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Morrisor By KEVIN ADAMS Sports editor USC head football coach Joe Morrisor tremely pleased with his team's perform; Saturday against the Georgia Bulldogs at \ Brice Stadium but says the Gamecocks a ford to let up this week against Appalachi "I think the players learned a lot last we how they practiced and how that carried o> game," Morrison said. "We went out an 60 minutes of good, hard football. The was there, and the concentration was thei Morrison also said he was pleased -Gamecocks had moved into the top 10 ? No. 8 in this week's Associated Press pol ? ' said it was a recognition of the players' efl 'a nice reward for them. 4 "I can't give enough credit to these your ? he said. "It's a credit to them that they ? -up, and the standards and expectation move up as well." ' Beginning with Appalachian State. Th taineers are 3-0 and ranked No. 2 in Divisi r I Price, Pari By RICHARD BREEN Staff writer w , Americans take pride in being do- u] it-yourselfers. For USC punters c( .Daren Parker and Rodney Price, it's in been a necessity. n. While others tinker with faucets tc and engines, the two, who had no p; punting coach to speak of, tinkered tl n >yith their technique. It was only a tc "moderate success. Finally, against East Carolina Sept. 17, the pipes tl broke, so to speak. ti n fit* j?iL ^;i' y? ^^aH ' S^pPHHP^ ^"Vfti >; . > ; ' *< f ' > x ^ 3. .' # ' ,' 'Jfy/ffi '*&*$?& * ,"> /*' * 'Si. m jfk ? ? % / rspfe'. * \,y vjjjt jd% J /. V s * ,"-i - - as USC junior punter Rodney Price gets off sophomore Daren Parker for the starting Associated P 25 Record t. Miami, Fla. 3-0-0 2. UCLA 3-0-0 3. Southern Cai 3-0-0 4. Auburn 3-0-0 5. Notre Dame 3-0-0 6. Florida State 3-1-0 7. West Virginia 4-0-0 8. South Carolina 4-0-0 9. Nebraska 3-1-0 10. Oklahoma 2-1-0 11.Clemson 3-1-0 12. Alabama 2-0-0 13. Oklahoma State 2-0-0 14. LSU 2-1-0 15. Georgia 3-1-0 16. Washington 3-0-0 17. Florida 4-0-0 18. Wyoming 4-0-0 19. Michigan 1-2-0 20. Oregon 3-0-0 DOT CHICI OU EXCUSES DOW S> _^_BlOODDOj :: i wary o and have a history of ] tough. USC won 20-13 in 1 was ex- the two most recent me ance last schools. Villiams- "Appalachian State is innot af- Morrison said. "We have an State. games with them here, a ek about closer than the score indie /er to the Appalachian State head d played also concerned and calls U intensity ship contender, re." "I don't think there's a that the Carolina," Woods said. - USC is good about themselves, a 11 ? and an excellent defensive foo forts and football team. I don't s< won't play in some bowl g lgmen," Year's. I think they've gc lid move tional champion." s should Woods, in his fifth seas has led the Mountaineers e Moun- two consecutive Southerr ion I-AA ships but said this year' cer battle Price started, hit a bad punt and as replaced by Parker. Parker was p and down, so USC head football )ach Joe Morrison sent Price back i. One would think it would be time ) call in an expert repairman. Aparently that's what Morrison links, because Ron Keller is coming ) the rescue. Keller has only been at USC for iree weeks and says he needs more me before he can work on Parker's j^j ' j%'' y-s ' ', ?% ' # >rPW^H ?? 'vis- '*(r^ &ft '-'-z -& v ' /'', ^ ''' ' - ' <f ,f ..... : "j a kick in Saturday's 23-10 victory ov position. 'ress Top 20 Pts. Pvs. 1,193 1 1,130 2 1,050 5 1,001 4 902 8 815 9 791 H 742 14 727 10 620 3 609 12 568 13 407 18 403 7 388 6 286 17 240 20 161 155 19 82 ir KEN IT. WE LIVES. if Moun playing the Gamecocks those he has 1985 and 24-3 last year in how they wi etings between the two "We've g idea what it a solid football team," there," Woe had two extremely tough there before nd the game was much them as it w :ated last season." "We wan coach Sparky Woods is Woods add< SC a national champion- players. We football te; good week to play South Carolina." "I'm sure they feel very (JSC note nd they should. They're the offensive Knll ton*v? nn/4 ritrn C111 c />Amr\lo luaii itaiii aiiu uutinivv je any reason why they a touchdow ame somewhere this New Ron Rabun it a chance to be the na- against Gee tackier this s on at Appalachian State, Mackie, wh to a 35-15-1 record and special team 1 Conference champion- record for s team is younger than awards went for puntin; and Price's form. One thing he can help with right away is the psychology of punting. "Punting is 80 to 90 percent mental," Keller said. "They have a tendency to tighten up. They put too much pressure on themselves." Keller said that before he came, "they just had someone over there watching them. He (Morrison) is not too happy, and he's looking for someone to make it work." Keller charts the USC punters, liF r#W ^*L&ii-:?M^?i . ^f** *'A & * " $$ *M^Wt ' ' " ' #*>< f''im~:, '^B'W ' ' ', <.... -;' if4'- <#yh-tS&*. 1 % * , ' >s' 9pt ** ;-'ii *i Pt.$w \* ;*$%r r . %: :, ;s*tr ^ *?,; , ? x.. - ? ,*-slNfc*?, .-' 4 -, ^<te,W/ ' . '' 3$fe> *'* ' ^ :'v " ^ * ^ *~ * --^ - ;-' '^ >^* - ^ m_ '^^f'*^:r - '' **' ' 4Jsife-^ , ^ A ( f '.* , 1*. ' ' .Vt-D^, TEDDY LEPP/The Gameco er Georgia. Price is being pushed b I minimum With EVERY donatic Blood. Programs aval simple blood test is al if you qualify. Speci< students. Serologicals I P^^EHHIS & SKI 2127 Devine St. at 5 Points taineers : had in the past. He said he isn't sure 11 react to playing at Williams-Brice. ot so many players that don't have an 's going to be like when we get down >ds said. "Last year's team had played so at least it wasn't as big a shock to ill be to this football team, t to try to win every game we play," ;d, "but we try to be honest with our don't try to tell them we've got a better im than the University of South s: Quarterback Todd Ellis was named e player of the game against Georgia, ted 28 of 43 attempts for 321 yards and n. Defensive player of the game was e, who had a career-high 17 tackles >rgia and is the leading Gamecock ;eason with a total of 48. Kicker Collin o had three field goals, was named s player of the game. Mackie set a USC consecutive field goals. Scout team t to Troy Dukes and Shannon Jones. g position then goes over the numbers with Morrison at the end of the week. Both have done well in practice, but it hasn't carried over into games. "Coach Morrison is trying to eliminate that Jekyll and Hyde aspect," Keller said. "It's just a matter of going out and being confident." Both Parker and Price said they weren't expecting the position to become a revolving door. "It surprised me," Parker said. "This is my chance. I've been trying to put the pressure on him in practice." Price, ironically, replaced Parker after the 1987 Georgia game. He had kept the starting job until now, doing well enough last year to earn /\ssuiiaicu ricas 2>uuua. "I've just got to get the feel in the games," Price said. Parker said he could do better if he had more game chances as well. That means something has to give, and Keller is using game situations in practice to put the pressure of competition on both of them. "That's the kind of atmosphere I'm trying to create," Keller said. Keller was late coming to the Gamecocks this season, because he was involved in his own punting battle. He was cut by the San Francisco 49ers at the end of a trainijig-camplong fight "for the punting jbb." Another casualty was veteran Max Runager, who starred for the Gamecocks in the late 1970s. Assistant head coach and defensive coordinator Joe Lee Dunn was Keller's head coach at New Mexico, which is how he heard about USC. Keller said he has been involved in coaching punters for several years. Perhaps his expertise will pay off in more consistent performance from whoever ends up winning the starting job. He said he hopes facing the ( crowd each Saturday will become less I tense than it is now. ( "Saturday is to show off," Keller | said. "It's supposed to be fun. It's what you work for all week in practice." ' Gamecock fans may never think < If'c fun urban tba nuntor r?nmoc i n i It 3 I till VY11V11 tltv ^UlllVl VUU1VJ 111. It's doubtful they cheer when the plumber knocks on the door, either. But when the job's done, and things are working well again, there is some satisfaction to be found. USC's resident punting expert is trying to get things fixed before the leak becomes a flood. $20 PAID >n. Plasma & Whole I for all blood types. A I that is needed to see al bonus program for ologicals. Inc. Vliddleburg Dr. Suite 105 olumbia, S.C. 29204 254-6537 >aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/\.^i UE I JU |? J T Jg [ o.L'l.f 256-3511 'F*"^ g Johnson 1 because o By HAL BOCK Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea ? It's strange how a few little minerals floating through a test tube can instantly turn an Olympic hero into the goat of the Games. Ben Johnson, hailed as the world's fastest human, learned that glory can be as fleeting as he is fleet when his urine sample turned up with a few wrong minerals after he won the 100-meter race in world record time of 9.79 seconds. There are all manner of theories about how that might have happened, from a stranger who slipped him a mysterious drink, to a tampered sample, to bad sasparjjla. The Canadian Olympic Committee and Johnson's people used each of those defenses from time to time, trying to explain how stanozolol, an anabolic steroid, made its way into Rapid Ben's testing cup. The bottom line, however, is that the 100-meter gold medal no longer hangs from Johnson's neck, and the Games of '88 will be remembered not for his great showdown against Carl Lewis, but by the drug scandal that followed the monumental race. And that's a shame. There are few events that can generate the kind of electricity the Johnson-Lewis race did. In less than 10 pulsating seconds, they grabbed these Games by the lapels and shook them into the public consciousness with one of the greatest track confrontations in history. But in the end, it turned out to be a fake. Maybe that shouldn't have come as any big surprise, though. At the Rome world championships a year ago, Lewis suggested that some funny business was going on in his sport and that "a substantial amount" of gold medalists were cheating. It was in that meet that Johnson burst into prominence with a world record 9.83 for the 100. Perhaps as shocking as the disclosure that Johnson tested positive were the reactions of some of the people the International Olympic.Committer warmly jden- * tifies as members of the Olympic Family. Horace Dove-Edwin of Sierra Leone ran the 100, just like Johnson and Lewis. He almost seemed unconcerned by the positive finding. "Everybody uses drugs," he said. 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Tennis player Pam Shriver said, "It wasn't that much of a surprise to me because I overheard an unbelievable conversation the other day in the athletes' village between some track people about what was going on. It was about track and field and the cheating that goes on. Evidentally, among the competitors it's pretty common knowledge. And the ones that are clean are very frustrated. It's terrible to know that you can't win." Marcus Arnold, an Australian coach, appeared to shrug it off. "As far as the world is concerned, Ben Johnson won the race. What are they going to do? Take his medal away?" Well, as a matter of fact, yes, that's exactly what they did, although they did have to do a little wrestling with the Canadian Olympic Committee to achieve that. When Johnson's test came up dirty, Canadian officials offered the IOC the tampered sample explanation, suggesting there were npnnlp in thf> fpstincr room who weren't authorized to be there. That is almost plausible, because it seems everybody in Korea is running around in the brightly colored blazers that identify officials of the Games. Then there was the sasparilla explanation about Johnson's supply of the beverage being moved while he competed. Finally came the mysterious drink that Johnson's manager said the runner accepted from a stranger. "Our initial concern was to provide the best defense out of fairness to Ben Johnson," explained Roger Jackson, president of the Canadian Olympic Committee. They were all intriguing stories, but the IOC Medical Commission wasn't buying any of them. Prince Alexandre de Merode, chairman of the commission, said the steroid profile was "not consistent with that claim." Stanozolol's reputation among athletes i^'that-the substance is impossible to detect. That apparently changed with improved testing techniques within the last two years. "That reputation continues with the athletes," de Merode said. 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