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8The Daily Tar HeelAugust 28, 1989 Sports No. 1 1 By CHRISTINA FROHOCK Staff Writer Sports, as any other experience, has an outside and an inside. Behind the outer spectacle of the final score, loca tion and hype are the inside thoughts of many athletes. On May 29, 1989, Syracuse and Johns Hopkins met in a final lacrosse game to decide the Division I national championship. Syracuse won, 13-12, as recorded by sports writers and seen by fans everywhere. Yet the victori ous players saw the contest from the inside, in ways only the athletes them selves can. The 11-1 Orangemen entered the he amiatomy of a unatioiniai chamjpioini" Final Four as defending champions and the number-one seed. Some fans thought these accomplishments would make the Syracuse players a bit arro gant. They were right. Brian Tully, a sophomore defense man for Syracuse, said he may have been overly confident in his team. "I was a little cocky going into the cham pionship game," Tully said. "I didn't see anybody beating us. I wasn't even thinking what would happen if we lost." This sense of inevitable victory was common among Tully's teammates. "By winning the championship last year, a lot of guys felt it was going to be automatic," said Rob Persing, a senior defenseman. "Next year the at titude will be even worse. We'll figure we can't lose which we can, be cause it was proven in the first game of this season against Hopkins." Oh, yes, Johns Hopkins currently one of the three dominant lacrosse teams in the nation, along with Syracuse and North Carolina, and the only loss for Syracuse in two years. The Syracuse-Hopkins battle in the 1989 final proved fascinating for ev eryone from diehard lacrosse disciples to the most casual fans. Could the Orangemen avenge their regular-season loss to Hopkins and capture the national title all in one af ternoon? Syracuse head coach Roy Simmons would rather not have found out. "We had beaten Carolina (who lost to Hopkins in the semifinals) this year quite convincingly, so it wasn't the intense contest that Hopkins was," Simmons said. "As a coach, I would have felt more comfortable playing Carolina in that they would have been more intimidated." But Simmons knew his players had different thoughts. They wanted a Syracuse-Hopkins encounter. "They got their wishes," Simmons said. "I didn't get mine, but I got mine in the end." Simmons, known for his intensity and fairness on the field, admitted to occasionally losing sight of the beauty of the game en route to a win. "I always use the adage 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose until you lose,'" Simmons said, smiling. "And the older I get the more I want to win. When the boys work as hard as they do, I don't want them to lose." In tense moments this zest for vic tory can send any coach's imagination soaring, and Simmons' has gotten unusually creative. He told of an evil thought he had in the throes of the championship game. "Paul and Gary Gait (two of Sim mons' flayers) are identical twins," Simmons said. "When Gary, who set the national records, was so well guarded by the number-one player on Hopkins and seemingly tied up arid made ineffective, I thought about changing their jerseys at halftime. The Hopkins top man would then be guard ing Paul, thinking he was guarding Gary. But, of course, I got a grip on myself and that didn't happen." ' Simmons didn't need to add that such a switch would have been illegal and unethical, and might have cost hirn the game and his career. As it, turned out, the Orangemen See CHAMPION, page 24 :i UNC basketball will be better off withoytt IResd Well, J.R. is officially a Hornet (it was a heckuva summer, wasn't it?), so now is as good a time as any to take a quick look at Dean Smith's 1989-90 Tar Heel basketball squad. The bottom line is that the Tar Heels are going to be better, in the long run, without the enigmatic Reid clogging things up in the middle. And they'll be much better mentally and emotionally without the incredibly obvious ego clashes that were swept under the pro verbial carpet by writers, coaches and players throughout last year's campaign a successful one by most standards that ended sourly after a trip to the Sweet 16. Now that politics and superegos can return to history and psychology classes Dave Glenn Editor where they belong the Tar Heels can concentrate on passing, shooting, rebounding and defense once again. With Reid gone, the ripple effect sheds new light on why, just maybe, the UNC coaching staff isn't all that upset about J.R. making the jump to play for pay: Smith can now make better use of Scott Williams, the Tar Heels' best defender in the paint, on the court at the end of close games. Smith often avoided using Williams and Reid two low-post players on the court at the same time. With Reid the number-one option offensively late in the game, that left the Tar Heels vulner able at the defensive end. The rebounding department, a glaring weakness for UNC last year, will welcome the addition of prep star George Lynch and more minutes from Pete Chilcutt. Reid never developed into the rebounder many thought he could be. Lynch, a 6-7 forward who'll grab a rebound as if it's his last meal, will add the concept of aggressiveness to the UNC rebounding routine. Chilcutt, a 6-9 rising junior, will add to his impressive rebounding totals as he gets additional minutes in the regu lar rotation. With six recruits entering the UNC program, another year from Reid would have slowed the development of the newcomers. But Smith is certainly not facing a bare cupboard in the frontcourt. Williams, Chilcutt, Rick Fox and Kevin Madden will be joined by freshmen Lynch, 7-1 Matt Wenstrom, 7-0 Kevin Salvadori and 6-7 Henrik Rodl. That's even crowded without Reid. If you had to figure in 35 minutes a game for him, you're looking at a year's worth of pine time for the rookies. But Sal vadori (who, by the way, is still grow ing) faces a probable redshirt year to bulk up, and the sharpshooting Rodl will get most of his minutes at big guard. That leaves the Tar Heels with an excellent five-man frontcourt rota tion (Williams, Chilcutt, Fox, Madden and Lynch), with Wenstrom seeing spot duty at center. While Reid toils in teal pinstripes in Charlotte, taking the aforementioned history and psychology with him, his old UNC team might make a quantum leap in another area of academia chemistry. In the "sports chemistry" sense, that is. It's probably listed as the fourth or fifth entry in Webster's. It goes something like this: chemistry n. a natural, fluid blend of the sepa rate components of a complex mix ture, creating a most efficient and bal anced composition and structure. OK, so I made it up, but you get the idea. Now the Tar Heels can run and play defense the way the coaching staff imjimijijjuhmm uinuiwuiHiuuum" m iwwiiwwwiiiiiimi MiniiMimm-n 1 ? t , - . ::: ; ' Introducing the only student account with no min imum balance require mentan account that gives you a big break on the cost of checking. This account is designed to cut costs, not convenience. YouH have easy access to your cash on campus and off through NCNB 24, Relay8" and Plus System ATMs. And you can choose from lots of check styles although we think youH prefer our special Carolina checks and checkbook cover. Get Your Own Book Bag. Banking's in the bag at NCNB. Besides all the benefits of low-cost checking, youH receive a sturdy book bag (while supplies last) if you open your account by September 30. 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Rarely does a freshl man start for UNC, but Rodl is nol your regular freshman. He is considi ered one of the best basketball players in all of Europe. A graduate of Chapel Hill High School in 1988, Rodl has played the last two years on a West German club team, the highest level of competition in his native country He also started for the West German Olympic team last year. In other wordsi he is one freshman who will not be in awe of ACC basketball next year. ! King Rice will be the man on thet spot in 1989. Will he have an outside shot? Will he finally create some easy shots for his teammates? How will ho respond to the leadership responsibili- ties that come with being the "first-! string quarterback" for the first time at' UNC? How the answers to these ques-J tions develop over the course of the season will go a long way toward de- termining how far this Tar Heel team! can go in 1990. ! Of course, it's tough to bet against any team that has a Rice at the con trols. 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