John Beilein Appreciation Thread

Submitted by KennyHiggins on

JB arrived after the 2007 hoop season.  He came to Ann Arbor with a keen offensive basketball mind, and a reputation for doing things the right way.

Michigan hadn't been to the NCAA tournament in a decade.  The Beilein decade has been an enormous success in terms of B1G championships (2012, 2014), NCAA tournament appearances (7 of 10 seasons), NCAA tournament record (11-6, including a trip to the Final game, and a heartbreaking loss to Kentucky in the Elite 8), and players developed and launched into the NBA (Hardaway Jr, GRIII, Stauskas, Trey Burke, McGary, Morris, Harris, LeVert).  Haven't seen our players or coaches show up in negative headlines that would embarass the school or the program.

I'm glad he's our coach.  Go Blue!

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cletus318

February 27th, 2017 at 3:08 PM ^

Butler managed to remain consistently good even after a coaching change and moving to the Big East, which is still a major basketball league. At some point, we have to simply stop spinning other schools' successes/our lack thereof as simply that everyone else is cheating. Villanova hasn't recruited one and dones. Wisconsin has had a consistent run of success without top tier recruiting. Izzo has rarely gotten one and done guys. Oregon hasn't gotten one and done guys. We can't position it as though the choices are simply open the money cannon or mediocrity.

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