Jaden McDaniels commits to Washington
In b4 Maizen blames Warde for taking too long to hire JH.
At this point I’m guessing Maizen/1201 will blame Warde, not for taking too long to hire Howard, but for not hiring McDaniels as the coach
At this point, I'm guessing Maizen/1201 will want Howard fired since he obviously can't land five stars before being hired.
And he'll want Beilein fired from Cleveland too, just because.
At this point, I'm guessing Maizen/1201 wouldn't comment in the middle of a thread, lest he get nuked to Bolivia.
We need the ability to downvote OP's !!!
Oh god, I just realized we're going to have two JH coaches. I estimate 33 minutes of my life will be spent wondering which JH we're referring to in threads. Here's the math estimate:
Number of times I come across the initialism "JH" on this board from now until one of the two leave Michigan = 1000?
Amount of time it takes to realize which "JH" is being referred to = 2 sec?
1000 sec x 2 = 2000 sec
2000 sec / 60 = 33 min
Thanks Warde. /s
I just had the same thought, a lot less complicated one though, thanks for putting the math in my head.
Great start. Howard will be done in 2 years. Trash.
Yes what an immense failure by our new coach who hasn't even been announced yet to not pull a kid away at the 13th hour from two schools he's been building relationships with for months/years. Get the fuck out of here.
Aren't they cousins? He has been building a relationship with him for 17/18 years.
Yes, and I'm guessing with even just a year to recruit him, that would've been very meaningful.
They live in opposite corners of the country (McDaniels in Seattle, Howard in Miami) and Juwan has been working in an NBA job where he doesn't recruit high schoolers. Might want to keep that in mind.
McDaniels lives 3,000 miles away from Juwan. For literally his entire life, Juwan has been in the NBA traveling all the time. How often do the two get to see each other?
This is a nice attempt at trolling but needs some work. Maybe try to get an internship or an assistant position with Maizen/1201 to cut your teeth.
How's that back, Wilt?
If I was Juwan and was getting this job I would have told my nephew to commit elsewhere. Neither of them need a family relationship to navigate with a high profile coach/player relationship.
Yeah, sure turned out bad for the Dawkins family.
Indeed. It cost Aubrey that alley-oop against Duke.
How do you that he even likes his uncle? They may not get along.
Seems like bad news for us. I would think if he was interested at all in playing for his uncle then he wouldn't have committed on the same day that its essentially confirmed that Juwan would be coach here
Hopefully Howard can change his mind
Or..... is Howard not as “done” as we think it is?
Maybe he wants to go to a program he’s been getting heavily recruited by and has been very familiar with for the last year, vs. going somewhere he may know next to nothing about aside from the fact that his uncle MAY coach there.
Also, I don’t know about you, but I’d prefer not to get coached by a close family member. Especially if the season starts going belly up.
FWIW, Juwan isn’t his uncle. They’re cousins. Your point still stands. And who’s to say whether an uncle is a closer relative than a cousin!?
I know several people have referred to him as “uncle” in this thread. Just wanted to point this out as a good example of people repeating whatever they read without knowing the facts!
if enough people repeat it - it must be true!
In this case I'm not sure how big of a practical difference it makes if they're cousins vs uncle/nephew. One is 46 and the other a teenager.
No way man. This is a conspiracy that reaches up to the highest levels.
Who knows. Families are complicated. I love my uncle but also wouldn’t want to be his employee. McDaniels is a likely one and done and won’t make or break the Howard era at Michigan.
He definitely would make next year better for sure. Who knows if he’s signed yet? Otherwise Juwan can still try to convince him to come to Michigan.
It sure as hell wouldn't hurt though.
Oh no says a poster,”Juwan can’t recruit!” Another poster inquires,”Juwan who, do we have a new head coach, yet?”
Yes, it’s inconceivable that a kid who was born in Seattle and has lived there his entire life would want to go to school at home instead of going to a school thousands of miles away with whom he has few if any relationships beyond one with a cousin who hasn’t been hired yet.
Inconceivable!!
This is no surprise. He was not coming here no matter who was hired as coach. Any slim chance Michigan had before evaporated with the uncertainty of Michigan's coaching situation post-Beilein. Time to move on everyone.
Unlikely he committed to UM, but still interesting timing. The day Howard seems UM-bound he commits to Washington. A visit seemed possible.
Was there even a small chance before Beilein left? I thought he announced his top 5 - which didn't include Michigan - several months ago.
My cousins wouldn't move across the country to work for me, so I can't blame Juwan. Especially since he hasn't been hired yet. Seems like the fan base is pumped about the return of another JH.
Committing in the middle of the night is an interesting strategy
Also, Washington is a $$$$ school that I feel like people forget about. They've randomly got commitments from like 3 top-10 players in the past 4 years, however, Porter Jr flipped to play for his dad
I like how UW officially acknowledged him committing and he hasn't signed yet.
I don't think UW would be so dumb as to commit the most basic of recruiting violations. Occam's Razor says they know what they're doing and he signed when he committed. Of course, nobody ever went broke betting on people's stupidity, so maybe they did jump the gun on the LOI signing.
So the kid grew up in Washington, spent his whole life there. I don't see this as a surprise, and certainly not anything related to Michigan - he never considered coming here in the first place! Good luck to him in Washington.
BTW, he'll need that luck in Washington. Nothing like laboring in a mostly irrelevant conference where you'll never be favored to make it past the second round! This is another of the 5-star one & done'ers that will not threaten the current order of high level college bball. Which is good with me, because I think those guys are largely ruining the college game... (A little Beilein saltiness, perhaps?)
Even if he hasn't signed his LOI, I don't expect him to come running 2000 miles from home on a whim because his cousin (who isn't the coach) might become the coach.
Wilson, please come back
Do people think before they type - or just parrot?
He wouldn't even wait until his cousin got a job? He didn't even choose a blue blood so like
Dang , thought he was coming as a package w jh.
This timing ....very peculiar... his cousin is about to be named coach of M and he commits to W, as if saying his cousin carries no weight at all.. I believe him announcing now, was in fact related to our coaching situation... I imagine that Howard reached out to him letting him know hes gonna be the coach, and McDaniels said he wants to stay home, so they decide he should commit to W before Howard is coach, so it isn't viewed as a recruiting miss. Sound about right ? Otherwise, it seems too much of coincidence of the announcement now, and by doing so it is saying he has no interest in playing for his cousin.
Calling Matt D.