__ Men's Swimming vs. Purdue Friday, 7:30 p.m. Matt Mann Pool SPORTS Women's Basketball vs. Ohio State Friday, 7:30 p.m. Crisler Arena The Michigan Daily Monday, January 11, 1988 Page 10 full court PRESS Higgins, Calip watch as Taylor takes over By ADAM SCHEFTER Three minutes and forty-one ,sconds into the first half of Saturday night's game, the horn sounded as the ball bounced out of bounds. I The player kneeling at the ,'orer's table suddenly erected humself from the floor and into the basketball game. It was his first chance to make a contribution in front of the home crowd. At that exact moment, two young men came strolling in from outside to sit down in a spot that will be all too familiar to them as the season ears on. Sean Higgins and Demetrius Calip took their seats just in time to see their replacement, Kirk Taylor, march onto the hardwood. H HEADS FROM all angles turned to look at Higgins and Calip , st like they did during the first tvelve games of the season. Except this time they weren't looking at players wearing the numbers 24 and 13. They were looking at individuals out of a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, ignominiously wearing a scarlet letter I'. I- as in ineligible. Sitting six rows up from the court that night was not a position he two players were used to, nor pne they appeared happy about. Even fitting on the bench during the start of the season was something out of 2he ordinary for them. : Higgins came to Ann Arbor this past fall as the glamorous star from Los Angeles. His offensive prowess 'quickly landed him playing time in a lineup as talented as any in the country. And he showed that he was worth every minute of it. DEMETRIUS Calip was not as highly acclaimed as his :counterpart. Yet the jitterbug guard still exhibited extraordinary speed, jumping ability, and a tremendous ,enthusiasm in the backup time he had received. Now, they both sat there, glumly watching Taylor take something that once belonged to them - playing time. While Higgins and Calip tried to orient themselves into their new environments, Taylor was not having as much of a problem getting used to his new surroundings. Going from someone who received little recognition to someone who was well recognized was a situation that, he had been familiar with. ATTENDING high school in Dayton, Ohio, Taylor was not one of those players being courted by - every school across the country. He wasn't one of those players that had superlatives showered on him in national recruiting reports. He wasn't even one of Bill Frieder's pen pals since way back in junior high school. But after he was named Ohio "3A Player-of-the-Year," leading his Dunbar Wolverine team to a 24-4 record and the state championship, and averaging 24 points, 10 rebounds, and five assists per game, he forced recruiters to take notice of his talents. And take notice they did. Assistant coach Mike Boyd was informed of a player who was tearing up the playoff tournament in the state of Ohio. A friend of his told him the best player in the tournament, "was a kid named Kirk Taylor." EVEN THOUGH Michigan had overlooked him throughout the course of his high school career, Frieder did not let this stop him. He immediately got on the case and inked Taylor's name on the dotted line. An unpublicized Wolverine at the high school level had now attained true Wolverine status in the collegiate ranks. This year a similar situation had been re-enacted. Little press, little attention and no playing time. On media day, all of the reporters gathered around the menagerie of standouts on the team. Taylor's presence was barely acknowledged except for the team photos. No one would have noticed if he was missing. When the season began, his See TAYLOR, Page 12 Doily Photo by JOHN MUNSON Sean Higgins (right) and Demetrius Calip (left) were spectators during Michigan's 103-71 victory over the Gophers Saturday night at Crisler Arena. 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