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I’m sure you’re hearing the…

I’m sure you’re hearing the same chatter I am up here. I think a lot of the reason he’s getting talked about is because it’s just kind of assumed that the top three guys are going to fly off the board, but JJ is also a top-ten type guy and there’s a lot more intrigue with teams potentially moving around to get him. It’s just seemingly more obvious that Maye or Daniels are gone in the top five, and since there are other teams that need QBs, it’s a credit to JJ that he’s a guy worth moving up for. 

Here in Minnesota,…

Here in Minnesota, anecdotally I’ve heard and seen JJ talked about more than any other player. Not that they aren’t open to others, but there’s a lot of interest at least in the commentary class here. And the draft capital they’ve acquired kinda seems to be insurance to move up to get him in the top ten if they need to.

The short story is that it’s highly doubtful he’s still out there after the Vikes current slot passes unless something really weird happens. 

It was a great moment, but…

It was a great moment, but it's not clear to me that it can be called the "greatest moment in Michigan sports history." It's not even clear that it's the greatest moment of that season for the Detroit Red Wings, much less that era (let's say, the Bowman era that encapsulates three of their Cups, led by Steve Yzerman and also featuring guys like Lidstrom and Darren and Sergei). And when you consider all of sports in the state of Michigan, it's frankly unfair to consider college sports in that sphere, because close to half of the state won't like what the other school does at all (no MSU moment can be considered one of the greatest in Michigan history, right? They feel the same way about us). 

And then you have to consider the other sports. A Tigers world series win in 68 or 84 will mean something to certain generations of fans. The Pistons have won three titles. The Lions... will probably let us down, but if they ever win a SB that's going to compete for the top of any list. 

And then you can plumb history for other great athletes and sports, guys like Joe Louis, all-time greats in other sports from other places performing great feats in the state like the aformentioned Jesse Owens and the late F1 legend Ayrton Senna. 

Those Red Wings teams were something else, though. I love runs like that, or the great Tigers teams, that get the whole state behind them. The UM-MSU game in 06 a good example of this, everyone cheering for the Tigers. I remember the Detroit Papers basically giving their whole front page over to the Wings during deep playoff runs.

It's great. Some of the best of what sports can do, give the whole community something to pull together and enjoy. 

It depends on what one means…

It depends on what one means by the history of sports in the state of Michigan.

But it was a great moment and I don't care who he played for. 

Yes! MSU had a better season…

Yes! MSU had a better season. An earned advantage... and extra delicious were Michigan to end their season on their own ice. The same for any other hockey team. How do people not understand this?

Between my family and…

Between my family and another family I know? Possibly. You've got my attention. 

It's hilarious to me that…

It's hilarious to me that there is a loud debate on twitter about regionals because there is, for once, a regional that has actually sold out. But it sold out because it seats 3000 people and drew three huge draws.

Of course, what would really be interesting is if Michigan were playing in Grand Forks and Western were playing at MSU. You'd sell 15k+ tickets and both places would be electric. It's amazing that people are trying to keep the old system when *that* is available. 

It's funny, because I saw…

It's funny, because I saw the thread title and was thinking about how the OP might want to consider a truck, but you already, obviously, have such things. I am guessing you'd like an AWD that can make non-trivial commutes without having to take a truck all the time when the weather is dodgy.

In our family we are focused on passenger and cargo capacity and only have two vehicles, so having a pickup with 4x4 is a no-brainer for us, and that's our bad-weather vehicle.

Which we had gotten away with not needing until this week. 

Thing is, I need the 4x4 to get around (city is sorta shut down but I'll be out later to survey things like parking lot needs and so on) but an AWD car woiuld be insufficient for me and could probably still get stuck. 

My mom has a Subaru that she rather likes and those remain very popular up here where a lot of people who dislike trucks for various reasons but like getting around in dodgy conditions live in significant quantities. But "cars" are a vanishing breed and most of the smaller vehicles people drive are now crossovers. 

I wanted him gone in 2020,…

I wanted him gone in 2020, but even then I always really liked him, a lot. Just like I like Juwan a lot. And stuff like this is great. 

Don't cry that it's over. Be happy that it happened. 

Beat them in the rematch. 

dp

Beat them in the rematch. 

Beat them in the rematch. 

Inner monologue: this game…

Inner monologue: this game is dumb and doesn’t matter both teams are in the tournament I don’t care what happens

*anyone gets a good look at the net*

Medulla: I forgot how to breathe

— Patrick Barron 🐻🌹🏆 (@BlueBarronPhoto) March 24, 2024
It doesn't matter for the…

It doesn't matter for the tournament or even for seeding but it's OT and it feels just like it.

Just.

Well, they decided they…

Well, they decided they wanted him and they appear to have gotten him. Like others, I’m not super-impressed with what was available, fine with this as the choice given all that, and pleased to see that Warde stepped up and was decisive in a time when he needed to be. I’ve often pushed back against a lot of the criticism against him but he *does* seem best suited for behind-the-scenes bureaucracy and hasn’t always been quick on the trigger when needed, so this is good.

We’ll see if it works out.

Good Iuck Coach May. 

Sold out Williams in…

Sold out Williams in Minnesota, too, and anecdotally got a lot of attention on Minnesota talk radio. That's organic, not forced. 

This is actually true. There…

This is actually true. There are geographic considerations and one of those considerations is proximity, with fan attendance in mind, particularly if a higher seed is involved. That's part of why they will place seeds close to home if available. And why a team that hosts a regional is automatically placed there, instead of forbidden to go there as in basketball.

It's less important than actual seed structure and stuff, but it is a consideration. Which is part of why their refusal to change the regional system is insane. 

NoDak got ambushed by Omaha…

NoDak got ambushed by Omaha yesterday, which drops them off of the 1 seedline for the moment. The bad news: it puts MSU on that seedline. Of course, if MSU were to lose ignominiously at home tonight...

Serious question: Is Caitlin…

Serious question: Is Caitlin Clark a bigger star than any NCAA MBB athlete right now? I feel like she has the best name recognition of any college basketball player. Probably helps that she gets a motivated ESPN boost, but she has starred in commercials and gets a fair amount of social media play. I don't see that with any individual MBB player this year, granted that I've paid less attention to MBB this season due to *waves vaguely at Crisler*.

I'm not a particularly big WBB fan, but Clark has been a known star for years, and of course MBB tends not to produce guys like that, because if they're a big star, they rapidly become an NBA star instead.

I noted this in my diary…

I noted this in my diary after the Washington game: we're going to talk about Blake clinching the biggest games of the 2023 season with superlative touchdowns for the rest of our lives. The OSU and Bama TDs are as big a pair of plays as there have been in Michigan history. This is the stuff of legend. 

Take us home, Blake. 

My mistake was believing …

My mistake was believing (and stating at some length) that Michigan should fire Jim Harbaugh. 

However I have passed the grief stage and am now at bargaining. The bargain is this: I accept that the basketball tournament is not quite as exciting as it can be because my team is not in it, but I am ok with this because Michigan's football team also made the tournament for the national title and won the thing. 

brb gonna watch Blake score a TD in the Rose Bowl again.

Might be meant in jest, but…

Might be meant in jest, but it’s absolutely a key plank of any “unusual” Heisman campaign. A key, game-changing play, especially in a huge moment, is a crucial part of winning what is essentially a popularity contest between players whose contributions are hard to compare statistically.

I believe there have been two situations since Woodson where a defensive player was one play away from winning a Heisman:

  • 2009, Ndamukong Suh is getting serious hype. Nebraska plays national title contender Texas in the Big 12 championship game, and it’s surprisingly competitive. Nebraska leads very late and Texas is backed up against their own end zone in a two minute situation. If Suh gets the key stop, perhaps a safety, I believe he wins an otherwise unimpressive Heisman race that year instead of Mark Ingram (or other top candidates Toby Gerhart and Colt McCoy).
  • 2021, Aidan Hutchinson. CJ Stroud arcs a soft pass to Trayveon Henderson in the flat in the red zone… just over Aidan’s outstretched fingers. Aidan gets that and it’s a pick, maybe a pick six. And he’s getting a trophy in New York.

A unusual candidacy is possible but not likely. Woodson was a superb candidate with great contributions and highlights already, but there’s no question he sealed the trophy with an all-time performance in the biggest moment against OSU. 

I would get jitters if I…

I would get jitters if I were staring at Mason Graham, Kris Jenkins, and Kenneth Grant, too. 

I'm not a fan of the…

I'm not a fan of the headline, but it's a headline and it's not the end of the world, and I'm disappointed they caved. Make a call, take your lumps, stick with it. It's not horrifying or anything. 

I can't believe people argue…

I can't believe people argue this is a good arrangement with a straight face. 

I hadn't even noticed that…

I hadn't even noticed that. It's insane.

Adam Wodon will probably tell us why this would actually be a good thing. 

Excellent piece. Fantastic…

Excellent piece. Fantastic content.

My only real note is that the top 5 of the PWR consists of the 5 teams I most want to not be there. May they all lose forever. 

You spent weeks ranting…

You spent weeks ranting about Warde *not* firing Juwan because of rumors and tweets. Not only a bit, either. You spammed the board with it. You are now refusing to admit that your previous behavior turned out to be incorrect. 

I have not insinuated that Warde-Harbaugh was all Harbaugh. I don't blame people for not reading everything I type, since I type in considerable, often absurd volume, but if you want to accuse me of saying that it's "all Harbaugh," it's your responsibility not to ignore the fact that I regularly discuss Warde getting stepped over by Ono as a mark against him. A big one, frankly. It is, however, also true that Harbaugh doesn't get along with superiors. I don't think Warde is perfect, but I don't believe that there are many ADs that Harbaugh would have a great relationship with. 

By the criteria of most people here, Warde holds some responsibility for the performance of sports teams. You certainly used the basketball team's poor performance this year to attack Warde, therefore you are attached to such a position.

By that criteria, Warde is enormously successful. The "four major sports" in America consist of football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. And Michigan has, under Warde Manuel, made at least the national semifinals in all four of those sports. It goes without saying that Michigan is the only school in America that can claim such a feat in that time period. 

Additionally, women's basketball is the strongest it has ever been, gymnastics has won a national title, and a number of other sports are in strong positions. 

Most people will allege that Warde isn't responsible for on-field events, yet the things they are angry at him about are almost exclusively on-field issues. And he *did* resist pressure to fire John Beilein (whom you wanted fired) and Jim Harbaugh (whom we both wanted fired) and saw great success as a result. And, given that Michigan's football roster didn't get pillaged despite a lengthy coaching transition, he must even have done something right regarding NIL; one need only look at Alabama's transition to see that. 

Look, he has also done some stuff seriously wrong. Those things aren't nothing. But you are being willfully obtuse and intellectually dishonest. I am sure that you're better than this. It is disappointing that you have allowed irrational rage to control your posting so much here. 

This is where things get…

This is where things get truly bizarre (and to be fair, this is not at all unique to you). 

People are outraged both that Warde didn't give Harbaugh what he wanted to be head coach, AND that Warde didn't meddle in Harbaugh's staff hiring decisions.

If you want Warde to give Harbaugh everything he want, that means giving Harbaugh the freedom whomever he wants. Which is the freedom he had. He was empowered to hire Sherrone Moore and Mike Macdonald and Jesse Minter, assembling a staff that will go down in Michigan (and perhaps college football) legend. And he was also empowered to hire Shemy and Conor Stalions. 

The people who wanted Warde to stop those hires are generally the same people who want Warde to give Harbaugh everything he wanted. 

Pick one. 

What has he *not* done? The…

What has he *not* done? The onus is on the haters to prove that he's not getting it done there, particularly since the "behind the scenes" stuff is the biggest part of the job. 

His hiring and firing has largely been fine. His most crucial move was the one he made after the 2020 football season and that worked out great. Obviously, his relationship with Harbaugh isn't great, but then again Harbaugh has been known to be prickly to get along with and hasn't always responded well to superiors; some vaguely inside info suggests that a big part of the issue is that Harbaugh just didn't have much regard for the usual activities that come with being employed, since he didn't see those as a part of his job of coaching a football team. That would understandably cause friction, but also wouldn't be much different with anyone else.

Still, the fact that Ono had to step over Warde last year was not a good look for Warde, and Warde's bungling of the Mel Pearson report was very bad, as I've stated at some length elsewhere. 

But you have not spent a lot of time on these issues. You've spent time on stuff that has either been proven wrong (you haven't provided the link I asked for, I notice) or that you possess no evidence for whatsoever. That suggests an irrational hate rather than a genuine issue. 

And the fact that you've relentlessly spammed the board with anti-Warde stuff in presumption of his not firing Howard, refused to credit Warde for doing it ("He was forced" is coward excuse language), and continue to rant against him after your three-week diatribe of anti-Warde hate has proven to be specious, is a bad look.

And what's remarkable about this is that when you're not angrily demanding a coach or AD be fired, I recall you being a decent poster in many respects. But this whoel thing of yours is a terrible look.

C'mon. Step back. We all say dumb stuff. But you're hanging on to this like a dog desperately clinging to a rotten boot. 

Wait, that's actually not a…

Wait, that's actually not a bad idea...

Or maybe he did a bunch of…

Or maybe he did a bunch of stuff behind the scenes and is a good administrator. 

They were both good hires, btw. The fact that they didn't work out doesn't change that. 

And your rage posting about the Juwan issue for weeks turns out to have resulted in nothing. Could you please link to the comment you have placed on the board where you concede that your presumptive anger was misplaced?

Just to be clear, I’m not…

Just to be clear, I’m not hating on D-2 guys. Just the opposite: Minnesota-Duluth is D-2 in non-hockey sports and I watch them quite a bit, including on occasion getting season tickets to basketball. I like UMD’s b-ball coach a lot and I think he *could* coach D-1 someday, *if* he decides he wants to. But having seen the program up close, I don’t think he could just jump into a seat at, say, Iowa (where he played in college) without some higher-level experience first. His schematic and player-coaching skills certainly seem to me to be good enough for it, but learning the other stuff, the unique challenges of players at that level and donors and fan pressure and now NIL, takes time.

Is there a serious push to…

Is there a serious push to do this? I don’t believe a power-5 basketball program should ever consider hiring a guy straight out of D-2. 

I know we get heated here,…

I know we get heated here, and I don't mind us throwing a few rhetorical elbows over points to be debated, but I'd like to point out that we're getting a little inflammatory here. Nobody in this subthread is a bad poster on this board. We just disagree. 

Actually, if the anti-Manuel…

Actually, if the anti-Manuel sentiment were grounded in known facts, it *should* be associated with hockey much more than it is. That's because the Mel Pearson contract / investigation / scandal / sort-of-firing saga is a clear situation where Warde mishandled things in multiple ways on multiple fronts over the course of months. One need not even agree with the outcome of firing Mel Pearson (the details are more specific and important, but in effect we have a hostile work environment issue here, a category worth mentioning due to an apparent recurrence in a different sport in the same athletic department under Warde's watch) to understand that Warde having the information and just hanging things out to dry for months was complete malpractice.

Once that occurred, I believe Warde handled the subsequent interim coaching transition just fine, from making Naurato the interim coach to keeping that tag on him for most of the season when the team was playing well to ultimately hiring Naurato for the permanent job. But if one found the timeline difficult, it's because Warde put himself in that position. He had the facts of the investigation (in which, incidently, he comes off as disengaged or at least lawyered-up in his interview answers) for months while Mel Pearson continued to function as the hockey coach without a contract, a bizarre situation even without knowledge of the seriousness of the allegations. And then it leaked and there was public pressure and Mel was "fired" and Brandon Naurato had a couple of weeks to read "college hockey head coaching for dummies," and re-recruit the roster. And he promptly took the team to the Frozen Four. 

It's not that the hockey fanbase is disappointed in the program. It's that Warde mishandled this issue so clearly and publicly. 

There's people at Michigan…

There's people at Michigan that absolutely hate our sport teams that have way too much power and would like to see it fail.

Who, and how? What, exactly, does it mean that they want to see it fail, and how do they bring this about? 

Advocating for an actual,…

Advocating for an actual, reasoned understanding of the facts, instead of jumping onto an outrage dogpile that regularly traffics in rumors, half-truths, and imagined offenses that don't exist, is not being a PR manager.

Anyway, I continue finding…

Anyway, I continue finding myself defending Warde Manuel and I don't know why

I'm basically here, too.

The Warde hate is a runaway train, a pyramid of often imagined complaints building upon each other. It began almost as soon as he took the job, has continued every since, and continues to trade in a large volume of specious assumptions about what his job is and what he is doing that are divorced from reality.

There are real issues that Warde has mishandled. But those issues are buried in an avalanche of hate (and that is the right word) built upon imagined offenses or assumptions utterly ungrounded in reality. Warde is blamed for things and then never given credit when those things turn out to be fine.

And the net effect is that the real issues are ignored. People would rather be angry than actually address what goes on. There are reasons to think that Warde might not be the right choice going forward, but the people who want him gone the most don't care about those reasons.

The whole year is kind of…

The whole year is kind of the same story on repeat, and then Michigan wins a couple of games and I'm eyeballing the drive to St. Paul because I can't help myself. 

I don’t care what the…

I don’t care what the fanbase thinks. But he still needs to nail the hire, and evaluating him on it is 100% fair, *after* he completes the process. 

Yes, it would be. 

Yes, it would be. 

You and hundreds of others…

You and hundreds of others would have blamed Warde if Juwan hadn’t been fired, so now that he has fired Juwan promptly, it’s “questionable.” Warde literally can do no right in the eyes of some people. If you want to blame him, you need to credit him too.

And this is important from a public pressure standpoint; so much of the criticism of Warde is specious, which makes real shortcomings harder to see clearly. I respect criticism that focuses on known issues like the Mel Pearson fiasco. It is, additionally, fair to connect that situation with scrutiny of the basketball program’s culture. But most of the hate directed at Warde is packaged with no evidence that he is actually responsible for the presumed offenses, or traffics in assumptions that are not proven by the facts, and often build suppositions on events or presumptions that are not known at all.

Internet hate is a stupid thing. Warde has shortcomings, and I thought he would be gone last summer. It’s frustrating seeing so much of the hate directed at him be for things that are either not based on fact or not his responsibility at all.

Edit: you appear to have edited your post. And the new text is still bad. You say it’s questionable because we “know that Warde’s preference is to do nothing.”

We don’t know that. Many internet people assume it. A big plank of that assumption is the assumption that Warde didn’t want to fire Juwan and the further conclusion that this was because he didn’t want to go to the effort of hiring another coach. Well, he fired Juwan. You don’t “know” anything.

I’m sorry, I'm tired of this. That is stupid. Circular evidence-free reasoning that should be beneath Michigan fans. 

So are all the people who…

So are all the people who pre-emptively hated on Warde going to admit they’re wrong or just move on to the next imagined complaint? 

Sanderson was gone the…

Sanderson was gone the moment the incident happened. Firing Juwan when that occurred, if the incident does not merit firing on its own, looks bad and leaves open the question whether he was able to coach well. Depending upon circumstances could even look ugly and publicly embarrassing.

Michigan needed to give him a chance to coach the full season. On-court performance simply didn’t merit dismissal before this year’s results, and as we should recall the Sanderson incident happened before he was even all the way back from surgery.

It happened as soon as the…

It happened as soon as the season ended. Michigan lets coaches, particularly lifetime Michigan men, finish seasons. There is nothing wrong with the timing at all.

People just want an excuse to be mad. 

Very sad. Always a Michigan…

Very sad. Always a Michigan man. But there was no other choice. 

As Michigan fans are usually…

As Michigan fans are usually fond of pointing out, Michigan is not Georgetown or St. John’s. Whether Michigan *should* have such a view of itself is a matter that is open to question, a question I am willing to ask. But the reality is that this is how Michigan thinks of itself. 

Since I am not interested in…

Since I am not interested in arguing for Howard’s retention, I’m not really interested in parsing this out, but acting like it’s not the same thing doesn’t pass muster. When you look at the program from the perspective of the athletic department, the parallels are very visible. Howard is a Michigan man. He produced a really good team, too—that 21 team was a hair’s breadth away from the Final Four and would have gone if either Livers hadn’t gotten hurt or Franz Wagner hadn’t lost his shot completely in the Elite Eight, and while those were mostly Beilein guys there were also key parts that Howard brought to the table. The locker room is a problem, but as I discuss above that was a question with Harbaugh, too. The circumstances were awful in 2020, but with surgery you’ve got a circumstances argument here, too.

Many of us overreacted to 2020 in football, but the team was bad. It just was. Bad breaks on personnel were real. But so have been Howard’s bad breaks on personnel. A complete revamp of the staff was needed after 2020, and that certainly seems the case this year.

If you want Howard gone, arguing that there aren’t parallels to 2020 is useless. The athletic department is going to see the similarities. They’re there. Michigan has a longstanding culture that moves slowly on this stuff, sticks by its people, doesn’t fire in-season. We have benefitted from that at times, including after 2020.

Someone who believes that Howard should go won’t accomplish anything by pretending that these parallels aren’t there. The athletic department will see them, will remember all the noise from people like me after 2020. Saying “it’s not the same thing at all” just suggests to them that the noise can be ignored the way it was ignored in 2020.

Instead, argue why the parallels are insufficient. Why Howard is not likely to succeed with a new staff and another season the way Harbaugh succeeded. Why the strategy that worked in 2020, if applied the same way, will damage instead of benefit the program.

Those arguments exist. Some have been made; I’ve just made a few. Your last point in particular is real (I would suggest that an unexplored issue is whether or not Juwan is well suited to coaching *college* as many coaches struggle to cross over from the pros). But that point does not mean that there aren’t parallels. It is an argument that the parallels are insufficient. Pretending there aren’t similarities just makes it likelier that the real arguments will be ignored. The arguments that are right there for us. Arguments like: 8-24. 

8-24

Hard to say much more…

8-24

Hard to say much more than that.

But if I must:

The mitigating factors are this:

  • Howard is a Michigan man, will always be a program legend;
  • Howard did, indeed have a serious health issue that played a major role in the lead-up to the season;
  • It was mostly not players he recruited, but Howard coached a really good team just a couple of years ago and made multiple tournament runs, with last year being the first year he missed;
  • Howard has, in fact, had a hard time building the roster with guys he successfully recruited to come due to policies that are not necessarily his fault and probably do warrant some self-reflection from the University.
  • Michigan is not a rush-to-fire school and chose to stick with a program-legend coach after a losing season and won a national title, so there is precedent for a give-more-time strategy working.

However:

  • 8-24
  • You still have to put a roster together no matter how tough. If you roll the dice on hard-to-admit guys and get burned, you still were the one targeting the guys.
  • Some significant in-game coaching questions remain unanswered;
  • There are multiple data points of Howard struggling to control his temper; there's no reason to believe he will not struggle again in the future.
  • The big one to me: He lost the team.

He lost the team. Now, see the final point above: one of my big arguments for firing Harbaugh in 2020 is because I believed he lost the locker room, and it remains unquestionable to me that the collapse against Wisconsin that year was a situation where the team quit. So I have to have some humility here. But, c'mon. You may have roster problems, but guys can be coached to play defense, but this is two years where basic stuff just hasn't been bothered with. That's not talent. That's effort, and frankly it's the responsibility of the coach. 

I want to be painfully honest here: I suspect Juwan's tragic downfall has been recruiting his sons to the team. The relationship between fathers and sons is complex, and it can be hard for coaches to coach them properly. Sometimes they are too hard, or sometimes they aren't hard enough. There are plenty of examples, in multiple sports, of elite-level athletes with fathers coaching in those sports choosing to play for other teams. 

Crucially, it wasn't just one son. It was both a four-year backup-type *and* a blue-chip recruit that no one in their right mind would consider Juwan not wanting to have on his own team. But that blue-chip recruit didn't exactly seem to mesh with a good team basketball concept, and a team with a lot of really good talent on it never put things together. They couldn't play defense.

And I wonder if Juwan lost the locker room because he couldn't properly coax his sons to put the effort into doing the little stuff, and without that, nobody else would either. Juwan is a guy who cut his coaching teeth in the NBA in an awesome franchise culture, where the players are pros both technically and in the best sense of the word; you don't have to get after them to do stuff. You give expectations and guidance, and they put in the work themselves. Juwan came to college and you need to be able to teach and exhort guys differently. And each player on the roster could see that Jett and Jace didn't do the stuff and didn't need to. 

It's just supposition. I could be way wrong.

But: 8-24. 

These statements Bacon is…

These statements Bacon is using in this situation don't mean anything at all. I mean, I don't care that he's doing it, but people are insane to go nuclear over absolutely meaningless soundbites that have thin credibility through a "game of telephone" source chain at best, from a reporter plugged into the Harbaughs but demonstrably not well connected to the thinking of the AD, for whatever that's worth. 

I have yet to see any credible evidence indicating what Warde's actual timeline or plans are for after the season. And the statements made so far have absolutely no meaning with regard to the decision process, other than something that everyone knows and should understand: The decision won't be made until the season is over. Until then, the idea that Warde would "like to keep him" means nothing, because it could mean something almost everyone else would agree with: we wish Juwan were coaching well enough to stay. Or it could mean something else entirely. If it is even accurate, it still means nothing. "Maybe he's not so sure now" doesn't mean anything, either, even if it's somehow accurate, because we lack a timeline, and, again, the season isn't over. 

It's quite possible that Warde could bungle this, but people assuming that he *is currently* bungling it because of these tweets are not being wise.