U ( t.. ull court SPRESS Freshmen cagers shine.. . ... surprise pessimistic Frieder By LARRY FREED "I hope my players don't crap in their pants in Fayetteville. It will be a great experience for the freshmen. " -Bill Frieder, November22 M EET BILL FRIEDER, the eternal pessimist. After joking about his job security, low-keying his team's outlook, and questioning his team's overall competitive ability, the sly coach of the Wolverines brought his scrappy team to Arkansas. No, the team didn't have to change its shorts during warm-ups, but it might have been Frieder going for the Fruit-of-the-Looms instead, after wat- ching his team battle the 14th ranked Razorbacks before finally succumbing in the later stages, 83-72. The freshmen did receive the greatest experience of their young careers, but they far exceeded anyone's expectations playing before the hostile crowd in Barnhill Arena, judged by one magazine as one of the five toughest arenas for visiting teams to play in. Eric Turner tabbed to be the messiah of Michigan basketball, lived up to his pre-season billing in this opener, scoring 14 points and dishing out seven assists while directing the Wolverines against the tenacious Razorback defense., A fresh surprise Perhaps the biggest surprise in a day of surprises was the play of the other freshman guard, Leslie Rockymore. Rockymore proved that he was more than just a P.A. announcer's dream as he calmly sunk his first six shots, all from long distances, before finishing the afternon with 18 points. Thad Garner also was another surprise, providing the national telecast audience with plenty of thrills in CBS's inaugural telecast and almost causing commentator Billy Packer to run out of superlatives. Garner, who tallied a career high 22 points, provided the leadership Frieder was hoping he would at both ends of the court. Whether he was per- forming aerial acrobatics in the forecourt or keeping his teammates poised in the backcourt, Garner showed that he is ready to emerge from the shadows. "He plays the game like you like to see it-with intensity,"Frieder said in a weak moment of optimism before the season. Frieder also had to be satisfied with the play of Ike Person, the Wolverines 6-7 center. The Barrington, Ill. native had a gutsy performance on the boards competing against 6-10 All-American candidate Scott Hastings, who tallied 24 points. Break out the red shirts However, there were also some negative surprises for the second-year coach. Not only is Tim McCormick possibly out,for the entire season, but John Antonides, the Wolverines' 7-2 back-up center, injured himself during practice last week, thus leaving Frieder with the possibility of having 14-feet of red shirt. To compensate for the losses of his two giants, Frieder pressed into service two Wolverine football players, Greg Washington and Dave Hall. The opening game also illustrated that some of Frieder's pessimism was not unfounded. The Wolverines got manhandled on the boards by the bigger and more experienced Razorbacks. To remain close, the Wolverines depen- ded mainly on the perimeter shooting of their guards and Garner, while the Razorbacks scored almost at will from the inside. Another sour note for Michigan was its handling of Arkansas' zone press defense. When Turner and Rockymore did show signs of inexperience, it was evident mainly when they attempted to get the ball past the timeline at the end of both halves. It was during these stanzas that Hog guard Darrell Walker, who scored a career high 25 points, put the two freshmen back into the classroom during the Thanksgiving break. Foul trouble also affected the young Wolverines. Turner picked up his fourth foul early in the second half and was forced to watch a majority of the second half from the bench. The Wolverines' inability to control the Razor- backs accounted for the 18-10 foul differential and possibly decided the out- come of the game. Although the Wolverines actually scored -more from the field, they were hampered at the line. Arkansas, which has a reputation for poor free throw shooting teams, capitalized on 17-20 free throws, while Michigan sunk its only two charity tosses. Although Frieder's freshmen proved that they could surprise and did not need diapers for their opener, they also proved that some of the coach's pessimism was not totally unwarranted for the upcoming season. The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, December 1, 1981-Page 11 Seniors honored at football bust By MARK MIHANOVIC Special to the Daily DETROIT - Post-season football banquets are invariably upbeat, sad- to-say-goodbye-but-glad-to-have- , known-you affairs, and last night's 61st annual Michigan Football Bust, at the Renaissance Center's Renaissance Ballroom, was no excep- tion. The Wolverine's three conference losses, while not forgotten, were placed on the back burner, as coaches, team, and alumni alike poin- ted for the New Year's Eve date that the 8-3 Blue gridders have with the "If it comes to the point where we can't accept defeat, then we might as well stop playing. If victories are so easy to come by, then they aren't worht having. I'll be damned if I'm going to apologize for a team that won eight of 11 games and goes to the Bluebonnet bowl to play another post- season game," Bo boomed. A GREAT DEAL of the program consisted of the presentation of rings to the 30 Michigan seniors, many of whom said their farewells to Michigan football and all its associations, and some who aren't so sure.' (Stay cool, you may hear this speech again next year," said offen- sive tackle Ed Muransky, the 6-7, 275- pound giant who is considering a move to the National Football League rather than use up his final year of Wolverine eligibility.) 'I'll be damned if I'm going to apologize for a team that won eight of 11 games and goes to the Bluebonnet Bowl to play another post- season game.' -Bo Schembechler Hyde Memorial Award. "I was shocked," the all-time leading Michigan rusher commented on last weeks' vote. "When Bo was announcing the awards, I was looking at Kurt Becker and Anthony Carter to see their reactions. But when he said my name, I was shocked. Like I told the players at the teams' banquet,. there are a lot of players on the team that deserve the award." TIGHT END Norm Betts received the Dr. Author D. Robinson Award, given to the leading senior scholar on the team. "This is something I've really wanted to get for some time," he said. "Great people have won this award. I can remember seeing Mark DeSantis win this award when I was a freshman and saying to myself, 'I'm going to get that award when I'm a senior.' Other presentations during the banquet included a cassette tape of late Michigan announcer Bob Ufer to the gridiron seniors. As a result of the free donation by radio station WJR, in Detroit, the Michigan Club of Greater Detroit gave two thousand to the Bob Ufer Memorial Fund recedntly set up by the Athletic Department. WJR radio personality J. P. McCar- thy the evening's Master of Ceremony, added his own special thanks to the Wolverines. "If you follow the Detroit Lions the last thirteen years, they have made on eplayoff," McCarthy said. "If you have followed the Detroit Tigers since they won the World Series, they have made one playoff. The Red Wings made one playoff. And even the Detroit Pistons have made one playoff. So the the University of Michigan football team, thank you for Saturday afternoons in the fall. Thank you for something to cheer about." GIFT IDE FOR STUDENTS! 4 7 1st ' Tailback Butch Woolfolk, voted the Wolverines' Most Valuable Player by his teamniates last Tuesday night at the squad's banquet, was similarly honored last night with the Louis B. [trill UCLA Bruins at Houston's Astrodome in the Bluebonnet Bowl. MICHIGAN coach Bo Schem- bechler, as he is wont to do, set the tone for the evening by- explaining in no uncertain terms to the $30 per-plate alumni attending the function, which is sponsored by the University of Michigan Club of greater Detroit, how he felt about his 1981 gridders. "I like this team - and I'm a coach who likes to win 'em all," Schem- bechler said. 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