At 1:35 AM 1/30/96, Sean Pickett wrote:
 
>To show that I am not biased, :-)  I also can not understand how
>Steve and several others have left Jeff Sauer off their lists.  He
>also has won over 500 games and 2 NCAA Championships, along with four
>WCHA Tournament Championships.
 
While Jeff Sauer has a lot of wins for Wisconsin and two NCAA
Championships, he's not a "program-building" type of coach...  his
championship team in 1983 was recruited by Bob Johnson, and Sauer even
admits that it was not HIS team, but Johnson's. His team in 1990 was so
talent-stocked (Shuchuk, Tancill, Derksen, Osiecki, etc) and played so well
together that they probably could have won if *I* had coached them :) The
Wisconsin program was built by Bob Johnson, and Sauer just continued what
Johnson started.  If we could mention past coaches, Johnson would be #1 on
my list.
 
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