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Pep Talk
By Stephen Guilfoyl
Worries of fam
do not hamper
It's been a long time since
George Rush scored a touchdown.
When he was playing for Stratford
High School in Goose Creek
in the fall of 1985 was the last
time, to be exact.
But he changed that Saturday
when he took a Todd Ellis pass
and fought his way into the end
zone from five yards out.
But Rush was battling more than
Georgia Tech defenders to make
his first collegiate touchdown.
He wasn't able to prepare for
the game with most of his team
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mates Friday, a day he spent in a
car with three other teammates.
Rush, along with Ken Farrell,
Mike Dingle and Harold Green,
were heading to the Lowcountry.
Hurricane Hugo had deposited
part of a tree into the extra room
of his parent's home.
Margaret Rush, his mother, was
alone in the house and was crying
when she saw him, Rush said
Monday.
George Rush, his father, was
working since before the storm hit.
He is a technician and mechanic
with Santee Cooper, a power
cooperative in the Lowcountry.
Tlie younger Rush said his
father came back and they, with
the help of some neighbors,
pushed the tree off the side of the
house. He was on top of the house
and saw a sight. Bent, broken trees
that were the path of the main
brunt of Hugo in Stratford.
Rush went because he couldn't
get through to his mother after the
storm. He found out later that she
too was trying to call him.
'The things we saw on the way
there ... we really didn't expect
it to be as bad as it was ... and
as we got closer, it got worse,"
Rush said of his drive down. "We
heard it was bad, but. ..
"I saw houses . .. there was a
trailer that was destroyed totally;
the family was sitting out in the
yard, and I was thinking, 'That
could be my house,"' he said.
Rush's mother spent the storm
in the house, first waiting in one of
the hallways and then getting in
between the washer and the dryer.
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It didn't help his preparation for
the game.
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we moved that one tree out," Rush
said. "I really didn't think I'd be
prepared."
They left early Friday morning
for Goose Creek. They returned around
10:30 p.m. the same night.
Rush was thinking about the
house most of the day, but said, "I
forgot about it once the pregame
preparations started; I was concentrating
on the game plan. I kept
coming back to it during the game,
thinking it could have been
worse."
He made five catches in one
game, which is almost a third of
the total number he made this past
season.
This past season, he made 16
catches for 237 yards, his longest
being a 31-yard reception against
Virginia Tech. He also returned a
kickoff for 24 yards in 1988.
This season, Rush is playing Hback.
When USC has one runningback
behind Ellis, the offense calls
for either two tight ends and two
receivers, or two receivers, one
tight end and one H-back, who
goes in motion across the field before
the snap to unbalance the defense,
or stays on the line and goes
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snap. He is a possession receiver.
Rush also works on the punt
coverage team and has popped the
punt returner with a couple of
strong hits in the Virginia Tech
and Duke games.
In the three previous games,
Rush had only caught four passes
for 31 yards. Then, one day after
seeing how Hugo unmercifully destroyed
or damaged his home and
others homes, he equals those stats
in one game and also scores his
first touchdown.
If the Gamecocks need a player
of the week, it's George Rush.
He listened to his heart when it
told him his place was with his
family, then cleared his head of his
emotions as best he could and
turned in a great performance on
the field.
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By STEPHEN GUILFOYLE
Staff Writer
During Sparky Woods' weekly
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head coach Ray Goff must have
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his mentor, former Georgia coach
Vince Dooley.
From the way Goff talked, one
might think that Georgia won't
have a prayer when the Gamecocks
go down to Athens, Ga., this
weekend.
Dooley was always one to talk
down his chances, despite the fact
that Georgia has always been a
traditional power on the national
football scene.
"... they got Eddie Miller out
there, who runs a 4.23/40; we ain't
got nobody close to that. Our little
ole comers, if they run a 4.6 we'll
be lucky," Goff said.
When told that Georgia's offense
is ranked 97th among Division
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One might think Georgia lost
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Georgia has done that so far.
The defense is only allowing
field goals, and Georgia's placekicker
has hit six of them.
One real problem Goff mentioned
was injuries. Three Georgia
runningbacks, tailback Rodney
Hampton and fullbacks Alphonso
Ellis and Brian Cleveland, as well
as inside linebacker Curt Douglas,
have all suffered injuries and their
status for the game is questionable.
But other than those four players,
Georgia is a healthy team,
Goff said.
USC will be the biggest challenge
for the Bulldogs this season,
he said.
The Gamecocks have a great
tailback and a great quarterback
and the entire team has great
speed, he said.
"I don't know about the depth,
but our kids play hard," Goff said.
Goff said he was stunned when
he saw the scouting report list that
Ellis has attempted about 1,200
passes already this season.
"We ain't thrown 1,200 passes
in 25 years," he said. "So you got
a great quarterback. And Harold
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Georgia's defense was able to shut
down and force, by getting ahead
early, into passing more.
He discounted the revenge factor
for the game. "I don't think revenge
has a dang thing to do with
it when you get in there between
the lines."
But the Gamecocks upset Georgia
this past season 23-10 in what
USC quarterback Todd Ellis said
was a case of the better team losing
to a better executed game plan.
Goff was named head coach of
Georgia this past season, when
Dooley announced his retirement
He is 2-0 since taking over the
Bulldogs.
As a side note, Goff was a former
USC assistant head coach who
coached USC runningbacks, including
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