Great Michigan Daily article on Red Berenson
I came across this article and thought it was awesome:
http://michigandaily.com/content/man-who-built-michigan-hockey-red-bere…
Hope you're having a great Monday!
April 12th, 2010 at 10:49 AM ^
Thanks for sharing!
Red is one of those guys you just have to root for. He is truly a Michigan Man by anyone's definition.
My Monday is better now.
April 12th, 2010 at 11:29 AM ^
I just finished reading it, and came here to see if anyone had posted it. Every Michigan fan should read this, even ones who don't closely follow the hockey team. The question of "what makes a Michigan Man" has been asked plenty of times on this board and elsewhere. Now we know the answer.
April 12th, 2010 at 11:33 AM ^
Exemplary. I've been going to Michigan hockey games since the fall of 1998, when I was 12 years old. I had season tickets all four years as an undergrad. I've fallen in love with the team, the history, and Yost, largely due in part to Red Berenson. I really hope I get to meet him someday.
This article stands as a tribute to what Michigan Hockey means to me.
you get to meet him too. He talked to me and some friends, once. Something he didn't have to do, something we didn't expect him to do, but he did. It was all of 3 sentences, nothing particularly important, or groundbreaking or that would seem memorable, not even something that I can draw inspiration from. But I still remember every word. He's just that kind of presence, that kind of a person.
is like Freebird for everyone else. he's not exactly outspoken.
that analogy so didn't work. but i mean, c'mon. it's Freebird.
April 12th, 2010 at 11:41 AM ^
Brought tears to my eyes. What a great article. Thanks for the link and the OP.
One aside . . . this is why there will always be a place, to some degree, for the MSM. Brian writes very well, but one person can't do everything. I loved getting insight in Berenson, and this article went far beyond hockey at UofM.
April 12th, 2010 at 11:42 AM ^
...great article. The Daily's sports feature writing has been very good over the last year or so. Very impressed.
April 12th, 2010 at 12:01 PM ^
On a related note, 3 time Rose Bowler Marc Milia also became a surgeon: http://www.miortho.com/drmilia.htm
April 12th, 2010 at 12:25 PM ^
Is MS Paint really catching on? Someone from the Daily staff has some serious skills. Looks like maybe these two are responsible for the picture. Ariel Bond and Allison Ghaman/Daily
April 12th, 2010 at 12:27 PM ^
is most definitely not MS Paint
April 12th, 2010 at 12:30 PM ^
The new guy that has been posting pics has put up a couple that make me think it is possible.
April 12th, 2010 at 12:35 PM ^
don't be hard on yourself. that picture looks to be used in an Illustrator bc of vectors it's using. i may have totally improperly used that word and i don't care. also there appears to be a filter or two being used.
April 12th, 2010 at 12:29 PM ^
also, you don't need that 1st part of the coding when you post pics
just the img src="image" and the 's and >'s
i fixed it for you but i'd notice that on all your postings. thought i'd save you the time and let you know.
April 12th, 2010 at 12:26 PM ^
Red Berenson is that rarest breed of coach who puts building people ahead of building players and achieves excellence nevertheless. John Wooden is another coach who possessed that skill. The day Red decides to retire and begin the next chapter of his life, he will leave a hole through the soul of Michigan athletics that will be diffcult to fill. I hope every Michigan fan appeciates how lucky we are to have this man as a part of our University.
Read John Bacon's "Blue Ice". Red's comment to his friends back home after his first trip to Ann Arbor to consider Michigan as a destination is definitive of how all of us feel about Michigan, "This is the place".
April 12th, 2010 at 12:38 PM ^
that was a really nice article, it is very cool to know that some of these guys are getting their education and becoming "the leaders and the best" in other arenas of life, not just a hockey arena.
Can we clone Red now so as to keep him for another 26yrs?
we may have already cloned the batch. too much and we get into problems captured by the Oscar-award winning big screen juggernaut "Multiplicity."
Red Simmons: Bruce Willis' character in Indestructible based on the legend
Side thought, if we did clone them now instead of Red would we nickname them Ginger?
Hell, if we clone him, we can grow him until he's about 30 years old and then we can have him for 40-45 years!
I should stop, such talk makes me feel all tingly inside....
I have read, anywhere, on sports, let alone Michigan sports. I'm trying to make sure it gets picked up by some of the major national writers with hockey or Michigan leanings to make sure it gets the play it deserves. It's that good.
It's a good article, but it's not even the best article the Daily has produced in the past year. I present from Muck to Michigan:
http://michigandaily.com/content/life-death-and-football-story-unlikely…