Red's Amazing Win Record and Average
So, as wins continue to pile up this year along with Red's overall record, I continue to wonder what number he'll end on, and where he'll end up overall in coaching wins.
Currently Red is 6th in overall wins and 3rd among active coaches (snicker* Comley * snicker) with 728 (soon to be 729) overall wins through 2011. Although it is unlikely that he will catch York or Parker or be able to pass Mason's massive 924, there is a good chance next year he will move in to 5th place (745) all time and possibly 4th (783) the year after that.
More impressive to me, than the overall number, is the way in which he obtained that many victories. The coaches ahead of Red each have had at least 10 more years to accumulate wins. This means that Red has been winning games at Michigan at an incredible rate every year.
Overall, Red has averaged 27 wins a year during his tenure at the helm of Michigan's ice hockey program. To put that in perspective, only 3 other teams, not named Michigan, reached that win number this year. And he is AVERAGING this number of wins every year!
If you look past his first years where he rebuilt the program and start from the 90-91 season his average wins jumps to an astounding 29.6 wins per year. Again, this is his AVERAGE wins/ yr.
In this remarkable run by a gritty team, I just wanted to step back and admire the remarkable run we've had with Red.
Thank's Coach. Here's to many more years of great hockey!
Motion seconded.
All in favor?Motion passes unanimously (if you exclude the wretching Spartan and Leprechaun in the corner).
Next game is certainly not a given. However, the stats stated are really incredible. Averaging nearly 30 wins a year for 20 years is incredible. I would put that at the equivalent of averaging 8.9 wins/yr in football. Let's bring home that title.
...the Michigan Sports Mount Rushmore (H/T MGoUser mdoc)
Win or lose this next game, Coach Berenson's name will be mentioned in our list of Legends for years to come.
dont jinx us!
That really is crazy....
...what happens if he retires? If you take a look at our other coaches, we've only had 2 spectacular coaches. It's not like football, and it takes an exceptional man to win like that.
Only Red and Vic Heyliger won at a rate better than .550, and they account for 8 of our 9 national titles.
1. Mel Pearson and Billy Powers have been Red's assistants for seemingly forever. Mel could have had a head coaching job 10 time over by now but has chosen to stay. He will almostcertainly be the Red's successor, meaning there will be very little turbulence in the changeover. Billy Powers will probably stay on and one day succeed him, since he played for Red and could similarly have probably gotten his own gig by now.
2. Heyliger and Red are NOT the only two good coaches we've had. The other coaches winning percentages have been hit by some of the rough years, but Renfrew got us a national championship before modern-day recruiting made him past his prime. Without Barss, our hockey team would never have gotten off the ground. Lowrey was responsible for keeping the program going and popular enough that the athletic department didn't shut it down during the Great Depression (Thank you Yost for buying the Colliseum and putting artificial ice in before the stock market crash).
Honestly, the only bad coach we've ever had was Giordano; there wouldn't be an NCAA tournament to win without Heyliger, and Red has brought the program to the peak of consistency and competitiveness that we've enjoyed for 21 straight years. They were not, however, our only good coaches.
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