Dusty May contract: 5 years, $3.75 million per year average
This puts him at around 25th in the nation for CBB coaches, slightly below what Juwan made this year. Seems pretty low for the "we had to pay more than Louiseville" narrative.
Fantastic hire. Decent value. Excited about mens BB.
Yeah, surprising number. My guess would have been 5 mil/yr.
Go get it Dusty, Michigan's Mr.May!
But please be Mr. March.
And April...
I think you have to look at this one from not only the perspective of other college basketball programs, but from that of other Michigan sports, too. With Coach Moore making $5.5M, having Coach May make $5M might not have been tenable.
Aw man love Dusty!
Just go ahead and lay down in the ditch! 😂
He probably could’ve made more at Louisville, but there’s something about Michigan that is attractive to certain people. Those are the type of people that we want here and who succeed here.
Michigan is transformational, this is just more proof. /s
If he thought he could be successful at either school, he probably considered other factors. For example, Louisville is a dump and Ann Arbor is a great place to live.
Also, he’ll probably be given more leeway at Michigan to get things rolling. Louisville probably provides much less job security.
Less “conference security” too. If FSU (“Eff Stuff Up)” and Clemson get their way… and UNC follows… you tell me what the ACC looks like in 3 yrs. If there is an ACC.
May contract into what? A singularity?
/ what?
May puns are taking over, and it’s not even April yet
May the Final Fourth be with you.
I call that: a bargain, the best we ever had.
who?
I'm surprised it wasn't higher if he really had two schools competing for him. I read that before he was fired in 2017, Pitino made $7.7 million at Louisville, and there has been plenty of inflation after that.
One of those coaches is Rick Pitino and the other is Dusty May.
Not many school where the basketball coach makes more than the football coach.
These are highest paid coaches entering the 23-24 basketball season.
https://frontofficesports.com/highest-paid-mens-college-basketball-coaches/
I don't think you could have paid him the same as those making 5 mil or up. And guys like Nate Oats just got an extension.
Don’t forget that Pitino had to pay all recruiting expenses out of his pocket…including the hookers.
You guys are harsh. Hookers and blow ain’t cheap. How’s a guy supposed to make a living on those bread crumbs?
Rick Bozich (granted, he's a Louisville area reported) has been going on for days now that the Louisville basketball job is better than Michigan's.
Then the reports of May to Louisville came out and he was crowing about being right. Whoops! When May took the Michigan job, Bozich still insisted Louisville was the better job but Michigan just had deeper pockets. Silly me. I would think salary plays a role in how good a job is.
Now we find out what May will make. The previous Louisville coach was making $3.35 million per year. It doesn't seem like salary was a huge difference maker.
I wonder what Bozich and others like him will come up with next?
He'll probably say May was "scared of the pressure at UL" or similar.
But Louisville has the best hookers!
Just glanced at his twitter and my, oh, my is he coping extra hard today.
"Louisville is better than Michigan. We just got outbid by the money printer that is the B1G Ten! They have to be paying him top 10 money!"
Wow. Very treasonable. Well done Warde.
Can’t wait to see who stays and who we get in the portal!
Do we even have any players left to 'stay'?
kind of. Some guys down at the CCRB called ‘next’, so we have all 5 of them.
I happened to be playing at the CCRB around 1987 (??) and Terry Mills and Rumeal Robinson were playing on center court. I forget why, but they couldn't play on the varsity that year so I guess they were getting some work in. Mills (6' 11") wouldn't go closer than 15 feet from the basket and worked on his ouside game. Robinson (6' 2" ish) wouldn't stray farther than 5 feet from the rim and worked only on posting up and inside moves. They were still both unstoppable (except for one game when I think they decided to guard each other)
They didn’t qualify academically. You had to have a minimum SAT score to play as a freshman.
I played over at the IM building on south campus and saw Voskuil and Bossard playing. Voskuil was obviously on another level, but I felt like I could hang with Bossard.
Don't joke. Ever see Freddie and the 7 Dwarves play before Hunter was asked to be on the team?
Bring his big and go get a couple big 6-10 , 6-11 over sea bigs with big upside
Guy was making $1.25M annual with 5% annual increases. This is a boon for him.
People are conflating football contracts with bball. So this looks like a "deal" but it's a great deal for a guy who really has shown out one year. We will see if he can recreate that one group of players who got him paid.
Hope it works out - but it's not our money so who cares.
Have to give Warde credit on this one. He did a good job of making this happen. Beating out Louisville and Vanderbilt is pretty impressive.
Beating Vanderbilt out for anything that isn’t baseball related isn’t all that impressive, but point on Louisville absolutely taken.
I glad the AD let the checkbook get Dusty. May it lead to good basketball things.
Are we back?
almost. suggest you keep that 24 pak of keystone light on ice and await the confirming announcement.
If we are playing at this time next year, yes.