The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 21, 1983 -Page 11 Michigan pass rush back on track Brace yourselves, you're about to read what once seemed like the most unlikely of possibilities: Michigan actually has an ef- fective pass rush this year. Yes, it's true. N6 kidding. Your leg is not being pulled. Just a season ago, the defensive line put about as much pressure on the quarter- back as an introductory Communications class puts on a student here at Michigan. But that's all changed for the defensive line this year. "Our defensive line is playing better than they did last year," said Gary Moeller, Michigan's assistant head coach and defensive coordinator. "They did so because we only lost (starting defensive tackle Winfred) Carraway. So we've got good experience. The defensive line was expected to get better, especially because of what we lost at linebacker because of close to a Curtis Greer (a former Michigan and current St. Louis Cardinal defensive tackle)," Moeller said. "But he has to do it. Having the potential and doing it aren't always the same. Greer was the last All- American defensive tackle here and that's one reason the comparison is made. Greer had good movement and Kevin has good movement. Kevin has shown spots of being a great player, but he has to keep coming along like everyone else. Both Greer and Brooks came here as outside linebackers and were switched to defen- sive tackle so that's another reason the comparison is made. Curtis was opposed to the move. Kevin was too, but not as much. "Kevin's weakness can be his height (6- 6)," Moller added. Often the low guy wins because he stays lower and uses his legs. Kevin just has to stay down. His height is game because of a shoulder injury, prac- ticed all week and will "definitely" play. Backup inside linebacker Andy Moeller (knee injury), Gary's son, is expected to return to practice next week. Iowa sophomore linebacker Larry Station on the Michigan offensive line: "After seeing film on them the other day, I do believe they're the best in the Big Ten. They're the best offensive line I've seen since I've been up here. The only way to counter their offensive surge is to play good, hard-nosed football." Michigan head coach Bo Schembechler said that the Marcus Dupree saga, in which the star running back recently quit the Oklahoma football team, is "tragic." "I know you guys will laugh, ha, habut in my opinion a youngster ought to choose a school to get a degree from that Univer- sity," Schembechler said at his weekly media luncheon. "I don't think you tran- sfer or give up." Schembechler said that Oklahoma head coach Barry Switzer was put in a difficult situation by a Sports Illustrated article by Douglas Looney earlier this year whieh reported that Dupree was unhappy at Oklahoma and did not get along with Swit- zer. Ron Pollack CROSS CHRISTIAN CAB "Serving Ann Arbor" Special Metro Airport and long dis- tance rates. Call the cab with the cross for one Heaven of a ride. Get a "Big Ten % " off with student ID CALL: 996-9477 Michigan football Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER What's he looking at? No one knows, but Michigan defensive lineman Kevin Brooks, part of the Wolverine's resurgent pass rush this year, isn't distrac- ted from zeroing in on Northwestern's quarterback Sandy Schwab. graduation. (Robert Thompson and Paul Girgash) and injury (Mike Boren hurt his knee and is out for the year)." The pass rush has also improved the Smith-Barney way - "it's earrrned it." Ever since the beginning of spring prac- tice, tremendous effort has been exerted to improve this aspect of the defense. "We've overemphasized the pass rush," Moeller said. "We've doubled the em- phasis on the pass rush since last spring. That means drills on the pass rush. More of our full team goes to pass, pass, pass. It'll catch up to us, though. When you spend so much time stopping the run and then put the time somewhere else you take a chance of not stopping the run as well. But we had to do it. It hasn't hurt our per- formance against the run so far." Finally, Moeller said that the opposition, if you can call it that the past two weeks, has also played a role in the Wolverines' newfound pass rush. "We put pressure on the quarterback against Michigan State and Northwestern because they were handicapped by in- juries," Moeller said. "So we overpowered some young guys. But it's also that we've improved." The starters along the defensive line are defensive tackles Keven Brooks and Vince DeFelice, and middle guard Al Sincich. All received lavish praise from Moeller. "Brooks has the potential to be very all in his legs which makes it tougher. "Sincich is having a good year. Al's a good, steady plugger. In 95 percent of his games he'll face more physical players. He's the opposite of Kevin in terms of size (6-1)," Moeller said. It's funny, because he's the one who's usually double teamed because of our alignments. "DeFelice has been very much of a sur- prise. He's filled in very well for (Mike) Hammerstein (who was injured earlier in the year).He's filled in so well for Ham- merstein, that Hammerstein is having a hard time getting his job back now that he's returned. DeFelice has done a heckuva lot more than we expected. Representatives of the following bowls will be in attendance at tomorrow's Michigan-Iowa game: Cotton, Fiesta, Orange, Bluebonnet, Gator, Sun, Holiday, Liberty and Citrus. Injury update - starting outside linebacker Tom Hassel, who pulled a muscle in his leg last weekend against Northwestern, is "iffy" according to Moeller. First-string defensive back John Lott, who suffered a bruised knee against the Wildcats, practiced for the first time this week on Wednesday and "should be able to play," Moeller said. Moeller added that starting inside linebacker Mike Reinhold, who missed the Northwestern Michigan IM scene a mess... too many stupid rules "Hey man, you win your IM game?" shouted Mr. 0. "Are you kidding?" replied Mr. P. "Damn refs screwed us again. I thought they might be better in football but they're as bad as ever. And they were the pits in softball.".. "What do you mean?" inquired Mr. Optimist. "The. guy who umped when I played for you in the B-level championship game was pretty good." "Yeah, but he was the best they've got. He and the umpire that plays against me both here and at EMU," said Mr. P. "You played ball at Eastern?" "For the last two years. You get a lot more games for your money over there. I didn't pay a dime, but for 10 bills our team got to play 10 games plus "the playoffs. Michigan only gives you two games for 15 bucks. It's not just that you don't get enough games here, but the IM department determines your playoff level from a two-game season. How can you pick the best teams for the 'A' playoffs based on a pair of games?" Mr. 0, never one to consider such trivia (he's into studying, I understand), didn't have an answer. "I don't know. How do they do it at Eastern.?" "They give you an eight- or 10-game regular season and only the league winners and runners-up make the playoffs. That way all of the teams play a lot of games and only the best compete for the championship." "That makes sense. How come Michigan can't come up with a system like that?" "Because the IM Department likes screwed up rules," snapped P. "The worst is the one where if a softball game is tied at the end of seven innings, the team who last held a lead at the end of an inning wins. You can fall behind, 2-0, in the first inning, the game in the second, play even the rest of the way and still lose because the other team scored first. Baseball wasn't meant to be a sudden death game. The timing of runs isn't important. The amount is. The TM should let teams play extra innings." "Do you have a chip on your shoulder or something?" You seem awfully ticked off about a minor thing?" "Well, not playing extra-innings isn't going to ruin my college career, but I think it's a simple change that would improve softball considerably. The thing that pisses me off is only being allowed to play on one team." "What's that?" asked Mr. 0. "Because I want to play more than three or four games in a year and I have a lot ofsfriends that I want to play softball with. There are a couple of dozen guys I'd like to have on my team but only 10 can play at once, so I'd want to play on a second team, if I could. I do anyway." "You play on two teams! Don't you ever get busted?" "Once, but nothing came of it. The only way you can get burned is if a guy on another team sees you playing for two teams and turns you in. It takes a real jackass to tarn someone in, too. A team of Navy ROTCs busted me." "Didn't you lose your eligibility?" said 0. "No, they just told the umpire and he made me sit out the game. The ump ;happened to be a buddy of mine from freshman orientation. But that really didn't matter. Most of the IM student-officials are OK guys, even if they don't know the strike zone or the difference between fair and foul balls." "So you think it's safe to play on more than one team?" "Perfectly. You can do whatever you want. The chance of an IM official turning you in - or even noticing that you play for two teams - is slim. Get a team together with friends that don't even go to school here. Just don't bring in any professional athletes." "4 Why would I da that?" "I don't know, but some guy at EMU convinced the Milwaukee Brewers' Brian Clutterbuck to play IM softball and I'm sure whoever he played again- st didn't have much fun. PARTHENON GYROS 226 S. Main at 111'.,Liberty OPEN Ann Arbor SEVEN DAYS Corry Out Service A WEEK 994-1012 Now Serving Liquor, Imported Greek Wines, Imported Beers. 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They are peaceful people so they don't like teams that throw a lot of bombs, and they can't believe so many players choose to enter the draft. They always root for Columbia, since its roots are for them. Win a pizza. Turn in your picks by mid- night tonight at the Daily offices or at Piz- za Bob's on S. State or Church. 1. Iowa at MICHIGAN (pick score) 2. Illinois at Purdue 3. Michigan State at Ohio State 4. Indiana at Wisconsin 5. Minnesota at Northwestern 6. Colorado at Nebraska 7. Texas at SMU 8. Arizona at Stanford 9. West Virginia at Penn St. 10. Kentucky at Georgia 11. South Carolina at LSU 12. USC at Notre Dame 13. Tulane at Southern Mississippi 14. Maryland at Duke 15. Pittsburgh at Navy 16. Oklahoma St. at Kansas Happy Hour Michigan Union 17. Colgate at Wyoming 18. Princeton at Harvard 19. Sacramento St. at Humboldt St. 20. 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