Bacari Alexander Passed over for Green Bay Job

Thank you GB. You owed us for all the ass whoopings you have givin us in Football. Bacari your time will come.

moose knuckle. 

Good to see that I'm not the only one that kinda thinks the tone of this topic title is a little off.

Also... people are getting weepy about coaches who are a big part of our strong program sticking around is...hrm. I bleed Maize and Blue, but that perspective is a great example of how M fandom is a particular mix of intelligence, awareness, compassion, blind faith, well-meaning elitism, self-deprecation, anger, and guilt.

Go Blue.

I like jmdblue's POV.  I am also happy to see the entire staff coming back.  However, I am also a tad disappointed that none of them got hired.  I think all are deserving and would have been great choices.  

Yes and no.  Now is the time for one of those assistants to get a HC gig, be there for a couple years, and then be a prime candidate for Michigan when JB retires.  

I'd be cool with handing the reins over to Lavall Jordan immediately, but ideally if Michigan ends up hiring one of these current assistants to take over, I'd rather have them get a chance to run the show somewhere else first.

Liberty hired Ritche Mckay who has been Tony Bennett's top assistant and associate head coach at Virginia for the past 5 years as Bennett steadily built UVA from a below .500 club to an ACC powerhouse; a team that has won back to back ACC titles in an expanded ACC that added Louisville, Notre Dame and Syracause.  On top of that McKay was formerly the head coach at Liberty, New Mexico and somewhere else. And his daughter attends Liberty.  No shame in Meyer getting passed up. Michigan has had great success and Meyer has been part of it but McKays's resume was tough to beat.  Honestly, it's not a great job anyway.  Wouldnt Meyer be better suited at a mid-major in the midwest where he apparently has good recruiting ties? 

A lot of that has to do with the style of basketball Michigan plays. They don't value low post touches, preferring to go with a pick and roll game (of which they've been terrific at from both a guard and big man perspective, excluding this year). As for rebounding, they don't put a high priority on offensive rebounds, preferring to get back on defense instead. They tend to use big men to clear space when it comes to defensive rebounding, which is why you see a decent rebounding distribution amongst the guards. I believe this done so that the offense can get out in transition faster (another strength over the past few years).

I think Bacari deserves a lot of credit for turning Novak and Morgan into high-level conference players, in addition to McGary's blossoming. Horford was a solid contributor as well. His only "misses" in terms of development have been with GRIII, Smotrycz (to a degree) and the rotating big men we had this year. Even then, Bielfeldt acquitted himself nicely by season's end. Now, if we see the same sort of discombobulation at the 4/5 next year that we saw this year, then I think it might be valid to question Bacari's skills.

a developmental standpoint. I'd like to see him get Michigan in the mix for more bigs but maybe the style they play makes that difficult.

Linc Darner's record:

• 2014/15: 36-1, national champions, D2 national COTY.
• 2013/14: 27-5
• 2012/13: 27-6
• 2011/12: 19-11
• 2010/11: 23-9
• 2009/10: 25-5
• 2008/09: 29-7
• 2007/08: 24-9
• 2006/07: 8-20

He's won the conference 6 times, won the conference tournament 6 times, gone to the NCAAs 7 times. And since year 2 he's won 80% of his games.

Green Bay's a good job, they interviewed quality coaches, they chose one. Everybody moves on.

I get emails from a former employee directed to me at the office. The guy is part of a gang of boosters and they have been saying all week that Swanigan was Cal bound because Izzo quit recruiting him due to his lack of toughness.