Basketball thread v. McNeese State

I’d love for anyone to come on here and legitimately justify the need for Juwan to be the head coach at Michigan next year. We all love Juwan for his time with the Fab 5 but this isn’t even remotely working out. 

There's no defending Juwan Howard anymore, he needs to go. Bring in Dusty May or literally any coach that actually runs an offense and defense, not open gym X's and O's

Thank you BTN minus.   I’m glad I’m not watching this. 

Woof. We had a couple chances to fire Juwan for cause and save some money, too. 

Every day that Juwan coaches from here on is an indictment of Warde Manuel. He handled the Mel Pearson situation terribly, he hasn’t locked up Harbaugh long term, and now he’s had multiple opportunities to move on from Juwan and instead the basketball program is in a death spiral.

Whew boy. But, I continue to persist in the belief that we've sacrificed basketball for the good of the football program. 

Have we hit rock bottom yet?

The beginning of the end of the Juwan Howard tenure.

I've been a Juwan defender, but it seems increasingly clear that Franz Wagner probably made him look better than he actually was (and Franz is now tearing it up in the NBA).  This program has not been the same since he left.

Unfortunately, there aren't any more Wagner boys left to come here.

Well at least we did not lose to McNeese by as much as Mississippi University for Women did.

They don't play smart, they don't play hard, they don't play together, & they don't play with any passion or purpose. That's the players, & they are a reflection of the coaching.

How many Juwan slappies are still out there after this?

Hahaha

Fire Juwan from a fucking cannon…try to include Warde too if he’ll fit

There are 0 arguments in favor of retaining Howard at this point. What an embarrassment.

Time to end this clown car show !  Opposite defenders not even seeing their man and the ball . Let Jay smith coach the defense . Sadi has no clue 

Well, things have been poor all but one year, but everyone here really values the tourney, so they point to the 2 game winning streak over the meh season. It’s bad. If you aren’t going to move along, you have to get a defensive coordinator and fire some assistants. 
I’d prefer to move on

I mean, if Warde felt he needed some air cover when letting Juwan go, you'd be hard pressed to come up with something better than the Rose Bowl.

Fire Juwan tonight and let Martelli finish out the season. Go after Dusty May in the off-season. 

We suck. 

The defense just falling apart these past couple of games in a way that doesn't make any sense.  This team had fewer good defenders last year and we're still better defensively than this outfit.  And the offense is better than it was last year, so even having last year's defense would likely make this team significantly better.

I've been a Howard defender but something is broken right now with the basketball team and he doesn't seem capable of fixing it.  At this point unless he has some miraculous turnaround you gotta consider getting some new blood in.  

Edit: meant last year's team had worse defenders.

This is what happens when you hire from your heart instead of your head....if there is a shred of doubt about a candidate based on experience, scheme, knowledge, organizational skills then that particular person is most likely not the best person for the job.....Howard was a decision entirely based on heart...no different than Brady Hoke.....two great men, highly likeable but not the best course of action for the future of the program....it's sad that Howard was placed into this position - he was not ready for the college game - he probably would make a solid NBA head coach with a talented roster where all you handle is personalities and egos - in college, meticulous attention to detail and fundamentals are paramount. 

I will not hate on anyone who has or still defends Howard's hire because that's just BS counter-productive nonsense - but it just underscores the value of hiring the right people.