Juwan has been fired,
https://x.com/byazuniga/status/1768698885134819379?s=61
A sad, necessary day.
i certainly don't wish him ill, just the opposite in fact, but i'm glad he's gone.
Now time to make a great hire. Hopefully NIL and admissions will help out the new coach.
Wont stomp on his coaching grave, right move, lets move on.
Genuinely shocked Warde acted so promptly. I can't say it's a happy feeling - I think we all wished it would have worked out better with Juwan. But now Michigan can get into the coaching carousel at the right time to have a broad suite of potential replacements.
I really wanted Juwan to work out but this decision is best in the long run. There is no one who loves Michigan more than Juwan, but then again the same could be said about Brady Hoke.
Yes, love of the school is clearly an insufficient qualification. But Hoke showed his limitations even in his first (extremely lucky) season. Folks around here were ecstatic with Juwan after his second season (higher ceiling than Beilein), and still optimistic going into his fourth.
I wanted Juwan to do well so bad ….. it really really sucks it turned out this way.
Unfortunately, he did bad so well.
Move had to be made. Wish things would’ve been different, and wish him well as he was a great player for M and someone I enjoyed rooting for.
Beware The Ides of March!!!
Very sad. Always a Michigan man. But there was no other choice.
Two words: Shaka Smart
No thanks.
Shaka Smart is a hack. No way. Michigan can do much better than him.
#GoBlue
First call needs to be to Nate Oats. Make him say "no"
What does Michigan offer that Alabama doesn't? You have unlimited resources, zero academic or character restrictions (his star player was the accomplice of a murder), and you play in the easiest major conference in basketball. Even if he did come, I think he would be a terrible fit for the aforementioned reasons.
Big 10 is terrible this season. I would argue that Big 10 is easier than SEC at the moment
Sad. I would have preferred a resignation.
Juwan just isn't a good college basketball coach. I wish him success in his next endeavor. He may still have a future coaching in the pros.
Hats off to Warde for making the hard choice
I'm really not sure how hard it was- the sentiment was overwhelming that he had to go, and I don't know how they were going to sell any tickets if he had come back.
Howard earned this, so I don’t think it’s a sad day.
Agreed. It's not a sad day. It's a college basketball job, not a death in the family. Get a grip, people. Juwan is going to be fine. He sucked at his job. He will find another. Or he won't. I don't care.
If the story was only that a famous alum came back to coach the team and fell short with wins and losses, I might see some sadness about it not working out. But it was Howard’s off the court behavior, which embarrassed him (or should have) and the university, and forced a well thought of staff member out, which leaves me not sad in the least. This is a good day for the basketball program and Manuel’s opportunity to get it back moving in the right direction.
2 years too late. Should have canned him when he popped that Wisconsin Coach. He embarrassed the University of Michigan which is unforgivable.
Good luck, Juwan, with your NBA coaching career.
May Warde find the right MBB coach for us.
I would not assume that there would be a great demand in the NBA for him at this point, he 's in his mid 50s, has never been a HC there and his coaching acumen has taken a hit since he left the league.
Maybe he could be an assistant?
That is certainly possible.
He's not in his mid 50s.
I stand corrected- 51.
Best that he was fired for all involved. But letw not act like coaching is the only issue. We will know what type of program Michigan is ready to have by the hire they make. Im sorry but you can't go get a mid major coach if Michigan want to win in this era of basketball.
Best of luck Juwan, I’m sure you’ll land on your feet somewhere in the NBA. Wish it would’ve worked out, but obviously this needed to happen.
Sad day. I’m a big fan of Juwan and what he did here. He’s done a ton for the university and many of us wouldn’t be on MGoBlog today if it weren’t for him and the Fab Five.
I hope he learns from his time here and becomes a better coach moving forward. Hopefully, this means that Warde and the NIL team put the next coach in a position to succeed here
I believe Manuel canned him to save his own ass. Now we're stuck with him making another hire.
why did Juwan got in so many altecations in the first place ? Not just cause of anger, but was there any real valid reasons behind it?
Honestly, gard had it coming. No one likes Turgeon, but that was on Juwan.
Everyone on here is on team Sanderson, but we really only got one side of the story. Juwan was defending his son. Sanderson was defending his staff.
Probably dumb to re-litigate this now but I have the exact opposite impression.
Turgeon had it coming and Gard did not (also Howard did not hit Gard).
Turgeon: The story, as I recall, basically goes back to Hunter taunting the Maryland bench in the regular season. Hunter was killing the Terps and letting them know it, and this really hurt Turgeon's feelings. I thought Hunter had toned it down after the first game at Xfinity, but apparently not enough to Turg's liking. So he was all riled up that Howard was letting Hunter (allegedly) carry on.
At one point in the BTT game, Howard went to (calmly) dispute a call and walked over to the ref and walked out of the coach's box to do it. Turgeon started complaining to a different ref that Howard was out of the box. A bit whiney but fair enough, I guess. Howard then said to Turgeon, "Come on man, this is what we're doing today?" or something like that. At that point, Turgeon lost his mind and angrily (out of his coach's box) started pointing his finger and literally charging Howard saying "Don't talk to me! Don't talk to me ever again!"
Lol.
Well, Howard's from Chicago so...
I mean, okay, Howard went nuts and further escalated it and surely shouldn't say "I'm going to kill you," but Turgeon completely brought all that on and was the main antagonist.
Gard/Karbbenhoft: Wisconsin is killing us. It's game over. He puts his bench scrubs in. We keep our starters in. Under a minute left in the game, we put on a full court press against their bench players and they can't inbound the ball. Gard calls a timeout and coaches his team to inbound the ball.
Game ends, to the handshake line we go, and the announcer is noticing out loud that Howard is not going to the line. He finally does and is doing a straight blow-by on Gard with no intention of stopping or shaking hands and says tersely "I'll remember that timeout" and plans to keep on walking. But Gard wants to stop him so Gard can explain why he (very reasonably) called the timeout. But as soon as Gard gets his hand on Howard's arm, Howard does his best Turgeon impression by wagging his finger and saying "Don't you touch me!" At this point, everyone starts to get interested, and this is all because of Howard's actions. It's already in semi-melee mode, which is why Krabbenhoft is holding back T-Will, who is pretty heated looking, and Howard presumably takes exception to Krabbenhoft holding back T-Will. Or maybe Krabbenhoft also said something, not sure. That's when Howard reached out with his open hand slap (that absolutely looked like a punch live on TV). Anyway, completely avoidable, all stemming from Howard's poor sportsmanship at the end of the game and postgame.
Sanderson: As for Sanderson, we likely have the actual story, though I agree we do only have one side. But the story, as I understand it, is Jace was chewing out a trainer, Sanderson openly yelled at Jace for being entitled and behaving poorly, and then Howard starting yelling very heatedly at Sanderson. I don't really think this makes anyone look good, but I doubt there's some other version of events that shows that Howard responded calmly in an attempt to de-escalate things.
I just don’t like gard or Wisconsin. The thing about the gard situation that got me was that Howard walked by gard and gard grabbed him. He shouldn’t have done that. That entire situation soured me on Warde too. Krab and gard were in the wrong as well, but Warde bent over for them and the Wisconsin administration. I’m pretty sure Warde led the candlelight vigil for gard later that evening.
I think the Sanderson thing stemmed from the trainer and Sanderson calling Jace soft and Jace having concerns over his rehab. Michigan has a top tier medical program, but I’m not sure about the medical training staff. People are quick to go point to Howard’s history of altercations as an indictment of his guilt in this situation, but Michigan’s training staff has a not so great. Jace got a second opinion from the same surgeon as cade. That surgeon raised concerns about the training staff.
There’s a well known Michigan athlete who continued raised concerns to Michigan’s training staff, they didn’t treat it properly, he ended up injuring that body part that he was complaining about and lost millions.
I get why Jace and Juwan were frustrated with Sanderson. He called the kid out for being soft after one of the top orthopedic surgeons in the world said that Sanderson wasn’t treating the injury properly.
According to him , it's because he was from Chicago.
I hope all the people who claim Warde does nothing will take a seat now. The Warde bashing got really tiresome and now that he’s done the thing everyone wanted, it’s time to stop assuming you can do his job better than him and just let him do his job.
I don't have an issue with the decision, but this is a sadder day for me than all of the losses from the last three years combined. The happiest day of his teenage years should've been the day he committed to Michigan, but it was the saddest day with his grandmother dying.
He gave everything he had for three years on the hardwood, and almost willed us past Arkansas to a third straight Final Four. On top of that, he wasn't part of the Ed Martin stink.
Maybe things would've turned out better if Jett went to Tennessee and Jace to a smaller school. I don't know. You'd have to play feelingsball to find a reason to keep him, because there was serious regression and it's not like he had a top 5 class coming in. But man, it sucks when you have to let one of your iconic players go and I was really hoping at least one of the Fab Five would finally get to cut down the nets.
That was easy. Now get this hire right.
There's no joy in this. I rooted for the Fab Five long before I had any inkling I'd become a Michigan alum. He was the heart and soul of that team. I wanted him to succeed, and it hurts that he didn't.
Agreed. I was still holding out hope he could course correct.
Howard ended up a lot more like Hoke than I thought he was going to
Yeah, everything has been a blur since COVID so I be forgetting some things, I don’t remember Juwan having a Brendan gibbons or Shane morris type of situation during his 5 years here.
Wish it could have worked out differently. It was time to move on.
Can we get Sanderson back now?
Excellent!!!!!!!!!
The stench this program achieved was even too much for Warde to endure.
It will be interesting to follow Warde's moves going forward.
Darian DeVries - Drake
Greg McDermott - Creighton
Nate Oats - Alabama