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Page 4B-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday, March 21, 1985 am Against Punishment Last week both Wake Forest and Virginia Tech lost their first round games--Wake in the NIT and Tech in the NCAA-- for the same reason. Their star players were suspended. Kenny Green of Wake Forest was suspended for the whole game, while Perry Young of Virginia Tech was suspended for part of a game. Both were suspended for the same reason-- missing a practice. It surprises me that neither coach was heavily criticized for his action. In fact, most poeople, including the presumeably intelligent faculty representatives and school administrators seemd to nod their silent approval to these actions. No one that I have heard has come out in a rage against these actions. Are they sleeping? : I respect Carl Tacy as a coach and as a person, and the same is true of Virginia Tech coach Charley Moir. But I don’t respect their punishments at all. Punishments could and should be a lot more intelligent and creative. Don’t you suspect that they suspended their players for a game because that’s what their coach did when they played, or that’s what some other coach did in the past? Admittedly, it has been something of a tradition in the coaching ranks to suspend players from games for things like missing practices. But if that was ever smart, it certainly doesn’t seem like it now. ~ Let’s look at the whole picture. Both teams were in post- season play, that special time of year when a win can mean 100,000 extra dollars going to the athletic department. From a purely financial viewpoint then, it is important to be at full strength for post-season games. Furthermore, from the standpoint of the coach and the team, the suspension makes no sense. Why hurt everyone just because a guy missed one practice? Do you have any sense of how much practice time goes into each game? When you take into account pre-season practice and off-season workouts and running and weight-lifting programs and film-watching and scouting reports, you figure to put in about an hour of work for each minute of a game. In other words, game time is too precious a commodity to equate it, one for one, with practice time. _ But let me go a step further. I don’t think a plaver should either be thrown off the team Sponsored By Wade Ford ACC INSIDE STUFF Dick DeVenzio entirely--if his infraction is bad enough--or a more creative punishment should be found for his infraction. A punishment should be found which hurts only the violator; not the team, the coach, and the university. In the case of Green or Young, why not make them attend study halls throughout April? Why not make them get up at six in the morning to run miles or lift weights or read books? If you don’t like my suggestions, make up your own. But surely you can see that something more creative, something more carefully directed, would be much more useful than one game or partial-game suspensions. ; Whee are the faculty reps when we need them? They always seem so quick to put in their two cents when there is an abuse of some sort. But where are they when its time to come up with a creative suggestion so that a kid can be punished, the team can stay together, and the university can pick up another hundred grand? : Doesn’t it seem strange to you that Green and Young will be - at ‘their respective teams’ post:season banquets later this year, full members of their teams, absorbing praise for their efforts, in Green’s case looking forward to next year? I remember a few years back when Dean Smith punished a kid for a curfew violation during the NCAA tournament by keeping him home from a tournament in Hawaii the following Christmas. THAT makes sense. I just can’t understand a one game or partial-game suspen- sion during post-season play. The more I think of it, the more absurd those suspensions become. Seems like a case of _ misplaced priorities all the way around. a Cry-Baby Or Not, Sloan Has A Point Former N.C. State Coach Norm Sloan may or may not be a cry- baby—depending on your point of view—but his criticism of the NCAA tournament selections is valid. Sloan's Florida Gators did deserve to make the tournament—certainly more than Kentucky, - which the Gators beat twice ... | must have been asleep for years not to know that Arnold Palmer is deaf in one ear and that Jack Nicklaus is color-blind. | didn’t even know that Tom Kite has hyperhydrosis (sweaty palms). Some Great Ones Left Off You've gotta wonder about All-American selections. The AP. picked 156 on its first three teams or as honorable mention. Omitted were Kenny Smith of UNC, Delaney Rudd and Kenny Green of Wake Forest, Bruce Dalrymple and John Salley of Tech, Adrian Branch of Maryland and Mark Alarie of Duke. Two North Carolina A&T players were selected, but the entire ACC placed only 5. Do you believe that of the 156 best players in America, only 5 play in the ACC? ... Some doubt that Jeff Mullins, UNCC's new coach, can ‘‘return” to basketball after such a long absence. | don’t. He's a class guy who knows how to win. ; Football At The Speedway? If Bruton Smith and Humpy Wheeler can adapt the Charlotte Motor Speedway to seat up to 75,000 for football and other events, they oughtta qualify for sainthood. But if anybody can, they can ... I’d like to see the state legislature reduce the guthority of Clem- son's Board of Trustees and invest it in the new President. Unless this happens, | wonder if Clemson can get its house in order and put athletics in proper perspective ... After Bobby Knight was benched for throwing a chair, assistant coach Jim Crews told his club: “It's like someone golfing without his best club’. A Startling Statistic Of the 18 men in baseball history who've hit 500 or more home runs, nine played all or most of their careers after 1950. Only 3 are “old-timers” —Babe Ruth, Jimmy Foxx and Mel Ott. Ted Williams spanned the two groups and may be the best of the bunch. He hit .406in 1941, and 16 years later—in 1957—batted .388. What would ‘this man have accomplished had he not missed 3 seasons in WWII and been recalled to duty during Korea? ... Two things will “make” my baseball season this year—for Phil Niekro to win his 300th game (he needs 16 victories) and for Pete Rose to break Ty Cobb's all- time hit record (he needs 95 hits). Sometimes, They Get Away Xavier McDaniel and Tyrone Corbin played together at Colum- bia’s A.C. Flora High. Both ‘got away’’—McDaniel to Wichita State and Corbin to DePaul. Either Clemson or South Carolina could have used these super young men. Xavier's a first-term All-American ... N/C. State won't pull a miracle and win the NCAA title as they did 2 years ago, but with Chris Washburn playing, they'd be capable ... Great line: Tommy Heinsohn, after seeing a life-sized statue of Red Auerbach, said: "...it's out of proportion. The head's not big enough’’. : Satellite Antenna Systems Sales And Installation BRIDGES ENTERPRISES Kevin Bridges (704) 739-3064 After 6 P.M. Rt. 4 Box 415 Kings Mountain, N.C. 'PAUL CAMERON WBTV Sports Director a seven-point deficit with 22 . ble, Jermain McCluney, An- _ (Editor’s note: Paul Cameron can be seen during the 6 pm" and 11 pm newscasts on Channel 3.) | : ~ « KM Cagers Are Third In Tourney CREDIT TERMS Kings Mountain Boys Club AVAILABLE finished fifth in a tough WITH 16-team Blue Bell Invita- APPROVED tional Basketball Tourna- CREDIT ment last weekend in Greensboro. Some of the top Boys Clubs teams from the Carolinas, Virginia, and West Virginia competed in the event. Kings Mountain defeated - Ridgeway, Va. 48-42, Lewis, N.C. 46-32, and Beckley, W. Va., 36-35, before falling to Fieldvale, Va. 51-39. Darius Ross scored 22 points, Daren Hager 10 and Ronnie Carroll 8 to lead the opening victory over Ridgeway. Kings Mountain overcame a 15-point deficit to defeat Lewis. Ross had 22 points and Carroll and Hager added GJR-640P Electronic Tuning $479 eight each. . Kings Mountain overcame CKC-019 Auto Focus seconds left to defeat Beckley on a last-second shot by Ross, who led all scorers wtih 24 points. Carroll and Ben Brown added six each. Ross scored 20 points. KMHS Golfers Third Kings Mountain High's golfers finished third in a three-team Southwestern 3-A Conference match Thursday at Forest City. : Host East Rutherford won the event with a 329 total. followed by Burns with 362 and KM with 373. 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