Culhane played at Western Michigan during one of the most successful periods in program history. After graduating in 1987 he embarked on a short professional career, before retiring in 1992. In 1993 he returned to his alma mater and served as an assistant under Bill Wilkinson until the later was fired in the midst of an investigation into the program after two players were arrested at a team party.\n', '

For a brief time Culhane was able to right the ship in Kalamazoo but once Wilkinson\'s last recruiting class left the team sunk towards the bottom of the conference and never had a winning record under Culhane\'s stewardship again. Over the course of his 11 full seasons Culhane could only get the Broncos out of the CCHA first round only twice and lost all four quarterfinal games his team played in. Western Michigan announced that they were firing Culhane in February 2010 but allowed the coach to finish out the season.\n', '

† Culhane replaced Bill Wilkinson in February 1999\n', '

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