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4 By JOE EWING
< en he was a Michigan hockey play-
,e $ark Miller scored a lot of points.
Nov,' he's trying to rack up points as a
Coach.
u Miller, who was team captain and led
the Wolverines in scoring during his
1978-79 senior year, is the latest ad-
ition to the Michigan hockey program
'aking over as assistant coach this
year.
> "I'm just elated to be part of the
.program again, said Miller. "This
school is in my blood, and I want to be
able to help this program."
THE WAY THE 26-year-old Miller will
°help the program most is in recruiting,
:which is his main duty as assistant
Qoach.
: "He was hired to recruit," said John
Stanley H. Kaplan
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Miller takes

shot at recruiting

Giordano, Michigan's head coach and
the man that Miller answers to. "He's
doing well. He's a pretty aggressive
young man."
Aggressive is right. The season has
barely begun and Miller already has
started making recruiting trips, mostly
to Detroit and Toronto, to check out
prospects for next year. Miller also
plans to make trips to Western Canada,
Minnesota and the Eastern U.S. later
this year.
But just making the trips doesn't
bring home the recruits, so Miller is
quickly developing his own brand of en-
thusiasm mixed with concern for his
prospects.
"I DON'T THINK there's another school
that can compare to Michigan
academically or athletically," ex-
plained Miller. "I tell (the prospects) I
want them to get their degree and then
pursue professional hockey if they can.
I also want them to learn that Michigan
can offer them a lot and they shouldn't
just come here and screw off. There's a
lot to gain out of this program."
Miller found out just how much
Michigan has to offer through his own
experience as a Michigan hockey
player. In four years and 147 games as
a Wolverine, the Essex, Ontario native
scored 57 goals and collected 64 assists
for 121 points, ranking him 26th on the
all-time Michigan scoring list.
As sophomore, Miller was a member
of the Wolverine squad that made it all
the way to the NCAA finals. In his
senior year, Miller led the team in
scoring with 23 goals and 26 assists for
49 points and was the team's captain and
most valuable player.
"It was the best four years of my life.
it was a super experience," remem-
bered, Miller. "But it goes by so fast. It

really does."
OF COURSE, Miller used college hockey
as a springboard for a higher level of
competition - the professional level.
Right after his senior season, Miller
signed a three-year contract with the
Edmonton Oilers, then of the World
Hockey Association, and spent the next
year and a half at Binghamton, New
York and Houston, Edmonton's top
farm clubs.
"Professional hockey was always
something I wanted to try," said Miller.
"I would think most hockey players,
when they reach this level, want the op-
portunity to play professionally."
But in 1980, while he was in training
camp with the Oilers, Miller realized
just what his chances were of making
the big club.
"I COULD SEE that I wasn't going to get
an equal opportunity to play," he
recalled. "I knew I was not going to get
a chance to be with the big club, and

then I got the opportunity to play in
Holland."
So it was off to Europe for Miller,
where he played the 1980-81 season in
the town of Groningen, Holland.
"I got paid more in Holland then I did
in the minors here," Miller claimed.
"Maybe people thought I was taking a
step down professionally, but I wasn't."
The Gronigen team folded just before
the 1981-82 season, and Miller returned
to Ann Arbor to finish his Bachelor of
Science degree from the School of
Education and work as a color com-
mentator for Michigan hockey broad-
casts on WAAM radio..Last year he
returned to Holland to play in Amster-
dam.
Then came his next big break.
"I CAME BACK this summer to work
the hockey school here and that's when
(Michigan assistant) coach (Mike)
Turner left for a business opportunity
and John asked me if I'd consider


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taking the job," Miller said. "I jumped
at the opportunity.
"I knew if I wanted to get into
coaching, this would be the place I'd
want to get into it - Michigan," he con-
tinued. "I wouldn't want to go to
Michigan State. I wouldn't want to go to
Miami of Ohio or Notre Dame or any
other school to get into coaching. I'd
have mixed loyalties and I wouldn't be
able to do my job. This is where my
loyalties are.
"I want to help the program and get it
back where it should be, which is a
national power, which is what we were
when I was playing here," he added.
"Coach Giordano is on the right track.
You need a strong leader to have a
strong program, and he's the strong
leader type."
Miller thinks this year's team has a
lot of potential.
"We have all of the tools to make a
winner, I would like to see us do it,"

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By MIKE MCGRAW
If last weekend's performance at the Battle
Creek Collegiate Classic is any indication of
what's to come in college hockey this year, it
would appear that it will be exciting, butsunsuc-
cessful, for Michigan. The Wolverines showed
that they are capable of making up a deficit as
well as giving up a lead.
Michigan trailed Western Michigan, 3-0, at the
end of one period last Friday, but rallied three
times to tie the game at 5-5. Then the next night,
it gave up two goals in the final 1:03 to the Lake
Superior Lakers to erase a seemingly insur-
mountable lead. Both games resulted in 6-5 over-
time losses.
If the Wolverines plan to move up in the Cen-
tral Collegiate Hockey Association standings,
they must be able to defeat those two teams. Last
season Michigan finished in a ninth-place tie
with WMU, and the Lakers were one point behind
in 11th.
Based on these results, the CCHA playoffs may
seem a long way off, but they're really not. Notre
Dame, a playoff team last year, has dropped its

hockey program and sixth-place Miami (Ohio)
was decimated by graduation.
So Michigan in the playoffs looks like a good
bet, but they will probably not go any farther.
And you can't really consider it a good hockey
team until it makes the top four in the conferen-
ce.
There is definitely a lot of improvement
needed in this team, but the development may
come around. Remember that by the time
hockey season is over, everyone will already be
home from Florida after spring break. So there
is a lot of time to get better. In fact, coach John
Giordano says it will take until Christmas to
determine how good the team will be.
However, this year's team thus far has shown
more potential than last year's. A number of
players, among them Frank Downing, Jim Mc
Cauley and Doug May, have come back in great
shape and are looking like they're going to have
better seasons this year. Also, the three-key
freshmen forwards - Bruce Macnab, John
Bjorkman and especially Brad Jones - could
develop into some great scorers for the future.
Friday night in the third period against

Western, Jones, a native of Sterling Heights, stole
the puck from a Bronco defender at the blue line
and proceeded to skate around another man and
hit May with a perfect pass in front of the net for
the game-tying goal. Hopefully Yost Arena
frequenters will see much more of this activity
on the ice.
But there are more questions marks than ad-
mirers of Michigan's new all-blue road uniforms,
as it enters the regular season against Ohio State
this weekend. The team lacks depth and the
defense, though not as bad as last year, still has a
ways to go. The Wolverines haven't really shown
good basic skills such as passing and puck-
handling so far this season. But they've only
been on the ice for a short time so those things
may come around.
They probably won't this week, though, as
Michigan takes on the Buckeyes, co-favorites in
the CCHA this year.
But there is always hope. Last year OSU
wasn't expected to do much after a 10th place
finish in 1981-82, but exploded to a 21-7-4 record
and a spot in the conference semi-finals. So don't
count out the Michigan icers yet.

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Enthusiasm anchors saiing club
By TED LERNER the fact that it came from a Midwest "It's pretty hard to just come into the transportation. "At schools like Navy
"To sail at Michigan you've got to be school. Midwestern universities are school without ever having sailed," and Kings Point, sailing is pretty much
totally self-motivated," said sailing supposed to excel only at winter sports, said Ferguson. "You've got to be good a varsity sport," Ferguson said. "A
club captain Scott Ferguson. "You're such as football, basketball and hockey. already. Unless you go to a school like Michigan it is strictly a club sport. So
doing it because you love sailing. You They are not supposed to defeat schools Kings Point on Long Island or Navy, we hardly get any money."


grew up with it."
It is this drive and enthusiasm that
led the 1982-83 Michigan sailing team to
a fourth-place finish at last year's
collegiate sailing championships.
WHAT COULD BE surprising to
people about the team's performance is
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with long sailing traditions like Brown,
Yale, Kings Point and, of course, the
teams from California.
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But that's exactly what the Michigan
sailors did last year and are doing this
season in numerous regattas. There is
good reason.
"The majority of our team who are
good sailors are not from Michigan,"
said Ferguson a 22-year-old senior from
Newport, Rhode Island. "They come
from New York, Rhode Island, Califor-
nia. The coasts pretty much."
BY LIVING ON the coast, Ferguson
and his teammates have sailed since
they were little and have developed a
love for competitive sailing. By the
time they come to Michigan, most are
excellent sailors.

where sailing is taken more seriously
by the school, you're not going to
develop. There's not enough time."
In order to hone their skills for a busy
schedule (a regatta every weekend
from September through Thanksgiving
and starting again in March) the team,
consisting of a total of 30 men and
women, drives 20 miles north every
Wednesday to Baseline Lake. This is
the home of the Michigan boat house.
USING THE SAILING club's 15-foot
boats, the sailors compete in single
elimination races to determine which
two-man team will go to a regatta on
the weekent. When there is more than
one regatta scheduled for a weekend,
more people can race.
To get to a race, the team often has to
travel over 1,000 miles in one weekend.
"Most of the big regattas in college
sailing are in the east," said Ferguson.
"They are in places like Boston, An-
napolis and Kings Point, N.Y."
The only money the team receives
goes to pay for gas. They must find and
pay for their own lodging, food and

DESPITE THE TEAM'S lack of fun
ding and the long weekends away froxn
school, sailing in the Midwest has some
advantages over eastern sailing. The
number of collegiate sailing teams in
the Midwest is far less than the num:
ber of teams in the East or West. Thus,
qualifying for nationals is easier out og
the Midwest regional since the comn
petition is reduced.
Another attraction to sailors which
Michigan features is a strong program
in Naval architecture. Like Ferguson,
senior team member Greg Danilek,
from Long Island, N.Y., became in-
terested in the field because of his
many years spent around boats.
"Michigan has a good naval architec-
ture program," Danilek said. "I've
become interested in yacht design."
With a fine reputation now firmly
developed, the Michigan sailing team;
can expect calm seas ahead. They
women's team was ranked eighth in the
country last year and is coming off a
big third-place finish out of 17 teams in
a regatta at Yale.

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