Glory, glory Hallelujah! FSNorth to show Um v Bemidji live Saturday

what you mean by underrated. If you mean by the "important" people, like the ones that have only given him 2 conference coach of the year in 26 years (compared to Rico Blasi's 4 in 11 years) and one time national coach, and Dean Lombardi, but not the ones who gave him the Jack Adams, then yes, I would say he's one of our more underrated coaches. If you mean by the Michigan fan base, his players and a lot of (especially old school) NHLers, not by a long shot. U-M's most underrated coach would have to be a non-revenue sport. Carol Hutchins (softball) has the most wins by any Michigan coach ever, with more than 1,000, in 26 seasons, I wanna say her winning % is in the .700's, the only softball NC west of the Mississippi and is currently ranked #2 in the nation, in a primarily west/south sport. Bev Plocki (women's gymnastics) had a 3 year unbeaten conference streak, including something like 5 straight big ten titles. No NCs, but a good number of upsets over top 5 teams. Possibly Rich Maloney (baseball) who took us to a dominant streak in the big ten for a while and got us to the super regionals, though is also without a NC. Kurt Golder (men's gymnastics) has an NC and is generally near the top of the pack, of all of like 17 NCAA teams... Matt Anderson, (water polo) has taken us to the 8-team NCAA tournament 3 times, dominates in-conference, holds its own against plenty of top-10 teams from out west and reaches some new (positive) record for the program every year. Again in a primarily west coast sport. Marcia Pankratz (field hockey) has an NC in 2001 for the first woman's NC at Michigan and had some really good teams, she was here for a while then left then came back last season. Both of our tennis teams, especially woman's (Ronni Bernstein) are starting to really be very good. The women's team is ranked top 10 in the country as a team with, I believe, one (of 6) ranked singles player and one (of 3) doubles teams ranked (individual rankings go to at least 99). If you compare this to other top ranked teams and even lower ranked teams, I'm pretty sure they'll have more ranked individuals. That speaks to a pretty good coaching job. Mark Rosen (volleyball) has been here for a while and hasn't really been wildly successful, but lately his teams have been getting better and better and they reached the elite 8 (program first) in the NCAA tourney. That's off the top of my head. Red may not get all the personal accolades we think he deserves (he has PLENTY of team success :-D), but again, we do think he deserves them, we know he's a legend, so I wouldn't say he's underrated, by us at least. (Val Filpula scored off a bad bounce by Conklin to make it 3-2 Det, then hit an ENG to seal it, Wings 4-2 final)

I've heard the same from Mick and also Red I think, but I'm not sure it was in Detroit, I remember it as them both being with Montreal, though I could be wrong. I don't remember ever hearing the intelligence comment but, well, duh... :-)