spartoon quinn article on Michigan Basketball culture

Opening the possibility of a repeat of the Mel report situation - except the replacement's are external and the coaching spin cycle will have seen the best candidates already take jobs... . 

Michigan hires firms to investigate itself.  OSU hires firms to investigate Michigan.  Seems about right.

If this is the "bombshell" that has been rumored then this is pretty tame. Howard is a hot head who people are afraid to have honest conversations with. No shit, anyone with eyes could have told you that. I guess if they need this documentation to fire him then whatever, but the results on the court should have been enough.

I know I don't know all the ins and outs of what goes on in the program, but to me, this still fits right in with Warde's history of inaction. 

There's more than enough public results out there to justify showing Juwan the door. The three years of trending downward with the program, bad roster management, the Sanderson incident, off-court issues. Plenty of coaches have been fired for less. Chris Holtmann has just been fired, for much less, and 4x the buyout that Juwan has. 

I don't really know why you need to go hire a firm to assess the team culture. To me, it feels like:

1) Kicking the can down the road because you just don't want to have to make the decision.

2) You're hoping for this firm to come back with the result you're wanting/looking for so its justification for you to keep "your guy." Or you want someone to come back and tell you how bad it is so you are forced into making the decision, but you don't want to have to decide for yourself. 

3) This is the one that most resonates with me, because I used to be this way early in my career, and truthfully its something I still wrestle with. You want to "have all the facts before you make your decision." While that makes sense on its face, I remember a mentor of mine early in my career telling me "Perkis, sometimes you don't need all of the information. Sometimes you already have everything you need, and the answer is staring you right in the face. How much more of your time, my time and the team's time are you willing to waste to ultimately come to the conclusion that you can arrive at right here, right now?"

“Not much substance.”  Then why post it?

8-24 is the substance. Juwan needs to go. Now I get why Jett left. To escape his psycho dad. 

If you have to hire a 3rd party firm to review your team culture, then you already have your answer on how the team culture is

Fire Juwan and Fire Warde so shit like this stops continuing to happen

A rare Quinn article where he doesn't use a fancy word ineptly or incorrectly. Could he be getting better at his job?

There is nothing new here. But reading what we had read before in bits and pieces in one place is ugly. What has taken place in private seems very consistent with what we have seen from Howard in the public. Someone who treats his son in front of everyone as described in the article should not be a head coach at UM. 

Warde needs to hire outside consultants on what toppings to order on his pizza. 

What a worthless empty suit. 

There's not much new here though I hadn't heard the Jett story, and only recently heard about what Howard allegedly said to Turgeon. To me, as has been said below, hiring an outside firm seems like a way to delay and/or put the onus for the decision on someone outside the department.

Regarding Quinn, I'll admit I haven't everything he's written but have always thought he was a good writer and reporter. Is there a perception that he has a pro-Sparty bias?

Yeah, about what I expected and nothing really new.

I will reiterate that so much is being made from Sanderson's attorney and what he said in a letter tied to trying to get his client a severance.  I'm not going to argue that the culture and team isn't bad but I also take whatever an attorney says with a grain of salt.  For example, lots of coaches we've seen get physical with their players, and while that's not acceptable I also wouldn't paint it as something unexpected.  

Howard needs to go but these articles are also pretty lazy in that they are just repeating the same couple of sourced material with limited intellectual curiosity or scrutiny.

Just want to say a quick hello to our rcmb lurkers who predicted this "quinn bombshell" was going to be the latest doom to MI football. Dream on losers. 

Franz, can't you celebrate that this article came out right now when it could help push Warde to fire Howard or even get Ono's attention so he could get rid of Warde? 

Rip off the bandaid, fire Howard and start the search for the next Head Coach. Include Beilein in the process.

Howard knows the game of basketball. Coaching the game, motivating his players? I don't know his skills. The only thing apparent is that he doesn't know how to control his emotional responses. Being "passionate" is one (positive) thing, being unable to control your words and actions is a large negative.

While we all appreciate the posts people make, can we please put a moratorium on the coded words and references and cleverness?

I don't have a clue what spartoon means, I must have not logged in that day to MGoBlog, These kinds of posts abound and I don't understand the need to be cute.

I'm not a boomer.

I never understood hiring outside firms to do the job of highly paid administrators or executives. What a waste.