Miller is NOT heading to Michigan

Falconfliccbone · Post by **Falconfliccbone** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:28 pm

Curt Miller will not be heading to Michigan, so it appears that we still have him. NBC 24 out of Toledo reported that Michigan has hired a different coach. I didn't catch his name (maybe Kevin Forseyth?), but I would expect for the official announcement tomorrow.

theziggies · Post by **theziggies** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:58 pm

The Michigan AD confirms they hired the Green Bay coach

http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2007 ... rseth.html

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:00 am

Wow -- extremely surprising. He must have really blew them away.

BGDrew · Post by **BGDrew** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:13 am

Thank God...now falconboy won't "bitch slap" me.

MacGuy · Post by **MacGuy** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:05 am

Not surprised they didn't pick Merchant. Only had one really good year. I'm sure UM would have gone for a women, but with with poor attendance and lousy pay (300K) they won't get a name coach.

The guy at UWGB is in his 50's, but is from Michigan. Not sure what he had to offer that Curt didn't. Still, it's good for BG.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:49 pm

Michigan is a strange school. They have a great facility and support for football but the basketball teams really get dumped on. They don't have separate practice facilities so the teams have to fight everyone else for gym space, they have an aging, dumpy arena and there really doesn't seem to be much of a motivation to change.

You'd expect smaller schools to be more limited in terms of their facilities...but Michigan? I really don't get it.

falconfan1999 · Post by **falconfan1999** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:30 pm

Even though I'm am not an Ohio A+M fan, I do agree that no matter what, Michigan still sucks! I'm super happy that Coach Miller is staying here at BGSU. Hopefully Mr.Christopher can scrape together some money to convince Coach Miller that BGSU is THE place to be!

MarkL · Post by **MarkL** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:38 am

Flipper wrote:Michigan is a strange school. They have a great facility and support for football but the basketball teams really get dumped on. They don't have separate practice facilities so the teams have to fight everyone else for gym space, they have an aging, dumpy arena and there really doesn't seem to be much of a motivation to change.

You'd expect smaller schools to be more limited in terms of their facilities...but Michigan? I really don't get it.

The oddball thing with Michigan is that it is such a liberal school and that for many people up there Title IX is sacred. People up there are obsessed with the 2008 presidential race and view a Barrack Obama/Hillary Clinton ticket as the greatest possibility ever, yet most couldn't say a thing about the platform for either candidate, other than that there's an African-American and a woman. All of this, yet it seems as though Michigan has a women's basketball program just because they have to, and its viewed as a black hole that sucks money away from the football program. (It's not like this view is shared by all Michigan fans, but it's just what I see out of fans that I talk to.) I just have always thought that this was very screwy, that such a liberal haven as Ann Arbor is such a home to football yet not so to women's basketball.