
Former Michigan women's basketball coach Kevin Borseth was introduced as the new coach at Wisconsin-Green Bay on Thursday. Borseth was head coach of the Phoenix from 1998 to 2007.
Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com
Kevin Borseth's bank account will be smaller. His happiness level, however, has grown exponentially.
The former Michigan women's basketball coach's family convinced him to make the move back to Wisconsin-Green Bay, the place he coached from 1998-2007.
Not long after he informed his Michigan players of that decision and word started circulating around Ann Arbor and Green Bay, Borseth said his phone was instantly filled with text messages. At least 200 of them, he said, include the words "Welcome home."
Borseth had only kind words for Michigan, but said the job may have been too consuming.
"That walk of life didn’t fit me very well," Borseth said of the Michigan program that he led to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2001. "As a result, it evidently showed in my happiness, because that’s what my wife (Connie) said. She said 'You’re not happy.' One of my daughters said, ‘That’s what I pray for. For you to be happy.’ That was an eye-opening statement for me."
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