Dug suspended for 6 road games
Weird suspension. Available for home games during the suspension.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:43 PM ^
Unless you're trying to restrain yourself, I'm pretty sure you can do better than "interesting."
January 10th, 2024 at 7:10 PM ^
This program is like the homemade submarine going to the titanic wreckage.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:25 PM ^
We can only hope the coaches are put out of their misery as fast as those rich dudes were
January 10th, 2024 at 7:12 PM ^
What the hell is going on with the basketball program at this point.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:14 PM ^
It's time for a change at the top of the bball program. Warde should have supported Sanderson instead of Juwan.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:26 PM ^
I doubt that, but Juwan still needs to go, IMO.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:15 PM ^
I'd forgotten about basketball lately. Maybe they did this to remind us all that they exist.
January 10th, 2024 at 8:32 PM ^
The question is how long would we have forgotten about them if it wasn’t for the consistent drama?
January 10th, 2024 at 7:16 PM ^
We weirdness in Michigan hoops Something has to give
January 10th, 2024 at 7:17 PM ^
I feel sorry for the kids, that work their butts off every day only to be disappointed by very poor leadership and decision makiing.
They deserve better. Need to clean house and start over, leave Martelli as interim the rest of the way and start the HC search ASAP
January 10th, 2024 at 8:58 PM ^
Martelli hasn't looked much better than Juwan. Granted, nobody would with the way we play defense. Also, the subbing patterns are weird. Probably because the roster doesn't have an identity. 1 point guard. 1 shooting guard. 6 forwards. 1 center with no hands.
Edit: nothing against your post. But you were the first to mention having Martelli continue coaching.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:17 PM ^
There really is no excuse to not have a couple more capable players. The 8 player rotation just went to 7. The walk-ons are going to be tested.
January 10th, 2024 at 11:40 PM ^
Not to drag down T-Will, but if the leading scorer is going to be him for a few more games, then this team is, well, not very good. T-Will is a complementary piece that should get 10-15 mins a game. Probably like most of the players on this team
January 11th, 2024 at 3:44 PM ^
There is no good reason for Terence Williams to be a guy taking lots of shots on this team. They have some pretty good players. This is a coaching/scheme problem, that they do not have the shots being taken overwhelmingly by those guys (McDaniels, Olivier). Both are good offensive players. Williams is just not.
Olivier is not a complimentary piece.
But again, the problem here is not offense. It's that they were pretty bad on defense last year, got rid of bad defenders, brought in good defenders, and somehow got WAY WORSE on defense. One consistent element: The coaches.
End of the year is end of Juwan time.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:17 PM ^
This year has been a disaster. Last year was a disappointment. And the year before that wasn’t much better aside from Eli putting the program on his back to beat Tennessee
January 10th, 2024 at 7:19 PM ^
Dug's statement shows he has a long way to go on maturity.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:41 PM ^
His coach is 50 and he has maturity issues so I’ll give Dug some leniency here
January 10th, 2024 at 7:20 PM ^
Hard to understate what an absolute failure Juwan has been. Losing games? It happens. Bad roster management? Sure. Your best player gets suspended for academic issues? When there is an army of university support staff that is hired to keep kids eligible? A total failure as a head coach on and off the court.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:29 PM ^
He bitch slapped a Wisconsin coach so at least he has that going for him.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:45 PM ^
Don't forget getting T'd up in a game he wasn't coaching.
January 10th, 2024 at 9:13 PM ^
He threatened to kill the Maryland head coach. That was neat.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:20 PM ^
Not going to lie, I saw the headline and was like “Dug who?”
Had to read the comments. Forgot we had a player named Dug on the basketball team…or that we even had a team.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:28 PM ^
You lied. It's ok.
January 10th, 2024 at 8:11 PM ^
Only half lied. I did forget who Dug was.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:21 PM ^
Put a fork in the MMB season. It's done.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:22 PM ^
OK, which one of you wished "the coach shouldn't be at the games" to a genie? I blame you. Should have said "Juwan Howard shouldn't be on the bench."
January 10th, 2024 at 7:22 PM ^
I’m out
January 10th, 2024 at 8:06 PM ^
Welcome to the Twilight Zone…
January 10th, 2024 at 7:32 PM ^
Hey basketball, keep it up, Jim Harbaugh has not signed his contract yet.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:39 PM ^
Sometimes freshmen come in to college and they get overwhelmed with the workload with class work and basketball combined…oh wait.
Between all of the coaching staff, Dug himself and the academic support group, this should never have gotten to this point. The entire program is a failure and needs a reset.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:45 PM ^
Dug is a sophomore.
January 10th, 2024 at 9:45 PM ^
That was my “oh wait” part of the joke.
January 10th, 2024 at 8:36 PM ^
I guess he's technically eligible by the NCAA standards but yeah. The amount of support and oversight they provide for players is such that this should be almost impossible. And like you said, that could be a program failure as much as Dug's.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:47 PM ^
The sacrifice continues …
January 10th, 2024 at 7:51 PM ^
So, Dug needs to play school the next month and a half.
January 10th, 2024 at 9:14 PM ^
He could just jump to the NBA.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:55 PM ^
Man. What a disaster Juwan turned out to be.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:55 PM ^
Yup, we're a football school again...
January 10th, 2024 at 7:56 PM ^
not really, he can’t handle the academic load/responsibility playing a full schedule and staying home allows him access to additional academic resources he would not get on the road. punishment for not upholding his end of the bargain but also not screwing him completely because he made a mistake a lot of athletes make as they lose sight of their other responsibilities.
January 10th, 2024 at 11:26 PM ^
I hope this is the path he travels! He's a dynamic young man. He has plenty of talent. But you are a student athlete! Sorry.. I'm glad he's being held responsible!
January 10th, 2024 at 7:57 PM ^
Playing school is part of the deal in Ann Arbor, Dug.
January 10th, 2024 at 8:11 PM ^
We're just at the point where everything is Juwan's fault, apparently. He's trying to help a kid with academics. Dug's not ineligible, or he wouldn't be able to play at all. But still, this is somehow another Juwan failure.
January 10th, 2024 at 8:26 PM ^
Yeah, I will say that as a sophomore this is all on Dug. He's been in college, knows what to expect, and there are a ton of resources made available to athletes if they're struggling. Juwan can't take these tests or turn in his homework for Dug, and I'm sure he tried to help him however he could.
January 10th, 2024 at 8:38 PM ^
January 10th, 2024 at 8:44 PM ^
Get to what point? He's not academically ineligible. This would very much appear to be Juwan stepping in before it got to that point. We can't simultaneously be the school that rejects Juwan's basketball transfer targets left and right based on academics, and then get upset when our Head Coach holds a player to a certain expectation academically.
January 11th, 2024 at 8:42 AM ^
You view this as Juwan stepping in and getting Dug the help he needs. I am wondering why the program has failed Dug so hard that he is even in danger of becoming ineligible. It is certain people's literal job to keep athletes eligible for play. Is Dug culpable for this too? Absolutely, but it's impossible to separate his own failure with the program's failure to prevent anything like this from ever happening.
January 11th, 2024 at 1:41 PM ^
The program didn't "fail Dug." Dug failed himself. He's not the victim here.
January 11th, 2024 at 7:59 AM ^
How do you know what he did or didn’t try? Maybe he has tried and this is an intervening step.
January 10th, 2024 at 8:21 PM ^
It's unquestionably an academics issue. I'm frankly surprised this has not been a more common issue than it appears to have been.
Back before electricity, B1G basketball games were Thursday night and Saturday afternoon (occasionally Sunday for a marquee game for TV). Road games were coordinated to minimize travel (eg, we'd play at IU and Purdue the same weekend, another team would play us and MSU the same weekend, etc...) The players would arrange a schedule with no Thursday afternoon or Friday classes, and they wouldn't miss any.
Now, the teams play any night of the week, sometimes late at night, all to accommodate TV schedules. I have no idea when or how the players go to class.