Red coming back next year?
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Inside word, for what it's worth (and very hard to give anything much credence until Berenson decides): might not be his last year.
— John U. Bacon (@Johnubacon) March 13, 2016
Warde Manual said he wants Red Berenson to remain as Michigan hockey coach next season.
— Brendan F. Quinn (@BFQuinn) March 16, 2016
I Hope Not
Would your stance change if he won a Natty this year? The CCM line will not be denied!!
The term "natty" makes my skin crawl. Oh my God.
Really? I always thought you were too young to have tried beer.
I think there is probably a fair amount of things you say that cause the same reaction in other people.
Dad?
Mine are apparel threads.
Don't forget about the non noon kickoff whining
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Send him out on top with a final memory of his time here.
very likely we lose our first game
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That tweet from Quinn is like a lot of tweets: misleading and lacking context. Here's the full quote from an MLive article:
Manuel said he has met and had a "great conversation" with longtime Michigan hockey coach Red Berenson early this week. In regards to the oft-discussed topic of Berenson's eventual retirement, Manuel said: "We'll see where it goes, but Red is in a good place. I love what coach Berenson has brought to the University of Michigan all his life. At the end of the season, Red and I will sit down and have more of a conversation about the future and what he wants to do. As far as I'm concerned, I'd love for Red Berenson to be our coach next season."
its Reds and Im fine with him staying hes earned it
Warde say? No I want a legend gone so I can name my own coach?
Brian made a great point on WTKA this week in saying that Red coming back last year for one more year where it's obvious he wants to retire would be like 2007 football.
Seems like that's where we've been these past few years already......
Are you saying that App State has a hockey program!!!
I'll take 2007 football over 2008, 2009, and 2010 football every day of the week.
If it's time for Red to retire I'm fine with that. Just make sure you get someone good to replace him.
/not a hockey fan
If the alternative to Red is Mel staying in Houghton and we hire someone so-so, I'd rather stick with Red another year
People seem to forget that Saban was hired after the 2006 season. If Carr would have announced after the regular season that 2006 was it, like Bo, we could have hired Saban instead of Alabama. I don't think it's that far-fetched of an idea.
He would have never come to Michigan. And I doubt Michigan would have offered him.
/woulda, coulda, shoulda had Miles in 07. But Martin fucked that up.
March 18th, 2016 at 12:31 AM ^
If Lloyd had retired after the 2006 season, there's a good chance Mike DeBord would have taken over. Bill Martin's plan was to let Carr appoint the next head coach after a succesful final season.
nightmare scenerio that might have rivaled what we DID go through.
I'm farting around with some numbers from the last 10-15 years of tournaments - thinking about writing a diary on our odds this year - and it looks bad for us.
Michigan is currently #1 in offensive GPG and #38 in defensive GPG. Since 2002-2003, teams with a difference of 20 or more between those numbers have never made the frozen four and almost always lose their first game.
There are 18 teams since that time with a defensive GPG ranking more than 20 spots behind their offense. 15 of them lost their first game, the other 3 lost their second.
That's interesting, but I bet a lot of them are low seeds with auto-bids (which could explain the bad record). Did you keep track of their seeds while you were doing it? I'm curious.
Year | Team | Seed | O Rk | O GPG | D Rk | D GPG | Rk Delta | Finish |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | Michigan | 1 | 4.82 | 38 | 3.03 | -37 | ||
2014 | Robert Morris | 4 | 7 | 3.45 | 44 | 3.10 | -37 | 0 |
2013 | Boston College | 2 | 2 | 3.37 | 34 | 2.82 | -32 | 0 |
2011 | Air Force | 4 | 6 | 3.61 | 38 | 3.03 | -32 | 0 |
2010 | Yale | 3 | 1 | 4.15 | 33 | 3.09 | -32 | 1 |
2007 | Michigan | 2 | 1 | 4.24 | 37 | 3.15 | -36 | 0 |
2007 | UAH | 4 | 24 | 3.11 | 60 | -36 | 0 | |
2006 | Michigan | 3 | 3 | 3.59 | 36 | 3.05 | -33 | 0 |
2006 | UNO | 4 | 5 | 3.56 | 60 | -55 | 0 | |
2003 | Mercyhurst | 4 | 17 | 3.65 | 60 | -43 | 0 | |
2003 | Minnesota State | 4 | 11 | 3.78 | 60 | -49 | 0 |
So if you only gaze at the major powers in there, you see how our predecesors have fared.
2-seed BC was bombed 5-1 by 3-seed Union and then two Michigan teams several here will remember. 07 Michigan lost spectacularly to North Dakota 8-5 and 06 Michigan also lost to North Dakota, 5-1.
Trying to predict the NCAA tournamet is an exercise in futility, but I found this a bit forboding.
The GPG difference between offense and defense is the most favorable by far for this year's team, which seems more important than rank difference. So there's that. But yeah, giving up 3 goals a game doesn't instill a lot of confidence in going the distance.
+1 Props on the effort to go out of your way to be pessimistic.
This kind of thinking leads to the conclusion that Michigan would be better off with the #37 offense than the #1, because 37 is closer to 38 than 1 is.
That's clearly a ludicrous conclusion, and so I reject your hypothesis as BS.
The team with the 37th offense and 37th defense probably isn't making the tournament. And if they did I think we would have to look at how teams with offenses and defenses ranked so poorly and how they did in the tournament.
But I was only gazing at tournament teams. A team with the #37 offense and #37 defense probably has about 10 wins.
Amongst tournament teams with such wide margins, you tend to see an elite offense paired with a bad defense or an elite defense pared with a bad offense, and they all lose almost immediately
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LOL Kyle Connor ain't coming back next year my man.
Dylan Larkin essentially jumped right into the NHL and Connor is better than him.
I don't think anyone is expecting him to come back, which is why I put the Compher Motte only part of the sentence in there. But who knows, crazier things have happened.
Taylor Lewan and Caris LeVert.
They were both considered high draft picks but came back for another year.
...in sports in which a player goes pro, and is then drafted. Hockey players have professional organizations literally on the other side of the locker room door, who own your professional rights, and are not hesitant to put pressure on you to sign on the dotted line literally the second your college team's season is over. In Connor's case, it's the Jets.
When I was in the hockey band and we stayed at the team hotels for NCAA tournament trips, it was always an interesting drama to hear who got on the team bus to go to the airport and who was still around the next morning negotiating a contract or catching a flight somewhere else to play for their new teams that very night.
WD just wanted to read what he wanted to read and make a sarcastic bitch remark
He said CCM at first, idiot.
I believe his name is Captain Ass-Hat