"Billy Donovan has emerged as the top choice for Michigan job" -OKC Thunder Wire
From verified twitter user Thunder Wire, an Oklahoma City Thunder USA Today site.
Billy Donovan has emerged as the top choice for the Michigan job https://t.co/EEVjXeofVa
— The Thunder Wire (@The_ThunderWire) May 13, 2019
This is the guy I want. Quite an impressive resume.
In case you don't know or forgot, Donovan won back-to-back national championships at Florida in 2006 & 2007 and has been to 4 Final Fours. He nearly had 3 national titles, coming up short in the title game in 2000 in just his 4th season.
502-206 (.709) career. 467-186 (.715) at Florida.
From 2011-2014 Florida went to the Elite Eight every single year and went to the Final Four in 2014 with a 36-3 and 18-0 SEC record. Got destroyed in the 2013 Elite Eight against a B1G team who was coached by a very nice man.
6 SEC Regular Season titles, 4 SEC Tournament titles, 3x SEC coach of the year. This is in the same conference as Kentucky.
I choose to believe you over Maizen.
That’s a pretty good rule of life based on his history here
Yaaaaassssssss, sign me up!!
Billy? Didn’t know you were a Michigan fan!
Dude...I would be over the freaking moon for Billy Donovan.
This is just repeating what others have said. It’s just quoting Sporting News
This would be a great hire. By far my number 1 choice not that my opinion matters at all but it will save me a lot of internet griping if this happens.
Contrary to my contention in the Porter Moser thread, taking things at face value from twitter accounts you've never heard of is good now.
Yes, it's exactly like football off season weight gain/loses. Eye of the beholder and all that.
According to one guy who actually merely says he should be at the top of Michigan's list. What a crappy title (not yours, the article's).
I like this thread better than the last thread. This is the party thread, hell yeah
I have a feeling this won't work out. Isn't he still coaching OKC as of now? Of course this would be a good hire, though.
Look at the mentions of that tweet. OKC fans want him gone. Apparently OKC is getting knocked out of the playoffs too much. I believe they've been eliminated this year.
They've been knocked out in the first round the past three years. Seems like people want more playoff success.
What a bunch of selfish jerk fans.
2019-20 is the last year on Donovan's OKC contract.
I think this is one of those perfect storm situations. He is in the last year of his contract, there are issues between him and Westbrook, which rarely if ever pans out well for the coach, and he has greatly underperformed his expectations. They wanted to be a contender, not just play extended seasons. I actually think there is a decent to good chance that this occurs
The Twitters said that? Well hell, then it's probably totally truthy.
The Twitter machine never lies.
Don't read the article and give Thunder Wire clicks. 'According to Mike DeCourcy of Sporting News, Donovan should be at the top of that list'
Mike DeCourcy THINKS that Michigan SHOULD hire Donovan so now he is the top choice?
Well guess that's settled then.
Oh boy, our divisional rivals would not like this
Give Billy a billion.
One hundred billion
Apparently nothing matters so fuck it, I’m good with it.
One hundred Billy-on.
I see we have now reached the infinite rumor stage. We are reporting on sites who are reporting on rumors they read from other sites.
He’s a cheater, but he might be alright
Michigan struck gold with beilein in getting a guy that was as clean as they come. Theyre not getting anyone worth a shit that doesnt cheat, so that shouldn't be an objection unless they were dumb enough to get caught up in the FBI probe. That should be a disqualifying factor on sheer stupidity.
We have the same type, right under our nose... Yaklich.
I'd put my preference as
1)donovan
2)Yaklich
Would be the definition of a homerun hire
He’s a cheater, but he might be alright
Any proof?
Even if they got proof, fuck it. It's college basketball, baby. As long as you don't turn yourself in, you're getting away with everything. Michigan Wolverines 2020 National Champs with coach Billy Donovan!!
Banners going up should be the first thing the new coach does. Fuck the NCAA.
Is there any proof that Calipari has cheated at UK? Not really, but everyone knows that he is. Same could be said about Coach K
Go on UKs campus and there's plenty of proof of cheating.
Gotta pay players. That’s the game today.
The coach has to be from the Stevens, Bennett, Donovan, Wright, Beard group. A guy like Moser or Chris Collins would cause me to jump off a bridge.
Lol what the hell makes people think Stevens or Wright will come here?
Nova has more history than Michigan does in basketball.
Stevens currently has one of the top 3 jobs in basketball. Why the hell would he come? Especially now that he will have more control after Kyrie leaves.
Michigan and Villanova both had 1 national title until..................Jay Wright won them their second in 2016.
Michigan has played in 7 titles games. Villanova has been in 4.
Michigan has 8 Final Fours. Villanova has 7
Michigan has 14 B1G Championships, Villanova has 12 regular season conference titles
They're a basketball school but let's not distort truth here.
Those recent championships still happen to putt Nova at 3 to a Michigan 1.
Being 1-6 in championships sucks I know.
Regardless, Wright has always been an east coast guy. He rebuilt Nova he’s not leaving. The only thing I see him leaving for is the Sixers job if it opens this summer.
I largely agree with your comparison of Villanova and UM basketball.
Just one small note: Villanova has spent a majority of its history as an independent program and didn't join a conference until 1975. So Villanova has won 12 conference titles in the last 44 years, during which time Michigan has won five. Obviously, UM earned its 14 titles, and it's not their fault that VU wasn't in a conference. Also, VU has won 275 more games in its program history, which is shorter than Michigan's--though, prior to joining the Big East--Villanova was almost certainly playing inferior competition.
Anyway, as someone else suggested, Jay Wright is an East Coast guy, and I can't imagine him leaving that area for Michigan--at least not after the success of recent years. Villanova has upgraded their facilities recently--though their resources have always been far more modest than most other top programs. They have been fortunate to keep Wright all of this time. One wonders if Wright will tire of a relatively easy path through the Big East every year. (In a dream world, having Wright and Harbaugh on the same campus would really be something.)
Still. It's a lateral move at best so the question remains, why would he leave?
He’d be an absolute slam dunk hire. Not getting my hopes up, but he’s less of a pipe dream than Brad Stevens.
What a horribly titled article. Literally nothing of that is reporting interest on either side.
But those insiders from Twitter were whispering about Porter Moser!
Isn't this just a case of throwing shit on the wall, and seeing if it sticks, so you can be the first to say, I knew he would be the guy.
Yeah, sure, but I really like this particular shit.