Amaker Canned at Michigan, Big Blue never danced with Tommy.

Journeyman · Mar 17, 2007

Can't say he didn't have enough time to get there...they never improved with him, period.

Michigan must be tired of battling with Penn State and Minnesota for 8th place :missingte

gold64 · Mar 17, 2007

He just seemed like he'd be happier coaching in The Southern, or Big South Conference.

FairWarning · Mar 17, 2007

Tuesday had to be the final straw as they drew 3000 for the Utah St game. Tickets were $5-10. U of M basketball facilities suck compared to Mich St's also.

ClipJoint · Mar 17, 2007

What a terrible job he did there...definitely deserved to be canned.

AlwaysKeen · Mar 18, 2007

probably got a couple extra years than he should have gotten...

Kornholio · Mar 18, 2007

I hope Weber is next. Illinois will probably give him 5 more years to run the program into the ground though.

The_Man · Mar 18, 2007

It's good that they finally fired his ass because he couldn't hack it and had plenty of time to get things turned around, but at the same time he didn't really have much to work with since all the penalties handed down from the booster scandal from when the fab five was there.

It would have been in the best interest to pony up the cash and grab Rick Pitino when he was available and it almost happened, but they were way off on cash settlments. Apparently during that time that they were courting Pitino, they were ready to step up and shell out the money to make hm happy enough to coach here, but Bo Schembechler stepped in and basically threw a fit about how there is no way he will sit back and watch a Michigan basketball coach get more taken care of than a Michigan football coach (Lloyd Carr).

Guess he had enough pull because once that happened, Pitino said no thanks and they went for Amaker instead.