Thursday, November 15, 197- THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine Thursday, November 15, 197?. THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine 'p U i Wolverine offensive linemen - i Cold StartSec OWNERS, :i1wagol is and stater werke tt 1 237 rosewood 5 Phone 662-2576 clearing -,. -u. a path thr OR menting .......chuck bloom .. B g Ten bowl hopes.. .. SOE .roses or thorns BARRING SOME UNFORESEEN tragedy this weekend, both Michigan and Ohio State will qo into their November 24 battle with perfect records. When the final whistle blows that day, somebody is going to get screwed. The average Big Ten observer considers it a major injus- tice that one team will be singing "California Here I Come" while "Taps" will be played for the losers. Anxious alumni be- lieve that New Year's Day shouldn't be spent in front of an open fire watching Curt Gowdy's mumbling Rose Bowl coverage. Instead, they want to be in the stands watching their favorites battle a forniidable opponent on some gridiron, somewhere. The Big Ten participation in the Rose Bowl and no other post-season classic has been kicked around for years. But how many people really understand the reasons for this policy? For the past 26 years the Big Ten and the Pacific-8 con- ferences have contracted with the Rose Bowl to send only the conferences' top representatives to the annual classic. The pact also states that no other conference school can participate in any other bowl games. "Basically we (the Big Ten) don't go to other bowl games because we really don't want it any other way," claims Michi- gan athletic director Don Canham. "There are some faculty reps who oppose even going to the Rose Bowl." The conventional - and valid - argument against multiple bowl appearances is that the prestige of the Rose Bowl game would decline. "We don't want to dilute the Big Ten's attention in our game," comments Lathrop Leishman, chairman of the Rose Bowl Committee. "If the second best team went to our bowl, or anywhere else for that matter, we feel there would not 'be total interest on the part of the conference in us." The Pac-8 teams are in the same boat as Michigan and Ohio State. "If we allowed USC and UCLA to go elsewhere," states David Price, information director of the Pac-8 conference, "the entire city of Los Angeles would totally neglect the Rose Bowl." Not only is the Rose Bowl the most prestigious of all post- season contests but it is also the most financially lucrative. An estimated viewing audience of 64-to-80 million watches the game on television in addition to the over 100,000 screaming spectators in the stands. "Occasionally a game between two big teams will approach that television figure," Leishman observes, "but no one ever beats us." Each Big Ten institution receives approximately $90,000 from the Rose Bowl - whether it goes or not. -To the best of my knowledge, most conferences operate that way," Canham explained. "We get $90,000 and so does Iowa, even though they haven't gone in many years. It helps keep the conference strong. "It is also more lucrative for us to go to the Rose Bowl alone. The Big {Eight conference sent five teams last year to bowl games and collectively they didn't make as much money as the Rose Bowl." According to Big Eight commissioner Chuck Neinas, that conference at one time had a similar working agreement with the Orange Bowl; but abandoned the "one-bowl" policy in favor of sending many teams to many games. Still, Neinas admitted that revenue gained from such bowl games as the Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, Sun and Astro-Bluebonnet does not match that of the granddaddy of them all. "Bowl games pay different," stated Neinas. "The Rose Bowl simply pays the best." Critics of the Big Ten policy have asserted that limited post-season exposure puts a damper on the conference's reputation. They argue that since the Big Eight sent five teams to bowl games, it must be a superior conference. But does a team with a 7-4 record playing in the Sun Bowl Indi- cate strength?, The Big Ten has good, sound reasons for taking the stand that it does. Yet, one cannot help but feel that either the Wol- verines or the Buckeyes will get a royal shafting a week from Saturday. Imagine the uproar from both schools if by some quirk the "Game of the Year" should end in a tie. On what criteria would the Rose Bowl participant be selected? Which club could hon- estly claim to be the best in the conference? Money and prestige are fine and dandy but it would still be nice to see the Wolverines play on New Year's Day - whether in Pasadena or elsewhere. By TOM PYDEN "A feeling of awe came over me. Soon I was surrounded by nearly 1,000 pounds of flesh. I 01 had witnessed the consumption of enormous amounts of food by p this 1,000 pounds of flesh, but s now I was situated within their grasps and wondering if they had NIGHT EDITOR: had enough to eat." A great scene from a 1932 Boris ROGER ROSSITER Karloff horror movie, eh? Well --- hardly not, but rather a descrip- lenced their critics, however, by tion of the nervousness I experi- performing admirably' throughout enced at the instant I began to in- the season. terview four members of the Michi- t gan offensive line. But my anxiety "It represented a challenge to all was soon quelled as I quickly came w nd'IrfeltwerJ eti to realize that this almost un- heralded unit of the team was a a two year starter at quick tackle special breed of players. before moving to the more physi- It was once said by former cal strong tackle spot this year. Packer guard of the 1960's, Fuzzy Another holdover from last year's Thurston, that the only time a starting line, senior guard Mike lineman got publicity was when Hoban, echoed similar feelings. he was arrested. Well this wasn't "We knew it was going to be true of the Wolverine offensive a lot of work and we worked linemen in preseason because they that much harder. We met the were then considered the question challenge and we've come along mark in an otherwise proven, ex- well," stated the Chicago native. perienced offense. They have si- "It's good to play together in a tune-up including pi 10 ti h th eiti plugs " battery test ough the pit P~ONLY $14, game," rationalized junior guard knowledged Hoban, "and with the Dave Metz who had started since type of football played here and - - the State romp, "but even playing the academic value offered by the I together as a unit in practice de- university influenced me also." velops your confidence in one an- "My number one reason for®U other." Starting center Denny coming here was for a good edu- VALUABLE Franks felt that the closeness of cation," emphasized Franks, "and' their unit carried them through I wanted to see if I could play "Iowa was the first and last football at a big time college." game we started together until a In the past it was common for few weeks ago. Tom Jensen, the public to view or envision foot- Kirk Lewis, Pat Tumpane and ball players - especially linemen Gary Hainrihar all did a good -as being large in size and small job at filling it," stated the easy in itelligence. This stereotype is going junior from Bethel Park, less common today, but even its Pa. "It just showed that we're mention aroused the player's feel- willing to take on the respon- ings. Buy one GIA sibility of doing the job when it's "We have a very complex Onion Roll o especially needed." blocking system and one that One of the main reasons for requires you to be thinking all another GIA the giant success of the Michigan the time," argued Hoban. football program has been the "Look at Gerald Ford, does he Onion Roll a ability to attract out-of-state tal- fit the stereotype?" countered ent. The majority of the offensive Coode. The general opinion was linemen fit into this classifica- probably best advanced by Metz. tion and their reasons for matric- "The fact that we're students at ul'tirg in Ann Arbor usually fell the university should speak for it- into two categories: football tra- self. We have to meet the same re- dition and academic status of the quirements as everybody else," school. noted the Harrison, Ohio junior. "I was impressed with Bo," ac- Motivation poses a peculiar prob- lem for linemen. A running back can be driven on by touchdowns 1 ~ a ~~and the quarterback canounhis U number of completions, but moti- r ~.. .. vation for a lineman has to comeK state & Wa almost exclusively from within. "You're motivated by personal pride and by the challenge of ex- celling to your capabilities each (Pi < week," explained Metz. "Team goals are achieved through indi- Coupon vidual goals and it comes down 'z:to eleven prides on defense and :l eleven prides on offense; all :16___ m__ *.. working together." "You have to search yourself be- fore the game," added Franks. "You realize that you're playing against a man and you want to hprove yourself by physically de- r~t fl ' :" feating him." .. . The closeness of the unit is made more apparent by the fact that three of the linemen - Ho- ban, Coode and Franks - live ~ ~ ..........together. Living together is made L V easier by the fact that they share the same interests and is repre- sents to a smaller extent the closeness of the entire team. "There's a mutual love between us," stated Coode, "just like the mutual love that exists between the team." Daiy Photo by KEN FINK When the conversation was di-1 are forged in its bowels. Two of rected toward "the game"iand the e(51) clear the way for a Gil likelihood that the Wolverines willbk en (51) ultiatewayctor Gi go into the November 24 showdown )otball's ultimate: victory, as underdogs, Hoban smiled. 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