JUB says Beilein will consider if asked
I, too, will consider the job if asked. FYI
I, too, will consider FauxMo for the job if asked.
Not sure if you'll be asked though. Nobody knows anything and anything could happen!
I coached 4 years of grade school basketball. I’ll throw my hat in the ring. My record my first 2 seasons was 0-0. I coached the 1st and 2nd graders and we didn’t keep score. The next year I moved up to 3rd and 4th graders. We went 16-0, won the regular season and playoffs and I got to coach the league’s all-star team for a couple tournaments. I thought I was the shit. My coaching career ended the next season when we went 7-8. My biggest challenge that season was keeping my best player from sobbing during games. Anyway, the lesson I learned from that is it’s almost all about the players. Coach Howard had great rosters his first 2 seasons and did well. He constructed this roster this season and shit the bed.
Whoever we bring in, I hope he can recruit. One of the biggest disappointments for me was Juwan’s inability to identify, bring in, and develop talent. I bought into the whole, “he has AAU connections, he has Chicago connections,” storyline. In the end, he couldn’t recruit (2 open scholarships this season) incoming freshmen or convince his players to return. C’est la vie.
Interview question: Have you ever smacked an opposing coach upside the head?
March 15th, 2024 at 10:13 PM ^
No, but I felt like doing that on more than one occasion.
“Have you ever written a manifesto? If so, how many pages is it?”
“I also choose this man’s dead wife.”
I cannot say why exactly, but this is one of the funniest posts I've read on this site. I'm literally laughing out loud and having to explain why to the guys around me. Well done, Faux.
Would he be paid in Bear Hugs though?
Subs. It'll be crazy.
I would like it to come to your attention that I would consider the Michigan men's basketball head coaching position if asked, but I don't know if I'll be asked.
Sigh. Ok. I'll play.
Hey, would YOU like to be the head coach of the University of Michigan Men's Basketball program?
Yes! Get him to commit to three years. Build the program back up. Immediately have him bring in a successor in waiting and mentor him...and then hand off the program.
I heard Yaklich is available as well.
Get the band back together
We’re on a mission from dog
So that reminds me….did you hear about the Jehovah Witness with a hair lip?
Poor fella spent all day going door to door trying to spread the word of dog.
I’ll be here all week, don’t forget to tip your waitress.
And the agnostic dyslexic insomniac lies awake at night pondering the existence of dog.
Really liked Yaklich. Great defensive mind.
Perhaps he wasn't ready to be a HC and left too soon or just the wrong place/circumstance at UIC. Either way, I like the idea of him coming back under the tutelage of JB and grooming him to be the successor. This was a consideration during JB tenure. Long shot, but proven combo. Besides, our options will be very limited.
"Get him to commit to three years. Build the program back up. Immediately have him bring in a successor in waiting and mentor him...and then hand off the program."
Beilein flamed out in the NBA after dumping UM and the "frustrating" college game of its time. Now, the college game is more like the NBA with NIL payments and portal free agency.
JB's ship sailed when he left, with him laughing at the helm, at least until he reached the NBA promised land. Then, not so much. No more laughter or coaching success.
Beilein was a great, beloved coach for us, no doubt. Better to keep his legacy intact by leaving it in the past. There's plenty of young coaches ready for UM's next chapter. Excited for that. .
Yes! Three-year interim coaches who are 75-years-old and previously quit the team because they hated coaching college basketball are notoriously very successful every time college programs hire them. This is a very smart and awesome idea and definitely not stupid at all!
Plus, it's well known that Beilein loves dealing with the transfer portal and NIL and boosters, so there's no way this brilliant idea will fail!
This is why I'm really disappointed that we didn't go this route with Lloyd Carr when Harbaugh left for the Chargers. It's just such a brilliant idea. Bring Lloyd in to be a 3-year interim coach, and then he could bring in a successor like Mike Debord or Fred Jackson who he could mentor to take over for him.
Think about how awesome that would be. Recruits would go wild for a program with such an amazing succession plan. The older the coach and more unstable the succession plan is, the better recruiting is, I bet! Stinks we had to go with Sherrone instead of this awesome idea.
Everyone got mad at me for being mean to Beilein in another thread but I don't understand why people have amnesia about the fact that he himself lamented how he couldn't keep up with the changes in the landscape, and that was when he was 66 years old. Five years later is a long time for a 71 year old, why would he be up to speed now?
I also find the way he left our team to have been dishonorable, and what for? To humiliate himself at the highest level of basketball even before he made a bizarre racialized comment to his own team? I really dislike what he did and hope he doesn't return.
I said it elsewhere in the thread, but people in this fanbase are experts when suggesting all the people they want to be fired, but they are drooling, mouthbreathing morons when suggesting who to hire.
This Beilein suggestion is the stupidest of the stupid. Hire an elderly interim coach for a couple years to bring us back to glory, lol. Just so, so stupid.
March 15th, 2024 at 10:28 PM ^
We're stupid enough to do it when it comes to leading our country, why not our basketball team?
I’m telling you guys, Princeton’s Mitch Henderson-worth a look! Thing is, UM would have to wait til his season is over because his team is still alive unlike… you get the picture
Thanks for the suggestion, Mitch. We'll consider it.
You’re 12 aren’t you.
I love Coach B, but would prefer he starts out as the 6th or 7th candidate on the call list.
"I would consider..." is the phrase that get's my attention. Sounds like a polite "no thanks" to some degree.
I think it means he would take it. A lot of people would not say they would accept an offer if given because that would feel like public rejection when the offer doesn't come. The guy is 71 years old now anyway, its not something that should be considered.
Has he been out of the game too long?
In some ways no, as aspects of college basketball have turned the sport even more towards player development, his wheelhouse.
He wouldn't like recruiting his players every year OR dealing with NIL. If someone else can handle those duties I'm sure he'd be fine. Otherwise I don't think he would/should take the job.
Thugs never die
ahem, SLUGS...SLUGS never die
Bacon, I don't want to be harsh, but this constant tweeting and saying "no one knows anything" as a disclaimer to discredit yourself and everyone else...either report or put the Twitter down.
John U Bacon is verging into Balas territory with the engagement bait.
Regarding Harbaugh and Howard, Bacon = Balas + mealy mouthed, plausible deniability double talk.
It feels like “nobody knows anything” just means he no longer has sources close to the relevant individuals.
Yeah. He n
Yeah. He needs to stop it now with that saying. We get it JB
I agree with Bacon that he continues to know nothing, glad he continues to remind us.
Maybe Beilein’s agent should contact warde vs bacon to signal interest
Warde vs. bacon is a pretty one-sided contest. One that Warde would love, though…
He might be a little old to be our next coach, but I'm 100% in favor of him being the next president of the United States
Lol. Too young to be POTUS!
Edit: regardless of which of those fucktards get elected, from this point on I will refer to it as POS rather than POTUS!
That's a ridiculous idea. And, yet, I'd be completely open to it this year. :)
Yaklich is secretary of defense, obvi
With Phil Parker from Iowa as Secretary of Homeland Security. No offensive capabilities, only defense.
Bring him back to right the ship with Yaklich... then burn the boats