Bob Motzko from St. Cloud State will be taking over for the Gophers. Maybe not so much of a shocker, sort of mirrors what happened at Michigan, it just took longer.
Motzko was an assistant at Minnesota back when it looked like the Gophers were going to win everything in sight and for a couple of years pretty much did. He went to St. Cloud to be head coach and 13 years later he returns to Minnesota to take over for Lucia. It doesn't hurt that he is also from Minnesota so that coaching vacancy is quickly filled.
I just read through the rest of the Minnesota press release, it mirrors Michigan more than I first thought. Not only was he an assistant who went elsewhere to be the head coach, that elsewhere (St. Cloud) is where he played hockey, sound familiar?
Motzko was an assistant at Minnesota back when it looked like the Gophers were going to win everything in sight and for a couple of years pretty much did. He went to St. Cloud to be head coach and 13 years later he returns to Minnesota to take over for Lucia. It doesn't hurt that he is also from Minnesota so that coaching vacancy is quickly filled.
I just read through the rest of the Minnesota press release, it mirrors Michigan more than I first thought. Not only was he an assistant who went elsewhere to be the head coach, that elsewhere (St. Cloud) is where he played hockey, sound familiar?