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EW tributes are paid to athletic trainers, but UNC head
a trainer John Lacev has received tnem an.
"When I first became a trainer, I guess I had three main
goals," says Lacey. "I wanted first to be a head trainer, then be
chosen to represent the U.S. in the Olympics and the last one
was to make the athletic trainers' hall of fame."
Lacey has reached them all. He's been the Carolina head
trainer for the past 25 years and spent several years before that as
the head trainer at Maryland. Also, Lacey was the trainer for the
United States basketball team at the 1SS4 Tokyo Olympics, and
eight years later, he was named the head trainer for the entire
U.S. delegation to the Munich games. Lacey's final dream came
true in 1977, when he was selected to the at'hetic trainers'
section of the Citizen Savings Hall of Fame.
"There are no more plateaus," Lacey says.
At 63, Lacey has no intention of retiring in the near future.
"I'm in good health and I still love what I'm doing, so I don't
see why I can't be around here a lot longer. Besides, it's better
than sitting around the yard looking for something to do."
Lacey says he decided he wanted to become a trainer after
talking with a friend who was already working as an athletic
trainer.
"Like everybody else, I played a lot of high school and sandiot
sports, but I was never big enough physically to play in college.
Training sounded like a great job since it was doing something
helpful and still staying very close to athletics."
Although Lacey enjoys his job, he says there arenk many
benefits. "You have to love what you're doing, because there
aren't many benefits. But, for someone who enjoys athletics as
much as I do, it's the greatest job in the world."
Lacey worked as a trainer at Yale before going to Maryland in
1951. While at Yale, he was able to take time off to work as a
trainer for three professional football teams the Chicago
Rockets, the New York Yanks and Baltimore Colts during their
preseason workouts.
"I met a lot of the big names of that time like Tom Landry and
Y.A. Tittle. But 1 don't think that I'd ever want to do work for a
professional team on a full-time basis. It's too much of a big
money thing up there."
Lacey says that the biggest changes in his department while at
UNC have come from the growth of the sports medicine
department.
"Back when I first got here, it was just me and a couple of
others. Now we've got so many people you can't count them.
The medical people are also getting more involved in our
program.
"We need it that way, too. Especially in the last five to 10 years,
as players are getting bigger and faster. It's a very important
addition."
Lacey says problems sometimes occur in trying to keep an
injured player out of action if a coach is pressuring him to
reverse his action. He adds, however, that he has never been
pushed to go against his views.
"Sometimes an ambitious coach might put some pressure on
you to let someone play, but you have to stand your ground,"
Lacey says. "I've always said that a healthy second-stringer is
better than an unhealthy first-stringer.
"I've never had much of a problem with that, though. I think
the coaches have confidence in me and respect what I'm trying
to do."
Of all the many injuries Lacey has treated, the one suffered by
former UNC quarterback Curtis Hathaway is the most vivid in his
mind.
"During his junior year, Curtis was playing against South
Carolina. He was turning on the option and was about to be
tackled. He put out his right arm to slow his fall, and just as he did
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that, some of the South Carolina players fell on his arm. It
dislocated his elbow and broke two forearm bones. He came
back the next year and was one of the co-captains, but he never
really played after that."
Lacey was unable to go to the Montreal Games in 1976
because of a rule that restricted trainers from attending more
than two Olympic Games. That rule is no longer in effect, but
Lacey says he would not consider another Olympic offer
anyway.
"I've been two times already and now it's time for someone
else to have a chance," he says.
Lacey received another honor in 1377, when he was named to
the Hall of Fame.
"You're chosen by what you've done and you go through a
screening similar to what you have to go through with the
Olympics. It's a great honor. There isn't anything more than
this."
Norman Cannada is a staff writer for The Dilly Tar If ecL
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own male psyches to expose a
range of negative feelings about
relationships with their female
counterparts in Panorama, their new
album. All but one of the songs on the LP
couple a frustrated male's impression of a
given malefemale relationship with
highly complex musical accompaniment.
Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr alternate
on lead vocals that present these male
moods through the voice of an intimate
persona.
In "Touch and Go," an equivocal lover
frustrates the persona and reduces him
with her power: "I'm flying like a cement
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Throughout "Don't Tell Me No" the
persona's feared rejection is already
anticipated by his hurt tone. On "Getting
Through," this hurt turns to bitterness: "I
don't want to be your party dollAll flaked
out in tinsel town."
And in "Running To You," the persona
gives a fatalistice assessment of his own
slavish behavior:
I'm having a real time
Taking what's not mine
And I'm doing what I want to do
That's running to you
In presenting these pessimistic lyrics,
The Cars employ their own distinctive
new wave sound with loads of additional
studio effects.
The group fiddles around with meter,
speed, pitch and other technical effects.
Greg Hawkes' keyboards, Ric Ocasek's
rhythm guitar, Elliot Easton's lead guitar,
Benjamin Orr's bass and David Robinson's
drums combine to make certain passages
of the title cut, "Panorama," conjure up
images of invading Black Riders in a J.R.R.
Tolkien movie.
Splashed ag3inst this orchestrated
chaos are simple, driving rock V roll
motifs and rhythms like the relentless beat
of "Misfit Kid." Rubber-band-sounding
rhythm guitar builds in "Gimme Some
Slack" in a progression comparable to the
Roiling Stones' "She's So Cold." The cut,
the group has already toured this musical
avenue, in a more basic form, on their pat
two albums.
In essence, The Cars have ventured
further out on their own pioneered
musical tangent, though not much further
out. When one adds this musical tangent
to their cynical lyrics on Panorama, The
Cars still emerge as new wave
forerunners, but they're coming closer all
the time to slipping down into the bowels
of musical mediocrity. 53
Rob Monath is Weekender record critic.
resembles a
roll ballad in
'Touch and Go," even
scattered Western rock 'n'
some places.
Despite this diversity of musical
undercurrents and elaborate, polished
studio work, The Cars' music on this LP
doesn't really sound fresh simply because
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