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Brown represents in NCAA committee Offensive lineman selected as USC delegate to national organization (Tlichael Aguilar FOR THE GAMECOCK “I will practice personal and academic integrity; I will respect the dignity of all persons ... striving to learn from differences in people and opinions.” The Carolinian Creed: Those words echo a call to respect the dignity for all students at USC. As a Carolinian, students are called to be upstanding citizens not only: academically and athletically, but morally as well. People who fit into such a description are called leaders. Sophomore offensive guard William Brown, who goes by Web, is a leader — and not only because he follows his Carolinian Creed. He is out in the nation, showing other athletes from around the ^country just what the Carolinian Creed truly means to him. His leadership reached one of its highest points in July when Brown was selected to represent USC in the SEC Student Athletic Advisory Committee. The SAAC is designed to deal with problems and issues that arise from being a student-athlete. Beyond that, Brown .saw an opportunity to have his voice heard, and he applied to be the representative to the national SAAC for the SEC. After four players were picked from the applicants in the SEC, Brown was selected by the NCAA to be the sole player representative from the SEC. The national SAAC is designed to gather input from the student-athletes most respected and revered by their peers and coaches and use that input to decide its course of action on many delicate issues. “Our main goal is to raise awareness to student-athlete welfare and issues 1 that are going on, and we do that through providing our input into legislation that our schools, schedule 12 games in a year. Brown said he has thoroughly enjoyed being a part of these two committees and has taken away a greater knowledge of how the NCAA works, but he has found more rewarding things about the experience than just that. “I get to be a voice in it now; I now have power to go to my school and say ‘Hey this is what we’re talking about nationally’ and say ‘Hey what do y’all think about it?’ and then I can take that back nationally and say ‘Hey this is how South Carolina feels about it, this is how the SEC feels about it,”’ Brown said. “Then together we can fix things and change problems that need Courtesy of Tennessee Sports information Tennessee running back Gerald Riggs ir. is out for the remainder of the season. Carolina defense prepares for underachieving Tennessee offense DJ Bembry STAFF WRITER It’s been said before that the mark of a1 great program is its ability to reload talent. If that’s the case, Tennessee will get plenty of opportunities to prove its prowess as a program when redshirt freshman tailback Arian Foster makes his first career start against Carolina on Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn. With senior leading-rusher Gerald Riggs Jr. out for the season with unspecified lower leg and ankle Injuries suffered in last week’s 6-3 loss do bitter rival Alabama, it’s Foster’s1 Courtesy of USC Sports Information Sophomore William Brown has been selected as a member of SEC Student Athletic Advisory Committee. to be ratified.” The Carolinian Creed calls its students to rise above the rest and provide others with a glimpse into what it means to be a USC Gamecock. Brown has taken that as a personal challenge and represents himself, his team and, most of all, his school on a national scale. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocksports@gwm. sc. edu With Riggs out, Vols put new face in running game -v NAME: Arian Foster POSITION: Tai^acfc'_ HOMETOWN: ian Diego, Calif. HEIGHT: 6 feet inche WEIGHT: 211 pounds YEAR: Freshman -Ran for over 2,000 yards and had 24 touchdowns as a senior at Mission Bay High School -Forced into action against Alabama when tailback Gerald Riggs was injured and ran for 56 yards on 14 carries -Redshirted in 2004 Laura-Joyce Gough /Till; GAM KGOGK turn to carry the ball against the Gamecocks. Anyone hoping for a reprieve against Tennessee’s trademark rushing attack had better think again. “If you didn’t kriow about Riggs and you saw (Foster) in there, you’d think ‘Oh my goodness.’ It’s not like we got a break, we’re just going to get more Foster now,” said John Thompson, USC co-defensive coordinator. Foster, the 6-foot-1-inch, 211 pound running back out of San Diego, was plugged into duty last week against Alabama after Riggs went down, rushing for 56 yards on 14 carries with no touchdowns. He and Riggs combined for 138 yards on 34 carries for the day. “The way they played Saturday, you know, was kind of some old school Tennessee,” Thompson said. “With the way we’ve played the run, I’m sure that’s what they’re going to try to do.” Tennessee has struggled on numerous occasions on offense this season, scoring only 7 points at Florida and six at Alabama. “Offensively, we have absolutely been our own worst enemies,” Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer said this week. “We haven’t reached our potential.” The Vols would love to have a repeat performance from last year when they came into Columbia and downed the Gamecocks 43-29. In that game, then-senior Cedric Houston amassed 190 yards on the ground, teaming with Riggs to carve USC’s defense for 246 yards on 36 carries with one touchdown. The Gamecocks haven’t fared much better against the run this season, coming in at 10th in the conference in total rush defense. In seven games, USC has allowed 1,173. yards in 308 attempts, averaging 167.6 yards per game. Still, after a roster shake-up at linebacker, Carolina held Vanderbilt to a paltry 41 yards rushing last week, the defense’s lowest total of the season. Thompson was pleased with middle linebacker Dustin Lindsey’s performance in his first career start last week and expects to have the 6 foot-3-inch, 213-pound sophomore starting there against the Volunteers this weekend. “I think (Lindsey)’s doing good. He’s making more plays. You know, we got to get some playmakers in there. That’s what he’s done,” Thompson said. The Gamecock secondary will match up with a receiving corps that some think might be the most talented in the country, but does not have a receiver with more than two touchdown catches. Junior Jayson Swain leads Tennessee with 233 yards receiving on 13.7 yards per catch, but the Volunteers spread the ball around well, passing to numerous receivers. If the Gamecocks are able to shut down Foster and the Tennessee ground game, the burden will be on Vols senior quarterback Rick Clausen to carry the offense. Clausen started the year No. 2 on the depth chart behind sophomore incumbent starter Erik Ainge, but assumed the starting duties after he led the Vols to a 30-27 overtime come-from-behind win at LSU on Sept. 26. Clausen has 90 completions on 149 passing attempts so far this season for 1,073 yards and three l 1 __ lUUUlUUVTUJ. Yet a slight controversy still exists, as Fulmer is apt to pull Clausen for Ainge if Clausen struggles early. As far as the Gamecocks’ defense is concerned though, there’s very little difference at all between the two signal callers. “They’re both really talented quarterbacks, and they’ve both won a game, so (preparing differently is) really not going to be an issue for us,” Thompson said. “One of them’s right-handed, one of them’s left handed. That’s really the biggest difference.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocksports@gwfn. sc. edu conferences and the NCAA as a whole sets forth,” Brown said. “What happens is the legislators will look at how the student-athletes feel and put that into their decisions.” The SAAC gives its opinions on issues such as the -new Academic Progress Rate, a system being implemented in all NCAA schools that follows the school’s progress in the way of retaining and graduating players academically. In the upcoming year, the SAAC is looking to discuss the possibility of allotting more women’s athletic scholarships to all NCAA schools. Since then, Brown has traveled to California for meetings with the SAAC. In November, he would have headed to San Antonio, Texas, but instead, he will be playing in the Clemson-Carolina game. In January, he will spend a weekend in Indianapolis for the NCAA convention. Through tfie SAAC, Brown has found another way to provide leadership on a national scale. He is part of the NCAA Football Issues Committee, a similar committee to the SAAC but talks in particular about football. The problems that the Football Issues Committee deals with are issues such as recruiting penalties and scholarship issues that arise because of the business that college football is becoming. The committee also helped the NCAA decide to allow teams to