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THE GAMECOCK Sports October 31, 1984 ? Page 15 Gamecocks From Staff and Wire Reports IJSC, who cracked the Top Ten last week for the first time, vaulted from ninth to fifth by trouncing East Carolina 42-20. The Gamecocks' 7-0 start is their best ever. "These young men are handling all this very well," USC coach Joe Morrison said. "And I think they'll continue to handle it well going into the game with North Carolina State." The Texas Christian University Horned Frogs are part of The Associated Press colIpop foothill rnnkinps for thp fir<it timp cinrp 1962. "It's a great honor for the school and the players," TCU second-year Coach Jim Wacker said Monday night after the rankings had been announced, "but frankly, I'd rather wait until the season is over and see us ranked in the Top 20. Then it would stay there forever." TCU, now 6-1, last made the Top 20 during a 6-4 campaign in 1962. You have to go back to 1959 to find the Horned Frogs in the final poll. They were seventh that year. TCU beat Baylor 38-28 Saturday to clinch iis first winning season since 1971. Its only loss was to Southern Methodist. "We had a team meeting yesterday and talked about bowls and polls," Waeker said. "1 think the players realize that you can lose it (the ranking) faster than a blink of an eye. We want all their concentration in Houston (Saturday's opponent). If we take care of our business, the polls will take care of themselves." AP 1 Record Pts. 1.Washington (50) 8 0 0 1,184 2.Texas (3) 5 0 1 1,121 3.Nebraska (3) 7 10 1,076 4.Brigham Young (4) 8 0 0 970 c oniiTU rAnni hi a inn nm j.ouuin uHnuLiiiH #-u-u ai3 6.Miami, Fla. 7-2 0 872 7.Oklahoma State 6-1-0 741 8.Georgia 6-10 714 9.Boston College 5-1-0 703 10.0klahoma 5JJ 586 Bowls promi: By Bob Lang t At 7-0 and ranked fifth in the nation, USC's football players may not s he sitting home eating leftover turkey t with grandma during the Christmas c holidays. I Instead, the team might well be on I the playing field in a post-season bowl game. That would mean money to t USC's athletic department. I* "Every team that plays in a bowl r this year will receive 37 1/2 percent of I the gross revenue taken in for that I game, or a minimum of $400,000," \ said a spokeswoman for National Col- s legiate Athletic Association for Sports Information. "Gross revenue," she \ said, "includes everything from ticket t and concession receipts to revenue from television." I Last year three bowls, the Orange, 1 Sugar and Cotton, meant nearly $2 t million to the schools that played in I them. USC is eligible to play in all I""" """ ' J- < ** < ^ j Bowls iw which USC Location I is eligible Aloha Bowl Honolulu, Hawaii Bluehonnet Bowl Houston, Texas Cotton Bowl Dallas, Tom fiesta Bowl Tompp, Am. ; . Hw of Fame Bowf.Vh ,n> >,&$) Holiday Bowl $W 'iefco. Cif& Incbtwtxkm Bowl Shrove U. c;J'Jyiirty tomm^SuT < >-iSttl :;J< jfrmgft 8e#t &** Peach Bowl Atlaota, Go, Sugar Bowl New Orleans, U. ' f igures obtained through the National Collegia Office. ; climb to fi1 TCU, which is No. 20, replaced Penn State in the rankings. The Nittany Lions, 19th a week ago, lost 17-14 to West Virginia and fell out of the Top 20. Washington, 8-0, remained No. 1 by turninn o1/ A ")Q1 O TThn l?l ucl/inc rar*oit/_ 111?, uavi\ ni iLuna i a iiv i iu^mv3 ivvv.iv ed 50 of 60 first-place votes and 1,184 of a possible 1,200 points from a nationwide panel of sports writers and sportscasters. But Oklahoma, No. 2 a week ago, lost to Kansas 28-11 and fell to 10th place. Meanwhile, Texas moved up from third to second >j with three first-place votes and 1,121 points following a 13-7 victory over SMU, which 9 fell from 14th to 19th, just ahead of TCU. | Nebraska walloped Kansas State 62-14 and I rose from fourth to third with three firstplace ballots and 1,076 points while Brigham | Young jumped from fifth to fourth. The f Cougars received the other four first-place % ballots and 970 points after routing New 1 Mexico 48-0. I Ohio State and LSU, the 6-7 teams a week ago, both lost and tell to 16th and 15th, | respeetively. r Miami was idle last week but jumped from | eighth to sixth. Oklahoma State defeated Colorado 20-14 and went from 10th to * seventh. Georgia, a 37-7 winner over Kentucky, f shot from 13th to eighth, followed by Boston | College, which defeated Rutgers 35-23 and I climbed from 1 1th to ninth. The Second Ten i consists of Auburn, West Virginia, Florida, j Florida State, LSU, Ohio State, Iowa, j southern California, ^iviu ana K.U. % i op 20 11.Auburn 6-2-0 558 12.West Virginia 7-1-0 540 13.Florida 5-1-1 425 14.Florida State 5-1-1 406 15.LSU 5-11 357 16.Ohio State 6-2-0 341 17.Iowa 6 20 272 18.Southern Cal. 6-1-0 233 19.So. Methodist 4-2-0 166 2Q.Texas Christian 6-1-0 113 se at least $41 hrce. said, is us Bob Marcum, USC athletic director, the athlet aid if South Carolina goes to a bowl 44In th< : 11 . un j 11 IH, IllUlltV ?lll 1A<.' lllll) 1111" cllllHJllL rVUUIIU n lepartment's reserve fund. "And field, bui hat's exactly what it is, a reserve the Sam und." If Car "'Reserve fund' may not be the best athletic d erm for that money," said John nearly $2 k/loore, athletic department business year. Mo nanager. Revenue received from a money hi jowl "would be simply surplus money "We a or the athletic department. Any time he said, 'ou take in more money than you specifical ,pend, you have a surplus." How n Moore said USC's Gator Bowl ap- school is >earance in 1980 brought the universi- the bowl: y around $500,(XX). "But," he said, Of sele 4 a lot of that money must go to play Marcum or all the expenses that surround the with the I 30wl. You have to pay for the team's to discus ransportation, the band's transporta- going to ion and a whole lot of other things." declined What money there is left over, he "pluses i usc'p Revenue awarded to each more o team's school last year bowl bid ; $400,000 "Ifwt m itAri *= & . s vs s o <*Q3,UVU M,K> wc a 1,8^4,362 fc^Slilll benefit it 1,800,000 Althon ' ft4i|W?.OT would be 1 ^Marcum -V ' would co ^ "It Wi I# Athletic Association's Sports Information | said. "T j coverage Ft!* in n^finr I ill 111 uaiiui Seventh heaven and number five USC's Glenn Woodley clebrates Carolina's 45 21 victory are itfllKtJU null III llie lidliuu uy uuui Hjautioicu nwa C 00,000 "sc cheei ;ed for projects in and around ic department. : past we have renovated the louse, expanded the baseball It the Bubble and constructed Daniel Tennis Stadium." olina goes to a bowl, the PEP TAL lepartment could accumulate million in surplus money this ore said future plans for such ive not yet been decided. lways need something done," "but we have nothing Iv earmarked or anvthine." luch a bowl bid is worth to a only one factor distinguishing s> What the hell's :cting one bowl over another, Since when is t! said, "First I'd have to meet l^at administ football coach (Joe Morrison) band director shoi is the pluses and minuses of 'n8 a particular bowl." marcum What I'm refer to comment on what those "Low Brass Chee ind minuses" might be. basketball games, d speculating on which bowl The che|^4NSpa. 1 choose, if any, is mean- drum#Th?fu ecause "we don't even have a enveloped ill uHC ?? bared their fi$ts a resident James Holderman is out y?u'' ptimistic about Carolina's was a K^astly chances. forget. -T"*t i _ i t ; continue the way we're go- 1 nai s wn7 Dan ire going to have quite a wide against playing th options to choose from," he complaints in the cheer's words. itatistics say that it isn't easier Athletic Direct< money when your athletic detracts from th ;nt is doing well. But I don't James Holdermar lat. I think it ought to help the best taste- ^act U ^ | y| ? ?e xiuiu^iiiiau icicii ig to a bowl, Holderman said, a ^-0 season rtain the University would Of course, thei 1 10,000 ways." than whether the igh a bowl game's revenue every Saturday w< ; a major "benefit" to USC, more game), the 11 said other nositive thinos sitting near the b< >me from 2 bowl. The fact is, pec ould be unbelieveable," he think we look liki he recognition and television way, and I resent nationwide would be a We've all done Seo "Bowls," page 17 ? iq! nnll Illl pun T .* > " ^***' ^j^^i ^???' JIK&jSRs *v# ^ f4. b^*^*./ .< Photo by Winn McNamw over Pittsburgh Oct. 13. The Gamecocks, 7 0, ind United Press International. fans can't r 'like hell' * ii t */ going on here?' he word "hell" such a terrible expletive ration, the athletic department and the ild have to protect young ears from hear ring to, of course, is the demise of the r" from USC football and, presumably, n innocently enough with the beating of kas chimed in, and soon the stadium was ontrollable bedlam as students swayed, tnd Chanted "We're gonna beat the hell scene that mere mortals were unlikely to d director James Copenhaver has decided e cheer, saying he has received numerous past year from people who didn't like the 3r Bob Marcum.Said Jte thinks the cheer e whole program* a**d USC President i said he doesn't believe the ctieer is in the , when asked his opinion on the matter, ed to it as "trivial." , Mr. President, nothing is trivial. re are plenty of things more important band plays the "Low Brass Cheer," but 5 play at home (sadly limited to only one latter arises again to the 10,000 or so fans and. >ple want to hear the cheer again. 1 don't s barbarians when we want to cheer that anyone who imposes morality on me. ; far worse than say the word "hell" in See "Pep Talk," page 17