justin joyner

ALL RIGHT FINE JUST HIRE A GUY OUT OF LEFT FIELD

Michigan's third assistant:

NEWS: Michigan’s Dusty May is hiring Saint Mary’s Associate HC Justin Joyner as an assistant coach, sources tell @247Sports. 

Joyner has helped Saint Mary’s to two conference tournament titles and two regular season championships. 

Reeled in Gaels’ star Aidan Mahaney and other…

— Travis Branham (@TravisBranham_) April 10, 2024

That tweet finishes with "…other Top150 recruits in Jordan Ross, Mikey Lewis and Zion Sensley." Also:

This is a massive move. Justin has been a huge part of Saint Mary’s success, especially on the recruiting trail.

He’ll be a head coach somewhere soon.

Congrats to @JoynerJustin! Well deserved and you will be missed. https://t.co/pBblslv1VE

— Zack Farmer (@postsbyzack) April 10, 2024

Josh Henschke reports that Joyner is indeed taking one of the three off-campus recruiting slots. That's not quite picking off the top assistant at Tennessee but it's not far off. Congrats to Rod Clark on his raise.

Henschke also reports that the two non-recruiting assistant slots are going to go to a couple of his FAU guys, so this seems like the best of both worlds. You have two guys who are well regarded as P5 recruiters, another guy who's from St Mary's and therefore speaks Australian, and two guys who helped build FAU into a top 50 program.

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