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The Red and Black, Thursday, March II, 1976
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Photo by TERRI DORSEY
NAII, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE:
Senior Brad Becker loosens up for SIGL'S
FINISH FOURTH IN SEC
H> PETE FOLEY
Winning does not necessarily
mean placing first in an event
In some instances, a second
place finish could he consider
ed a victory.
Such is the case with Geor
gia's Men's Gymnastics Team
as they prepare for the three
day Southern Intercollegiate
Gymnastics League Champion
ships opening today in the
Coliseum. First group competi
tion in Olympic Compulsory
Exercises begins at 12:30 p m
Coach Lee Cunningham's
squad is expected to place
highly in the nine team cham
pionship. though, actually. 10
teams will be competing That
may sound contradictory until
you realize that 10th team is
last year's NCAA number two
squad, l-ouisiana State Univer
sity
After today's compulsories
and Friday's optionals, any
body's dreams of competing on
an equal basis with the power
ful Tigers should be shattered
since 1.SU has consistently
scored more than 200 points
per meet this season and ap
pears to be well on its way to
defending its honor as one of
the top teams in the United
States
Cunningham doesn't feel it
would be lowering the Bull
dog's standards to aim for that
top spot second place.
“1 would definitely consider
second to LSU a victory," he
admitted "Everybody realizes
that they have an Olympic-
calibre team."
E'irsl group competition will
run from 12:30-2:30 both today
and Friday and will include
West Virginia, Jacksonville
State, Tennessee and Georgia
Southern.
Expected to draw the largest
crowd, the second group com
posed of Georgia. LSU. and
Georgia Tech will vie from
3:45-5:45 both days of prelimi
nary action.
William and Mary, Memphis
State and Eastern Kentucky
comprise the third group which
will compete both evenings
from 7:45-9:45.
Cunningham predicts LSU
the hands-down winner but
expects a dogfight between
Georgia. Georgia Tech, and
Georgia Southern for the high
ly-prized second spot.
"I think we've got the edge
over both Tech and Southern."
Cunningham explained "But
anything could happen If eith
er of them do exceptionally
well in the compulsories then
we could end up in fourth
place."
Cunningham pointed out that
Tech is considerably weaker
than last year due to the ineli
gibility of Jeff Morrisson who
qualified for the '75 Nationals
as a freshman Morrisson was
deemed ineligible when he
transferred from Tech to LSU
last fall but has since returned
to Tech and has been working
towards competing next sea
son.
“Jeff is a good one," Cun
ningham said. "There is no
doubt that Tech is a weaker
loam without him competing "
Georgia has beaten Georgia
Southern already this year but
Cunningham is not taking the
Eagles lightly
"Southern has averaged a
round 185 per meet this year. "
he stated "And we've been at
about 190 so you can see that
the edge there is only slight."
Saturday's Individual Finals
will pit the lop eight finishers
in each of the six Olympic
Events, the vault, side horse,
horizontal bar. parallel bars,
floor exercises and still rings
As many as three of these
performers may further quali
fy for the Nationals
Competition to be held at
Temple University in Philadel
phia. Pennsylania from April
2-4
Qualification criteria is the
sum of the average individual
preliminary scores added to
the final's score The top three
point leaders, above a 17.0
minimum, will qualify for the
Nationals
Cunningham feels Brad Bec
ker has a shot at the Nationals
in the vault, floor ex or
horizontal bar. Greg Corsiglia
is also a possibility on the slill
rings while Ron Clements
could qualify on the P-Bars
Captain Mike Gilreath has an
outside chance in the vault
"All four of these guys have
the potential. We ll just have to
wait and see, " he said.
There is no question in
Cunningham's mind that his
troops are ready for the SIGI.
Championship both physically
and mentally.
_ ... strained muscles, hut nothing meet. LSU is enough to get
"We’ve only had the usual really serious." he said. "And them all fired up. I would say
injuries like pulled muscles or everyone is excited about this that we are ready.
I THIS WEEK:«
CHOICE
Tankers snap 15 school marks
By TIM JEFFREY
For Head Coach Pete Scholle
and his swim team, it won t be
hard to remember 1976 as
being a leap year, because the
Dogs did just that, vaulting
from sixth place in 1975 to
fourth this past weekend in the
SEC Championships at Tusca
loosa. It w-as Scholle's sixth
season at the helm for Geor
gia. but he didn't hesitate in
ranking this SEC meet above
the others.
"It was the best conference
meet we've ever had,” Scholle
said. One would expect such
praise for a team that broke 15
school records.
“The fellas swam outstand
ingly well," he continued. "In
checking the times, out of 48
swims. 42 of those were the
best performance ever for the
indmdual or relay."
TOM PRATO
The overall times at the
meet were just as awesome,
since 15 of the 16 meet records
were toppled
"It was the fastest SEC meet
of all time," Scholle said “I
think it is the most competitive
conference in the nation "
Georgia edged out LSU for
that fourth place finish, scor
ing 151 points to 133 for the
Tigers. As Scholle pointed out,
the battle for that spot between
the two schools was almost too
close for comfort
"It lfourth place) wasn't
wrapped up until the final
relay," Scholle said. "If we
had been disqualified we
wouldn't have finished in the
fourth position."
With Leroy Engstrand set
ting two individual conference
records, including an Ameri
can record in the 20(> yard
individual medley. Tennessee
took first place over the crowd
favorite Alabama
The Vols amassed 649 points,
while the Tide rolled in with
56o Auburn finished a distant
third, and Vanderbilt, Florida,
and Kentucky brought up the
rear behind Georgia and LSU.
Of the 15 school records
broken by the Bulldogs, sopho
more Jack Burton was person
ally responsible for a third of
them Burton broke the old
mark in the 200, 500, 1000 and
1650 yard freestyle races, and
added another record in the 200
yard butterfly.
Junior Bryan Schroeder set
records in the 100 and 200 yard
backstroke as did freshmen
Ted Greve in the 100 yard
butterfly and the 400 yard
individual medley. Mike Hei-
nen contributed with new
school marks in the 200 yard
individual medlev and the 200
yard breaststroke. Senior Bob
Brown rounded out the indivi
dual record breakers with his
time of 21.099 in the 50 yard
freestyle.
Georgia also established new
school lows in the medley
relay, the 800 free relay, and
the 400 free relay.
By virtue of their times,
both Schroeder and Brown
have qualified for the NCAA
Championships to be held
March 24-27 at Brown Univer
sity in Providence, R.I. Scholle
added that Greve, Heinen,
Jack Burton are strong threats
in this finale of the collegiate
swimming season.
Georgia has already quali
fied its three relay teams for
the upcoming national compe
tition.
The team’s performance in
the SEC Championships con
firmed Scholle’s evaluation of
College needs shot clock
Probably one of the most controversial issues in college
basketball over the past few years deals with the implementation
of a time clock, and more specifically a 30 second rule
Supporters of the proposal point to the increasing emphasis
placed on "stalling" in the college game today, voicing
dissatisficaction at the way many teams
rely on the stall as an integral part of their
offense The most notable of these is the
North Carolina "four corner" offense of
Coach Dean Smith.
Most of the opponents of the 30 second
clock argue two points in the defense of the
game as it now stands First, the addition of
a time clock would eliminate a unique part
of the game and make college basketball a
duplication of the pro grame Secondly, a slow-down attack gives
the underdog a better shot of knocking off the more powerful
teams
But in many cases, this second point has proved just the
opposite. For the most part, the top teams in the nation have
superior ballhandlers and can run the stall to perfection, it need
be North Carolina's Phil Ford and Maryland’s John Lucas are
the epitome of ballhandling excellence and their teams are two of
the foremost advocates of the slow-down game
However, a team like Notre Dame (which does not possess the
type of guards needed and which relies on the play of strong
forwards like Adrian Dantley) cannot run the stall effectively
This was clearly shown earlier this season against Maryland,
when the Irish blew a lead attempting to hold the ball, and lost in
the final minutes
Probably the greatest supporters on record of the slow down
were the Ashland lOhio) Eagles in the late sixties The Eagles
led the nation in scoring defense for three consecutive years
11967-691 while holding opponents to an average of about 33 points
per game Ashland had a record of 71-13 over the period and was
the number one small college team in the nation in 1969
Their coach was Bill Mussellman, a former Tennessee player,
who stressed to his players the goal of "shutting out” their
opponents The Eagles never held the opposition to under 14
points, hut Mussellman was convinced that “with a little luck, we
could do it" Watching one of Ashland’s games in its entirety was
probably one of the greatest cures for insomnia ever invented.
Officials in the Big Eight conference opted for a 30 second
clock on an experimental basis, beginning in the 72-73 season It
ran for a period of three years, at which time it was discontinued
because, as one University of Missouri spokesman said, “We
were tired of being an experimental league"
He noted that NCAA statistics reveal that a turnover occurs
once every 24 seconds so that there was no noticeable difference
in plav. EXCEPT FOR THE FINAL FEW MINUTES OF THE
GAME'
But isn’t the end of the game what we are generally concerned
with? If the powerhouses can't blow the little guys out as
expected, they resort to a stalling technique late in the game,
sort of an "insurance policy." Even an encounter between two
evenly matched clubs can come down to a question of who can
hold on to the ball the best.
Of course, the opposite can also be true. The underdog may put
together a strong effort, catching the favorite on an off night, and
have a slim lead going down to the wire. But to win, a club
should be the better team for 40 minutes, not just 30 or 35.
The thing that perturbs me the most has to be a team going
into a stall when fans have just gotten back to their seats from
buying their halftime hotdogs. Note the NC-NC St. game a few
weeks back when Carolina went into its "four corners" with
"only" 14 minutes remaining in the game. Of course, the final
margin of victory was in double figures
It was kind of amusing to see lightly regarded Virginia
knocking off number 12 Maryland and number four North
Carolina in successive nights during last weekend's ACC
tournament The Cavaliers beat both teams at their own game,
holding the ball down the stretch and forcing Carolina and
Maryland to foul in order to get possession
It should be interesting to watch the NCAA playoffs and see
which teams will attempt to use the slowdown and how their
opponents will try to counteract it. Sooner or later, the NCAA
must give the shooting clock careful consideration and come out
with a strong decision for adoption
his swimmers throughout the
entire 1975-76 campaign.
"As far as team perfor
mance goes, it was our best
year," Scholle said. "The team
has worked hard and sacri
ficed a lot. They were rewarded
in the end with excellent
times."
Scholle cited experience and
a very talented group of fresh
men as two key reasons for the
team's improvement over last
year.
"We improved here as the
swimmers matured," Scholle
said, and added the first year
swimmers "made for a rapre
challenging and competitive
situation "
Of the freshmen Scholle em
phasized the development of
Reid Hansen into a top-notch
sprinter.
"With his development we
should be able to turn out one
of the best sprinters in the
conference," he said.
One may think a team that
breaks 15 of its school records
in one meet must have had a
very disappointing regular sea
son. but Scholle said this is not
the case for his squad.
"When you break 15 school
records it’s either ridiculously
easy, or you've got a lot of
superior people Here it is the
second case. We have some
times that are in the top ten in
the nation The times in two
relays would have earned us
All-American status last
year.”
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