Tuesday, October 8. 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine Tuesday, October 8, 1974 THE MICHiGAN DAILY Pace Nine Hanlon b By JOHN KAHLER Elliot Uzelac, put together a top Jerry Hanlon is Michigan's notch unit that keeps opening offensive line coach. If you did holes for the running game. not know that, don't be sur- An unusual set of circum- prised; offensive line coaches stances made Hanlon an offen- generally get even less pub- sive line coach. "I coached licity than offensive linemen. mostly offensive and defensive The offensive lineman per- backs under Bo at Miami," he forms an unglamorous, but relates. "Then one year, we, necessary job. Even when they lost a lot of people off our are good, reporters tend to ig- staff. I was one of the few nore them in lockerroom inter- people left who had any ex- views. They don't get photo- perience with our offense, so graphed much, since during the Bo asked me to become line game, they are usually found coach." buried in a mass of humanity. Hanlon followed Schembechler Nor is the job high on campus to Michigan after Bo took over prestige. People either don't as head coach. As . such, he recognize them or, if they do, knows Bo's system almost as seem amazed that they speak well as Bo himself. the mother tongue. "Bo gives his assistants al- Combine these factors with most complete control over their the anonymity that is the com- special areas. We work in close mon trait of all assistant unison, but in our individual coaches, and you have good areas, we're on our own." reason for not knowing the Hanlon does not mind the identity of Jerry Hanlon. But annual rebuilding job. "By the his recent accomplishments de- nature of the position, we're serve better treatment. going to lose a lot of people I each year. Since it takes time EVERY YEAR, the Michigan for people to develop, there's offensive line loses key people always going to be a lot of new to graduation, and must be re- people each years" built. And every year Hanlon " V and center-guard line coach "EXPERIENCE is extremely r t ; I Z uilds Daily, Sports NIGHT EDITOR. FRED UPTON important for a lineman. The; Michigan system, both offensive- ly and defensively, is one in which each man has a specific. assignment that he must exe- cute right. This is not to say that a freshman couldn't do the job. But if you've got a good program, you can afford to bring guys along more slowly." Most linemen come to Michi- gan after having starred on both offense and defense in high school. The coaches must make a decision on all incoming freshmen as to what position they are best suited. "We decide mostly on the basic needs of the team," ex-I plains Hanlon. "We try to have a kid play where he wants to play. But as for physical at- IS END NEAR? 0UTW linemer tributes, we tend to put our quicker linemen on defense, and the steadier types on offense." "A lot of very good people can't play offensive line because it takes a special kind of per- son to play there. I guess the best word to describe it is 'un- selfish.' You have to develop a physical and mental toughness to play the position." requires a long apprenticeship. Two promising reserve tackles, Greg Boik and Gary Zolciak, quit the team this fall. "They lost the desire to play," says Hanlon with a touch of dis- appointment in his voice. "Most kids who come here are willing to accept the challenge and I work to achieve something." "FRESHMEN come in here, HANLON IS resigned ,to the find they can't play right away, lack of public recognition his and become impatient. I'd be charges receive. "You get used discouraged if they didn't be- to it, and the kids do, too. But come impatient. But that doesn't they get recognition from others necessarily mean that you quit. on the team. You just keep on working to "The guys this year have get better." great spirit, both the first and "As a coach, you've got to second teams. ' They pick each s point ot that long range goals other up when things go wrong,I are more important than short and there are always three range goals. Reggie McKenzie, people patting someone on the Don Warner, and Rick Koschalk shoulder when he does a good all spent time in the trenches job." learning ybut they seized their "There's a lot of cohesiveness with this unit. They realize that they are a special group, and their recognition comes from each other." But even special groups have problems, particularly if the group is underpublicized and chance and did a good job." So next time Chuck Heater rips into the end zone, remem- ber the blockers that allowed him to get there. A cheer for an offensive lineman might sound strange, but it would cer- tainly be appreciated. -f r- heads or tales' ____ Marc-Feldman - I-" No extra incentve? . ... come onBo B0 SCHEMBECHLER may not be the most mild-mannered fellow in the world on the Michigan Stadium sidelines but when it comes time to chow down for a leisurely lunch with the reporters on Monday afternoon, Bo weighs his words very: carefully.- One exception to that rule was a couple of days after the 10-10 deadlock with Ohio State last November when Bo lashed at Big Ten Commissioner Wayne Duke and "Our sister school's" Athletic Director Burt Smith for their alleged roles in sending the Buckeyes to Pasadena. Bo, who has been criticized long and hard by certain writers for winning 90 per cent of his games anonymously, was finally thrust upon the national scene, and his Hughes and Hatcher sports coat and angry scowls made the newspapers from Coast to Coast. But that's really not Bo's style, and naturally when the con- versation turned to the Spartan. invasion Saturday and Bo's favorite athletic director, Schembechler said hands off. Larry Paladino, a soft-spoken Associated Press writer from Detroit, got things rolling by asking Bo if there was any special motivation for the Michigan State game. Bo was ready for that3 inevitable query and shot back. "I don't want to hear that stuff. This game is not a grudge match.' It will be the same great battle we always have," asserted the Blue boss. "Michigan versus Michigan State doesn't need any additional motivation." But the scribes weren't through yet. UPI writer, Rich Shook, long the devil's advocate at these affairs, posed a variation on the same theme. "Does that mean that you will discourage your players from discussing that topic?" Again Bo slithered around' like a politician and offered "I can't tell these guys what to think or talk about." "All I know," Bo went on, "is that the four top teams in the League are playing this weekend in Ann Arbor and Columbus (Wisconsin at OSU) and we're all tied for first place-that's incentive enough." Sensing the gloominess of the writers after his slippery eel routine, Bo got back on a few folk's good side by asking if they had a good time in Palo Alto, before pointing out that he didn't. "It's always so tough for us to play out there. We were really tired but we gutted it out," smiled Schembechler. "It was a great day to play football if you're used to the warm weather, but we weren't." "Brown (Dave), Heater (Chuck) and Chapman (Gil) all got muscle cramps and everybody lost between eight and fifteen. pounds. It's hard to replace all that salt and water." Despite the unusually high yield of 16 points by the defense, Bo singled out his defenders for citation. "Jilek (Dan), "Mo" Morton, Harry Banks and Don Dufek played outstanding games for us.. Morton had 14 tackles and Jilek had a few tackles for losses," pointed out Bo. "You may catch the ball against us but there will always be guys right there to make the hit." The statistics verify Bo's statement. Jerry Waldvogel, the Stanford quarterback, may have completed 21 passes in 40 attempts for 229 yards, but when the sacks behind the line are substracted in, Waldvogel's 4.6 yards per, pass play is not all that impressive. Well, Michigan State will be here Saturday and 104,000 vengeful fans and a few fellows with funny yellow stripes on their helmet won't care about last week's game or Bo' protestations about not needing more incentive. These people will be thinking about a Sunday late last November. -H Wheels postponed NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (A") The World Football League an- I nounced yesterday that Detroit Wheels and Jacksonville Sharks ; Sports games this week are postponed. They also said the financial- of thIne ly troubled teams will fold without new investors within two or three days., il I The opponents for Detroit and Jacksonville this week, the Flo- rida Blazers and Chicago Fire, will play Wednesday night at Chicago under the revised schedule released by Gary L. Davidson, WFL president. * * * Strinko uncertain Steve Strinko, injured in last; week's game with Stanford, is Billboard being closely observed by the Wolverine coaches and trainers, for signs of improvement. He suffered a hyper-extension of, the right knee in the first half. His status for the Michigan State game is still uncertain and on a day-to-day basis. Pistons won't talk DETROIT A) - Dave Bing was told the Detroit Pistons will not renegotiate his contract, and traded, a Detroit sportcaster re- ported yesterday. Bing, who claims former owner Fred Zollner promised to renegotiate his contract, told the Pistons yesterday to} go ahead with their threat and trade him, the sportscaster said. 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