Mel Pearson/Hockey season postmortem
Obligatory thread. Here are my candidates for the next man behind the bench-
- Mel Pearson
- Mike Babcock*
- Rick Bennett (Union)
*Hackett got Harbaugh. I know there are some people on here who said the rumors were true. And he did have that random outburst of "yeah I'll be on the bench at Michigan working for Red Berenson" during a presser. That struck me is very strange since it was out of nowhere.
reflections on season: son of a bitch! When did it all go wrong? The weekend at Minnesota? The loss at OSU or the debacle at PSU?
Literally every facet of Michigan's program is better than Tech's except for there's less pressure in Houghton
but I'd be willing to bet he loves Ann Arbor as much or more than Houghton. He spent most of the last 30 years in Ann Arbor working under Red when he clearly could've been a HC elsewhere. Do we really think 2011 was the first time Tech was like "Heyyyyy...what about that Pearson guy? Maybe we should ask him about coaching up here"
Plus, he must see the disadvantages he has up there. Much harder to recruit to, smaller budgets, etc. Sure, he's developed his talent, but there will always be a ceiling to the type of players he can recruit to Houghton in this day and age.
Really? Better? What's Michigan's rank versus Tech's right now? How about where is Michigan playing next week?
Face it, Michigan hockey right now is where football was at post-Carr.
Program. Not season.
Michigan Tech has numerous institutional disadvantages to Michigan that they will never overcome
No fucking NCAA's for THREE years. Are you fucking kidding me?!!?
March 22nd, 2015 at 11:43 AM ^
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We, in all likelihood, have 13 more months of Red. And that's fine with me. I'm going to savor every last moment of it. We're not wretched. We've completely underachieved, absolutely. But we were close to the tourney,. And anything can happen there.
I like our team setup next year. We are probably gonna take a small step back on offense losing Hyman and Lynch. But a solid leap forward on the blue line and I think Racine is really locking down the goalie position. Now a Michigan Hockey Summer could ruin it all, but I'm hoping that no one leaves early. One I'm worried about is Werenski.
I doubt anybody can name a program that has been savaged more by high-profile recruit defections and early departures than Michigan has been over the last decade or so. If all the guys who left after one or two seasons or committed but then backed out had played at least through their junior seasons, Red would have at least three more Frozen Four appearances and very likely another title.
The "the program is ravaged by departues" excuse isn't relevant anymore as Michigan is missing no one but is even worse than when we were bleeding people. This is a recruiting and/or coaching issue, not a defection issue
I'd be interested to see what your response is to Brian's post here:
Red Berenson has two years left on his contract and says this will be his last one. Speculation about his replacement has been rife. Veritably so. Folks around the program have been chattering about Red Wings coach Mike Babcock taking over for a few years now, primarily Michael Spath at the Wolverine but also from guys at the Daily:@MichiganHockey @YostBuilt @cdbarker FWIW, in 09 I heard from multi. ppl. closely tied to Red when I covered UM that MB would be successor.
— Mark J. Burns (@markjburns88) April 29, 2014
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