The But I Thought Beilein Sucked Appreciation Thread
It was crazy
It wasn't this year people wanted him fired. It was last year.
But yeah, people need to stop writing his teams off in December. From the UCLA game onward we've gone 21-4.
I don't recall that this year, although I tend to avoid the game threads as those seem to bring out the stupid in people.
People sometimes need to take a deep breath and remember that Beilein's teams usually get better as the year goes on.
That 21-4 stat is great, but the 2-0 stat is even better!!!
Beilein is what coaches should be. Unfortunately, his mold was broken and we have scumbags who go into coaching. Sure, there are other good ones but money and the pressure to win have both caused the college coaching profession to give up on ethics and push morals to the side.
I'd argue that Beilein sure can frustrate fans by taking us through the gamut of emotions with all the ups and downs we've experienced while he's been at the helm.
At the end of the day, we know he's a great coach and someone who we can say we are proud to represent Michigan basketball because he is someone who wins honestly and cares about being ethical. That's a trait we don't see much in today's society.
That's all I have to say about that.
John has never been an assistant coach? Who knew? You would think they would have mentioned that on teevee once in awhile. And now I find out Moe is from Germany.
and I'm pretty sure I heard in on t.v. I do a lot of reading though, so that's entirely possible as well. I'd rather remain a hc at a smaller school if you didn't believe in what the larger school was doing because they would have been upset when you changed once you took the job.
Better to do what he did. Run his system at smaller schools, keep taking promotions, although at a slower pace and always teach one system. Keeps it easier and definitely makes you THE expert in that system. No one does it better than him.
I never even considered firing him or anything like that but his recruiting worried me a little bit a couple years back. We seemed to miss on a lot of guys. You can see what he can do when he has the horses. The 2018 class looks amazing. They remind of the class that played Louisville for the title. With all the information leaking from the FBI case you can see why we probably didn't recruit at a higher level. Recruiting in basketball is just ugly business. You really appreciate him being on the straight and narrow especially when he is winning all these games as well. Just a total class act.
Given the shadiness he has had to compete against, it turns out that Beilein is an outstanding recruiter.
There are three guarantees in this life: death, taxes and John Beilein having his squad ready to play stellar hoops in March. Think we can call that fact by now.
He may be the best coach in the conference. Recency bias and all that but seriously.
At the time his recruiting wasn’t good,You mean like when he recruited the current roster?
The biggest problem was that we had terrible injury luck two years in row.
No one should have doubted the man's ability to coach and develop talent. We saw him build this program from 10-22 to the Final Four. His teams raised banners three years running from 2012-14. The current success shouldn't surprise anyone.
I don't remember Brian calling for Beilein to be fired. If he did, he changed his mind pretty quickly. He's certainly argued the opposite many, many times.
I don't believe he called for him to be fired, but he had begun to believe that Michigan was just gonna be a perrenial bubble team under Beilein. I would guess it likely came after the loss to Illinois last year.
I think critiques of Beilein's performance were valid. Maybe he was unlucky with injuries, but the failures of roster management still made us worse than we should have been during those two years. It's easy to say everything was gonna work out now after D Walt randomly turned into a NPOY level player and this team is turning into an elite unit, but there was some real bleakness that was systemically concerning.
But Beilein made significant philosophical shifts in the way he coaches/prioritizes defense and it is really paying off. If anything...the message board goons were right.
The calls for Beilein's job were loudest just over a year ago (January-early Feb. 2017). By that point he'd already recruited all of the current roster (save Simmons) and had hired a "defensive coordinator" (Donlan). So it's not that he needed to evolve - he already had. People were just emoting and needed to let the season play out.
You really think this team is better offensively than past teams? And you think that because of post touches and driving to the basket? And don't have stats to back up those things, which can be, and are, counted. God bless Dolon and Yelich.
EDIT: Weird. I guess whoever I was replying to had their comment caved. What they said wasn't flamebait though. Just thought it was wrong.
that one here and on Twitter. It was titled "Fire Beilein NOW!". Brian captioned it on twitter and said something like nuked this and nuked 100000 points.. It was as stupid a post then as it would be now.
I love coach Beilein, but Red is a legend.
Red is indeed a legend. And also has national championships after bringing a program back to national prominence. Red is also a class act. I guess my statement comes from the fact that basketball is a higher exposure sport with more national attention.
i was never one to call for his firing, but was concerned about recruiting and defense which was in a lull off and on. but after last year's plane crash and the exceptional leadership and poise he showed, i wouldn't have cared if he'd gone 0-30 - i'll take that type of character each time, every time.