Carol Hutchins Retiring

I think there's one in front of Schembechler Hall that could be repurposed...

Maybe. But who cares? Hutch is the one and only. In the conversation for greatest athletic coach in UM history. 

I believe it was the other way around. I remember being at a coaching clinic where she spoke and somebody asked her about the transfer portal. Her response was the she wished that "she" could put some girls in the portal.:) It's a different age and you could almost tell that while she loved the girls she coached, she was possibly tiring of girls looking for the easy way out to more playing time.

The Covid exception and the new transfer rules explain a lot - students often move on to graduate school somewhere else. The portal has given as much as it has taken.

The one unexpected transfer was Annabelle Widra, who was a huge get for the program, but didn't seem to settle in well. She's from Alabama and returned to the deep south after her freshman year. Softball and baseball will always struggle with recruiting, because the season is simply too early in the year in the north - nothing can be done about that.

She probably just wants to enjoy retirement, and knows exactly what the program has in Bonnie Tholl. Tholl undoubtedly would have gone on to lead a program somewhere else long ago if she wasn't training specifically for this role. This will be a relatively seamless transition.

I hope not.

Considering Bo knew, I hope Hutch conducted herself better than Bo outside of what the public sees day in and day out.

being a comp to Bo isnt such a good thing anymore