to play on the weekend."' "I selected two dates and told him 1 didn't think our officials would ever accept it." Clemson athletic director Bill McLellan said Wednesday, "Coach Raines and coach Wilhelm had already agreed on the schedule. Then, completely by surprise, a couple of weeks ago Bob Marcum called and told us if we didn't agree to play a four-game homeand-home series in 1984, they would cancel the two games we had already scheduled. "It was pretty much an all or _not-hii1g proposition." MCLELLAN DECLINED further comment yesterday. Wilhelm and Robinson also refused comment. Marcum said the series wasn't cancelled because the contract was never signed. "We had been looking into it since May and all along thought it was unacceptable to us," he said. Bobby Foster, USC associate athletic director in charge of non-revenue sports, said 1 l i_i? t . ne nau tuscussea me series witn Robinson twice in person and at least five times by telephone. See page 18 on says p i tmmm . ? ;; d w . e rafcg&&?&?.uutv^ . -">\ >"' * jj|^ sh ''^ " ^ '* gainer for the Wolfpack. Mcintosh twisted his son, but should start against the Gamecocks.