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White dismissed from basketball team, leaves 'U'
By John Leroi
Daily Sports Editor
Michigan sophomore forward Albert
White has been dismissed from the team per-
manently, Michigan coach Steve Fisher said
in a prepared announcement on Friday.
White. already suspended for the semester,
1 'lected to withdraw from school accord-
ing to Fisher and White's teammates.
White had been suspended three weeks ago
by Fisher for violating an undisclosed team
rule. Fisher had planned to re-evaluate
White's status at the end of the semester, but
Fisher decided White wasn't holding his end
of the bargain.
"This has been a difficult decision," Fisher
said. "It had been my hope that our efforts on
Albert's behalf would result in his making the
same commitment to the program.
"It is now clear that Albert has failed to
make such a commitment, and my obligation
to the team, the Michigan basketball program
and the University of Michigan demands this
action on my part."
White's only comment was: "I don't really
want to talk about it right now."
University Athletic Director Joe Roberson
told The Ann Arbor News that the rules White
broke to earn the suspension were continuing
to be violated.
While no one would disclose why White
was suspended in the first place, sources say
White has missed some classes, a statement
that his mother, Lynda Donald, confirmed.
"I know he missed some classes," Donald
said. "This was the right decision for Albert to
make."
While Donald also said White was staying
with cousins in Detroit to avoid the media,
White's teammates say he's staying with
friends in Ypsilanti for the same reason.
White never moved into his residence hall,
living instead with center Robert Traylor and
guard Brandun Hughes in an off-campus
apartment until this weekend teammates said.
White will have to sit out a year if he choos-
es to transfer to another Division I program.
He could, however, play immediately at a
Division III school.
His departure leaves the Wolverines with
just a seven-man rotation until freshman cen-
ter Peter Vignier is ready to play at the college
level. Walk-ons Ron Oliver and Ryan
DeKuiper may see more playing time than
originally expected.
With junior Willie Mitchell having trans-
ferred to Alabama-Birmingham over the sum-
mer, that leaves junior Jerod Ward as
Michigan's only small forward.
White, a 6-foot-6, 230-pound swingman.
improved dramatically during his freshman
year. He averaged nine points and five
rebounds a game but brought those numbers
up to 13 points and seven rebounds at the end
of the Big Ten season.
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By Ryan White
WEST LA-AYETTE - It would
take Sigmund Freud years to figure out
why Michigan's Rose Bowl dream
became a nightmare Saturday.
The short version of the explanation,
however, would probably go like this:
the ninth-ranked Wolverines turned the
ball over five times and lost to Purdue,
9-3, in front of 40,624 at Ross-Ade
Stadium.
The loss was Michigan's first to the
Boilermakers since 1984, and it effec-
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"We had our destiny in our hands,
and we gave it up," a solemn Charles
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it up.
With last week's victory over
Michigan State, and Northwestern's
loss to Penn State, Michigan could have
earned a trip to Pasadena with victories
over Purdue, Penn State and Ohio
State.
In terms of the Rose Bowl, none of
that matters anymore.
Aside from the five turnovers,
Michigan gained just 56 yards on the
ground and was completely ineffective
on offense all afternoon.
Purdue's defense entered the game
ranked 10th in the conference in total
defense, but for most of the day, it had
Michigan quarterback Scott Dreisbach
on the run and on the turf.
Dreisbach was sacked only twice but
was rushed on nearly every passing
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ST LAFAYETTE - Sometimes
there are no answers. Sometimes
there are only questions.
Take, for instance, Michigan's game at
Purdue on Saturday. Entering the game, the
ninth-ranked Wolverines were a two-touch-
down favorite over a team that hadn't beaten a
top-10 team since 1984.
So what do the Wolverines do? They go out
and lose, 9-3, to one of the Big Ten's perenni-
al cellar-dwellers. Who is to blame for the
nlx _,rinec' wrct nerformance of the season?
How could they play so poorly when so much
was at stake?
The questions go on and on. And they have
no end in sight.
"It's a very disappointing loss, because the
Big Ten championship for us is out the win-
dow," Michigan coach Lloyd Carr said.
Michigan turned in easily its worst offen-
sive performance of the season against the
second-worst defense in the Big Ten. The
Boilermakers, ninth in the conference in pass-
in efficiencv defense. completely befuddled
quarterback Scott Dreisbach and the
Michigan passing attack.
Dreisbach threw two interceptions, fumbled
once, and was sacked twice. He appeared to
fumble on a couple of other occasions, but the
officials generously ruled the plays incom-
plete passes.
In short, the Boilermakers blitzed all after-
noon, and Dreisbach had no idea how to
react. Instead of calling audibles at the line of
scrimmage, he would usually stick with the
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