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Mark Mihanovic
... ready for dessert
IT TSEEMS LIKE it has always been this way. Like little boys who eat their
vegetables only so that they will be given dessert, the Big Ten elite play
out their first eight or nine games always with one eye on the future. They
have to do it in order to get big and strong, but everybody knows that they
are really waiting for that final course..
Of course, there are variables that make each football season different,
just as mama puts different kinds of vegetables on the table each evening.
For instance, the Big Ten elite no longer is limited to Michigan and Ohio
State; Purdue now appears to be a member. And once or twice along the
way, the Wolverines or Buckeyes may lose a game, so as to make the
preliminaries a little less routine. But no matter; Michigan and Ohio State
and now Purdue inevitably finish their vegetables.
Take the 1980 meal set in front of Michigan, for example. Bo Schembecher
was characteristically wary as he sat down at the table, but this time the
coach's uncertainty seemed valid. The Wolverines had encountered trouble
digesting several dishes in 1979, and to make matters worse, Bo's favorite
cutting knife, the defense, didn't have its usual sharp edge. Gone were Ron
Simpkins, CurtisGreer, Mike Jolly, Mike Harden, Ben Needham, etc. Bo had
always emphasized a sharp cutting knife, but this time he would have to eat
without one,
Nonetheless, he dug in. There were early problems, as he spilled Notre
Dame on his lap and South Carolina on the floor, but neither one hurt him in
tis drive for dessert. He proceeded to consume the rest of the Big Ten
without flinching, without dropping a bit.
Defense is sharpened
In fact, the cutting knife has been sharpened to the point of almost being
flawless the past couple of weeks. While the defensive line has been incon-
sistent, the backfield has developed into a solid corps against the pass. And
the linebacking, with the ferocious hitting of Mel Owens and Andy Cannavino
(who leads the Big Ten in tackles), was never a question mark.
So Bo and his players await dessert. And it comes to Ann Arbor
tomorrow in the form of the Purdue Boilermakers. Purdue began the season
by getting blasted at Notre Dame. Two weeks later, UCLA flew in and whip-
ped them. Since then, however, Mark Herrmann has been ripping into op-
posing defenses through the air at will, and the suspect Boilermaker defense
has tightened. Thus, many are looking for Purdue to upend the six-point-
favorite Wolverines.
However, should Michigan control the ball via its explosive ground
game, the Blue defense can be expected to force enough turnovers to send
themselves to Columbus with a 7-0 conference record.
There sit the Buckeyes, number one in the nation at the season's incep-
tion, only to be dumped from the top spot by that Big Ten nemesis from the
West, UCLA. Ohio State has been an enigma throughout the campaign; its
49-42 victory over Illinois leaves one wondering what havoc Anthony Carter
may wreak in a secondary which yielded 621 yards to Dave Wilson.
Credit the coach
Whether or not the Wolverines sweep this pair of contests and advance to
the Rose Bowl, one cannot help but give credit to the man who has built the
Michigan program to such a level of prominence that the Sugar Bowl is con-
sidering offering the Blue a bid even with three losses.
Schembechler is subjected to a never-ending stream of criticism for his
coaching philosophy and for his inability to win the big games, and
sometimes it is justified. But one thing cannot be ignored: he is verysuc-
cessful on a scale relative to other coaches, year in and year out. That is
something often lost on those who complain about the coservative style, the
bowl losses, the misused timeouts.
There is no better testimony to his coaching soundness than the
development of the current defensive unit. Only three starters returned from
1979 (Cannavino, Owens, and defensive tackle Mike Trgovac, whose
sprained ankle will be ready for tomorrow's game); yet Michigan hasn't
given up a point in ten quarters of action. The totally reconstructed secon-
dary has allowed only three touchdown passes all season. The reason:
Schembechler and his assistants are good teachers, whether Bo's critics
want to admit it or not.
So clear the man's plate . .. he's ready for dessert.
The Michigan Daily-Friday, November 14, 1980-Page 11
WEEKEND SERIES A T HOUGHTON
Icers to face off against Tech
By DAN CONLIN
Michigan Tech, 1-1 in the WCHA and
4-1-1 overall, has earned its respectable
record by the skin of its teeth. The
Huskies have survived several
mediocre performances in chalking up
this slate, and the Tech coaches are
confused. And while they're confused,
Michigan, which travels to Houghton
this weekend, hopes to sneak in and
steal two games from the wavering
Huskies.
Michigan assistant coach John Gior-
dano, who will again replace Wilf Mar-
tin as head coach this weekend, has no
doubt that when the Huskies start
rolling, they will be WCHA contenders.
"They've got excellent talent," said
Giordano. "I think they're the second
best team in the WCHA (behind Mip-
nesota)."
HUSKIE COACH John MacInnes and
his assistants have seen their team
through many phases already in this
young season. The area of the game
which has traditionally been Tech's
strongest, its defense, fell apart before
MacInnes' eyes at the start of the
season, as the icers found themselves
emphasizing a free-wheeling style of at-
tack instead. In their first four games,
the Huskies gave up 24 goals, but for-
tunately managed to scrape to victory
in three of them.
"In the first two games we got into
shootouts with Lake Superior State and
won, 9-8, and 8-7," said assistant coach
Jim Nahrgang. "Then the next week we
had seven goals scored on us by Min-
nesota-Duluth."
But once the goaltenders settled down
and the defense regrouped, the Huskie
offense went on the blink. An injury to
sophomore rightwinger Steve Murphy,
the third leading scorer on last year's
team, has sidelined him for the season.
In the absence of Murphy, it appears
that the Huskies have no scoring punch.
"LAST WEEKEND against Northern
Michigan (in two non-conference
games) we scored four goals," said
Nahrgang. "We've missed Murphy's
scoring power."
But even scoring only four goals in
that weekend series, the Huskies sur-
vived without a loss, taking home a vic-
tory and a tie from Northern, and 1-1.
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Still, Michigan Tech's coaches are
worried.
"You can't win any games in the
WCHA if you only score four times in a
series,'.' said Nahrgang. "We need
somebody like Murphy to start putting
the puck in the net."
MICHIGAN'S Giordano feels that
these troubles for the Huskies are
minor in light of the actual ability on
the Tech team. "They've got the best
freshman around," said Giordano.
"They recruited Bill Terry, who we
tried hard to convince to come here.
And also, Tim Watters has returned.
They've got excellent talent."
Watters, a senior defenseman, has
returned to the squad after spending a
season with the Canadian Olympic
team. He should add to the Huskie ef-
fort through leadership as team cap-
tain. Watters is also the key to Tech's
power play, which MacInnes admitted
was lacking, in 1979-80. "He should
provide stability and give us the goo
point man that we needed last year."
Stability is something that has been
hard to come by thus far for Michigan
Tech. "We were pretty shaken by all
the scoring at the start of the season;
but we've settled down," said
Nahrgang. "Now we lack the goal
scoring."
The Wolverines hope to catch the
Huskies in the same slump tonight and
come home with two WCHA victories.
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