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The Red and Black
Friday. April*, 1*82
Cagers place recruiting emphasis on center; point guard
While Dominique Wilkins' announce
ment that he would turn pro came as no
surprise, it focused attention on the
already shallow Georgia front court
Georgia Coach Hugh Durham is busily
trying to remedy the problem through
the recruiting process, although he may
have started too late
Durham is being tight lipped about who
he is trying to sign to basketball scholar
ships But he is recruiting for two main
positions center rebounder and point
guard Both positions were handled this
year by players who were playing out of
position
The loss of Wilkins compounds the pro
blem Certainly Wilkins' 21 3 points per
game will be missed But his team
leading H I rebounds, half of which came
on the offensive boards, will be difficult
to replace
Not since Levon Mercer was a Bulldog
has Georgia had an imposing shot
blocker in the middle
Terry Fair was Georgia’s designated
big man this season, but he played not as
the intimidator but as the intimidated
Fair, at-6 foot-7, had his hands full with
the much bigger and stronger
Southeastern Conference centers
That is not to say, however, that Fair is
not capable of being a major college
center He demonstrated during the Na
tional Invitation Tournament against
Maryland that he can take charge of a
game
When Wilkins picked up his fourth foul
in the game at 14:48 of the second half.
Fair assumed the responsibility of handl
ing the boards In less than five minutes.
Fair had three steals, a blocked shot and
three rebounds
Fair's flashes of brilliance, though,
were few in number He even admitted
mid-way through the season that he was
not playing with much enthusiasm
Sieve Corrigan
Fair came to Georgia as a highly-
touted forward off Southwest Macon's
high school national championship team
He made an early mark averaging 10 re
bounds and 13.6 points, earning SEC
freshman-of-the-year honors But his
statistics have continued to drop since
his rookie season (7.7 rebounds and 12.5
points in 1980-81 and 6.1 and 8.8 in
1981-82).
Besides Fair, only three other players
have any experience in the front court.
Rising junior James Banks has proven
he can rebound and score this year (5.2
rebounds and 9.2 points), but at 6-foot-6,
he is smaller than most forwards in the
SEC In Durham’s offense, Banks played
out front where it is hard to be effective
on the boards Banks’ advantage is that
he started every game for Georgia this
season
On the bench, the Dogs had Lamar
Heard and Richard Corhen Heard will
be a senior next year and his leadership
will prove vital to the team's success.
Corhen is listed at 6-foot-6, but plays
much bigger As a freshman this season
he averaged over seven-and-a-half
minutes of playing time in 25 games.
On the other hand, Georgia is stacked
at the guard positions. No less than six
players saw action in the backcourt this
season, even though Eric Marbury and
Vern Fleming started every game
Marbury’s eligibility has elapsed but
with the depth at guard, he should not be
difficult to relace
A question mark, though, still remains
at point guard Fleming started every
game at that position. But he does not
have the ball handling skills to be effec
tive. While he did an adequate job out
front, he is a better inside player.
‘With the signing date
just five days away, on
ly one of the state’s top
recruits has committed
to Georgia. ’
Reserve guard Gerald Crosby came on
in the last half of the season as a zone
buster. Like Fleming, he is not a true
point guard
Darryl “Pee Wee” Lenard received
considerable playing time early in the
season, but as more teams began to zone
Georgia, he saw less and less action And
at 5-foot-6 Lenard is at a distinct disad
vantage.
Durham has proven himself to be a fine
recruiter in the past. But he was beaten
on the home front this year. With the
signing date just five days away, only
one of the state’s four top recruits has
committed to Georgia.
Donald Hartry of Milledgeville’s
Baldwin High is the only player to com
mit to Georgia thus far. Harty, a high
school All-America may solve Durham’s
point guard woes
But the loss of Crawford County’s Ken
ny Walker to Kentucky, Campbell of
Smyrna’s Darryl Bedford to Arkansas
and Douglas County’s Anthony Barge to
South Alabama could be the sign of an off
recruiting year.
Steve Corrigan is assistant sports editor
for the The Red and Black.
Admin. Assistant named
Greg McGarity. Georgia
assistant athletic director,
has been promoted to ad
ministrative assistant in
the athletic department, of
ficiato said Thursday
“Its a learning pro
cess," McGarity said, “a
good chance for me to learn
all the facets about the
athletic department and
persue my career objec
tives of being an athletic
director someday.”
Athletic Director Vince
Dooley said, “We are very
pleased to hav* someone as
versatile as Greg to fill this
position In his career, he
has served as an athlete,
coach, worked with the
Bulldog Club and in the
publicity office This
varied background gives
him an excellent
understanding of the dif
ferent areas of the athletic
operation.
McGarity, a native of
Athens, became assistant
sports information director
in 1977 and also coached
women’s tennis before
resigning late last year.
— Jackie Crosby
Colleges accused
of paying recruits
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (UPI)
— The new basketball coach
at North Carolina-Charlotte
Wednesday joined the list of
college coaches accusing
other programs of offering
high school prospects large
sums of money to play
basketball.
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In an interview on WBT
radio, Hal Wissell said one
prospect North Carolina-
Charlotte had been courting
was offered $10,000 to attend
another school.
Wissel, a former coach at
Florida Southern, said he is
considering notifying the
NCAA Infractions Com
mittee about the incident.
“I would say not as many
schools are doing it (offering
money) now as several
years ago," he said. “I think
you have to go by the con
ferences. For example, I
don’t think many (schools)
in the Atlantic Coast Con
ference are doing it.
“We’ve run into one school
in the Sun Belt that appears
to be doing it and I would go
as far as to say that eight out
of 10 schools in the
Southeastern Conference do
this kind of thing," Wissel
said.
Wissel said he wanted to
check out more details about
the violation he discovered,
but North Carolina-Charlotte
is considering notifying the
NCAA.
At the recent NCAA
Division I basketball tour
nament in New Orleans,
Notre Dame coach Digger
Phelps made a similar ac
cusation concerning schools
offering large sums of
money to high school
prospects.
Tracksters run in Dogwood Relays
The Georgia men’s track
team will participate in one
of the biggest relay meets
in the South when it travels
to Knoxville, Tenn., for the
Dogwood Relays Friday
and Saturday.
With over 60 teams being
represented at the meets,
the Bulldogs are expecting
to encounter their toughest
competition of the year
Georgia is coming off a
last place finish in last
weekend's tri-meet against
Florida State and Florida,
its only scoring meet so far
in the outdoor season.
Coach Lewis Gainey is
fairly confident in his relay
teams, however. But to be
successful this weekend,
Gainey said the team
“needs to run much better
because the level of com
petition is higher."
Gainey expects the
Bulldogs to be strongest in
the 400- and 800-meter
relays. Ricky Campbell,
Herschel Walker, Paul
Johnson and Darryl Sim
mons will compete in the
400-meter relays, while the
800-meter relays will be
run by Campbell, Walker,
Simmons and Tommy
Ford. Campbell, Walker
and Johnson were both
NCAA All-America in 1981.
Billy Richard is also ex
pected to do well in the 110-
meter hurdles. Richard
was also an All-America
last year.
In comparison to last
year’s relay teams, Gainey
said the present team is
lacking in depth and ex
perience.
“Last year’s relay team
was pretty much establish
ed," Gainey said. “This
year’s team is still at the
experimental stage."
Bulldog Babes
run in Relays
The Georgia women’s
track team will be sending
two individuals to the
Dogwood Relays this
weekend in Knoxville,
Tenn., to qualify them for
nationals. “The Dogwood
Relays is mainly a men's
track meet, but they’ve got
a few events in there for
women. So we can’t take a
full team up there," said
women’s track Coach Steve
Sitler.
The major purpose for
Georgia in this meet will be
to qualify Sabina Horne in
the 3000-meter, Linda
Detlefsen in the 1500-meter
and the mile relay team for
the Association of Inter
collegiate Athletics for
Women Nationals.
Sitler said they will be
looking for high pressured
competition in order to
prepare them for the con
ference and national meets
later this year.
The main thrust of com
petition will come from
Tennessee, Kentucky,
Virginia, N.C. State, Ohio,
and possibly South
Carolina and Florida State
“Those teams right there
are pretty strong
themselves,” Sitler said.
The Bulldog Babes are
coming off last weekend's
win in Florida and they are
setting their sights on the
Penn Relays April 22-23.
“We’ve gathered a lot of
momentum," Sitler said.
Stan Dooley
enters plea of
no contest
Georgia defensive end
Stan Dooley of Toccoa pled
no contest to a misde
meanor charge of posses
sion of marijuana in
Athens-Clarke County
Magistrate’s Court Thurs
day morning.
Magistrate's Judge
Pierre Boulogne ordered a
Preliminary Sentence In
vestigation of Dooley and
said he would not make his
final decision in the case
for “probably a month.”
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