The Louisville Cardinal
Volume 51 Number 17 An Independent Student Weekly 25 ~_anuary 1980
Looking good!
Basketball team rides season high
despite loss of McCray and Turner
by Zach Simpson
Cardinal Staff Writer
Analysis
Mid- eason is the tJme for
ba ketball fan to pause and
reflect on their team' ac­complishment
and asses the
future . As alwav~. some team
have disappointed thetr sup­porter~
. Witnes~ the ~ h akv per­formance
of a h1~hh· regardt"d
CLA squad. who IS currently
ro(king along with an 8-6
rt"cord. On the other hand.
who could envi.,ion l ' of L,
minu. cooter McCray and
Bobby Turner. with a top-ten
ranking- and a 15-2 tally.
Coach Crum for one IS sur­prised
that a team dominated
by youth could achieve so
much. In analyzing the Car­dinal'
succe s, Crum cites
"hard work" and "great at­titude"
as the reasons . In his
words, the team has "played
better than they have a right to
play."
Even the most casual spec­tator
can appreciate the
reckless abandon that marks U
of L play. The Cards have
displayed increcliblf:' stamina
and hustle. But their ability to
sustain the pre for virtually 40
minute , gobble up loose ball~
anc! battle taller opponents
Ulider the boards has paid off
hand omelv.
What about the future?
Florida State and Virginia
T ech . considered by most ex­perts
to be Louisville's main
thrc·ats to a Metro titlf:', have
both lost conference games on
their own floor'> . Despite the
fact that conference play is still
111 Its C'ar ly stages . the
Seminoles have already been
defeated twicC'.
Does this put U of L in the
driver's ea t? Not so, according
to Coach Crum. In his judge­ment,
the toughest part of the
schedule is still to come. This
i nd udes I ight conference
games, half of them on the
road , plus highly ranked St.
John's in a nationally televised
contest.
Mr. Crum stoutly maintains
that any team on the schedule
is capable of beating the Cards.
The key to a Metro champion­ship
is "what we do when we go
to their places." A glance at the
fate- of the top-ten teams in the
Associated Press poll during re ­cent
weeks tends to confirm
Crum's view. On the other
hand . it also reinforces the
suspicion that U of L can whip
anyone in the country when the
team is clicking .
The phv ical well-being of
the leading- contender may
determine both conference and
national hampionship . Such
re-specte-d team ~ as Indiana,
North Carolina . LSU and
Georg-ia. as well as Louisville,
have lost key personnel via the
lllJUrv ro ute.
U of L is not a physically
dominating team. Its approach
to the game might be ummed
up as one of perpetual motion.
This require-s depth which the
Cardinals have in adequate
suppl} . at thf:' moment . But
another injury to one of the top
seven or eight players could be
fatal.
Assuming that Scooter Me- .
Cray regained both his health
and his form , would Coacl:t
Crum consider pressing him in­to
service before season's end?
The answer is no, even if his
presence had a bearing on the
outcome of one of the post­season
tournaments . Such a
decision, howe ver. would
ultimately rest with McCray.
That's the way it should be , bu t
its often not the- case in major
college at hletics.
Brown bagger ... the saga of the
mystery musician
by Melissa Uhl
Cardinal Staff Writer
You're at a U of L basket­ball
game. Yo u see
cheerleaders, players, and
coaches. You gaze at the Pep
Band and one quest ion
comes to mind: Who is that
bagged man?
He is the Unknown Band
Member.
And a t each home game,
with paper bag over head ,
he jests and j umps and jams
to the delight of those crazed
fans of the Connoiseurs of
Cram.
The three-ye;J.r Pep Ba nd
veteran, who wish<>s to keep
his idf:'ntit,· '>ecn' t . l.wnched
hi act to rouse thl' crowd.
"The fan~ sit on their hands
too much ." he aid. ''I want
to help get ·ern going ."
It all started at the Pur­due
game two years ago. ex­plained
the bag man. That
was when the Unknown
Comic wa~ p pular on the
Gon g Show. "About half
the band members wor
bags over their heads (for
that gallle)," he said , "so I
j ust kept it up."
Now, with a red t-shirt
marked "Unknown Musi ­cian"
on front and a ques­tion
mark on back, the
clarinet player joins U of L's
cheerleaders on the playing
floor, displaying his own
free-style dance.
Da ncing is a big part of
his routi ne, and he jokingly
cla ims to love disco like the
rest of the band . "I'm a pret­ty
good dancer for 225
pounds," he sa id .
In fact , he made national
television last year by doing
a Russian dance during a
game with a team from the
Soviet Union.
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Photo: Mlchaer A. Heitz
Who is that masked man?
"My ma in goal is to get on
television ," he said. " I once
saw myself on a delayed
b roadcast; I looked pretty
good except for a spot on my
pants."
However, a paper bag,
and not dancing, is the key
to his notoriety. He explain­ed
his head gear: "I wear a
25-pound bag , not a
12-po und bag, with three
holes burnt with a
cigarette."
" If anyone hears a sour
note, they won't know it's me
since I have a bag on my
head ," he said.
The nknown Band
M mbf:'r continues his
routine be ause it\ different
and accomodating . "There's
not a lot of room for props
out thf:'r<'," hC' said .
Thi year. in addition to
spelling "CARDS" with his
bod} . he introdu ed th<'
" nknown Avatollah" at the
St. Louis game. The m ystcr
Muslim , pla yed bv his
brother, hoisted a card sup­porting
the opposition: "Go
St. Louis" it re-ad .
While the bag man enjoys
his ro le, it is his senior year.
"I hope someone will take on
the tradition," he mused.
As for the future , the
Unknown Band Member is
uncertain . "I might run for
SGA president on an
unknown platform."
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Photo:
'McCray gets the tip!'
Rodney McCray (22) barely outreaches a Marquette player to tip the
ball for U of L Tuesday night during the Cards' 76-63 victory over the
Warriors.
Campus speaker calls
Iran crisis U.S. plot
by Gil Lawson
Cardinal Staff Writer
The United States i trying to
provoke an incident in Iran as
an ex use for military interven ­tion
, said a recf:'nt Ameri can
visitor to Iran .
lark Kissinger. a politi cal
act ivi-;t from .hicago. ~pok e to
a bout 50 people. most of the-m
studems, at the Student .enter
on 1onda\.
l~issi nger said the n i ted
Statcs is like a "bulh on the
pld}ground ," and th~ t Presi­dem
Caner would rather save
d posed hah Mohammed rcza
Pahlavi than save the 50
Americans held hostage tn
Tehran.
He also said that Iran was
justified in expelling western
journalist because the reporter'S
had "abandoned all pretense of
reality."
Kissinger said that recent
talk of how Iranian protesters
performed in front of television
cameras was an "unadulterated
I i('."
But later, when asked about
a protest sign that was in
English , Kissinger said ir was
"for the foreign press to see."
Kissinger also said that the
American government is trying
to prepare for war with recent
developments in the U.S.
"This hell ringing and flag
waving junk is getting a litt!C'
boring," he said.
At least one tucl nt took
issue with Kissinger.
Billy Moon debated Kiss­inger
and several other people­in
the audience about the pro­bl
m in Iran . He ~aid Kissi nger
had no evid nee to support
some of his claims and defend­ed
President Carter's act ions.
Kissinger said that during his
Dece-mber trip in Tehran, his
group was given copies of CIA
documents that prove the U.S.
was trying to provoke an inci­dent
in Iran. and that the Shah
did not come to the U.S. for
medical reaso....n s.
Continued to back P•
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