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People following North Carolina foot
ball can't help but be impressed with East
Carolina.
Here's a school that's not in the Atlan
tic Coast Conference, and it always has to
come over to Kenan Stadium and it always
loses to UNC, but the score is always
close. If East Carolina were anywhere
else, it would be a giant killer.
"ECU is stuck oyer in Greenville where
they don't have the newspaper or TV ex
posure that we do," UNC Coach Dick
Crura said. "But they have a good foot
ball team and they are not easy to beat
when everybody expects us to win."
The most popular theory for why the
games are so close is that ECU gets keyed
up for the Tar Heels while the Heels treat
the Pirates as just another game. Small
state school makes its season by beating
big state school.
"It's always an exceptionally big game
for them," Crum said. "It's always been
a very tight game except last year. It's
difficult to get ready for them. It's easy to
criticize them when you're a writer or a
fan, but when you are a coach and you
have to line up against; them it's a dif
ferent story."
"That's garbage," Pirate Coach Ed
Emory said. "That's sportswriters gar
bage. A good football team treats one
game like another. We get up for Western
Carolina just like we do for North
Carolina."
The Pirates got up for Western Caro
lina in a big fashion last Saturday, whip
ping WCU 42-6 behind the running and
passing of the Pirates' wishbone quarter
back Carlton Nelson.
Both Emory and Crum said that ECU'S
early start was a mixed blessing for the.
Pirates. "We got a win and that always
helps," Emory said, "but at the same
time UNC had a chance to see us and
study our personnel. They got five weeks
to get ready for us, but we had five days
to get ready for them."
"ECU had a trial run last week,"
Crum said. "They did not struggle so
they didn't have to show all their wea
pons. We were able to scout them while
they go in kind of blind."
; Key to the Pirates' success in past years
has been their running game out of the'
wishbone attack, but UNC stopped the
attack last year, holding ECU to 64 yards
in a rare 31-3 rout.
"We had problems last year, but we
hope the running game will be like in the
past this season," Emory said, "We have
a young offensive line and untested
backs. It will be a great challenge against
the UNC defense."
The strong arm of Nelson brings a new
dimension to the ECU offense. In addi
tion to scoring a touchdown on a 24 yard
run against WCU, he passed for a touch
down of 34 yards to freshman split end
Ricky Nichols.
"Carlton is a good quarterback,"
.Crum said. "Their passing game is the
best since I've been here. Nelson led them
on drives of 97, 90, and 85 yards against
A balanced meal: ACC footbaU and liver
After a while you have to get sick of everybody saying what a
balanced league the Atlantic Coast Conference is. Liver and as
paragus is a balanced meal but neither one of them is good.
The ACC will be a little better than asparagus but until a team
establishes itself as a perennial national power like a Michigan or
Oklahoma, the league wllfsuffer football pains.
North Carolina is the only school that can even begin to be
that super team and this season will be a crucial test to see if the
Tar Heels will be that team.
UNC was erratic in the 70s, having losing seasons in 1973,
1975 and 1978. But winning the Gator Bowl over Michigan in
1979 and the Bluebonnet Bowl last year gave the school and the
conference consistent recognition.
Clifton Barnes
Consistent recognition that's the big phrase. Not just
power for a season or even two but for years and years. Clenv
son, State and Maryland, along with UNC, have always been
ACC powers. They should again be the top four but still only
Carolina can make the top 10 in the country.
First, Carolina must prove its dominance in its own conference. x
Here's how the ACC should finish:
North Carolina (6-0) The Tar Heels had to win all six league
games last year to take the conference title. It should be no dif
ferent this year. The offense should be clicking right away with
the defense gelling after the third or fourth game.
The first conference encounter for UNC is not until Oct. 10
against Wake Forest at Kenan Stadium, so it looks good for the
title. But the Tar Heels are young and don't have much depth.
Clemson (5-1) If all goes right the showdown for the ACC
title will be Nov. 7 when the Tigers come to Carolina's home
coming. The entire offense is back for the team that almost beat an ex
ceptional UNC team last year. The defense has three All-ACC
preseason picks. If the UNC-Clemson game was in Death Valley,
the Tigers would be the pick to win the game and the conference.
Maryland (4-2) A runner like Charlie Wysocki can be the
difference in winning and losing. The offense win probably sput
ter early because it is unstable. Coach Jerry Claiborne recently
announced that senior Bob Milkovich will not be his starting
quarterback. Instead, junior Brent Dewitz will. That sent a few
shock waves around.
The defense will win a few games for the Terps. The only weak
ness is the secondary; the rest is solid.
N.C. State (3-3) The Wolfpack is probably the most unpre
dictable team this year. There are no established running backs
and that could be their downfall in the ACC.
Tol Avery is a quarterback well suited for the State offense
and the defense is strong, especially the secondary. State should
beat the ACC doormats and lose to the upper echelon. They are,
an average team..
The rest of the ACC should fall in order; Virginia (2-4), Duke
(1-5) and Wake Forest, with a new coach, may lose all six games.
Michigan retains top poll position
From wire reports
Despite being idle last week; Michigan
retained its top position in the Associated
Press Poll with 37 first place votes and
1,184 points.
North Carolina fell one spot from 12 to
13 as UCLA moved past the Tar Heels.
Alabama, a 24-7 victor over Louisiana
State, moved up two spots from fourth to
second. The Crimson Tide received 1 1
first place votes and 1,110 points. Okla
homa fell to third with 1,049 points and
Notre Dame dropped to fourth place with
1,024 points. Both the Sooners and the
Fighting Irish were idle last week.
Rounding out the AP top,ten was
.Southern California, Georgia, Nebraska,
Texas, Penn State and Pittsburgh, which
tied for ninth place.
The second ten has Ohio State, UCLA,
North Carolina, Mississippi State, Brig
ham Young, Miama (Fla.), Washington,
Florida State,. Stanford, and Arizona
State.
The only newcomer .in the poll was
Miami, replacing Florida, which it beat
21-20 on Danny Miller's 55 yard field goal
with 45 seconds remaining in the game.
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amount of time so that is an impressive
statistic."
Joining Nelson in the backfield will be
running backs Harold Blue and Earnest
Byner and fullback Roy Wiley. The of
fensive line consists of three senior re
turning starters in Tony Hensley, Bud
LaCock and Tootie Robbins and two
juniors, Oscar Tyson and Mindell Tyson.
The Pirate defense held Western Caro
lina without a touchdown last week, but
Emory said his defense will have a more
difficult task holding back the Tar Heels.
"UNC is bigger on offense than we are
on defense," he said. "I know that to de
fend against an offense with Kelvin
Bryant and Rod Elkins will be tough. I
think Elkins is one of the finest quarter
backs in the nation. He keeps the ball
alive. He's not a mechanical quarterback."
The Pirates run a 5-2 defense with
Mike Davis, Hal Stephens, Fee Griffin,
George Crump and Jody Schultz starting
on the front line. The linebacking corps is
headed by three-year letterman Glenn
Morris and Donald Reid.
The safeties will be junior Smokey
Morris and senior Marvin Elliott.
Kickoff will be a 1 p.m. Saturday at
Kenan Stadium.
ennett gets nod over Elkins at quarterback
Duke quaterback Ben Bennett got
the nod on the Operation Football
sports writer's preseason All-ACC
team. Earlier coaches had picked
UNC's Rod Elkins as the top signal
caller. The members of Operation Football,
a tour of the eight ACC footbali camps,
actually differed little on the ACC se
lections. The writers picked four play
ers on offense, who did not make the
coaches' list, and three on defense.
Defensive back Bill Jackson of Caro
lina beat out coaches' choice Terry Ki
nard of Clemson. Perry Williams of
N.C. State was picked in place of team
mate Donnie LaGrande at defensive
back. State's Calvin Warren was selec
ted as the punter over Jeff Pierce of
Georgia Tech, who was picked by the
coaches.
On offense, Clemson's Perry Tuttle
was the top vote-getter at wide receiver
although he did not make the coaches'
team. Kenny Duckett of Wake Forrest
and Mike Quick of State tied for the
other end position.
Other Tar Heel players to make the
team were guard Dave Drechsler, tail
back Kelvin Bryant, defensive end
Calvin Daniels and linebacker Darrell
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