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South C i .s'mI j & The University of Tennessee has S goes crazy whenever the UT crowd "Rocky Top." USC needs a song lik< ^ and pump up the Carolina faithful. ni onoe comp MONEY continued from page 8 not believe it is possible or appropriate to develop specific guidelines or legislation to address staff compensation." a Not possible, at least, in the case of highly paid head coaches. The NCAA later thought it appropriate to try to limit the pay of some assistant coaches, a move still moving through federal court. The proposed salary cap? $16,000. Some coaching benefits also stretch the NCAA's own constitution, which says: "Student athletes should be protected from exploitation by professional and commercial enterprises." W Logos on game jerseys and shoes, though, make for great loopholes. The 1997 Final Four was a perfect example. Three of the four teams, including national champion Arizona, literally swooshed up and down the court as TV cameras zoomed in on their Nikes. "If you had to buy all of those in 30-second spots, at 2-3-4-$500,000...," said Steve Miller, Nike executive and former director of collegiate sports marNOTICE! D] There's sti A Free: cap & gi I ^ #Batfcui xi * H -wan' do" bot nForms of ? contraTil tra-S^nsit C/Lubricated "frselfcare,. QjgP i l jt m Carolina 1^^ ACHIM HUNT The Gamecock mokey, a blue-tick coon hound, who makes a lot of noise or the band plays e "Rocky Top" to annoy opposing fans anies battli kfitinp "the cost wnnlH he unheliev able." So Nike has deals with at least 200 NCAA coaches. When the reform-minded Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics issued its report in 1991, it urged a ban on coaches' getting money directly from shoe and apparel firms. "Coaches are selling something they don't own the university's name and image," Kit Morris, director of the Knight Commission, told The Boston Globe in 1995. Morris said that if a SfVifinl'o nnrnliacincr arronf rHrl fVio coma thing, "he would be led off in handcuffs." Morris now works for Nike. Chase Peterson, University of Utah president emeritus and former Knight. Commission member, said shoe economics merit more discussion. "More than we gave it, quite frankly," he said. "The underbelly of that empire really deserves some scrutiny." The Knight Commission recommended that shoe deals be made diNOTICE! ECEMBER GRADUAT 11 time to order anno 3WN WITH PURCHASE OF 25 Ah $39.75 Graduate Students - Free Hood witl Gown & Announcp.mp.nt Pnrrhnsp : 1609 Blossom Stre e * fcS WSJ1-1 iat I 1 a Qi ' * Ji _ 1. -. trAC ^*>5? .ifUw conw pws Packaged together f CarePlus gives you 1 to help prevent HIV 'l f/Hr transmitted diseases / w^en use<^ to9etIier' %is" *"* Now available at For more informal i The Gamecock KlJ^j needs i I honestly can't decide which tune is more annoying. Is it the shrill roll oi "Rocky Top," as sung 19 times Satur day against USC by 106,000-plus raucous Tennesseeans? Or is it the repetitive nuisance oi Florida's "N aaa-na-na-na-na-na... Go Gators?" I think they strike that one up after every play. Or what about Georgia's "111 Be Working on the Railroad" theme? Perhaps "My Kentucky Home," or Arkansas' "Pig Sooey" wins when basketball season rolls around. Whichever decibel deluge you select for the prize, competing in the SEC has given Gamecock fans a musical earful week in and week out, and in the process has engendered in our very hearts and souls the sort of substan2 to represei rectly with colleges, not with coaches. \TP A A mntrnt* n/1 -14 iiiu nunn ncvci auupwxi it. Even so, the Big Ten passed the rule for its conference. "There was a sense by some of our member schools that dollars were flowing inappropriately to coaches," said Big Ten Com missioner Jim Delaney. At this year's convention, even the NCAA Council, a now disbanded oversight body, agreed with the Big Ten approach for all member schools. Delegates referred the matter to the Division I Management Council, which took over in August. Few expect any action, but many individual schools now serve as the funnel between shoe companies and coaches. This season, the University of Kansas will receive about $850,000 worth of merchandise from Nike, including $25,000 worth of rain suits for the rowing team and 300 baseball caps for the football team. According to a contract signed in 1995, Nike provides Florida State with no fewer than 2,500 pairs of shoes a year, not including the 120 pairs of flipflops for the swim teams. "Let's assume for a second there's no Nike," said Miller, formerly the KNOTICE! ?r* n uncements INOUNCEMENTS et 254-5330 n t' ou> tthis tbk ^JSfc?*.. *** 1 Contraceptive Lde inserts or Double Protection 6 simple-to-use methods (AIDS;, sexually ; (STD's), and Pregnancy, each time you have sex. leading stores. LOn: 1-600-BIT-SELF i IllKl Wednesday, Novembe ts own < Itive wrath regularly reserved for just one hated song ? "The Tiger Rag." But these days, it seems the "Rag" is almost music to our ears after a sea: son of opposing SEC fight songs. In fact, so deeply rooted is this ha1 tred becoming that just the other day a colleague of mine was reduced (in a F matter of seconds) to making physical threats and extremely intimidating ees ticulation when, as an experiment, 1 decided to see how many times I could whistle "Rocky Top" unmolested in the office. Now think about this honestly. Ill admit that while I've never actually kicked in a television or been thrown out of a Five Points pub before, my remote control does have an unnatural predisposition to leap from my hand on gamedays at high rates of speed. As a result of this, my roommate's dog, Caeser, has pretty much resigned himself to getting absolutely, positive nt colleges State athletic director. "No Reebok. No adidas. No nobody. Where's the money going to come from...? "The university simply can't function financially based on its state support, its national support." Nike, for example, will give Kentucky more than $8 million as well as $3 million in clothing and equipment over the next five years. Three school coaches will get about $6 million of that. Clearly, business continues to be good for head coaches, so good-that some are now incorporated. SSM Inc. was set up by Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder, and RWW Enterprises is owned by KU basketball coach Roy Williams. Although they are tax-supported, neither of those two Kansas universities would release outside income for coaches. Neither would the University of Arizona. "Nobody wanted to know what my income was when I made $3,200 a year," Olson said, "so why should I discuss it now?" [FUN OPP ITfWSS P9JM>PiPffP9M Bayer -f Notice; Plasma donors are subject to medico r 5,1997 innoyin; ; ly no sleep whatsoever on Saturday af' ternoons. There's just too much banging, screaming and wailing. That incessant, inveterate, blood curdling pulse 01 a really annoying opponent theme song just drives me completely up, up, up and over the wall. ' It simply makes me crazy. Now since I know there are those of you out there (albeit not to my extreme) who share this sentiment, I want to raise the following question: Where is our annoying song? Where is our universally hated melody? Why isn't there something we can play over and over and over again thaf s bland, unattractive, atonal and gener ally displeasing to the ear? Come on, USC music majors, band members and aspiring composers. Is there anyone at all out there with the capability of putting down USC looki with loss i HUNT continued from page 8 That first game was Saturday against Tennessee and their Heisman front-runner Peyton Manning. The defense played excellent as they held Manning to eight of 25 passing with no touchdowns. But the offense could not move the ball against the tough Vols defense, and they lost Anthony Wright for the year to torn knee ligaments. The game was the first major experience for redshirt freshman quarterback Vic Penn. After a slow start, he proved he can lead the Carolina offense. So now USC stands at 5-4 heading into their open week and game next weeK against the struggling Gators. Now, the SEC gets one and maybe two teams into the Alliance Bowls this year. 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The time has come for Carolina to couple the splendid glory of "2001," the simple elegance of the USC Alma Mater and the toe-tapping catchiness of our Go, f lght, Win! tight song with a real zinger of a nuisance. Where is our headache starter? Where is our Excedrin elixir? We need a song to annoy opposing fans and to pump up the Carolina faithful. So break out the keyboard, put on your creative hats and create an annoying jingle for the Gamecocks. Please send your suggestions to Jim Copenhaver ASAP and let's see if we can't compete with the SEC in noise pollution as well. % i to deal of Wright either Alabama, Miss. St., Ole Miss or USC would go to a bowl. Thfi Riff East, is mnre fVian lilrolv not going to have four teams qualify for their bowl games, and their fourth bowl is the Liberty Bowl in Memphis. If the Big East cannot qualify a fourth team, which would be Pittsburgh with four wins or Miami with three, then Carolina has an excellent shot to get a chance to play the Conference USA champ in the Liberty Bowl. That, more than likely, will be Southern Mississippi, which will rule out the chance that Ole Miss or Mississippi State would be invited because those two teams have always refused to play Southern Miss. So the bowl chances are still there for the Gamecocks, and with the open date and quarterback problems at UF, USC has a chance to take this roller coaster to higher places this year. 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