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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1977)
TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1977 TOWN HALL is now accepting applications for new members. Sign-up sheets and applications are available in the Student Pro grams Office. Rm. 216 M.S.C. Deadline for signing up is 5:00 P.M. Wednesday, March 30th. ALL INTERESTED UNDERGRADUATES ARE URGED TO APPLY. McGuire emotionally sped United Press International ATLANTA — Sometimes, it isn’t what you say, it’s what you don’t say which ultimately has far greater im pact on those around you, and in the end, after Marquette had its first NCAA basketball championship ever, and Al McGuire had his, that was exactly the way it turned out. Al McGuire could have said a great many things to his players be fore they went out on the floor to play favored North Carolina here Monday night, but he didn’t. He didn’t want them to play HIS game, he wanted them only to play theirs. He had many things on his mind, so many things he could’ve told them and wanted to tell them, but he didn’t. Why put an extra burden on them? They had more than enough to do handling the superbly coached Tar Heels on the floor. The Marquette players knew this was McGuire’s last game. They knew that long before they came here, so he didn’t feel it was at all necessary to give them one of those corny little dressing room talks winding up with something like win-this-last-one-for-me. He never so much as mentioned that. He didn’t say anything to them either about North Carolina’s “four corners,” an offensive maneuver the Tar Heels had been employing so successfully and one which they hoped would carry them to the title. The less he had to say about that, the better, McGuire felt. Nor did he let them in on some of those other things he kept thinking about, like how much he was going to miss them, or how Sunday’s ter rible plane crash in the Canary Is lands was preying on his mind be cause he knew the team had to make a charter flight back to Mil waukee after the ball game. Al McGuire kept all that locked up inside until after his players de feated the Tar Heels, 67-59, for the title, and when the final buzzer sounded he was emotionally spent, completely washed out. His eyes were suspiciously moist and he headed for the dressing room as Bo Ellis, the Warriors’ 6-9 forward from Chicago, borne on the shoulders of some of his teammates, cut the strings from one of the bas kets in the traditional triumphant ritual. Upon reaching the dressing room, Al McGuire couldn’t hold back any longer and began weeping. “I wanted to go into the dressing room and compose myself,” he said later. “I’m not embarrassed about crying. So many things hit me all at once. I thought of how, when we were 16 and 6 this year, I felt pretty sure we were out of it. I knew if we lost another game, if we stubbed our toe once more, we’d be out of it. That was after we had lost three in a row. I started to wear this same suit I have on now and wore it for the next four games.” At that point, Marquette was in vited to the NCAA regionals, and McGuire, feeling the worst was over, changed his suit and the War riors lost to top-ranked Michigan in their final game of the regular sea- “That’s when I put this suit back on again and I haven’t changed since,” McGuire laughed. “Now I m gonna give the suit to one of the TV stations in Milwaukee which turns over clothing to charity.” Although none of his players made a big thing of saying goodbye to McGuire, who is going into pri vate industry after 20 years of coach ing, they made it obvious they were going to miss him tremendously. Al McGuire has been far more than a coach to them. He was like the head of the family, the one they always looked to for guidance, for instruc tion and for understanding. “I can’t ever imagine him not being there,” said Gary Rosen- berger, a junior guard. “I guess his leaving won’t really hit me until I go back to the gym in October. There is no possible way to ex] much he meant to ail of us, Sophomore forward BtJ Toone from Yonkers, N.Y, red. “He gives you a lottahelj yelling things at you, like i . . . rebound’ . . . move’, BJ know he’s always looking(J your well-being, ami howi other people do you findl|t| said Toone. Before the bus carryingjiisj to the airport pulled away! Omni Monday night, soiij asked Marquette’s retiringj whether he might changeIeJ and come back to basketballs day. “No way,” laughed A! Mc£ “I know nobody should eral never’ about anything, butt one thing I can say ‘never’aboJ be sure. I’ve bad my time.ilil and it’s timefor.someoneelse.lf more could I possibly ask fej this?” Ponies lead Aggie golfen SMU, with three of the top four individual leaders, increased its team lead to 19 strokes over second-place Texas A&M during the second round of the Texas A&M Women’s Invitational golf tourna ment Monday. SMU has a 36-hole total of 640 to A&M’s 659. Then come Lamar 665, Oklahoma State 671, 692, TCU 712, Temple ]C Texas Tech 754, S. F, Austin! Sam 1 louston 836 and Midlanl lege 863. Only seven strokes separi top four individuals as they into the final 18-hole rouniili day. western union NEED MONEY FOR THAT SPRING VACATION, A TRIP HOME OR THE “BIG WEEKEND?” TELL MOTHER OR DAD TO WIRE IT TO YOU, CHARGE IT TO THEIR MASTER CHARGE CREDIT CARD AND PICK IT UP AT WESTERN UNION. HAVE YOUR MONEY SENT TO ANY WESTERN UNION LOCA TION. 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