Coach bits Day 5
Piecing together some info from 247 and Rivals...
Yaklich met with Manuel yesterday for an interview. This could have been about the head coaching job or sweetening the pot to stay on as an assistant. Texas insiders believe he's going to accept an offer as an assistant there. Balas concurs that's the likely scenario. Webb says that is too premature right now.
Right now Howard and Jordan are the only two scheduled to interview and Warde should have a decision by next week. If Jordan staff would likely be Meyer, Haynes, and Saddi. Jordan has a complicated buyout
The hope is that if Howard is hired 5 star Jaden McDaniels becomes a slam dunk for Michigan. He's down to Kentucky and Washington currently.
Zeb Jackson would have to be re-recruited and he hopes some of the current assistants stay on.
Sounds like we'll have a coach by the middle of next week and it will be either Juwan Howard or LaVall Jordan.
Yes, it would have helped. There has been quite a bit of movement of quality coaches since the season ended. Coaches that we didn't get to talk to because of Beilins timing.
Yes.
There simply aren’t many candidates right now. You’re not going to get a Wright or a Bennett, guys that have built their programs to be every bit as good (better, actually, given the hardware) at their locations. You won’t get Stevens, who is a top five NBA coach.
All the top prospect types have already been hired by their new programs or given massive trucks of money in new extensions.
Donovan is the only obvious top-flight candidate. If he’s not an option (either because he wants to take a run at the West with Durant out of GS or because Michigan thinks he’s too dirty) then you’re left with what we have.
Let the process play out and evaluate then. It hasn’t even been a week yet.
Yes. Nate Oats, Mick Cronin, Fred Hoiberg, Buzz Williams, and Mike Young would have been available. Steve Prohm is also more readily available because the Alabama coaching search resulted in him getting a decent extension.
If Beilein told Warde that he was deff leaving 2 mos ago, I guarantee this wouldn’t have been as hard.
Warde could have made this easier by not going to Africa.
Beilein told Warde a over a year ago he was interested in the NBA. It should’t have been this difficult and it’s on nobody but Warde.
You guys know people can do work from other cities, right? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess Warde brought his phone and laptop.
It's Africa, everyone thinks it's a third-world country with no internet.
In addition, there are other people in the Athletic Department who can handle things. Warde is not in every single detail of every program on a day-to-day basis, I can guarantee that.
Coaching at UM has extra challenges than most of the top 10-15 programs. Our “do not get close to the impropriety fire” and “recruit guys who can truly function in the UM student body” bring a level of constraints that many coaches likely do not want to tackle in addition to winning at a high clip. UM fan base also does not have a great reputation with our fickle, overly analytical, tradition-bound reputation.
There are clear positives at UM but the job is not purely coaching Bball like many schools.
Completely agree
if true, then those coaches on the top strata would be calling warde, right? if howard and jordan are such low strata hires, i would think a top strata coach would think his hiring at UM would be a slam dunk.
maybe some top strata coaches have, in fact, reached out to warde. we have no way of knowing. he ain't gonna tell us.
Well....I think our rep for integrity might be a hurdle, here. Success at this level, while being on the level, seems near impossible and Beilein did about as well as anyone could possibly do given we don't go as far into the bagmen as others do. If you think it takes bag men to win and you know Michigan won't do that, or at least not go as far as they need to in order to secure the best of the best, would you come here?
I would but I don't know if any of the hyper aggressive coaches out there would.
I don’t think there is, which is why we need to stop fooling ourselves.
On Jaden McDaniels, the "slam dunk" hope sounds more than a little presumptuous in the event that we hire Juwan. Just because they are cousins doesn't mean it's going to be easy for McDaniels to suddenly drop the schools he's been considering (Kentucky, Washington) and go to one that was an afterthought in his process.
My thought in this (good or bad) is that legally and ethically Juwan(Family) could pay McDaniels as much or more than Kentucky. So I think we’d have a chance if that is even part of the equation for McDaniels.
This guy knows less than my dog.
I keep reading about Michigan sweeting the pot to keep Yak. Does anyone realizes the Head Man picks his assistants. There is nowhere that stats whoever his chosen wants those guys
Pretty sure people are more referring to paying our assistants more in general. For whatever reason we suck at that.
If Howard and Jordan are the only options, than I’d rather go with Howard. I’ll give Jordan a mulligan for his year at Milwaukee, but he has had some talent to work with at Butler and has not been able to do much with it.
I may not know what I’m getting with Howard, but I KNOW what I’m getting with Jordan. And what I’m getting isn’t that appealing.
At this point, what I’d prefer is in the following order:
1) Yaklich - yes I know he has no HC experience. But neither does Howard. At least Yaklich knows the current players, knows the system that makes them successful, and there’s no debating his ability to recruit. He may even be able to retain Bajema and get Jalen back. If nothing else, I don’t need to worry about the defense with him.
2) Howard - could prove to be really good one day, but even if he’s successful here, there’s no way he’s not leaving in a few years once a good job in the NBA comes calling. And then we’re starting all over again.
3) Jordan - maybe he just needs more time at Butler. We were ready to throw Beilein out of town, and then year 3 happened. But I have to go by the results I currently have. And his current HC record is......not great, Bob.
If we had hired Jim Harbaugh in 2008 and kept him for 4-6 years and gotten the exact results Stanford got in that time frame, it absolutely would have been worth it. Not even close to a question. We’d be way better off.
The worry right now in the AD is that they’ll only get Howard for 5 years. And also that Luke will leave after this season to take a head coaching position. But to me that almost works out in Michigan’s favor. If Howard is leaving it’s because he’ll have had success. If Luke stays this season it helps hold together the rest of the team and the next recruiting class. Then Luke can go be a head coach somewhere for 4 years and they can see what he’s got as a head coach and at that time they could bring him back to replace Howard. I know that is way off in the future, but I could see that scenario working out in Michigan’s favor.
No doubt and there are obviously no guarantees in life. I’m just telling you what some are worried about. I will say the one big difference I personally see if that Harbaugh was a head coach in the NFL and was extremely successful so he doesn’t have anything else to prove. Howard hasn’t had a shot at an NBA head coaching position so he may want to try his hand at it.
No Jordan. Howard - yes. Yak - needs another 2 years to actually be groomed.
If Juwan still has Chicago HS Basketball ties (I assume he still has some name value there at the least), then that makes him an even better hire. I was watching the 30 for 30 on Benji Wilson, and Juwan was on there because he was neighborhood friends with Wilson (which is why he wore 25). That area produced Derrick Rose, Jabari Parker, Doc Rivers, Benji Wilson (#1 overall recruit before he died), Tim Hardaway etc etc etc .... Chicago ties are huge for recruiting. Add that to the Fab Five fame, NBA playing career, NBA coaching career, LeBron ties, and so forth ... I really like his odds of bringing in big time talent.
His ties to Chicago won't hurt, but unless everything I've been told here (in Chicago) by hard-core basketball fans is false, Michigan won't get any highly rated recruits from Chicagoland without playing dirty. Not just a little dirty. We're talking Bill Self, Calipari, and Coach K dirty.
If it’s between those two, I’ll take Howard
If you take Howard, that would leave Jordan for Michigan. The numbers don't lie.
Who are these proven track record guys who would even entertain an interview with Michigan?