Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Sports Monday - March 19, 1990 Michigan Sports Calendar A compilation of Michigan sporting events and information for the coming week. Monday, March 19 No events scheduled Tuesday, March 20 No events scheduled Wednesday, Marchd21 Men's Tennis vs. Western Michigan, 2:00 p.m Thursday, March 22 Wrestling in the NCAA Championships at College Park, Md. Men's Swimming in the NCAA Championships at Indianapolis Friday, March 23 Men's Swimming in the NCAA Championships at Indianapolis Women's gymnastics in the Big Ten Championship at Varsity Arena. Wrestling in the NCAA Championships at College Park, Md. Women's Tennis at Rollins, 2:30 p.m Saturday, March 24 Men's Swimming in the NCAA Championships at Indianapolis Wrestling in the NCAA Championships at College Park, Md Women's Gymnastics in the Big Ten Championship at Varsity Arena. Women's Tennis at South Florida, 2:00 p.m Women's Track at Washington University Baseball at Ball State Sunday, March 25 Baseball at Ball State IM Fraternity Top 20 Here's a. look at total points after the foul shooting event Fraternity (Letters) Points Previous 1. Sigma Phi Epsilon (AE) 841.3 1 2. Delta Tau Delta (ATA) 832.6 2 3. Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEIl) 788.2 3 4. Alpha Delta Phi (A0A() 750.5 4 5. Evans Scholars 724.7 7 :6. Alpha Tau Omega (ATO) 721.5 5 7. Sigma Alpha Mu (EAM) 720 6 8. Sigma Nu (EN) 714.8 8 :9. Beta Theta Pi (BOI) 669.8 10 10. Phi Gamma Delta (DWA) 642.6 11 11. Delta Sigma Phi (A() 616.8 12 12. Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) 593.7 9 13. Phi Delta Theta (FAO) 555.7 13 14. Phi Kappa Psi (IKP) 552.4 16 15. Chi Phi (X(D) 544 15 16. Kappa Sigma (Ks) 508.2 17 17. Sigma Alpha Epsilon (RAE) 506 14 18. Pi Kappa Phi (IK) 479.8 18 19. Triangle 434 19 20. Phi Kappa Tau (IKT) 418.5 20 Sports Monday Senior E ditors Steven Cohen Eric Lemont Night Editor Matt Rennie Assistant Night Editors John Niyo Al Lin Photo Editor Jose Juarez Answer to Sports Monday Trivia Philadelphia, 1980 Cq'&,4: 4'air & $CSa'6azzk, r 'e4ll Russell Atlanta Hawks assistant and former Michigan standout talks of the art of coaching and the NBA Cazzie Russell played basketball for Michigan in 1964-66. During that time, Russell led the Wol- verines to three Big Ten cham- pionships. He currently ranks fourth on the Michigan career scoring list. Today, he is an assistant coach for the Atlanta Hawks. Daily Sports Writer Matt Rennie spoke with Russell recently about his life in basketball. Daily: Did you always know you wanted to stay in basketball? Russell: No, not particularly. I really never thought I would coach. It started in the CBA. People were saying, "You should coach. You work with people." My forte is teaching. I enjoy teaching the game because I understand what the game is all about. So I went to the CBA, and the first year was successful in terms of winning the championship and being named Coach of the Year. That was encouraging because I understood what it takes to motivate players and what players need to work on. If you play the game in college, high school and for 13 years in the pros and then coach for six, you got to have a pretty good knowledge of what's going on. If you don't, you've been asleep. I never really set out to say my goal is to get into the NBA as a coach. But when I started coaching in the CBA and began to work with players, I felt that I could motivate and give something back to the game.The Lord has placed me in a pretty good position here. D: Do you have ambitions to be a head coach in the NBA someday? R: Well, I don't know how to really answer that. I think as an assistant, yes, you'd like to go to the top. You've reached the pinnacle of success, that is, when you get to the NBA, you can't go any further than that. We all like to think that we become astute enough to warrant going to the top, but it's not like I'm biting my nails. If that happens, if God willing, I'll get there. D: When Bill Frieder left Mich- igan last year to take the Arizona State job, your name was mentioned by the media as a candidate for the job. Would you like to return to Michigan someday? R: Yeah, as a matter of fact, that thought had crossed my mind and then as I watched Fish win the national championship, I said to myself, "They got to keep this guy because he's come in under a lot of adversity and done a good job." I don't know if Michigan would extend itself that far, but maybe in time we'll see. A lot of questions come up, whether or not Michigan would be willing to accept a Black coach. I don't know, a lot of people have tossed that at me. I have not gone into details on that. What are top universities looking for? Are they looking for a guy who can teach and motivate kids and make young men, make more than just basketball players? Or are they looking for a guy who can just recruit guys and bring them in? You got to make up your mind what you want to do. One of the things that I heard was that I couldn't recruit. What are you talking about I can't recruit? I know people in all areas of the United States and ballplayers. The fact that I played the game I'm sure, if the kids don't remember, maybe their parent might remember. I'm not saying that's a prerequisite for getting a kid, whether or not they remember me. That's not my thing. My thing is to sell my institution to the ballplayer, that we can give you a good, solid education and plus, I can get you ready. I can get you ready for the pros. If I can use that to motivate a kid, that's fine. What has to happen is that a kid has to feel like he's going to be the difference between recruiting a player and recruiting a coach? Race shouldn't come in. How about abilities? How about whether or not a guy can do the job? You're not going to say that's why you picked the guy, because he's white or Black, at least I hope you're not. You're going to base it on what the guy's record is or what you think potentially he can bring to your program. D: Do you think to be a success- ful coach you need to have played the game? R: I think you look at your great 1 areas. We feel very blessed that the NBA is being run pretty good from the top, and we don't have to worry about those things. D: Do you think the NBA's drug~ policy is effective? R: I think it's to protect the players. I think it's rookies wheire they have random testing I think it's only fair because drugs is the enemy trying to kill these ball players. That's all drugs will do.@ Drugs will destroy your body. If you ask anybody who knows anything about the word of God, they'll tell you the same thinig. Jesus tells you that in John 10:10, that the enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy. People have got to understand it's not God bringing drugs and AIDS and all that stuff on people. We've got to get out of that.* That s not God. He said, "I'll come that you might have life and have it more abundantly." If He said that, why would He turn around and bring sickness and disease? That doesn't make any sense. Your body is holy temple. It's something that God has given you and the devil is just trying to get you to destroy it. Anything that takes control of you is bad.'People, think they can take drugs and get off of it- no, no, my friend. Random testing is good. I think you have to do that in order to save the sport because you got to put some fear in these guys. Something has to be done. Guys say, "Why do 'What are top universities looking for? Are they looking for a guy who can teaCh and motivate kids and make young men, make more than just basketball players? Or are they looking for a guy who can just recruit guys and bring them in? You got to make up *, your mind what you a h i want to do'at. - Cazzie Russell you invade my privacy?" No, you lost your privacy when you started missing practices and missing planes. We can't have that. They got to make sure they stay tough on it. D: What does the future hold for: Cazzie Russell? R: I'm going to put that trust in the Lord, wherever He places me because the Lord says He will give you the desire of your heart. I do thet chapel here and I teach a Bible study,, so if I sound like I love the Lord; - do. It's not a feeling of just sitting here worrying because I don't have. to do that. Now if I decide to maybe be ai NBA coach or maybe go to college.- I don't really know whether I want to pursue the professional or go oE college, but I know I like boll positions. I enjoy teaching them game. We'll just wait on the Lora, and see where He places me. a good player. So you go and get kids that you think can play in your program. That's how you handle that. Listen, there's no mystery out there what you have to do to win in college. I've been around long enough to know that I know the game. I know what to teach. If your inside game is tough, people are going to play a zone. Now you go get yourself some outside shooters. It's a chess game, that's what coaching is. You always want to stay one move ahead of everybody. Plus, you want to know what your team can do, its strengths and its weaknesses. Then, you try to work on the weaknesses and eliminate them. You work on your strong points, and you have a game plan and an alternate. D: You mentioned race as a factor when it came to getting the Michigan job. Do you think that's an obstacle for Black coaches in today's game? R: I would hope not, but I'm sure a lot of people are small-minded enough to think about that. What's coaches, like Johnny Wooden, he played. That gives you an inside on how to handle players, how to motivate. You got to find out what makes players click. You go to baby some players. You have to do what ever you can do to keep the spirit good, to keep the guys with a winning attitude. Make the game fun. Enjoy the game, but yet work hard. D: What do you think of some of the current Michigan players' chances in the pros? R: I can't venture to say. I've seen them a couple of time on the tube, but not enough to say, "Vaught is going to go because of this or Rumeal because he does this." I would have to scout them four or five times in order to be fair in my assessment. D: Why hasn't the NBA suffered from the same problems that currently afflict major league baseball? R: I think basketball has learned from other professional sports as to what it can do. Both sides have learned to give and take in certain t Women gymnasts lose balance on beam, finish third at Michigan State by Sarah Osburn Daily Sports Writer Central Michigan was second at meet. "We're scoring almost 182 2 After her team's loss to MSU and CMU, one could easily get the impression that Michigan's wo- men's gymnastics coach Beverly Fry was not happy. "We gave the meet away, we absolutely gave it away on the balance beam," said Fry after the team's third place finish at the Michigan State invitational on Friday. For the second meet in a row the balance beam was the gymnasts' 183.3 and Michigan was third with 181.6. Michigan defeated Central earlier this season by over two points. The difference for Michigan in the first meet was a strong exhibition on the balance beam. The Wolverines started out the meet solidly with a "six for six" performance on the vault. All six of the vaulters pulled scores of 9.0 or better for a total of 46.2. The unevenbanrs also went points counting 5 beam falls." She plans on trying several different training techniques to help conquer the teams balance beam problems. "We are having an intersquad meet on Wednesday, we have a real judge come in and score the girls so it will be like a real meet,"explained Fry. "We are also just going to do more numbers, (multiple beam routines in practice)." - . .. ..