Page 16S - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 28, 1984 v W. W'' W, The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, N .Collect them all MICHIGAN MICHIGAN Major: Cellular and molecular biology Favorite movie: All That Jazz Favorite NBA team: Detroit Pistons Favorite restaurant (besides training table): Mountain Jack's Favorite class: Organic chemistry Favorite TV show: None Favorite Ann Arbor hangout: Charlie's Listens to: Country, Pop Best player ever faced: Jim Thomas (Indiana, 1979-83) Favorite Big Ten road city: Minneapolis Hobbies: Reading, golfing, running Favorite cereal: Frosted Flakes Major: C Favorite Favorite Favorite Red Lobs Favorite Favorite Favorite Union Listens tc Best play Favorite Hobbies: Favorite Roy Tarpley Center Gerard Rudy Forward 1 ~~h I-I. MICHIGAN MICHIGAN Junior Rich Rellford (left) and freshman Gary convince them to attend Michigan. Daily Photo by DAN HABIB Grant were first-team high school All Americans. Frieder out-recruited dozens of college coaches to Wanted: High school stars Major: Education Favorite movie: A Soldier's Story Favorite NBA Team: Philadelphia 76ers Favorite restaurant (besides training table): Real Seafood Co. Favorite class: Theater Favorite TV show: None Favorite Ann Arbor hangout: Home Listens to: Soul, rock Best player ever faced: Tony Campbell Favorite Big Ten road city: Minneapolis Hobbies: Swimming, fishing Favorite cereal: Frosted Flakes Major: med) Favorite Favorite Favorite T.G.I.F. Favorite Favorite' Favorite lce Crean Listens to Best play Favorite Hobbies: Favorite Rv.IOF. F.WING "'-" This year's college basketball season has just started but Bill Frieder and his Michigan staff have already begun to lay the groundwork for Wolverine squads of next year and beyond. There's nothing easy about recruiting. You've got other teams to contend with, a long list of NCAA guidelines and players' individual per- sonalities. All these things add up to make the task one of the toughest in college basketball. "WE WORK hard and just work year round at recruiting," said Frieder. "We work our tails off." And all the hard work has already hegn to nay dividends for the fifth- 'M'recruiting known for honesty, success year head coach, as three high school seniors had made commitments for next year before the November 14 early signing date. The Wolverines had an extensive shopping list of their future needs going into the recruiting season, headed by the need for some big men and a pair of guards. "WE NEED to get some size," ex- plained Frieder. "What happened with our 7-20 season (the 1981-82 campaign) was we got cut short because we had a couple of injuries and we just didn't have size. This is a crucial, crucial year for us to get size. We're recruiting six to eight players and hope to get a couple of other big guys." Assistant coach Mike Boyd, who does a lot of traveling for the recruiting program, agreed with his boss. "We definitely needed to add more size," said Boyd. "Richard Rellford will be a senior next year, Robert Henderson will be a senior next year, Butch Wade will be a senior next year and Roy Tar- pley will be a senior next year. Definitely, we have to bring in three or four big kids this year so they'll be ready when these kids graduate. So ob- viously, our first priority is size, then speed and quickness in the backcourt." Frieder and Boyd took definite steps toward filling the big man portion of their list when they got verbal agreements from J.P. Oosterbaan in October and Loy Vaught in early November. Oosterbaan, a 6-10, 230- pound forward/center, averaged 17 points and 12 rebounds per game last year as a junior while leading Kalamazoo Christian High School to the finals of the state Class C playoffs. Ac- cording to Boyd, he is similar to former Wolverine star Tim McCormick when McCormick was in high school. VAUGHT, a 6-9, 210-pound forward from East Kentwood, poured in 24 poin- ts and grabbed 12 rebounds per game during his junior campaign. This year, he was an honorable mention pre- season high school All-America pick by Street and Smith's. Michigan also got some of its shop- ping for guards done in the pre-season when it got a commitment in late Oc- tober from Billy Butts out of Muncie (Ind.) Northside High School. The 6-2 Butts, also a Street and Smith honorable mention All-American, averaged 13 points and five rebounds a game last season. While Frieder and company are off to a good start in recruiting, they still realize that they have a ways to go yet. "WE STILL need a guard, a center and a swingman," said Frieder. But the Saginaw native shouldn't have much to worry about. In his five years at the helm, Michigan has established itself as one of the top recruiting schools in the nation. Each year it has brought in people like Mc- Cormick, Eric Turner, Rellford, Wade, Henderson, Tarpley, Antoine Joubert and most recently, freshmen Steve Stoyko and Gary Grant. The way the Wolverines go about lan- ding such players is through an honest, up-front approach that is different than that used by many other schools. BUTTS' high school coach, Wayne Allen was impressed with the way Frieder and his staff acted. "Everything was right up front," he claimed. "There was nothing going on behind the scenes. They were honest with us and we were honest with them." In fact, honesty seems to be the main crux of Michigan recruiting. While there are dozens of NCAA rules and guidelines regarding everything from how many bumper stickers you can send a recruit, right up to which days you can contact him, Michigan has never been charged with a recruiting violation. "With any type of violation like that with our boss Don Canham, we'd get fired," said Boyd. "We don't need to do those things to get good players. We've got good players now and we've gotten good players in the past, so why should we start now?" THERE was one incident involving Grant last year in which Grant's high See RECRUITING, Page 19 Steve Stoyko Forward I -I I I MICHIGAN MICHIGAN Major: Mechanical engineering Favorite movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark Favorite NBA team: Los Angeles Lakers * Favorite restaurant (besides training table): The Broadmore (Colorado Springs) Favorite class: Dynamics of mechanical systems Favorite TV show: MASH Favorite Ann Arbor hangout: Dooley's Listens to: Soft rock, country, gospel Best player ever faced: (Michigan freshman) Sarah Basford Favorite Big Ten road city: Evanston Hobbies: Water and snow skiing, tennis, movies, traveling Favorite cereal: Honey Combs Major: E Favorite Boston Cc Favorite Gandy De Favorite thropolog Favorite'! 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