Hockey CC: Mike Babcock
let's look at some of the info here.
- Contract expires after this season.
- Made spontaneous comment out of nowhere about being on the Michigan bench a year ago, later dismissing it as a joke.
- this posted in a front page post by Brian back when those comments were made-
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
people jumped up and down on here and all over the country saying Harbaugh to Michigan was a pipe dream. And it happened. Could Hackett pull it off?
March 22nd, 2015 at 10:46 PM ^
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Red is the last man standing. Let him retire before we decide who to hire as our next coach.
March 22nd, 2015 at 10:50 PM ^
This picture makes me sad.
March 23rd, 2015 at 11:13 AM ^
Michigan legend, Michigan legend, um...Harvard sports legend?
March 22nd, 2015 at 10:52 PM ^
Even with them, I wouldn't inch past 5%. The odds-on favorite to follow Red will be Mel Pearson
March 22nd, 2015 at 10:58 PM ^
Jim Hackett is never going to convince a successful pro coach to leave the pro ranks to come and coach at Michigan.
Quit drinking and go to bed.
March 22nd, 2015 at 11:31 PM ^
March 22nd, 2015 at 11:50 PM ^
Original poster: No offense, but this thread is one of the dumbest fking threads ever posted here at MGoBlog for reasons that are obvious to most rational people. Either you posted it because a) you are a narcissist looking for attention or b) you truly are dumb enough to try to weakly correlated Harbaugh to Babcock, the $150 million dollar football program to a hockey program which probably LOSES money, what Michigan can pay the hockey coach vs. the $5+ million that Babcock will receive in the NHL....etc.
Why would Babcock do this? WHY? For the love of "hockey"? Gezee..shut the fu already.
March 23rd, 2015 at 10:58 AM ^
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I am unconvinced about the likelyhood of such a hiring.
If this is the 1st Hockey: CC thread, that sucks. What we need is: Pearson (obvs), guy from Union (not a fit IMO, but people mention him), guy from Prov who built up Union (eh), etc etc
I'd be amazed if Babcock would leave the Wings for college unless a lot more changes for both sides in the next couple of months.
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Just checked out his bio... obviously a really good coach, but he's moved around constantly, and seems like his orientation is more to the pros than the college game.
March 23rd, 2015 at 10:35 AM ^
Blashill is more likely to wind up in Detroit.
March 23rd, 2015 at 10:15 AM ^
For Michigan to do this they would have to capture lightning in a bottle for the second time. That being said, it would be pandamonium.
March 23rd, 2015 at 10:53 AM ^
About a year early on this thread.
March 23rd, 2015 at 11:22 AM ^
Just can't see this happening, Babcock has no roots, no connection, no nothing, not even citizenship with UM