Sources: Michigan Expected To Hire Tracy Smith

Michigan is expected to hire former Indiana and Arizona State head coach Tracy Smith as its new head coach, D1Baseball learned on Friday from Michigan sources.

Smith, 56, replaces long-time Michigan head coach Erik Bakich, who left Ann Arbor after 10 seasons to become the head coach at Clemson.

While Smith has never coached at Michigan until now, he’s certainly familiar with the surroundings given his ties to the Big Ten Conference. Smith began his head coaching career at Miami (Ohio), his alma mater, where he tallied a 317-220-1 record in nine seasons with the program and guided the Redhawks to a[…]