Page 10-Tuesday, February 13, 1979-The Michigan Daily
POLLS FRUSTRATE INDIANA STATE
Sycamore coach wants top spot
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP)-Indiana
State Coach Bill Hodges, who has
discounted the value of college basket-
ball polls all season, is getting tired of
hearing that a weak schedule should
keep his second-ranked Sycamores
from the No. 1ranking.
"I don't buy that schedule theory,"
Uodges said after watching top-ranked
Notre Dame lose for the second time in
two weeks Sunday. "If we're good
enough to be rated No. 2 with our
schedule, we're good enough to be rated
No. 1."
Many people around the Terre Haute,
Ind., campus thought the same thing af-
ter Notre Dame lost to Maryland two
weeks ago, but the Irish stayed No. 1 in
the poll.
After UCLA upended Notre Dame 56-
52 as South Bend on Sunday in a
nationally televised game, NBC com-
mentator Billy Packard said he still
didn't think Indiana State should be No.
1. "A team has to play other teams in
the Top Twenty to be ranked No. 1,
Packard said.
That statement rankled Hodges.
"We have beaten some pretty good
teams in our conference and beat Pur-
due by 10 at their place," Hodges said.
Purdue is in a three-way tie for first in
the Big Ten Conference.
For the record, while Indiana State
has played no team in the Top Twenty,
the combined records of its opponents
so far this season actually have been
better than Notre Dame's foes.
Irish opponents, including UCLA
twice, Kentucky when the defending
NCAA champion Wildcats were ranked
and Marquette, had a 196-167 record.for
a 53.2 winning percentage through the
weekend. Sycamore opponents are 229-
190, a 54.7 winning percentage.
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earlier in the season. Defenseman John Waymann, also a senior, looks on. Two losses to Denver last weekend have banished
hopes for a playoff berth, as the icers currently reside in the cellar of the WCHA with a 6-20 record. The Wolverines face-
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HAMILTON, Ontario (AP) - Ed
Smith, rated the third-best college
quarterback in the United States last
year after an exceptional season with
the Michigan State Spartans, signed a
two-year contract yesterday with the
Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian
Football League.
The 22-year-old Smith, a 6-foot, 171
pounder, completed 169 of 292 passes
last season for 2,226 yards, 20 touch-
downs and eight interceptions while
leading the Spartans to a 7-1 record and
a tie for the Big Ten conference cham-
pionship.
He surpassed Mike Phipps to become
the conference record holder in passing
yards with a 5,706 total in three seasons.
"I FELT THAT Hamilton would give
me the best opportunity to play," Smith
said. "That's why I didn't wait for the
National Football League draft in
May.,
Smith, considered by some as too
small to play in the NFL, said his style
is -uited to the CFL brand of play.
"In college we were primarily a
straight drop-back team, but we had
bootlegs and play-action passes and I
feel that is one of my strengths which
will help me in the Canadian Football
League.
"Having the use of a wider field I
think will help, too, there's no doubt
about that. I feel I can get outside and
By BRIAN MILLER
M ICHIGAN LOST THREE, things in Denver this past weekend-two
hockey games to the Pioneers and any hope of participating in this
year's conference playoffs.
Denver's 7-4 and 8-3 double defeat of the Wolverines left the Blue ten
points behind Colorado College, possessor of the eighth and final WCHA
playoff spot, and it doesn't take a genius to figure it out-Michigan's -only
hope of making the post season tournament would be for it to win all of its six
remaining games, while Colorado College and ninth place MSU don't take a
point for the next three weeks. Highly unlikely.
It's not as if Michigan's recent reduction to the role of spoiler was unex-
pected. On the contrary. Even before the season began, Michigan coach Dan
Farrell was guardedly optimistic about his team's chances this year. Farrell
was drooling over the thoughts of all the goals Terry Cullen, Murray Eaves,
Dan Lerg and Mark Miller were going to score.
But Farrell was thinking realistically, nonetheless. He knew his team
was young and inexperienced. He also knew that the injuries which knocked
Cullen, Lerg and Eaves out of the lineup were virtually impossible to over-
come. Taking away the leading scorers from the conference's second lowest
scoring team was like taking the batteries out of an electric train set. It just
doesn't go.
Even so, Farrell wasn't making any excuses for this season. Even
without those key players, the Wolverines still had a shot of making the
playoffs this year-until last weekend, that is.
Entering the series against then-eighth place Denver, Michigan was
hoping for a sweep to pull within three points of the final playoff spot, with a
home series awaiting it the following week, to boot.
Unfortunately for the Blue, Denver had other plans for that weekend,
and they didn't include losing. Despite the shaky goaltending from Pioneer
goalie Scott Birnebaum, despite the fact that Michigan'sDoug Todd scored on
the game's first shot and despite the fact the Wolverines led 3-2 halfway
through the game, Denver ended up victorious Friday night; 7-4, on the
strength of a four-goals-in-three-minutes outburst near the end of the middle
period.
Saturday night's game was just as frustrating for Michigan. While the
Wolverines hit the post four times and were stopped on a breakaway op-
portunity in the first period alone, Denver was skating off to a 5-2 lead, also
in the first period alone. And though Michigan scored the next goal, the icers
ended up being swept, 8-3.
The two losses to Denver dropped Michigan into the basement of the
WCHA, with just six wins in 26 games to its credit. Even so, any one of a
number of old cliches would be appropriate right now-its darkest before the
dawn, every cloud has a silver lining, and so on-because there have been
some bright spots in an otherwise dismal season, if you'll pardon that cliche.
For one thing, Bill Wheeler has been playing the best hockey of his
collegiate career as of late. The senior from Southfield has discovered
bodychecking and seems quite adept'at delivery many of a devastating
nature. The speedy winger has also improved his scoring ability this year,
netting a goal and three assists against the Pioneers.
Other Wolverines, such as sophomores Gordie Hampson and Jeff Mars,
have been playing with a previously unexhibited flair. Terry Cullen was im-
pressive before he was injured, as was the case with Murray Eaves.
And the high-powered, Dan Lerg went absolutely bananas upon his
return to the ice from an injury. He has averaged over a point a game since
coming back, including an eight point effort in the two games against Notre
D ame three weeks ago.
But, hey Danny, even though this season's come to a premature end,
don't let your kids give up-sometimes playing the spoiler can be fun.
Eddie Smith
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for a career in Manufactuing.
I'm going to work on throwing the ball
on the run.''
HAMILTON COACH John Payne said
he had been following the Pittsburgh
native's progress since he was an
assistant coach with the Detroit Lions
of the NFL.
"He is primarily a drop-back quar-
terback, but there is no doubt he can do
the other," Payne said. "He can run a
4.7 (40 yards), he can dunk a basket-
ball, and he's an all-around good
athlete."
"He can throw long, he can loft it, and
he can find the open receiver. He also
has the touch and can take the sting off
the ball when necessary."-
Smith, who still is attending Michigan
State, said he needs eight credits to
graduate, which he hopes to complete
by the time training camp gets under
way in May.
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