The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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INSIDE MICHIGAN ATHLETICS BOB UFER QUARTERBACK CLUB HONORS NEW, VETERAN WOLVERINES The 67th Bob Ufer Quarterback Club banquet at Barton Hills Country Club May 5 featured a bit of everything. Brady Hoke sized up his football team, John Beilein marveled over the support he's received and fifth-year senior men's basketball player Jordan Morgan again shed tears over all Michigan has meant to him. The hundreds in attendance witnessed a seven-time national champion gymnast in Sam Mikulak exult over his just completed years in Ann Arbor. They roared when iconic assistant football coach Jerr y Hanlon needled new U-M radio play-by-play man Jim Brandstatter, calling him positive proof of Hanlon's coaching greatness. As always, the highest focus remained on Michigan and its athletes, along with the fundraising efforts of the club initiated by former U-M broadcaster Bob Ufer. The club has endowed a $250,000 football scholarship in Ufer's name, given $100,000 to the Stephen M. Ross Academic Center, and more than $600,000 in scholarship funds to local high school students attending the University of Michigan. This year, the club presented Senior Athlete honors to football's Jeremy Gallon; field hockey's Rachael Mack; swimmer Connor Jaeger; and Mikulak and Morgan. Spirit Awards went to football's Michael Schofield and field hockey's Kim Sheaffer. Hanlon earned the club's Oosterbaan Award, given to those "who have demonstrated extraordinar y achievement at Michigan as well as after graduation." Hanlon didn't graduate from Michigan, but has served in Ann Arbor far longer than most who did, coming in 1969 with Bo Schembechler to help craft U-M's modern football dominance. Charlie Green, longtime clubhouse manager at the University of Michi- gan Golf Course and a fixture on the game crews at Michigan Stadium and Crisler Center, was also honored. He received the Yellow Jacket Award, for service to the club and to Michigan. Beilein might have best captured the spirit of the evening, recalling how he'd been received in Ann Arbor, almost from the very beginning. In his introduction of Morgan, he said: "When I came here to speak, after a very disappointing season, one that ended on an Evan Turner half-court shot, I came to this event with my tail between my legs, head down, think- ing, 'Where do we go from here?' I still remember coming up and being SAM MIKULAK