Official: Asst. Coach Donlon gone to Northwestern and Chicago area
It's official: As expected, Billy Donlon was announced as an Assistant Coach at Northwestern under Chris Collins. This is a loss, but I trust Beilein will find a solid coach to replace Donlon. Still hurts.
LINK: http://www.umhoops.com/2017/06/26/northwestern-officially-announces-billy-donlon-hire/
We really need to find a coach or two here. This can't be good for recruiting. Not only did we lose two coaches who had built relationships with prospects but we currently have no one filling their shoes on the recruiting trail.
I don't know man. That's kind of a controversial opinion.
You're right, were going to miss on every recruit regardless of who the assistants are since we still have Beilein.
#maizen
and Thad Matta?
I don't know that I'd worry about it too much, but if the Kohl's on Lohr Road suddenly is dangerously low on ill-fitting pants, you might actually have inadvertantly answered the question everyone had.
Jokes aside, it is nice to see Beilein's staff in demand - hopefully, we can fill those positions well.
/snarky reply
Ah, nuts.
I mean, I was worried he was going to be moving to Southern Wisconsin. Kenosha is up and coming and all, but that commute sucks.
The mobility, both with early entry to the NBA, transfers to other programs, and now coaches, is good for Michigan. What Beilein has done, the moving on of coaches to head coaching positions, the number of first round draft picks, all make Michigan attractive.
Personally, I'm wondering if there are former guys who played for Beilein who would be good as assistant coaches. Whether from West Virginia, or from Michigan, I would think that some of his former players might be good in the coaching ranks.
Jim Harbaugh hired Jay, why can't John Beilein hire Patrick?
I don't know who else we had.
I see the posts above mention 2 of them (Dunn and Mahoney). But the one that wasn't mentioned that relates most to today is Mike Jackson. He was the last assistant to leave for another assistant post at a Big Ten school (Purdue). Beilein retained him as a holdover from Tommy Amaker's staff.
Beilein had to turnover his entire staff that year in 2010 as Jackson left late in the hiring cycle in June. Michigan replaced him with LaVall Jordan. And Western Michigan HC Steve Hawkins was not pleased, accusing Beilein of "tampering" (not sure how that applies to assistants)
http://www.mlive.com/broncos/index.ssf/2010/06/steve_hawkins_calls_john_beile.html
I'm firmly on the Tom Crean train.
I think it would be cool to have Harbaugh at basketball games, plus with Crean we'd get all kinds of wacky antics.
And you could have Archie Miller running after Crean after a M vs IU game, accusing him of wrecking the IU program.
I've heard it's Johns.
Are you in Bolivia or time out?
Neither? LSA took away all my points for some reason.
"For some reason."
Being inflmmatory was what I was told. People don't want their safe space interrupted.
It's Brandon Johns.
I have a few sources of my own.
Sort of, but maybe John B told Billy that he had 5 years of coaching at Michigan. Collins may have told Donlon that he will leave NW (for the right offer) after the year and could leave Donlon as the HC with brand new facilities in Chicago.
Imagine the provost was from Norman and his dad was previously the provost at Oklahoma.