Men's Gymnastics vs. Western Michigan Friday, 7:00 p.m. Crisler Arena SPORTS Hockey Michigan Oldtimers Game Saturday, 5:45 p.m. Yost Ice Arena The Michigan Daily 'M' ROUSES IN-STATE TALENT: Bo bags a bundle Thursday, February 13, 1986 Page 9 Cagers set to battle 'Iron Five' I in foot bal By PHIL NUSSEL Michigan finished up recruiting its batch of high school football stars last night and, as usual, the Wolverines got a good share of highly-touted prospects. A total of 24 standouts signed national letters of intent to attend Michigan yesterday according to recruiting coordinator Fritz Seyferth. Head coach Bo Schem- bechler was unavailable for com- ment. UNLIKE PREVIOUS years, Michigan recruited heavily in the state nabbing six players from The Detroit News Blue Chip list. All told, 10 players signed from Michigan. Offense took top priority with 15 signees - eight were running backs. According to sportswriter Gary Levy at The Sporting News, three of these running backs were ranked among the top 125 prep football players in the country. One of them, David Key of Columbus, was stolen from Ohio State. Key rushed for 4109 yards and 51 touchdowns at tailback in less than three full seasons for Columbus Hartley high school. "(Michigan) is getting a pretty good football player," said Hartley head coach Dick Geyer, who is entering his 22nd year of prep coaching. "He was able to be a power runner in- side and a quick runner on the out- side." "IT WAS A combination of the athletics and academics and also because of coach Bo," Key said. "When everything is clear and right in front of you like it was, it was not a hard decision." Michigan also inked two highly- regarded tailbacks out of southeast Michigan. Tony Boles of Westland John Glenn and Allen Jefferson of,. Warren De La Salle were in The News' top five. Both players also made The Sporting News' top 125. Another tailback, Tracy Williams of Sarasota, Fla., picked the Wolverines over Florida State yesterday. With the departure of Eric Kat- tus and Paul Schmerge, Schem- bechler was obviously looking for new blood at tight end and he got it in 6-8 Tom Dohring of Dearborn, Divine Child and 6-5 Trey Walker of Bradenton, Fla. lrecruits DOHRING WAS also known as a pass rusher, but his coach, Wes Wishart, sees his product playing tight end. "I just think they're going to try him out at tight end," Wishart said. "He's got the ability to block and run and catch the ball." T.J. Osmun, the third tight end inked yesterday, will probably not see action at that position since he is known as one of the top defensive lineman in the country. The Pit- tsburgh native (6-4, 250-pounds) was another Sporting News top 125 pick. Other Wolverine defensive recruits included a pair of tall, quick outside linebackers. Scott Smykowski (6-4, 212 pounds) and Tim Williams (6-4, 228-pounds) both run the 40-yard dash in 4.7 seconds. WILLIAMS, a 3.4 GPA student at Marquette high school in Milwaukee, Wisc., came to Michigan because of its defensive tradition. He turned down offers from UCLA, Wisconsin, Min- nesota, and Notre Dame. "There's lots of money at UCLA," he said. "Being an athlete gets you singled out. I didn't like being such a hot item. I'd rather just blend in." "He's a first class student and first class kid," said Marquette coach, Dick Basham. "He was recruited as an outside linebacker and that's where he wants to play." Williams added that he is building up his strength right now "so that I can make the team freshman year without having to get red-shirted." Smykowski was a defensive end for Birmingham Seaholm's 10-1 team in '85 and is regarded as a very intense player. "He fits in well with the type of program (Michigan) has," Seaholm coach Rick Bye said. Michigan State was the only other school to recruit Smykowski. Schembechler won a battle of sorts over Notre Dame's Lou Holtz by signing Trenton's 6-3, 215- pound inside linebacker, John Milligan. "I just felt that Michigan had so much to offer me academically," he said. According to Trenton coach Don Warner, Milligan has 4.7-speed and can gain 15 more pounds. By TOM KEANEY Talk about beating the odds, you're talking about the Minnesota Gophers. This is the team that had to forfeit the entire 1976-77 season for carrying an illegal player; the same team that has been ridden with legal problems ranging from theft to alleged sexual assault since last season. BUT JUST three weeks ago, hardly two weeks after Mitchell Lee had been cleared of last year's sexual assault charges, with Minnesota coming off of victories over Michigan and Michigan State, came the horrible coup de grace. Three Gophers including the previously accused Lee were arrested on various charges of sexual assault against a female in a Madison, Wisc. hotel room after a victory over Wisconsin. The effects were devastating for Minnesota players, coaches and fans. GOPHER HEAD coach of 10 years, Jim Dutcher, assumed the respon- sibility for the failure of the basket- ball program and retired on January 24. The following week Minnesota ejec- ted starting guard Todd Alexander and. Terence Woods for unstated disciplinary reasons. Needless to say, new Minnesota head coach Jimmy Williams had an awesome task for someone who had never held a head coaching job before. The Gophers had just lost their head coach, five players, and any respect that remained among the team's supporters, the rest of the league, and the rest of the nation. TO FINISH the season seemed a difficult project. To expect to win games seemed ludicrous. Yet in an admirable show of pride and tenacity, the Golden Gophers beat Ohio State in their very next game, 70- 65, before an enthused sold-out audience in Williams Arena. None of Minnesota's five starters, now known in Minnesota as the "Iron Five," played fewer than 39 minutes, mostly because the holes on the bench had been filled with football players and walk-ons. It didn't seem to matter, however. Instead of discouraging the team, the adversity seems to have motivated it to play at its best. LAST SUNDAY against Iowa, the Gophers again performed the un- believable, defeating the Hawkeyes, 65-60. Minnesota, a team not expected to do very well even with its full preseason roster, boasts a healthy 5-5 record in the Big Ten, 2-2 since the advent of the Iron Five under head coach Williams. As difficult as this season has been for Williams, however, Tuesday it became even more difficult. The 15- year Gopher assistant's mother died on that day and Williams will not be at Crisler Arena for tonight's game against Michigan. FILLING in for Williams will be assistant coach Phil Saunders. A 1977 graduate of Minnesota, Saunders is no stranger to the rocky past that has plagued Minnesota basketball. "The big thing for us is restoring confidence (in the program)," said Saunders. "With that, hopefully come the victories. "The pressure has been un- believable. We're in a looking-glass situation here with everyone won- dering how we're going to react." HOW HAVE the Gophers respon- ded? So far, so good. "We've turned a negative into a positive," said Saunders. "Any time you go through something like this you become stronger as a family. We're much more of a detail- conscious team now because for us to win, we have to be our best." Michigan head coach Bill Frieder, as with all opponents, is not taking the Gophers lightly. He'll be looking sim- ply to wear out the Gophers who can look for little help from their bench. "We've got to be aggressive on their..,,, guards and try to force them into an,.,, up tempo game," said Frieder. "They're going to get tired. The two games that they've won (since the in-,p cident) are situations where their opponent hasn't made them go to their , bench." ..., , I rq frĀ° a SPRING BREAK CAN BE. A PAIN Michigan Recruits .............. COUPON ......@....@. O"M" with this entire ad $1.00 off adult eve. allfeatures thru 2*/2086 except .0 0Tues., Seniors and Late Shows. If you're headed to Florida, you know what we mean! But, there is no need to get sunburned this year! Our WOLFF UVA SUNBED SYSTEM will give you a beautiful base tan. Available in two terrific "Spring Break Specials" for a limited time.only. Recruits TB Tony Boles (6-2,196) FB-LB Jarrod Bunch (6-2, 205) WR Chris Calloway (5-11, 175) OL Doug Daugherty (64%, 245) DE-TE Tom Dohring (6-8, 235) LB Curtis Feaster2(6-3, 230) DB Chris Horn (6-2, 195) TB Allen Jefferson (6-2, 210) OG Mike Kerr (6-5, 258) TB David Key (5-11, 195) T Warde Manuel (6-6, 260) WR Greg McMurtry (6-3,210) LB-FB John Milligan (6-3. 215) FS Vada Murray (6-4, 190) DL-TE T.J. Osman (6-31/2, 250) C Marc Ramirez (6-21/, 265) TB Huemartin Robinson (6-1, 180) OLB Scott Smykowski (6-4, 212) ILB Marc Spencer (6-5 , 235) FB-DE Mike Teeter (6-4, 235) OG Jeff Tubo (6-4 , 270) TE Trey Walker (6-5, 218) OLB Tim Williams (6-4, 228) TB Tracy Williams (NA) Hometown Westland John Glenn Ashtabula, Oh. Chicago Mt. Carmel Rochester Adams Dearborn Divine Child Flint Northern Huntsville, Ala. Warren De La Salle College of DuPage (Ill.) Columbus, Oh. New Orleans Brother Martin Brockton, Mass. Trenton Cincinnati Moeller Pittsburgh North Hills Prairie View. Ill. 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