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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
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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!
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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?"
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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
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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. Right now that would be Ten- i
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some genuinely unappealing, spinewrenching,
nerve-wracking form of cacophonic
musical notation?
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.
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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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