It's no excuse...but something similar happened 3 days ago (NDSU vs. Oral Roberts postgame scuffle)

It also would've ended with absolutely no altercation if Juwan just walks right by Gard and moves on -- which he tried to do -- but Gard grabbed him by the arm and stopped him from passing by. Juwan's actions were worse, but none if it happens without Gard instigating. And it wasn't a punch or even a slap. He reached over the top to garb him by the collar. Wisconsin staff had their hands on Michigan players before that happened. The commentator made it sound like he threw a right hook. If the sound was muted, I would've thought "damn, Juwan just tried to grab that dude by the neck". Instead the guy with the mic goes full "DOWN GOES FRAZIER" with it.   

It's a bad move by Juwan. He deserves the suspension he'll get. Wisconsin has guys who will be in trouble too. It's embarrassing for both sides. That's the end of it. Nobody deserves to be fired. Juwan has been around college and pro hoops for 30 years and has no history of stuff like this. It's a dumbass moment for a normally solid person.

I’ll just say I think you’re ? wrong on this and leave it at that

I love Juwan. But I want a Michigan coach to be better than Juwan was today. Learn, grow move onward and upward.

I don’t want Howard fired, and I don’t necessarily think he should be, but it is something that the AD needs to consider. The suspension will be obvious and deserved, and perhaps the AD decides that this does not warrant a firing, but it wouldn’t be right to just move on from this without reviewing Howard’s behavior.

So when he tried to fight Turgeon last year was that also an isolated “heat of the moment” too? Dude has a problem that you can’t have as a HC 

This is false. I liked the Juwan hire, and was not turning against him, but something seems to be off with him at the moment. You had the incident last game, which was just strange, and his whole handling of the end of the game led to this. You also have the Turg incident. I feel like if we leave him on as head coach, we need to accept that we have a "Bobby Knight but nice" type coach where you have to accept/make excuses for a couple incidents a year where he completely loses his cool.

This is an awful take. A reasonable person could've watched the festivities on court today and decided that Juwan Howard is unfit to lead the men's basketball program without having any predilection toward him getting fired before then.

Gard's players not liking him has nothing to do with it.

For the record, I am not calling for Juwan to get fired, but only that our AD do its due diligence and address the situation in an appropriate way.

Anyone who thinks Juwan should get fired for this really just wants him fired because they were never on board with him in the first place,

I've been completely on board, and I'm not arguing now that he should be fired ...  but if it happened I could understand why.  This is the second incident with another coach, which is not normal, and he's getting roasted in the media over this. 

I'm in disbelief that this has happened again.

Yeah, cause if it was Holtman you would be saying the same thing. This fan base ??

Irrational, non-levelheaded take.

I was 100% on board with the hiring of Howard and I loved the fab five.   As for this season, I do think it shows that Howard has significant room to improve and while his ceiling has not changed, his floor is definitely lower than I thought, but I certainly would not be advocating for firing him for the team’s performance this year.

With regards to this particular incident, I really don’t know what I would do if I was Warde, but I suspect it would have a great deal to do with what Juwan does.   More than once, Howard has shown an inability to control his temper.    At least twice now that has involved needing to be pulled away from an altercation.   He needs to 1) Show that he clearly understands this type of behavior is unacceptable; 2): Provide a clear plan to show how he is going to make sure it doesn’t happen again, and 3) understand that he is now squarely under the microscope and he has no room for another such episode.

Absent all three of those things, I would completely understand why Ward might fire Howard.

If I, as an UMHS employee, threw hands at work I would be terminated instantly and that is with an Union behind me.

Why should a millionaire coach be immune from the same discipline as blue collar workers?

Completely wrong, and a very lazy excuse to try and stop people from having an alternate view.  I have loved Juwan since he was a player and thought he was a great hire for Michigan.  What he did today is inexcusable for a Michigan coach.  He clearly said something to the WI coach that got a response from the coach.  Then, after being separated, went out of his way to hit an assistant coach.  He started this and he finished it with a punch.  He put his team in harms way.  None of this is anyone’s fault but his own.  
you can say it was a bush league timeout, but Michigan was still pressing.  If you have your players going full on with 15 seconds left, you can’t expect the other team to lay down.  This is not Michigan. We don’t get to only say we have a higher standard when it is convenient.

Exactly. There are a billion comments about how Harbaugh needs to get his fire back and blah blah. Everyone wants the Harbaugh who was screaming and yelling and backslapping Jim Schwartz. Harbaugh matures and cools his demeanor and the fanbase thinks he's lost his passion. Juwan has all the intensity in the world, but he's out of control and unacceptable now that he's had exactly one fuck up. Maybe give the guy a chance to redeem himself and get better after he serves his punishment. 

I think there can be rational, level-headed arguments for Juwan to be fired as well. That being said, I don't think this should end in him getting canned. He has had enough run-ins now that a pattern is emerging, but nothing has been Malice at the Palace level bad. He didn't throw a punch, but he definitely made forceful contact to the assistant's face while in the hand shake line of all places. Again, once everything cools off, I can see this being a suspension for a month/rest of the season, but firing him seems a bit harsh here. 

I think his suspension should at least be longer than whatever Diabate gets. Juwan put that guy in a bad spot and we know a hard nose guy like Diabate isn't just going to back down from anyone. 

Personally, I think you’re conflating the word “want” with “should”/“would”. If you swing at someone at whatever line of work you’re in, would you “want” to be fired? “Should” you be fired? “Would” you be fired? 
 

I don’t know what the correction response is for today’s action is (I personally think it’s an apology, counseling and a suspension) but I totally get it if he’s terminated. 

Thanks for making me smile.