Great guy. He was on a couple of my fantasy nba teams in the mid to late 90s. Good get on my part at the time and on UM's part now.
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Great guy. He was on a couple of my fantasy nba teams in the mid to late 90s. Good get on my part at the time and on UM's part now.
good luck to them, we have one of our ex players as a coach so who knows how it will work out for them.As a Purdue fan I fully approve of this hire. He won’t be targeting the same guys and once the luster wears off after his first couple of seasons, my guess is they will be searching again. Michigan now has high success expectations. I thought IU did, but apparently missing the tournament 3 straight years is acceptable now. So maybe Howard can survive that initial learning curve.
There were several coaches I didn’t want to see take that Michigan job and he wasn’t one of them. He may work out, he may get all of his vacated, he may get run out quickly. What an exciting time for Michigan.
As a Purdue fan I fully approve of this hire. He won’t be targeting the same guys and once the luster wears off after his first couple of seasons, my guess is they will be searching again. Michigan now has high success expectations. I thought IU did, but apparently missing the tournament 3 straight years is acceptable now. So maybe Howard can survive that initial learning curve.
There were several coaches I didn’t want to see take that Michigan job and he wasn’t one of them. He may work out, he may get all of his vacated, he may get run out quickly. What an exciting time for Michigan.
Yeah I was way wrong on this one. Thought they could attract a heavy hitter.While likely anybody they hired would have been a step down from Beilein, this seems like an especially underwhelming hire.
I hated Michigan during the fab 5 era, so that may Factor into my opinion.
When your top twenty say no.This choice by Michigan is a total mystery to me. Beilein was admirable for his coaching and his deserved clean reputation. Howard is a known cheater and not especially known for his coaching. So why?
This choice by Michigan is a total mystery to me. Beilein was admirable for his coaching and his deserved clean reputation. Howard is a known cheater and not especially known for his coaching. So why?
This choice by Michigan is a total mystery to me. Beilein was admirable for his coaching and his deserved clean reputation. Howard is a known cheater and not especially known for his coaching. So why?
I think it had more to do with timing than anything else. It was really, really poor timing for UM to be able to attract a 'high level' coach. I thought maybe Shaka Smart would have been a target and Belein was already making more than Smart was so they could have offered him similar or slightly more, IMO.Yeah I was way wrong on this one. Thought they could attract a heavy hitter.
If that was it, why not appoint assistant coach for a year and go after Shaka Smart or someone else with a proven record?I think it had more to do with timing than anything else. It was really, really poor timing for UM to be able to attract a 'high level' coach. I thought maybe Shaka Smart would have been a target and Belein was already making more than Smart was so they could have offered him similar or slightly more, IMO.
It would almost certainly crash your program in that current guys would transfer out and you would be hard pressed to actually recruit. It definitely put UM in a hard place to find a good coach. I do think they did about as good as they could have done though.If that was it, why not appoint assistant coach for a year and go after Shaka Smart or someone else with a proven record?
It would almost certainly crash your program in that current guys would transfer out and you would be hard pressed to actually recruit. It definitely put UM in a hard place to find a good coach. I do think they did about as good as they could have done though.
so unless I’m missing something, Howard has never been a head coach or coached in college? And he has never been involved at the AAU\grassroots level either…yeah…I thought that during their issues, Howard may have been the least culpable of all of them. And he has been an assistant coach for the last 6 years, and basically acted as a player/assistant coach the couple of years before that. I think he wasn't even in uniform his last year of "playing." He's been on some short lists for NBA head jobs, including, ironically, Cleveland.
I think that for Michigan it's not a great hire, but they didn't have a lot of options. I thought it was weird that Jalen Rose was essentially putting pressure on the UM AD to make this hire. That just seems wrong. Politics shouldn't be involved and I'm not sure why they feel they need to "go back" to that era.
I don't really care and wish him well.
Just keep it clean in recruiting and I will have no issues with them.
I think this hurts MSU more than us.....
Because that's who the AD wanted.This choice by Michigan is a total mystery to me. Beilein was admirable for his coaching and his deserved clean reputation. Howard is a known cheater and not especially known for his coaching. So why?
Smart, IMO, would be a step down from even their current hireIf that was it, why not appoint assistant coach for a year and go after Shaka Smart or someone else with a proven record?
I saw that Howard hired former St. Joe's coach Phil Martelli as an assistant. Good move on his part to get such a guy with a lot of head coaching experience. I was very surprised when St. Joe let him go.