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College Football 2-D The State Columbia SC Thursday October 31 1985 Right position Gamecock coaching staff has weightlifter Monaco playing linebacker berth By BOB COLE Soerte Miter The advice Clemson coach Danny Ford discusses situation with kicker David Treadwell at Virginia Tech Willie Mclntee Gains confidence The deed "Treadwell head down in proper form prepares to kick crucial field goal against the Hokies At 6-2 and 210 pounds linebacker Ron Monaco is one of South smallest defensive linemen but feel sorry for him Oversized opponents intimidate him And why should they? A guy who lifts the equivalent of a large side of beef for the fun of it likely to be overly impressed by 250- or 300-pound opponents Long before taking up weightlifting as a means of improving his strength for football Monaco was doing it because he the idea of being Today calling him is an understatement There must be a better way to describe a guy who can squat a school-record 725 pounds father got me started lifting he said earlier this week had done some weightlifting when he was trowing up and was in some powerlifting competitions When my brother and I were old enough to lift bo started showing us what to do started playing football about the same time when I was maybe 10 or 11 But the weightlifting was something I just liked to do and I worked hard at ONE LOOK CONFIRMS that Standing beside taller and bulkier players Monaco appears small by comparison almost out of place But his body definition biceps quadriceps the works is adequate compensation He transferred to USC last year from Northwest Mississippi Junior College and saw limited duty in the outstanding 10-2 campaign He is backing up Kenneth Robinson at strong linebacker this season and currently leads the team in fumble recoveries with three Two of them came in last 52-10 whipping of East Carolina first one was on a trap-option and somebody just made a good hit and knocked the ball he recounted second one when Fitzgerald Davis nailed the quarterback was just a case of pursuing to the ball was just lucky to be Monaco started out as a quarterback on his junior high team then converted to tight end and linebacker so that he could be a starter when he reached Hamden (Conn) High School He moved to fullback his senior year and enjoyed running with the ball But his offensive career was cut short when he developed shin splints was he said think I might have gotten more involved with it had it not been for the problem with my legs The shin splints made it hard for me to MONACO WHO MISSED two weeks after suffering a pinched nerve in his neck during practice the week of the Michigan game says be thinks the defense has reached the point of being able to out and make things rather than simply reacting to what offenses are doing think a better team now than when we lost those three straight he said hard to pinpoint what was wrong at the time but definitely improved each week optimistic about the rest of the season Realistically we know we have to win the rest of our games to have a shot at a bowl game but we talk about it not openly You win that way You have to go week by week game by game everybody has high Another Gamecock injured during that intensive week of practice before the Michigan game was defensive end Willie Mclntee He missed four games before putting his damaged knee to the test against East Carolina lateral movement was sort of limited but going straight ahead and playing blocks straight on was no said the 6-2 231-pound junior coaches told me not to go out there worrying about it to just block it out of my mind and play football what I tried to do got a good feel for taking on blockers again and it held up fine That game really helped my Mclntee took a lick on the side of his knee and had to undergo arthroscopic surgery to repair the damage NEVER HAD a knee injury he said telling you I was hurting That was a tough experience amazing what kind of thoughts go through your head when you get hurt The coaches kept talking Wrtfllt State Ron Monaco Right place The celebration Teammates mob Treadwell after last-minute winning field goal against Virginia Tech Mnla Cool hand Dave placekicker Treadwell exhibited icewater veins again versus NC State to me telling me to work hard at getting it rehabilitated They told me the best thing I could do was concentrate on trying to get back on the field as fast as I could and what I tried to Mclntee said the most painful part of rehabilitating the knee was the early workouts when he have good flexibility I could move it around pretty good not so he said only thing working on now is getting the strength back in it because I lost some muscle He said it was a little sore after the game to be expected I banged it on the ground a couple of times All in all I felt like I held my own anxious to give it another good get that here Saturday against North Carolina State By ERNIE TRUBIANO Slate Siorti Writer Scott: Wake Treadwell said referring to the former Miami Dolphins kicker who tried a similar pass in Super Bowl VII but gave up a touchdown instead seen it yet on the game film I want to see it to make sure I really did it I still believe I did it The only passing done is fooling around in Despite his two big plays and his overall steadiness this season it must be remembered that Treadwell one of those overnight success He paid his dues for two years kicking in practice I wanted to walk on I was told it would be two years before I got a shot at kicking because the team already had Bob Paulling and Donald explained the Jacksonville Fla native came here to study electrical engineering and decided to walk on with the encouragement of my dad He had seen me play soccer and said he know why I couldn't convert that into football He push me just encouraged me to try out If my dad encouraged me to try out I know if have gone out for the team or Why would a 165-pound electrical engineering student with no previous football experience want to try out for the sport in college? David Treadwell must have been asking himself that very question when an avalanche of meat-on-the-hoof descended upon him last Saturday at Frank Howard Field At that point it take a genius not even an electrical engineering brain to figure out what to do Treadwell got rid of the football passing to George Smith for a helter-skelter two-point conversion Thus Treadwell Gemson 's walk-on wonder continued his remarkable rookie season Treadwell you may recall emerged the winner of the preseason Clemson placekicker derby on the Wednesday prior to the opener at Virginia Tech Except Treadwell didn't know he had won the kicking assignment until coach Danny Ford called his name late in the second period Ford had carried four kickers (Treadwell Rusty Seyle Mark Gettys and Adubarie Otorubio) to Blacksburg Va figuring he might have to go through all four to get the Job done aims as high as Royals I By TEDDV HEFFNER you like major college football you have to like was second and the way it should be glad I came here they showed me an education is the most important thing fra a college Saturday Scott says the Deacons must play to their capabilities in and week out a defense has to stop the he said the key to Gemson They have a young quarterback so sure going to want to get the ball into their running hands On offense we have to be able to run the SCOTT GOT HIS big-time college aspirations during his all-conference days under Curtis Threatt at Lancaster from South Carolina USC and Clemson were the two big teams in he said used to watch the Clemson show and the Jim Carlen show (on television) I think when I made up my mind I wanted to play major college Scott played in the North-South All-Star game and played well enough to impress the Wake coaches in attendance For all those who give Wake Forest much of a chance Saturday against Gemson Deacons linebacker Tony Scott has a prime example to cite the Kansas Gty Royals can compare Wake Forest now to when Kansas Gty was beginning the World said Scott a Lancaster native who has been a three-year starter one gave them a chance And nobody gives us much of a chance lost four in a row and won three in a row They just beat a team that beat us (NC State) and they have Maryland and North Carolina erasing up so sure they look at Wake Forest as a big Wake brings a 3-5 record into the game and a season-long goal of a winning year depends a great deal on the outcome Saturday And for Scott personal too it does mean a little Scott said of playing a South Carolina school of my family and everybody will get a chance to see me play a great time playing in front of an those people so loud and exciting It really matter that not cheering fra you if ONCE TREADWELL DID walk on it took some adjustment to go from a round ball to an oval me knew I had a lot of work to do on my he explained started playing soccer in junior high and played in high school but I never had the urge to kick for my high school football team They had a good kicker who went to on to Florida State leg gets stronger the more you kick I read somewhere the leg really get strong until kicked 1000 footballs and that may be true When I started my main goal was to be as accurate as I could be because the distance would come with strength the goal is to become more accurate in practice and hope the distance will be said Treadwell who has kicked from as far out as 52 yards in practice Ford works with us in practice He charts the kickers every day We all kick 20 times from different spots on the field It takes about 30 minutes Find I was kind of nervous because he was watching but got to overcome David Treadwell did just that He disregarded the glaring eye of his head coach then he blocked rat the pressure of no-time-on-the-clock game-on-the-line field goal to win a game for Gemson And last Saturday he even passed like a veteran quarterback for a two-pointer All of which means there's room in this muscle-and-mayhem sport for 165-pounders providing smart enough to know when to avoid the 280-pounders BUT TREADWELL NAILED a 31-yard field goal in his first try only to miss a 41-yarder in the final second But a timely rough ing-the-kicker penalty gave him a reprieve and he booted a 36-yarder with no time remaining to cap a storybook debut into college football To date Treadwell has kicked eight of 11 field goals and hit all 14 of his point-after attempts But his last attempt at a conversion caused more consternation than all the others put together was just a regular Treadwell said of the botched-but-saved extra-point attempt with the Tigers leading 37-10 with 4:42 left watched the ball come out of (holder) Todd hands He got hit just as he was catching it I chased it and I thought I fall on I saw all those guys hot on my trail So I pirtd up the ball (and kept running naturally) then I saw George Smith and Jim Riggs in the end zone and I just threw it in their general Smith caught the ball a perfect spiral thus making a case for quick-thinking cool-under-pressure electrical engineering students who played soccer instead of football in high schooL a planned play" Treadwell said on Monday was more of a scared reaction I figured I'd get crushed if I get out of the way the game Coach Ford called me Garo Yepre- THE DEACONS ARE going with their third quarterback redshirt Mike Elkins The first two are out with injuries had a good game last Scott said of Elkin has great potential I think losing the quarterbacks has been much of a factor I regret the first two went down but you moan about their loss have a positive Scott continued going to go out and have fun I really believe Wake Forest has a Which is exactly what Kansas Gty manager Dick Howser was saying a few weeks ago I visited I really liked said Scott who now has a degree in communications and is in graduate schooL was a small campus with great academics It was small enough so you get to know your professors That made my mind up And Wake was in the ACC I wanted to play at a major Scott said the move has out pretty good so got my he said No1 factor in Wake was the academics They stressed it Football i A A SSASSS.