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Briggs: He's the winningest active coach at Toledo. He just graduated from ... Bowling Green?!?!

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What would it be like if James Bond took night classes at the KGB? Or Tom enrolled in Jerry’s School of Mischief? Or a Rocket moonlighted as a Falcon?

I called up an operative I know.

Al Wermer is in his 26th year as the men’s tennis coach at the University of Toledo, where his Rockets are the back-to-back defending champions of the Mid-American Conference.

The guy is as true midnight blue as they come.

He is also a freshly minted graduate of … Bowling Green State University?!?!

Yes, it is true.

In a daring foray behind enemy lines, the Rockets’ longest-tenured and winningest active coach in any sport just completed his master’s in education at Toledo’s archrival.