S dgu 89.Maddux does it again
Atlanta Braves pitcher Greg Maddux won an unprecedented fourth
r ,straight National League Cy Young Award yesterday. The 28-year-old
righthander led the majors in wins with a 19-2 mark and a 1.63 ERA. H
joins Steve Carlton as the only pitchers to win the award four times.
Cincinnati's Pete Schourek finished second, followed by Maddux's
teammate Tom Glavine and Los Angeles rookie Hideo Nomo.
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November 14, 1995
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t seems that Michigan had its man
all along.
Athletic Director Joe Roberson
made it official yesterday at
Schembechler Hall by naming Lloyd
Carr as the 17th head football coach
in Michigan history.
Carr had never
held a head
coaching job until
this season but
had15 years of
seasoning on the
Michigan sideline
as an assistant.
Ten of those years
were under Bo ANTOINE
Schembechler, PITTS
whom Carr called Pitts
a great influence. Stop
"When you
stand on the sideline with a guy like
that for 10 years, it prepares you,"'
Carr said.
Carr had to be a quick study in his
first season. He took over the team in
May after fifth-year coach Gary
Moeller departed. He went from
concentrating his efforts as the
defensive coordinator to being in
charge of the entire team.
He didn't have a spring practice to
get things going; his real feel for the
team didn't come until the Wolver-
ines opened practice in early August.
Michigan came into the season
with a lot of key returning players,
but the quarterback position was
filled by a guy with no experience in
Scott Dreisbach. When Dresibach
went down with an injury, Carr had to
turn to Brian Griese, another inexpe-
rienced quarterback.
The season couldn't have begun
any dreamier, though, for Carr and
the Wolverines. Dreisbach's touch-
down toss in the corner of the end
zone to Mercury Hayes as time
expired against Virginia completed
the largest come-from-behind victory
in Michigan history.
Roberson easily could have given
Car the job after that 18-17 victory
over the Cavaliers and nobody would
have complained. Instead, to his
credit, Roberson remained patient.
He watched closely over the next
few weeks, and finally after
Michigan's victory over Boston
College started to lean heavily toward
keeping Carr.
"It's been a gradual process since
then," Roberson said. "We bounced
back from a devastating loss to
Michigan State, and as hard as they
played Saturday was the clincher for
me."
Roberson looked for four qualities
in making a determination on this job.
He wanted a good communicator, a
good motivator, a person who cared
about his players as well as someone
who could win.
Carr has shown all of these traits in
his dealings with the players, fans and
even the media. The Wolverines got
off to their best start since 1986 and,
if not for a holding call against
Northwestern and a few inches on
fourth down against Michigan State,
would be a perfect 10-0.
Roberson said that there were 40-
50 applicants for the job, of which he
had narrowed the selection to around
five. He never spoke to any of these
finalists because the truth was he
already had the right man down on
the sideline.
This season Carr has done nothing
but back up each and every one of his
Michigan football
coach Uoyd Carr
had the "interim"
taken out of his
title yesterday
when Athletic
Director Joe
Roberson named
him to the
permanent
position.
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By Darren Everson
Daily Sports Editor
Jarrett Irons saw it coming. Joe Marinaro did, too. And
they weren't the only ones.
Most everyone associated with Michigan athletics ex-
pected Athletic Director Joe Roberson to make Lloyd Carr
the Wolverines' permanent head coach.
"I think that's why the team wasn't really worried,"
Michigan linebacker and co-captain Jarrett Irons said. "I
think it would've been devastating if he wasn't (named
Abov
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coach)."
The players' wishes were obvious. However, Roberson-
indicated that he most certainly did not hold the issue to a vote
among the Wolverines. Good move, says ex-Michigan assis
tant coach Jerry Hanlon.
"I think the opinion of the players is important," said
Hanlon, who does the analysis of Michigan football games on,
WJR radio. "But I don't think the threats of players (to leave
if Carr wasn't named coach) had anything to do with it."
So, since the right person apparently got the job - and'
since it was handled the right way - everyone seems pleased,
with the decision.
"All of us that know him are excited," Michigan basketball
coach Steve Fisher said, "first, for him - second, for Michi-
gan."
There's plenty of reason to be excited for Carr- as he put'
it, the head coaching job at Michigan is "the greatest job in.
sport."
As for Michigan, the excitement lies with the Wolverines,
themselves. They now know for certain that the coach they've
enjoyed and endured this year with will be their coach from
now on.
"I, for one, had a tear running down from my eye (wher.
Roberson named Carr the coach)," defensive lineman Will1
iam Carr said. "He's one of the main reasons I'm having suclt
a good year."
William Carr and the rest of the Wolverines might go on to
have a great year now that they need not worry about the head
coaching situation.
"It's good that it's out of the way," Michigan offesnive
lineman and co-captain Joe Marinaro said. "I had no doubt it
my mind that he was going to be the head coach. I knew th4
minute he was named interim coach because I knew we'4
have a great team (this year)."
But regardless of how the Wolverines perform this seasoni
conducting an exhaustive, off-season search might have been
the best thing for the future of the program.
"If you've got the right man for the job, then I don't think
you should go raise the hopes of somebody else (by inter
viewing other candidates)," said Hanlon. "I really feel Lloyd
had done an excellent job."
However, as pleased as Hanlon and some others are witl
Carr's appointment, there is the reality that some followert
of Michigan football might think that this is the wrong
move.
"... They have no idea what's gone on here (over) the last
year," Marinaro said. "Coach Carr came in and made most
everyone forget about what happened to (former coach Gary)
Moeller.
"I think we've played well this year, and anyone who
would doubt coach Carr is a fool."
as the Nov. 11- Michigan rebounds from its
eason. loss to Michigan State in East Lansing by ยข
in in his beating Purdue, 5-0. The Wolverines effort x
ack from a in the rain, snow, mud and cold impresses
r to beat Roberson. After the game Roberson and
ame on University President James J. Duderstadt
arterback tell Carr that he has been given the head x
ceiver coaching job permanently.
endzone. Nov. 13 - Roberson announces at a press
conference in Schembechler Hail that Carr
players 100 percent. Three days ago
after the Purdue game he sat in the
Crisler Arena press lounge and berated
a reporter for what he felt was unfair
criticism of Griese in an article.
The players have been equally
supportive of Carr during this time.
Weeks ago it was Griese who sat in
the same chair after a game and
declared his support for Carr. Griese
told everybody that he thought Carr
deserved the job and he would make
sure that Roberson knew how he felt.
Roberson received plenty of other
input about Carr from Michigan
players past and present. That made
this choice a no-brainer.
Although Roberson said it wasn't a
factor in his decision, junior line-
backer Jarrett Irons even said he
would forego his senior season of
eligibility at Michigan if Carr was not
the coach.
With yesterday's announcement,
Irons declared that he would indeed
return to Michigan next season.
"I wasn't going to come back,"
Irons said. "I graduate in May and I
wasn't going to come back."
You haven't heard many bad things
said about Carr. Of course, there are
those people out there that are upset
with losses to the Wildcats and the
Spartans, but Carr is not the first
Wolverine coach who has lost more
than one game in a season.
He did do one thing this season that a
Michigan coach hadn't done in three
years - win a homecoming game.
When Carr was first named as the
replacement for Moeller there were
plenty of
questions about
what he could
actually do for
the program.
Wasn't he the
coordinator of a
defense that
allowed oppo-
nents to gobble
up yardage and
points like it was
free money?
The Carr Chronology
May 4, 1995 - Michigan Athletic Director
Joe Roberson announces the resignation of
football coach Gary Moeller. Roberson names
defensive coordinator Lloyd Carr as the
interim coach.
May 16 - Former Michigan assistant and
current Washington Redskins quarterback's
coach Cam Cameron, Minnesota Viking
defensive coordinator Tony Dungy and former
Colorado coach Bill McCartney are reported
as candidates for the vacant Michigan job.
Roberson, however, appoints Carra
interim coach for the entire 1995 s
Aug. 26 --- Carr picks up his first w
first game. The Wolverines come b
17-point deficit in the fourth quarte
Virginia 18-17. The winning score c
the final play of the game when qua
Scott Dreisbach connected with re
Mercury Hayes in the corner of the
Oct. 7 - The Wolverines lose to
Northwestern, Carr's first loss as M
coach. Michigan turned the ball ov
times.
Aichigan's
er four
has been named the new Michigan football
coach. A contract has yet to be worked
out.
What was he
going to do when he was in charge of
the whole team?
I think he's pretty much answered
all the questions about what he can do
for Michigan.
In fact, Carr joked early on that the
best thing about him becoming head
coach is that the team would have a
new defensive coordinator.
Carr has allowed his assistants to
do their jobs, and they've done well.
Offensive coordinator Fred Jackson
and defensive coordinator Greg
Mattison have made great calls all
season long, and Carr has done
nothing but support them.
The only thing about this situation
is that you have to wonder about the
timing of this decision. Speculation
started in September, especially after
Michigan beat three ranked teams and
began the season 4-0, that Carr would
be given the job in November
somewhere in between the Michigan
State and Ohio State games.
A more logical choice would have
been to wait until after the Ohio State
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Was it done now to use as a
motivating tool for tough games
against Penn State and Ohio State?
Or was it done now before this year
turns into another four- or even five-
loss season? Then, there would have
been plenty of opposition from
outside forces.
Now that Carr has the job, those
naysayers will not be able to influ-
ence Roberson into doing something
he didn't want to do.
One thing to remember in this
whole thing is, yes, the head
coaching position is staying with
someone in the Michigan family,
but it is a coaching staff that has
accumulated 10 losses over the last
three years. There are still two more
tough games for the Wolverines to
go this year, so the chance for more
losing is there.
That is one tradition that Roberson
and the rest of the Michigan followers
surely want to end.
Roberson's man, Carr, is certainly
the man to get the job done.
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