Bacari Alexander fired
Disappointing for the former Beilein assistant but not surprising. Only won 16 games in 2 years and had that weird suspension earlier this year. Interesting to see the difference between his career trajectory and Lavall Jordan. Hope he lands on his feet somehwere.
Chatman still has eligibility? Seems like forever ago that he stunk at Michigan.
the corner 3 against Indiana.
I also follow UDM hoops since that's my grad school - and was awfully disappointed. That team has talent. Bacari couldn't seem to coach it to save his life. At the end of the season he said something about how he was all about defense but players don't want to play it because of some generational thing. I don't remember exactly what he said but "generational thing" was definitely part of the blame game. Bullshit, dude.
Seems like a good time for us to remember the legacy of Rick Majerus, nudist towel pooper
https://deadspin.com/5439875/ahole-coach-digest-special-rick-majerus-ed…
Just wow. The poop towel story cannot be real. I mean I hope not but....at a loss.
Loyola-Chicago's coach Porter Moser was Majerus's assistant coach at St. Louis.
Not that we don't all present differently or partially from who we are, but if Bacari did that then he should have a consultation with his twitter self....
this might eliminate him from candidacy when beilein retires.
Yeah it seemed like Lavall Jordan and Jeff Meyer were the guys improving their players whereas the big men always seemed to lag behind which was under Bacari's purview, exception being Mitch McGary and senior Jordan Morgan.
Yaklich is probably in the mix.
Jordan would certainly seem like a candidate if he fares well, but it's possible he'll decide to just stay put at Butler, it being his alma mater.
Patrick Beilein would be an interesting darkhorse if he can climb the ladder enough by the time of his father's retirement.
Lol.... a joke right? Bacari - even before this abortion of a season - was never a legit, major-program coaching candidate.
I wonder if UDM will promote coach Jackson.
Wasn't Kam Chatman's dad on staff, too? Awkward if the entire staff gets pink slips.
Chatman is their best player, so wouldn't shock me if the new coach is urgred to keep his dad on staff.
Awkward, but I doubt Kam can transfer again.
See Jaron Simmons. Houston, Ohio, Michigan
Considering how Chatman blew up this season and with another subpar campaign probably in store for UDM, I wouldn't be surprised if he sought greener pastures.
He declared but didn't hire an agent so he can pull his name out after the draft combine and return to Detroit or pursue a graduate year transfer. This is what Jaaron Simmons did last year.
He's declared for the NBA draft but hasn't hired an agent yet, so he could return depending on his evaluation. Similar to Wagner last year.
Not a bad idea at all!
That would be pretty cool to see.
HALOL
Damn, that went....poorly.
if it were up to me. Isn't it unusual to promote an assistant when the head coach is fired, (primarily) for losing?
Chatman was absolutely terrible for us....haven't seen him since... is he really a NBA-level prospect ?
March 27th, 2018 at 12:31 AM ^
March 27th, 2018 at 12:56 AM ^
Saw the team play a few times on WADL. Team seaemed to play engaged and competitve. I would've given him another year.
Wonder what Kam Chatman does.
Reading up-therad aobut screaming football coaches, my high school football coach won a crap ton of games. He's still coaching actually, going on about 30 years now. Our high school routinely wins our conference and has advanced as far as the Michigan title came, though they fell short when they got there.
He also happens to be about the most awesome person you can imagine. I didn't play football for him but he was also the baseball coach, and I played baseball under him. I'm not saying he never yelled at anyone, because duh. But he never did any of this crazy shit you hear about coaches doing. he treated everyone like men, and made it clear that he expected the same out of you, and that if you f***ed up, your ass was going on the bench. No screaming, no yelling, just sit your ass down and think about it.
When I hear people say the only way to coach is to scream at kids, I think back to this guy. He took a bunch of farm kids at a public school every year and turned them into a championship football team, year after year after year, and he did it with respect and a crap-ton of hard work. I never heard a single kid or parent say a bad word about him in the several decades he's been our high school's coach.
So it CAN be done. You don't have to be the coach that yells and intimidates all the time. Maybe his way was more difficult but I've seen that it is very possible.
I'd say I'm a pretty successful millenial. And a varsity head coach. The best coaches I've had and worked with have not been swearers or screamers. I have a no swearing rule. And I have no trouble getting kids to understand when mistakes are made or effort is lacking. It's all about building mutual respect.
Again, I'm not saying no one yelled. Of course, there was yelling. And I was on the baseball team, and there is a ton less yelling in baseball than football. But a lot of kids played both sports.
He didn't need to yell to get his point across. Dude lost several fingers in a metal press when he was younger. He would hold up his hand and tell us, you think whatever has happened to you is bad? Look at my hand! Look what happened to me! Did I sit around and bitch and moan and cry about it? No, I got my shit together and figured out how to move on and still be successful despite the bad stuff that happened to me.
I mean, how do you argue with a guy like that? You don't. You do what he says, or you shut up and sit your ass on the bench.
March 26th, 2018 at 11:06 PM ^