Rumors surrounding Juwan's future as MBB head coach
First time creating a forum topic... don't have any links, just too much talk on Twitter right now for it to be nothing.
Anyone?
December 10th, 2023 at 9:25 PM ^
Would be nice to maybe include a few links.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:26 PM ^
Well, what’s it saying?
December 10th, 2023 at 10:05 PM ^
Supposedly punched an assistant coach.
Downvote me to hell, but he should have been fired after the Wisconsin incident imo.
I like Juwan, think he's a a success story from his upbringing to where he's made it in life, but there are standards for a college basketball coach well beyond recruiting, strategy, and wins and losses.
Bobby Knight was given a really long rope back in the day because 1) he won 2) things were different (and worse) back then in holding authority figures accountable. Knight never changed despite how many times he was told to chill or back off, and just got worse and more out of control with success and enablers.
Juwan also, seemingly, is combustable, and folks rarely change. Will wait for all the facts to come out, but feels like it was just a matter of time before Juwan lost his temper in the team setting during a stressful exchange.
December 10th, 2023 at 10:07 PM ^
Is he more combustible than Fran McCaffrey or Tom Izzo?
December 10th, 2023 at 10:09 PM ^
I dont remember Fran or Izzo slapping another coach...just saying
December 10th, 2023 at 10:15 PM ^
Izzo did slap a player though
December 10th, 2023 at 10:15 PM ^
Well Izzo would have to climb a ladder to reach another coach’s face
December 10th, 2023 at 10:19 PM ^
Thats why there are xtra big chairs in the locker room
December 10th, 2023 at 11:15 PM ^
Wasnt that like 2 yrs ago?
December 10th, 2023 at 11:29 PM ^
If he was a rage-aholic/serial puncher, wouldn't decades of work in high stress environments have revealed this by now?
Maybe not, and tomorrow morning, another alumnus head coach will be making headlines and providing internet fodder for embarrassing the U, but I think this would have been apparent by now.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:27 PM ^
Rumors from insiders that Juwan punched Sanderson on Friday.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:28 PM ^
Well…if thats true, it would be a fitting exit
December 10th, 2023 at 9:30 PM ^
Should have been fired on Friday if true
December 10th, 2023 at 9:31 PM ^
Howard needs to switch to decaf.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:37 PM ^
Juwan coached today and Sanderson wasn't on the bench so possible the story could be wrong or backwards. We will probably find out soon.
December 10th, 2023 at 10:37 PM ^
Some calibration is necessary here: rumor mill plus “game of telephone” can easily get out of hand.
Insider noise and Sanderson’s absence seems to indicate something is up. But Howard cold-cocking a staff member is very unlikely, and people should treat such suppositions (is there a sourced report saying that Howard punched someone? Even sourced reports have been overstated, see the football program this year) with extreme caution.
There was probably an incident, and it’s possible that there was some kind of physical scuffle. There are certain permutations of this that can easily cause trouble, bring Juwan’s long-term future into question, and set the rumor mill alight, without being the kind of event described suppositionally in this thread that would constitute an assault.
The truth is probably more complicated, even if it is ultimately not good.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:59 PM ^
Seriously?!? Wtf
December 10th, 2023 at 10:19 PM ^
Had that happened, he'd already be fired.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:28 PM ^
Balas, 247 board, Ant Wright…yep lots of smoke that Juwan is done. Apparently there was some sort of physical altercation he was involved with on Friday.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:36 PM ^
If he is done, then why was he allowed to coach today and sit on the bench?
December 10th, 2023 at 9:41 PM ^
Because Warde is our AD. Clueless.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:55 PM ^
The king of hiding in the shadows and taking no action.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:59 PM ^
If Juwan assaulted another coach (again!), nothing was done and was allowed to coach today, Warde needs to go as well.
December 10th, 2023 at 10:02 PM ^
Warde and Stapleton love him
December 10th, 2023 at 10:03 PM ^
Because it didn't involve any cheeseburgers!
December 10th, 2023 at 9:28 PM ^
I've seen a few poster say a physical altercation with another coach, perhaps Sanderson. Also something to do with his health.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:29 PM ^
If that is the case he needs to be gone.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:29 PM ^
I thought the basketball program needed a reset…..but I really have no words.
Edit: I had a surgery similar to the one Howard had back in January. It isn’t an easy recovery and I don’t have the stress of coaching basketball. I was wondering how he would do trying to come back from that.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:30 PM ^
Sadly it's all over TwiX.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:54 PM ^
Dammit... now I want a Twix and the kids have already killed off all the ones they got for Halloween (well all of them minus the Dad taxed ones).
December 10th, 2023 at 10:25 PM ^
I'm glad Twix is catching on. The original name wasn't good, but it was a brand and they built on it. That wealthy South African dude coming in and thinking he can just build a brand by clicking send on an email is one of the dumbest things he's done, and that is a long list.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:31 PM ^
Didn't watch the game today. Was Juwan there?
December 10th, 2023 at 9:32 PM ^
Yes, and I think he was the 'head coach' again today.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:33 PM ^
Looked like it was still Phil
December 10th, 2023 at 10:04 PM ^
Hasn't it always been Phil???
/s
December 10th, 2023 at 9:36 PM ^
Seems odd to have him travel with the team today if this happened on Friday. They could have kept him back in A2 and people probably wouldn't have thought much about it.
This sucks. I wanted to enjoy an evening of Sparty No! and instead it's Michigan Athletics Masterpiece Theatre.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:33 PM ^
Sanderson was not
December 10th, 2023 at 9:35 PM ^
Sanderson leaving would suck.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:44 PM ^
If there was an altercation and Juwan, in the wrong, is allowed to travel with the team, I wouldn't blame Sanderson for polishing his resume and seeking work elsewhere.
Either way, after how the "insiders" let so many of us down in the past two months, I'll wait for more official news to come out.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:32 PM ^
Rumors are Jace missed a session with Sanderson and Sanderson got into it with him and Juwan hit him
December 10th, 2023 at 9:39 PM ^
Having the coach's kids on the team is always a bad idea.
December 10th, 2023 at 9:49 PM ^
No it’s not. Getting into a fight with a coworker over a disagreement is a bad idea.
December 10th, 2023 at 10:03 PM ^
Kids should learn to play for somebody who doesn't give them special treatment.
December 10th, 2023 at 10:13 PM ^
This is also a scenario where the adult is at fault.
December 10th, 2023 at 10:03 PM ^
I’ll bet your kids should be starting too
December 10th, 2023 at 10:05 PM ^
My kids? I stopped coaching once they got to high school. They needed to get away from me to grow up.
December 10th, 2023 at 10:21 PM ^
That seems to be a “you” problem! The sport is littered with kids who have played for their fathers and everything was just fine