John Beilein passes Steve Fisher in wins at Michigan

only took him a little more than an extra season to do it too!

Beilein stands for. Hope he can add a national championship before he retires as Michigan's winningest basketball coach.

and he will be first on that list! I did not realize that. Very cool.

Good stuff, but he's also #1 in losses.  Just sayin.

Fire Beilein

More losses than anyone..

Thrilled for Beilein, thrilled for Michigan. I am happier with Beilein than with any coach since Orr. With a little bit of luck in recruiting, and better health on the team, we could still see several awesome seasons in coming years.

Man Ellerbe defined mediocrity. 62-60. Such a brutally bad hire.

Only 3 coaches ever with losing records.  Not bad for 110 years of basketball.

 

He will be the all time leader at the end of next season. Say what you want about the guy but he is a great coach and has done it the right way.

My knowledge of the pre-Frieder years is fuzzy, so thank you for this.

Don't know if this is thread-worthy, but for anyone who cares, Justice Scalia has died.

Also in the news today is that Izzo is a finalist for the Hall of Fame. I think his win total is 515 as a head coach. Then I googled Beilein's and found out that his win total as a head coach is 736 or something close to that (including his junior college record). 221 more wins than Izzo. Beilein has 642 in Division 1 (I think that excludes this season's wins).

John Beilein actually passed Steve Fisher with win #110, which would have been sometime in 2012-3, but OK.

The third winningest coach in program history and people want him fired.  I hope he retires blue.

I can't wait until he takes the overall spot.  A great man and representative of our university.  And though some other coaches may have more dominant tenures, Coach Beilein deserves all the accolades he gets.  

...is still a good coach. On my commute home the other day, Fisher was on a San Diego sports talk radio show, and I gotta say I was impressed by everything he had to say. Humble but knowledgeable and confident, with an "aw shucks" down-home fatherly style. Just like he was for us, he's still a player's coach, he knows how to motivate his players and get the best out of them. And on a personal note, when my step son, then a student at San Diego State, was struggling to recover from open heart surgery at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, his dad reached out to Coach Fisher, who called my step son in the hospital to cheer him up and give him encouragement.

Yep, and somehow people are screaming for him to retire. Give it a rest and be thankful

Shit George Corneal, what are you doing?

Number 1 on the list is not far away.

Thanks for posting.

I'm suprised how high up the list Tommy Amaker is. It didn't seem like he was here that long, or had that many wins.

The thing that jumps out at me is how low the school record is (209 wins), even though we've had a pretty good program over the years (seven Final Fours since 1964).  For one reason or another we've never had that Yost/Crisler/Schembechler demigod figure coaching the basketball team.  

Dave Strack could have been that guy; he won three straight Big Ten titles and went to two Final Fours.  But then he decided to leave coaching in the prime of his career.

Orr had the longest tenure of any coach and had some great teams.  But then he left for Iowa State (!) for more money - ouch.  

Frieder, well, we know his story.  Ditto Fisher.

Beilein can retire with pretty much all the school records, provided he can keep things going okay.  

Glad he is here, and hope he is able to stay here for as long as he wants. Today was a huge win for the program.