6 -Wednesday, March 26, 1980-The Michigan Daily THE SEARCH IS ON Orr 's gone, who's next? (Continued from Page 1) SOURCES WITHIN the Athletic Department said that Frieder and Jim Dutcher, a former Michigan assistant and current head coach at Minnesota, are the two leading candidates for the vacant position. "Bill (Frieder) has been our assistant here during our best period of basketball success," said Canham, "so he's got to be in the top three." Frieder joined the coaching staff in 1973 after a highly successful career as head coach at Northern High School in Flint. Orr Frieder, in Washington attending an all-star game featuring the nation's top ... greener pastures high school players, said he met with Reading and Discussion by Ohio Poet and founder of Hiram Poetry Review Hale Chatfield Author: WA TERCOLORS Canham Monday morning after Orr had decided to accept the ISU offer. "HE (CANHAM) has indicated to me that I'm a serious candidate for the job," said Frieder, from his Twin Bridges, Maryland hotel room. "The thing I'm most concerned about whenever I hire a coach, is that the coach be familiar with the Big Ten and the Midwest," said Canham. "That was the major thing I had in mind when I hired Bo (Schembechler). "He (the selected coach) must know the Big Ten. And he must have an idea of what the University of Michigan stands for." Canham said. Canham added that Orr's replacement would be named "within a week to ten days." So that further recruiting efforts are not impaired. Michigan is currently pursuing two high school All-americans -6-10% cen- ter Tim McCormickof Clarkston, and 6- 4 guard Derek Harper of Palm Beach, Florida. Both players appeared in the Washington all-star game. "WHEN YOU'RE working on just two or three people, you're not going to get hurt if you appoint a coach soon, like in a week or two," said Canham. When asked about the possible effects of Orr's decision upon current recruiting efforts, Frieder said, "I don't think this is going to affect recruiting at all." Orr came within 20 minutes of win- ning his first national championship when his 1976 team met undefeated and top-ranked Indiana in the finals of the NCAA tourney.The Wolverines had coasted to a 36-28 halftime lead, but the taller Indiana squad roared back in the second half to win, 86-68. ON TWO OTHER occasions, in 1974 and 1977, Orr took Michigan to the tour- nament's regional finale before it bowed out of the tournament. Only two weeks ago, the Wolverines were eliminated by Virginia in the quarter- final round of the NIT. A three-time All-American at tiny Beloit College, Orr began his collegiate coaching career in 1959, when he joined John Erickson's staff at Wisconsin. Four years later, he assumed the head coaching position at Massachusetts, where he posted a 39-33 record in three seasons. He joined the Michigan coaching staff in 1967, serving as an assistant to head coach Dave Strack. When Strack resigned one year later to take the athletic directorship at Arizona, Orr was named to replace him. Orr's teams have had the best overall Big Ten record during the past ten years. He was named the conference's Coach of the Year in 1974 and 1977, MARCH 26 FREE/8:OO p.m. Pendleton Center, Michigan Union Sponsored by: UM English Department Michigan Council for the Humanities r i I -/ Orr's resignation a. -Iqqpmhq 40 '** HALF PRICE BEER NIGHT Plus Special Happy Hour 3-8 p.m. Live Cowboy Music by SALT CREEK * * * EVERY WEEK: shocker to By SCOTT M. LEWIS f Johnny Orr's sudden decision to leave t his head coaching post at Michigan H came as a surprise to all. No one,b however, was more shocked by Orr's, move than the Michigan players them-G selves. Usually when a coach leaves a school, w he meets with his team beforew revealing his decision to the media. Orr followed no such course. A few players were informed of their coach's plans through classmates who had read The i Daily or had heard radio reports. y Others were contacted by members ofh the Athletic Department staff, which it- self was left in the dark until Mondayb afternoon. Marty Bodnar, a junior guard, said, "I had no idea that something like thisr would occur. On Monday, (my brother)h Mark and I went down to meet with him t and (assistant coach Bill) Frieder said a that Coach Orr was busy. Fifteen . minutes later, Orr walked in, so I knew a he was in the building. It struck me as sort of funny that he would do that. I knew that something was up. But I , never thought it was this." Bodnar does not believe Michigan's recruiting efforts will be seriously o hampered by the change in coaches. "A 0 lot depends on the recruit himself," hei said. "I feel it comes down to whether thee recruit is coming to the school becauset of the coach, or because of the program P and the school. I believe the school it- self is most important. No, I don't thinka (his departure) will have much of an ef-H fect on the recruiting." Bodnar's words seem to contain0 much truth, as it was business as usual (for the recruiting corps. At the same time Orr was being named head coach f at Iowa State, Frieder was taking in the Capital Cage Classic, a high school tournament in Washington, D.C. which y layers' eatures the nation's top talent. Among he participants are 6-10 Clarkston standout Tim McCormick and.Derek Harper of Florida, both highly coveted by Michigan.'/ Energetic sophomore forward Thad Garner echoed Bodnar's surprise. "We were still uninformed when the news was released to the public," he said. "I would say it kind of shocked me." Garner reflected upon his first meeting with Orr in his native Ham- nond, Ind. "When I first met him, he mpressed me as a Ray Meyer type, you know, a really nice guy," he recalled. "And he still is. He's especially, helpful to us outside of basketball.".. Despite the initial feeling of surprise, Garner said he can understand Orr's move. "Everybody has to look out for himself, and from what I hear, he got a remendous offer," he said. "There's also the possibility that he'll become athletic director there. It's a good op- portunity for him." Speculating on the possibility of Frieder assuming Orr's job, Garner said, "There would be one or two changes made. Everyone has his own strategies which he has to develop. He operates in basically the same way (as Orr). Coach Orr had a lot of confidence n him." Freshmen Ike Person and Joe James expressed both surprise and disappoir.- tment. "I'm sorry that he left," said Person. "We're going to have to forget about it. We'll do what we have to do. "He's a good coach, he's a nice guy. He knows his game," Person aded. James seemed personally hurt by Orr's whirlwind action. "It came as a surprise," he said. "I thought he was going to stay here five more years and inish out his contract." But today, Michigan basketball's 12- year Era of Orr is no more. Johnny Orr takes a familiar pose - in conflict with referees. During his twelve years as University of Michigan head basketball coach, Orr had more than his share of run-ins with the zebras. Orr is leaving the University for the head coaching job at Iowa State University. / full court VIPRES Winning coach. .. ,finally receives his due By MARK MIHANOVIC Just five months ago, I sat in Johnny Orr's office and listened as he discussed the rigors of coaching basketball at the University of Michigan. He repeatedly defended his past record, casting a glance time and again at the dozens of trophies and awards tl)at adorned the room to drive home his point. He lamented the "filthy business" of recruiting that major college coaches were forced to engage in to remain competitive. "This is what I have to deal with!" Orr exclaimed as he displayed a brochure with pictures of the plush penthouses that Kentucky provide to its hoopsters before the NCAA watchdogs put a stop to it. He expressed befuddlement as to why he garnered much more respect from sports writers in other areas of the country than he did from area scribes such as Joe Falls. And he wondered how good his 1979-80 team could be, what with the minimal size, experience, and talent that he had to work with. I was amazed at his apparent insecurity. Here was a man who had twice been named the Big Ten Coach of the Year, a man who has twice received national Coach of the Year honors, a man who had won two Big Ten titles and came up one game short in a quest for the NCAA prize, a man whose 11-year record at Michigan was 192-100. And he seemed to be trying to convince three Michigan Daily reporters that he was a good basketball coach. Orr convinced a lot of people of that fact this past season. Writers were calling it his best coaching job. Fans started cheering when P.A. announcer Howard King bellowed, "Michigan is coached by ... Johnny Orr ... But the most important impression Orr made was on Iowa State Athletic Director Lou McCullough, who was convinced enough to make Orr the offer of his life, one'that he couldn't turn his back on. It's an offer that will make the former dean of Big Ten coaches one of, if not the, highest paid college coaches in the land. It's also an offer that Michigan's own A.D., Don Canham, would never have matched. He had to go Orr's salary and fringe benefits at Iowa State more than triples his yearly pay at Michigan of $33,665. There will be those who will criticize Orr as a greedy opportunist who left Michigan in a lurch in the middle of recruiting season. "His heart should be Blue, not gold," the self-righteous will proclaim. But think about it. He has tripled his income. He has done what 99 per cent of the red-blooded American populace would do in the same situation: provide themselves and their families with a degree of economic security during a time period in which that concept is becoming more rare by the day. "But what about loyalty?" they will cry. Loyalty is a two-way street. Nobody would have been worried about loyalty to the coach and his family had those who were calling for his scalp one year ago gotten their way. When one who has been as successful as Orr perpetually finds his head on the chopping block, it becomes obvious that the men in the coaching profession have to make it while they can. Had Canham made a respectable counter offer, the loyalists might have an argument. But how loyal is Canham being to Johnny Orr, the man and the close friend, when he compensates hm on a level so much lower than that which his free market value dicatates? It's free enterprise, baby. The American way. Good luck to you, Johnny, and spend in good health. Frieder a good bet As for the future of Michigan basketball, well, life goes on. Orr's seven- year assistant, Bill Frieder, is a good bet to assume the reins, although Canham wouldn't commit himself yesterday and said that two or three others are under consideration. As one might expect, the recruiting of Tim McCormick and Derek Harper have become precarious propositions with Orr's departure, although Frieder denied as much last night from a hotel room in Washington, D.C., where the duo and a host of others are competing in the Capital Cage Classic. A reporter from the Palm Beach Post in Harper's home state of Florida predicted that the coaching might give the All-America guard just the impetus he needs to hook up with Florida's new coach, Norm Sloan. On the other hand, McCormick has 'more or less been Frieder's recruit all along, and if Frieder lands the jobthe Wolverines' chances to nab the 6- 10 center from Clarkston H.S. haven't been hurt all that much. 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