Did anyone honestly see this coming when he was first hired?

How far can he get with 30+ win seasons?

congrats coach and many more on the way.

It just feels like Coach B is gonna be here for a long time building the program back to where it should be.

Great coaching, great recruiting now for the last couple years and going forward, great school, great fanbase....everything is great! Go Blue!!!

This one? Yes.

The one about how we're a little worried that we're getting too many one-and-done type players and that we might only have a top five team in some years? No, didn't see that one coming.

EDIT:  This was intended as a response to the "Did anyone see this coming?" post above.

Congratulations to John Beilein! What a nice victory #650 was as well.

As a bit of trivia, he is the only coach to have achieved 20+ win seasons at four different levels of competition from junior college to Division I play. I could be incorrect on this, but I think Beilein is also among the top 20 winningest active coaches in Division I right now and near the top in games coached and years coached among active coaches as well. 

Here's to many more wins, Coach. The program is definitely in great hands. 

My uncle said he was a bad hire. He also said that Hoke was a bad hire and RIch Rod a great one. My uncle is wrong a lot. 

I'm so happy to see his success here.  My high school years saw him get to the Elite Eight at WVU, I think it's about time it happened here at UM.

I remember a couple years ago when the basketball team was struggling early in B1G play thinking that we should go in a different direction. We had just hired Hoke and I truly thought Brandon should have made a change in basketball as well. Boy was I wrong. Congrats to coach Beilein on his achievement.

I'll admit, I though he was a terrible coach after that Big Ten tourney game against Ohio in 2010.  I am quite pleased to be proven thoroughly wrong.

On another basketball note, NC State just beat UConn on a neutral floor. Good to see a team Michigan beat take down a team that beat Sparty. I know the transitive thing doesn't work. But it's still good for NC State to get that win.

Well as stubbornly wrong as I was about Rich Rod, it's nice to be proven right about Beilein being the right coach (though even at my most optimistic, I didn't see this happeneing).

I don't think they'll be counting his wins at Erie Community College for any all time lists.

However, he'll be getting to 800 from his current 575 in no time.

I posted this on the game thread but I really think JB is building a program in the tradition of the very best basketball programs and is on his way to be a legendary-type coach here.  His journey to Ann Arbor was long, he seemed to win everywhere and yet never attract the spotlight of the loud-mouth, egocentric types that populate the college coaching positions today.  And in the same quiet fashion he's been building the Michigan program, aided by the facility improvements no doubt, but his basketball brain, values and vision can't be overlooked.  

I think it's worth pointing out that his next win will be number 100 while on the sideline for the Maize and Blue

I was mildy enthusiastic when he was hired.  When his contract was renewed in the middle of his third season, in which M finished 15-17 despite being ranked like #15 preseason, including a disasterous start to the 2009-10 year, I considered it an intentional, malicious act by Bill Martin to screw Michigan one more time.   

As it turns out, he has done a great job recruiting potential stars like THJ, GRIII, Burke, Stauskas before they blow up. 

Remember Beilein has done some stuff that is so out of character for an established coach his age.  He's basically modified his offense to his talent while still keeping his disciplines from a system coach (we like the 3; we aren't dependent on the 3).  He was a zone coach who basically coaches man to man with zone as a change up. He's not recruiting only "system guys"; he may have landed his first truly great 3 point shooter after all these years. (We shot them a lot...we haven't hit a very good percentage). And mixed his system type guys in with true athletes.  

And biggest of all he reassessed and did a complete overhaul of his staff. Not as rare in basketball as in football, but still not something you'd expect a guy who has succeeded everywhere he's been to do at his last job.  And it certainly made a BIG change in recruiting, as well as X and O's things we probably can't notice as well. If he was still stubbornly doing the things that he did at Richmond he might not still be coach here.

This isn't to say what he was doing before was so bad. It's more a credit to him that he can spot weaknesses, and change to his times and environment. That more than anything (brilliant basketball mind; excellent recruiting eye) is behind his success. And it's not a lot of even great coaches have.