Friday, April 6, 2007

Coaching Speculation

No news on the coaching front (or anything else related to the team for that matter). Two bits of internet speculation, somewhat contradictory:

Over on the Bowling Green message board on ay-ziggy-zoomba.com, more than one poster assumes Michigan won't hire Curt Miller because Michigan has typically hired women to coach the team. They also believe Michigan will end up hiring EMU's Suzy Merchant.

On another new blog, newisconsinsportsblog.blogspot.com there is a nice article about Kevin Borseth that says the time may be right for him to move on, and suggests the Michigan job may be a good choice.

Me? No idea, really. Based on the hiring of John Beilein as the men's coach and the time being taken for the women's search, I would say Bill Martin and the athletic department are taking this seriously. Suzy Merchant is the "easy" choice for a variety of reasons, but they did not leap to hire her immediately. Whoever it ends up being, I'm sort of expecting an announcement next week.

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