Brian Dutcher (San Diego St HC) seems a strong fit for the Michigan job, supposing Howard is fired and Dutcher wants to leave San Diego. Dutcher is a Michigan native and was a Wolverine assistant for 10 years before spending the last 25 in San Diego, following Steve Fisher between those two. Dutcher's father coached at Eastern Michigan, down the road from Ann Arbor. Money would surely be better, but that San Diego lifestyle... San Diego State seems to me a rare mid-major job that you might consider staying with for life, over high major options.
Pondering Chester Frazier receiving coaching offers this offseason, I am looking at mid-majors where the coach might be on the hot seat and see a number that fit Chester's mid-Atlantic roots. (Not that a school anywhere else in the country won't consider him for a job.)
: UMBC, Maryland Eastern Shore, Loyola Maryland, Hampton, William and Mary, VMI, and LaSalle.