Unnecessary Searchbits: Juwan Howard Is All But Official
JUST SAY IT ALREADY
Have you ever been paralyzed by an absurdly low percentage chance something might happen? Or not happen, in this case? I have all these fingers doing NOTHING it's INSANE someone just pull the TRIGGER
Sources: Michigan has offered its head coaching position to Miami Heat assistant Juwan Howard. The two sides have begun negotiations. Deal remains far from done.
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) May 22, 2019
AAARGH
This appears to be Howard's WIFE although she is not VERIFIED she is followed by SOME PEOPLE OF INTEREST
〽️ Go BLUE 〽️
— Jenine Howard (@J9Howard) May 22, 2019
And CHRIS COLLINS FAN says it's HAPPENING
Michigan offered the job to Juwan Howard this morning, source told @Stadium.
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) May 22, 2019
“The ball is now in Juwan’s court,” source close to situation told me.
Dots and crosses. At this point probably a press conference tomorrow?
[After THE JUMP: Yak yak]
AS THE YAK TURNS
Sam Webb said that Saddi Washington and Howard already have a relationship and he is likely to be retained. The news is less good for Yaklich, but I don't think anything is set yet:
If/when Michigan hires Juwan Howard — no deal is official yet, per @GoodmanHoops and @JonRothstein — I’d expect current Michigan assistant Luke Yaklich to head to Austin in short order and join Shaka Smart’s staff at Texas.
— Matt Norlander (@MattNorlander) May 22, 2019
An update on Luke Yaklich:
— Brendan Quinn (@BFQuinn) May 22, 2019
According to sources on both sides, Shaka Smart remains very interested in him as a potential assistant. No formal offer yet, as Yaklich has been given time to sort things out at Michigan. Per a source, Yaklich interviewed for the U-M HC job last week.
If Howard wants to retain Yaklich you'd have to think that Michigan can match any offer and provide more job security. Shaka will enter next season on the hotseat. Howard will not. Still, Webb's update linked above is pretty pessimistic.
You'd think Michigan has a good shot here just because Yaklich hasn't bolted already. Seems to imply that staying at least another year—his son is going into his senior year of high school—is on the table and may be preferred, all other things being equal.
YIKES
Meanwhile, yikes Big Ten. Yikes:
If indeed Juwan Howard accepts the Michigan job reportedly offered to him today, he’ll be the first black coach hired in the Big Ten in men’s basketball since Tubby Smith at Minnesota in 2007. @umichbball @B1GMBBall
— Marcus R. Fuller (@Marcus_R_Fuller) May 22, 2019
I think this is just kind of how things worked out but four of the five people Michigan interviewed (Howard, Saddi Washington, Ed Cooley, and LaVall Jordan) are black. Yaklich is the exception.
THE WAIT IS KILLING ME!!!
Come home #25.
You will shock the world again.
Doesn’t Saddi coach the bigs? While I’d love to retain him, that would be pretty redundant since Howard has experience coaching bigs as well
You get 3 assistant coaches....
It shouldn't be hard fill the gaps. Saddi was a wing as a player and has probably coached guards and wings in his career. Should be easy to shift around. I think he just took bigs when he came to Michigan to fill the spot left by Bacari.
Basketball positions are more fluid anyway. Especially as the game shifts to be more positionless.
The waiting is the hardest part.
Am not enjoying this.
Seems odd that we have news of an offer but that we're hearing "negotiations have begun."
Not necessarily problematic, but odd. News doesn't leak about that all that often unless something is really up in the air. My experience is that even when offers are turned down we don't hear about that until after the offer is turned down.
A lot of reasons why this could be, but an NBA assistant doesn't have the same incentive to keep offers under wraps than a current college coach would.
Posted this in another thread, but at this point the MGoStaff are Detective Pikachu.
Brian is clearly trying to provoke the universe into making this post irrelevant.
To answer that first question, yes, I saw the 2015 MSU game.
And I just lost all feeling in my feet and toes again.
Make it stop. Make all these feelings stop.
While yours is probably a lower probably, I am scarred from years earlier, having seen Kordell Stewart throw a certain pass in 1994.
Still too soon.
I didn't even see the damn thing live and I still have PTSD from it.
I'm all for Coach Howard recruiting another Fab Five class II... perhaps the 2021 class
Would be nice, but it's not happening. I'd love to see a top 5 or top 10 class or two though.
An update from Jon Rothstein (2:06 PM).
Relevant from UMHoops:
Black people make up about 13% of the population. One or two black coaches would mean Black coaches are represented appropriately in the BIG.
I would expect amongst D1 basketball that representation is significantly higher though, no?
Exactly. 59% of NCAA men's basketball athletes are black according to wikipedia.
I don't think that's how it's supposed to work.
The demographics in basketball at the highest levels do not reflect the population as a whole as African Americans make up almost 75% of the players in the NBA.
Is basketball racist then for not letting whites play?
I bet you think you're being funny, but just go away.
They represent more players because Blacks are more athletic. Whites are coaches more because they have more intelligence. Everyone know that.
Oof. More like klanbo1
Fuck off Kevbo.
How is this account not nuked yet?
He's blocked. No more posts.
kevbo1 are you serious? Where did you study statistics? You really think the relevant "population" is the entire U.S.? How about the population of college basketball players? Please check out this enlightening Forbes piece: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamzagoria/2019/05/20/the-14-team-big-ten-had-14-white-basketball-coaches-michigan-ad-warde-manuel-can-change-that/#35f241d074e4
This would be fine and dandy if black people made up 13% of the players. They make up significantly more than that, as well a higher amount of assistant coaching spots than 13%. Just a little rough count, but black men made up 86% of the Rivals top 100 this year, 87% last year, at least 94% in 2017 (two players without pictures, so I didnt think it'd be fair to call them black or white), 91% in 2016, and doesnt drop below 85% since the rankings began in 2003, which featured 92% black men.
It's a fact that basketball coaches are made up significantly of former players, so why if such a high majority of the playing populace is black, are there so few black coaches? IMO, because black assistant coaches are way too easily labeled as "just recruiters" which makes it harder for them to move up.
No one is arguing that programs should hire a coach just because they're black, but I find it hard to believe that there are so few black candidates, that a sport made up of primarily black men, can have such small representation at a high level.
Coaches are a different relevant labor market than players.
Yeah, no chance you'd find good coaches among former players, they've only spent their entire lives playing and studying the game.
If this comes to fruition I think it will eventually be seen as Michigan’s best basketball hire ever. John Beilein was a very good hire, but stealing a good coach from a University with fewer resources and giving him more resources is a recipe for gradual improvement, which isn’t bad. This has the potential of being hiring Harbaugh instead of Rodriguez. Howard always struck me as the consummate professional and I think he has a real chance of getting Jalen Wilson back in the fold.
If he ends up being Michigan's best basketball coach ever, then it will be seen as Michigan's best basketball hire ever.
As of right now, it's a solid speculative hire of a guy that had interest from NBA teams but has never been a head coach at any level. It is far from a slam dunk hire. It is also not nearly as good of a hire in terms of expected outcomes as the John Beilein hire. Beilein was going to be good. He came in with a high floor. Howard has a much higher chance of bombing out than Beilein did.
Off the top of my head, there have been three in the last decade: Roy Williams to UNC, Calipari to Kentucky and Pitino to Louisville (which would have been equivalent to us getting Donovan this year).
Uh...well yeah the whole first person of color hired since Tubby Smith. Context. Didn't UM hire Ellerbe and Amaker?
How many jobs have been available at MSU in the last 20 years with the mens basketball program. Didn't PSU has a person of color as a HC. How many jobs are we talking about. Wasn't Mike Davis and Jerry Dunn coaches in the Big Ten.
Eddie Jordan at RU? I think playing the race card in this instance is a reach. We aren't talking about a big sample size since we have long time successful coaches with Izzo and Beilein.
Can you make the case that the Big Ten institutions are not hiring people of color for basketball HC coaching jobs? Probably a tough threshold to meet.
Gary Raveling from Iowa back in the day. Randy Ayers from OSU. Seems like if you are qualified then you get the job especially since we are talking about basketball right? An activity dominated by people of color in the NBA and significantly in college basketball. Make the case that the Big Ten is still an obstacle for people of color in athletics. See Warde Manuel, Tom Goss, Archie Griffin as AD's. Make the case.
There have been at least 30 Big Ten coaching hires since the last black man was hired as a head coach. No one is saying Beilein and Izzo should be fired for black men, but this is an actual issue nationwide because it's an activity dominated by black men.
So can we give a small "F U" to Ed Cooley? Guy basically leveraged us for an interview so he could say he's the guy who turned Michigan down to stay in Providence. Of all the people inquired/interviewed for this, you think its a coincidence that only he had some leaks about a specific yet vague 6 million dollar offer? I hope that journalist student at Providence learned his lesson, because he got played by his source. Someone in Cooley's camp knew a veteran journalist wouldn't bite the bait, but that kid was willing to try and break a big story at his school. This probably gave him an extra couple million on his next contract negotiation.
Why give an F U to Finesse God Cooley? I would've hated him as the basketball coach, but I sure as shit appreciate the willingness to do whatever it takes to get more money, support and job security. That's the game.
Yeah, good on Cooley. If people want to be upset about that situation, it should be directed at Warde I would think. He either got played or purposely used his position to get his buddy a raise at the expense of his employer.
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Mumdy
This will not end well...Im afraid we are headed into another Ellerbee/Amaker era. While I love JB I am disappointed he left the program in a lurch and not a great place. After all hes done I would have thought hed not let it happen to the program
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