Howard Eisley salary and hire question
I'm not judging (yet) but did anyone come out with further insight into why, of all options, Juwan hired Eisley?
Especially after this comes out, I'm more confused than ever:
Saddi Washington: $330,000
Phil Martelli: $450,000
Howard Eisley: $375,000
These are two-year deals. Michigan has an option for the third year, at the same base salary
(h/t Orion Sang)
Juwan hired Howard Eisley because he needed an assistant coach and he felt Eisley would do a good job. Hope this helped.
Yup. We can close this thread now and save space on the servers.
it did not
Obviously, that's tongue-in-cheek. I just don't get the confusion. What is your problem with Eisley? I don't know anything about him, but he's been an NBA assistant for 9 years. He's from Detroit. He's known Juwan since high school. He's the guy Juwan felt most comfortable sitting next to him on the Michigan bench, and the feeling was obviously mutual. What more do you want to know?
I get the feeling from your post that salaries are throwing you off - not sure why. How much was Eisley making with the Knicks? I have no idea, but I'll bet it was close enough to what he's making at Michigan that his U-M salary was the right number to persuade an NBA coach to backtrack to a college bench. Saddi Washington makes less but still got a $30k raise -- on top of the raise he just got last year. If that were an issue, he wouldn't be here.
So Howard hired three guys that want to be here. The university is paying them what they agreed to be paid.
This is all really obvious. I don't understand your confusion.
"this is all really obvious. I don't understand your confusion"
really welcomes a discussion....
Obviously I'm confused or else I wouldn't have posted. Yet I'm also not an idiot, so there may actually be some merit to my confusion that you might not share. you could try asking what that confusion is rather than announcing that "its all really obvious" ... which is less than helpful
"You could try asking what that confusion is rather than announcing that "its all really obvious" ... which is less than helpful."
I did. Instead of answering and welcoming the Eisley discussion that you started, you got offended. Here were my questions. Feel free to explain.
"I just don't get the confusion. What is your problem with Eisley?"
"What more do you want to know?"
way to cherry pick
dropped that part where you basically call someone else stupid for asking a question that you think is obvious
Are you being serious right now?
Holy shit, man. Are you okay?
I didn't call you stupid. I concluded that the information I was providing you was all really obvious because it was really obvious stuff. I didn't do any research. I said Eisley was hired because he has connections to Howard and has experience as an assistant - which we all know. And I said the salaries obviously aren't an issue because the contracts are all signed.
I didn't conclude that you were stupid. I concluded that the info I was providing answered your very simplistic question in your OP which didn't require my help in the first place. I deduced that there is probably a deeper issue you're driving at and I can't seem to figure out what it is. Perhaps if you explained, I could be of more help than my obvious answers.
Maybe take a breather. Grab a Snickers or something and refresh.
Eisley is aiming towards becoming the head coach of BC someday. He's genuinely interested in coaching in college. Howard is also comfortable with Eisley and given Eisley's connections, it can't hurt in recruiting.
He was also the backup PG to John Stockton on those 90s Jazz squads. I'm sure he learned a thing or two about coaching guards.
There.
You can't expect Juwan Howard to come in retaining two former regime assistants (Saddi and Sanderson), hiring a person he only met three times in Phil and then hire another person he doesn't know.
Of course he'll hire someone qualified and who he already has a relationship with.
that was helpful - thanks for explaining that
appreciate it
He's well respected around the NBA for guard development. Since Juwan's specialty is big men, hiring Eisley made perfect sense.
I'm not calling you stupid, but you're saying you are confused and then expecting the rest of us to figure out why. That makes for a stupid post and invites critical responses.
As a reference, the most recent contracts held by Beilein's staff paid:
— Brendan Quinn (@BFQuinn) June 13, 2019
Washington: $305,000
Yaklich: $300,000
Haynes: $275,000
Total: $880,000
Howard's staff represents an additional $275,000 in salaries.
Good. The AD could double their salary and it wouldn't matter.
Howard is making, what... ~1 mill less than JB? So net-net paying bball coaching staff ~750k less (unless i've missed additional support staff)
my other beef is saddi is the glue guy and second most college experienced guy on staff, would think he'd be at eisley's pay level
Exactly. And he makes more than Saddi?? Wtf. He's done nothing at UM or any college for that matter. Love him, but Juwan is in over his head imo.
Cool.
I don't agree with this at all
I don't judge Juwan on this hire. I want to know more about it
Then maybe you should call Juwan and ask him directly...
man when did people on here get so touchy.
i want to actually have a "discussion" on the discussion board and the gang of bros come out to add their 2 cents.
if you don't want to discuss this, bugger off.
if anyone wants to actually discuss the Eisley hire, let me know
Reggie tried to discuss this with you and you bit his head off, I'm good on the whole "discussing" things with you.
You have gone this entire thread without explaining what your confusion is and what that has to do with his salary. That’s why people are touchy.
I've read this entire thread and the problem seems to lie with you, not with everyone else. People continue to ask you the same questions over and over and you cannot answer, but rather, you get stuck on WHY people are asking you questions.
Also, NO ONE says "bugger off" - so if everyone is a bro for their answers, you're a tosser for using that term.
Lol. In case you're serious and not trolling, your OP would have been better if it included some reasoning for why you thought Eisley was a poor hire, or if you thought there was a better candidate instead. Also, if you think there's a better candidate, provide some reasoning for why you think they'd be realistic (i.e. not "STEVE KERR AS ASSISTANT COACH!!!"). You're getting hammered because you're acting confused without providing any basis for that confusion.
I met a guy maybe 10 - 12 years ago that you remind me of a lot. He had some good qualities and he seemed ok. His issue was he had a closed head injury.
But he has a flip phone.
This is a bad take. Let me explain why:
1. Eisley's salary and Saddi's salary are independent. If Saddi is happy working for $300,000, and signed on to coach at that salary, but Eisley didn't want to come for under $400,000, why would UM go back to Saddi and say, hey, because we are paying Eisley $400,000, we are bumping you up to the same salary? That's simply not how the job market works.
2. So Eisley has done nothing in college, or for UM. Does that mean that he isn't going to be a good recruiter? Coach? Developer of talent? Obviously Juwan and Warde believe that he is worth $400,000+. To demonstrate this point, let's take an extreme example - if Michael Jordon or LeBron wanted to be an assistant coach, would you hire them for $1 million? Hell yes. Neither has done a thing for UM or in college bball, but you can bet they would be damn good at recruiting and coaching. Obviously, Eisley is not MJ or LeBron, but the point holds.
3. What indicates to you that Juwan is in over his head. He has filled out his staff with an experienced and well -regarded HC as one of his assistants, an NBA assistant as another, an retained Saddi for the third spot. He also kept Sanderson. He seems like he is doing just fine to me.
We can definitely talk about the experience gap with Juwan, but it seems like he has done what we would have hoped and hired a staff which should be able to fill in at least most of the gaps for him, so I don't know that I would go and say "he's in over his head" when, even if you're uncomfortable with the hire on a few levels, we have no actual in-game evidence as yet.
Easley is an experienced NBA assistant. Of course he was going to earn more than Saddi.
The guy was an NBA assistant. Juwan is familiar with him and thinks he'll add value to the staff. What more insight do you need?
This is basically what we knew about Yaklich when Beilein hired him:
He was an assistant at a mediocre Illinois State program. The other ISU assistant Beilein hired gave him a strong recommendation, so Beilein hired Yak.
Relative to most Beilein assistant coach hires, Eisley looks pretty good. At the end of the day, all that matters is if they can win while adhering to our "standards", whatever they may be at the moment. So, we'll see what happens.
Who was the other ISU assistant?
Haynes was briefly at ISU.
I can't wait to revisit this thread later.
You know Michigan basketball has made it to Michigan football levels of fan attention by the constant concern about assistant coaches.
Brian posted this just in time to help you out:
(Freep link, but Brian posted it, so i assume its fine).
This Freep article (link) should clear it up for you.
TL;DR - Eisley is a former player/assistant coach who understands the game extremely well and seems to connect very well with younger kids. Basically, Juwan is your Dad, Phil is your wise old grandfather, and Howard is your cool uncle with the T-top Trans Am and a cooler on those tiny Trans Am backseats that is always filled with beer and ice.
Alright alright alright
Someone better tell him that he is about to enter the wrong restroom. Also, i prefer not to drink in the shitter... I hope he was ok in there....
Looks like he's going into the right restroom to me.
Also, Eisley had better call one of his kids Mos.
awesome thanks
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I never understand why fans care so much about salary info. It has absolutely no effect on the fans.
Eisely likely was getting paid similarly in the NBA, and we had to pay more to lure him to college.
I totally understand the questions about the hire, but salary just seems irrelevant to discuss.
Like if Howard was getting paid more than (what, $500k?) in the NBA, his salary would be different at Michigan.
The main reason Harbaugh gets paid so much is because his salary beforehand was extremely high and we had to lure him to Ann Arbor.
We would have paid $7-8M for Donovan if he said he would come to Michigan.
That was a waste of about 5 minutes of my time to see if the OP ever explained his confusion. When it comes to salaries you get paid what both parties agree too whether its what you are worth it or not. To say the guy hasn't done anything is a farce, he's been coaching in the NBA for a long time, would you question Harbaugh hiring a long time NFL coach?
Outside of the obvious you can find from articles about his playing career, coaching history & development of talent, I'm pretty sure I heard from Ant Wright's podcast that Eisley is well connected in the AAU circuit as well ..