DENNIS RODMAN/KROGER ALL-STAR
BASKETBALL CAMP
96.7 FM
Presents
July 17-21, 1989
at
Oakland Community College
Highland Lakes Campus
7350 Cooley Lake Road
Union Lake, MI 48085
TWo sessions are available:
good coaches. The only ones
losing out are the kids."
Taub began officiating
sports in 1954. In 1961-62,
he refereed a few Nation-
al Basketball Association
games, but gave that up
because there was no job
security for officials then. He
worked game-to-game for $50
per contest. "You could get
fired tomorrow," he recalls.
"Coaches or the owners didn't
like you, they'd make a phone
call and you couldn't work."
As a successful high school
and college official, he did
Mid-American Conference
basketball games for 15 years
and worked games for major
midwestern schools such as
the University of Michigan
and Marquette.
He combined coaching with
officiating because PSL's
afternoon games allowed him
to referee at night in the
suburbs. A rarity as a coach
who also officiated, Taub was
popular. "I had to turn games
down," he says.
Taub also achieved a rare
triple, officiating baseball,
football and basketball state
championship games.
Why such a busy athletic
schedule? "I enjoyed being
around the games. When you
play all your life you don't just
quit. You go to the Jewish
Taub earned a
basketball
scholarship to the
University of
Detroit where he
was a starting
guard his final two
years.
Center, you'll see guys play-
ing when they're 50."
Mumford's student body
changed during Taub's ten-
ure. When he began, it was
half-Jewish. But the make-up
made no difference to Taub.
"I always got along with the
kids real good. I told 'em what
I expected and if you couldn't
do what I expected, that's too
bad. You take your choice. I
made rules and I said, 'You
have to follow 'em. I'm the
coach. When you get to be the
coach, then you make your
own rules.' "
He had few problems. "I
had to put one or two kids off
the team, for things I didn't
like that they did."
The change at Mumford
and in Detroit schools that
concerned Taub, and the prob-
lem he sees with Detroit
schools, is the growing
number of one-parent
families. "The parent is a
hard-working parent," says
Taub, "who has to go to work
before the kid leaves for
school or, if they do get the
kid off to school, they can't
follow (the kids) to make sure
they're in class .. .
"The problem is a lot of
these kids don't go to school.
The dropout rate is high. If
you're a 13-year-old kid and
you've never had a dime in
your pocket and someone
comes up to you and says, 'I'll
give you $200 a week to sell
this crack cocaine for me,' and
you're 13-years-old, you're
going to do it.
The key to improving
Detroit's education, says
Taub, is to keep students in
the classrooms. "They're no
different than the kids in the
suburbs. Some will get good
grades; some will get
mediocre grades and some
will have bad grades. They'll
all learn."
Taub likes Detroit's strong
academic standards for
athletes, who must maintain
a C average to play. "If
they're not in class, they're
not going to get a C average."
Taub sees athletics as "a
means to an end. Because you
get the average kid now, they
all think they're going to be
an Isiah Thomas or a Kareem
(Abdul-Jabbar) or someone
like that. And you have to let
them know that if they are,
fine, but you better prepare
yourself for something else,
too, in case it doesn't work
out. That's what I always
tried to do, to get the kids to
go to class and get good
grades and go to college."
Taub is enjoying his retire-
ment, playing golf, and tak-
ing care of his West Bloom-
field home. He has two adult
step-children with wife Micki.
He plans to find another job,
but he's in no hurry, already
having turned down several
coaching offers.
"I miss the kids," he says,
"but I don't miss going in
every day to work." ❑
Three Earn
Black Belts
Alan Stiebel of Southfield,
Jeff Jacobs of Farmington and
Michael Vincent of Royal Oak
earned first-degree black
belts in Korean-style karate
recently following testing
at the Maple/Drake Jewish
Community Center.
Morning Session
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
OR
Afternoon Session
1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
The All-Star Basketball Camp is available
for boys and girls ages 9-16.
Join Dennis Rodman for this exciting,
funfilled week of basketball instruction!
Dennis will be in attendance at every
session, every day.
Guest speakers will include:
Pat Miller, Pistons Shooting Coach
other Pistons players!
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Activities include:
• Shooting instructions
• Contests
• Defense
• Awards
Passing drills
Skill evaluations
Also . .
• Camp t-shirt • Souvenir hat
• Fee $120.00
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