Khani Rooths decommits
2024 class I meant
"Surprise" you meant.
Too old anyway
too high
Who gives a shit it's gone
at first it was really really high..... never let a good "Major League" quote go unnoticed
Also upvoted for the username.
It's OK, because we did THIS:
tick tock warde.
The hiring of a coach is not going to be matter. The entire 2024 class is going to decommit. We are going to finish last in the conference next year. This is a long-term considerations hire.
Considering the tournament hasn’t even started yet, wanting Warde to hire someone right now would mean choosing from guys whose team missed the tournament. No thanks.
This is our chance to grab the OG Pitino
HA
IF YOU THINK I HAVE FORGIVEN HIM FOR 2001...LET ALONE
(gestures at literally everything else)
THEN NO
I HAVE NOT
What did he do in 2001?
Can’t make a hire until after the 2nd week/sweet 16.
So you want the new coach to be someone who got fired for missing the tournament?
We could hire one who got fired for making the tourney. Not too many of those around.
Hard pass on hiring a coach for the sake of expediency and in the process limiting ourselves to coaches whose teams are not in the NCAA tournament. Especially when the roster needs a major (complete?) overhaul regardless.
Let's focus on getting the right person for the job, please. And let's also remember that folks clamored for Warde to make a hire basically the day after Beilein resigned, and we ended up with Howard.
the candidates that appear in play are not.. .inspiring... nobody on this team is worth anything, so i dont disagree... but..
im not sure we'll have 10 scholarship players next year
Not many were very "inspired" by the Beilein hire when it was first announced... and it took a while for him to get things going as well.
also true
If next year's team is better than Beilein's first year, I'm going to be pleasantly surprised. I fully expect it to look like that or worse.
herp
derp
Honestly I'd rather Warde take the time to make the best possible hire than worry about getting someone ASAP in just to salvage one single recruiting class.
Make the best possible hire you can make, give him plenty of runway to build his program, because he's going to need a lot of it with the shape the roster will be in for at least another season or two, and then let him get to work.
I think whoever gets hired will need at least four years to get his roster in proper shape to where maybe it can contend for the Big Ten again. And Michigan can get there if it makes the right hire. But next year, and possibly the year after, will be pretty lean for Michigan Basketball.
This one hurts more than Dug and GW. Ouch
I disagree. His all-star game performance suggets pretty high bust potential. I don't foresee him being the program lynchpin that his lofty ranking would surely lead people to expect him to be.
Wait what? We had a top 30 guy committed for us next year? I honestly did not know this, and do not recognize this kids name.
Guess i paid attention less in regards to basketball this year than i thought.
EDIT: well crapper. Howard had seemingly a decent class coming in next year. I realize the coach is more important than one year of recruits, but it would have been nice to keep the class together.
Yes, he committed around December 2023. He was a perfect 5-star - someone who needs a couple years before going pro.
But the NBA drafts on potential, we all know he would have blown up the last 5 games of his freshman year and left, it's the Michigan way!
Personally, I never thought the kid was coming here anyways, did he have a chance to sign early or did we get in on him after the early period?
He had players coming in but he didn't have a plan for them. First, I think Booths would have gone elsewhere even if Howard had stayed. Second, what was Howard going to do with any of them? He literally did not have a system. We had two lottery picks in 2023 and did not make the tournament. Has that ever happened?
i mean, he outdid himself in 2022 by that in 2023.
Couldn't do much with 2 top 5 star types (yes, they werent what we thought), and hunter..
Then Bufkin, Dickinson, and Howard.. and couldnt sniff the tourney and tanked to Vanderbilt in the NIT.
The year we won the NIT with Taylor and Traylor getting selected in the first round. Baston and Bullock got drafted in the second round.
Only Taylor went pro that year ('97). Traylor/Baston/Bullock played another year at Michigan.
March 18th, 2024 at 10:21 PM ^
AND AN ALL AMERICAN
If it makes you feel any better, that class was probably going to be wasted here
March 18th, 2024 at 10:20 PM ^
Devastating blow
He and Cheddar together could have led us to at least 2 Big 10 wins the our home court full of opposing fans and Juwan punching out some grad assistants!
A loss for the program!
Well, this sucks.
I get that this was going to happen, but it should now be abundantly clear that we are up for a few or more years of some really rough basketball. The crop of potential coach replacements look interesting, but no one is going to come in and be successful. Wonderful.
That was abundantly clear last December.
This was always going to be a year with a patchwork roster from the portal. Coaching chops and ability to recruit talent that can make it into Michigan will determine how horrible next year is. With competent coaching I don’t think it could be worst than this year.
I agree that I don't think it will be worse than this year, but I don't think we'll make the NCAA tournament for at least 3 more years. We have a hard enough time getting people from the portal.
Michigan stuck gold with Beilein. I think it is less of a question of "when are we going to get back to the tournament" than it is, what can we expect the Michigan basketball program to be? What is the angle? Shaka Smart would bring in an angle. Press, run and gun. As much sporadic success as Michigan has had in basketball, it is not a blue blood and will not consistently recruit like one. We should be looking at coaches that bring in an idea, a system....a gimmick? So be it.
Michigan certainly got lucky with JB, but if it wasn't for the first Aneurysm of LeadershipTM, he was probably going to get fired after the 2011 season.
UM may not be a blue blood, but they have quite a history and are on that top 20 tier. Lots of championship games, just not many championships. A few more and might be a different perception. Don't need a gimmicky system, can easily finish in top 3rd of b1g and compete for s16/elite 8 banners with a "traditional" coach. Doesn't mean they don't have their wrinkles and strengths, of course. Gimmicks get busted by even decent teams.
I'm honestly relieved to find out this was a basketball player and not a football player. I had no idea who this was.
What have any of Juwan's recruits done / proven. Might be best to start anew.
To say that none of Juwan's recruits have done anything is a gross exaggeration. Hunter and Kobe were great recruits / players.
Franz was also Juwan recruit and development - albeit he was handed to Juwan on a silver platter.
Lots of other guys are Houstan, Diabate and Jett are on NBA rosters.