The CCHA held their awards banquet tonight. Among the honorees was Michigan's Red Berenson for Coach of the Year. I wasn't there to hear his acceptance speech, but I would imagine it was a little less awkward than the other time he won the award, in 1994, days after being arrested for a DWI in Ann Arbor.
As Yost Built points out, it's kind of surprising Berenson has only won Coach of the Year twice in the CCHA. I think Berenson might be the front-runner for his first Penrose Award this year as well, both because Michigan had a surprisingly good year, and because you'd have to think that at some point, he's going to get honored as kind of a career achievement award.
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Chris:
I'm not a Michigan fan; in fact, the only college I dislike more than Mich is ND, but c'mon, every one makes mistakes, give the guy a break, that was 14 years ago !
IIRC, Jeff Sauer only won COTY a time or two in his lengthy coaching career...if people expect you to do good, you don't have as much of a chance to win, it seems.
Even if he's only won the COTY twice, he's done the best job during the season many more times than that. This is why, of all the post season awards in sports, the COTY is often the one I think means the least. Whenever a guy has a bunch of great players at a great program and they win the regular season title, people always come up with the "Well he's SUPPOSED to win with all that talent, etc etc etc. Anyone stop to think WHY it is such a good program and always gets all those good players. I'm thinking it has something to do with the coach. I'm certainly no UM fan, but without doubt, Berensen deserves COTY this time around.
I'm not a Michigan fan either, but how in the world could you give COTY consistently to some other program that does nothing. Unless the award always went to Michigan St who at least does something. Who else in the CCHA creates any noise in college hockey except for MI and MI State? Notre Dame was a nice story last year, Miami(OH) is a nice story, but that is about it...nice stories.
That seems like a bit of a cheap shot at Red considering it was 14 years ago and basically has zero relevance to the topic. Of course, I am sure that no one that reads this blog ever made the mistake of getting behind the wheel after a few beers. Certainly it's not the right thing to do but bringing it up 14 years later seems a bit much.
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