Ira Morris

Things are going well for David P. Glickman. He's standing in a room with $10 million worth of phone equipment. He has signed contracts with several major Los Angeles companies that will bring $2 million a month in business. A floor above him, colleagues are completing negotiations with an institutional investor who plans to invest about $15 million in his company. All this after just a few months in business.

Things are going well for David P. Glickman. He's standing in a room with $10 million worth of phone equipment. He has signed contracts with several major Los Angeles companies that will bring $2 million a month in business. A floor above him, colleagues are completing negotiations with an institutional investor who plans to invest about $15 million in his company. All this after just a few months in business.

It has been four years since Cedrick Hardman, the former football coach at Laguna Beach High School, was arrested for possession of cocaine and resisting arrest. Ashamed of the incident and reluctant to discuss it, he wishes the memory would go away. "What's that saying . . . the bad that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones?" Hardman said, reciting from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" with an actor's elocution.

Sacking the quarterback, said Cedrick Hardman, who, at 6 feet 4 and a muscular 250 pounds, looked as if he could still sack one, "was my main reason for living the first 13 years of my adult life." Twenty years ago, Hardman was a rookie sensation with the San Francisco 49ers, starting a career as one of the best defensive ends in NFL history. Now, 42 and a volunteer coach at Cal State Long Beach, sacking still obsesses him. Hardman's huge gnarled hands attest to 13 violent seasons.

Lightning flashed, thunder cracked and rain fell in sheets on Greenville, S.C.,last Thursday night, just after the arrival of George Allen and his Cal State Long Beach football team. No one, however, took this as an omen that the 49ers, 39-point underdogs for their game Saturday at Clemson, would take South Carolina by storm. A party that included coaches, administrators, 59 players and 52 boosters had flown from Los Angeles to Greenville on a chartered jet.