dusty may seems good at this

Things Discussed:

• LSU is out of NIL money? They got outbid for an MSU DT and Brian Kelly says "We don't buy players." That'll be news to Bryce Underwood; hope his checks clear.
• Spartans getting in their feelings about Jaden Mangham possibly transferring to Michigan (or Ohio State or Minnesota). Want to prevent him from graduating. There's an intrastate program that allows you to finish your MSU degree at Michigan. Why can't this work for other guys? It's a formal in-state program. The reason academic programs like this don't associate with athletic transfers that much is schools other than Michigan are good at making exceptions for athletes. Michigan should have done so for Terrence Shannon; they probably were right to turn down Caleb Love.
• Brian: Good time to be a Michigan fan; long-term prognoses for OSU and MSU not great.
• Dusty May's presser: Best first presser ever? He's a great communicator/teacher who gave us a lot of information, addressed exact questions. He was watching OSU games for fun? Seth: He was probably watching OSU games because he thought he'd be coaching them.
• Dusty's offense: two point guards, wants all of his players to be facilitators so the ball can't get stuck, can't get trapped. All of these guys have an out: good passers or at worst they can shoot it over anybody. Kinda like Beilein's where the PG with a 64-bit decision tree. Dusty May wants lots of guys with 16-bit decision trees. Tough part: lots of teaching to get it down.
• Rubin Jones perfect glue guy. I'm calling this now: I'm the #1 Rubin Jones fan around here. No takesies.
• Competition in the Big Ten? Oregon and UCLA will be decent, MSU standing pat with a bubble team, OSU is new coaching, Purdue graduated everybody. Michigan will probably be…top 4, 6-seed? Expect them to lose some games early as they learn to play with each other.
• Roster May built is ideal but for a star. I call it the Dayenu roster because everybody's one flaw from being in the NBA. Craig: May wants to be fun as well as good. Seth: Sounds like he's one of us.
• Football in the break: Texas CB Terrance Brooks?. Watched him vs Washington last year, when he was getting burned because he was in man all day. He's..Vincent Gray? Technically solid, smart, big, good ball skills, not a burner. Need to give him help; Michigan would be a good fit because they use so much poach coverage to take away the post. Texas was terrible because they were playing so much press quarters with no help on the double post and fade. Michigan takes that away.
• Schools cutting sports because of paying athletes? They'll say that, but they shouldn't. They're paying just 10% of their budget to players; pro leagues pay 55%. Will happen at the mid-major level because their conferences don't make sense and football is already a massive expenditure that they finance with student fees. Brian: that's a marketing fee; they can just cut back on marketing.
• What we want to see from Congress: your cap is based on how many scholarships you give out.

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Dusty May Gets It

May did an interview with Champions Circle that had a lot of encouraging quotes in it; Dusty May seems to understand the current state of college basketball and is going to deal with it as best he can:

A lot of times us coaches, I think we expect more out of these young men than we do ourselves. I've tried to be even transparent with my processes of jobs and whatnot and even with our guys at FAU. They read last year that I was up for jobs and this and that, and I explained to them that we're all sacrificing here. I'm not telling you that to earn any more equity with you. I'm just saying that this is part of being a member of something great.

And then you come here, and the contract, the length of years was never my priority with any of these jobs. I wanted to pursue the job that fit me and I felt like we could be the absolute best we could be. But then again, when these players and everyone looks and sees how much coaches make, they naturally want a bigger piece of the pie. They deserve more than what they were getting. But it's such an unregulated market and you never know.

I do want all the players that play for us to be taken care of. And what I mean by 'taken care of': To be able to to have their parents attend games, to be able to eat what they need to eat to be a high-performing athlete. And also, my goal with anyone that has NIL, is save enough money where no matter what happens next, you can at least have a down payment on a house and you have a nest egg built.

That's about right: they should get paid, but it's got to be about more than that. May hasn't put a foot wrong so far in his brief tenure.

Speed Dating

A few guys have progressed to the "actually definitely a target" stage:

FAU C Vlad Goldin fielded another prediction in favor of Michigan, this one from Joe Tipton. This one seems over. Goldin will be on campus this weekend as soon as the dead period ends and I bet one dollar he does not leave campus uncommitted.

[After THE JUMP: new portal entries perk up the ears]