I'd honestly rather a player give minutes to someone who wants to stick around than someone who bolts in one year... The guy is set for life and took valuable development minutes from someone else who needs it.

Big opportunity missed not titling this "Jett Jets."

Bile?  What is wrong with bile?  I will direct my ire towards the group responsible.  The problem is NBA directors of personnel.  The NBA raised the draft age not because individuals were not physically ready, but to avoid the Kwame Brown debacle.  A year in college in theory would give the NBA better scouting on players so they would not waste a number one pick on a stinker.

My retort is what is the point of waiting a year if NBA GM's are still completely enamored with potential over a finished product?  Anyone watching last year's game against Villanova game would have concluded that Diabate and Houstan were not remotely ready for the NBA.  How can they stay in the NBA when the team was better off with Brandon Johns and Terrance Williams at the forwards at least in that game?  Whatever potential they had was esoteric and fleeting.  No wonder why there are so many crummy franchises in the NBA.  Many seem to be incapable of evaluating basketball talent or be stuck in the FOMO rut.

What does this mean for Michigan going forward?  As long as the NBA is in the FOMO realm, I would not even consider anyone with NBA potential unless it is a finished product to be the cherry on the sunday.  I would go after every undersized guard, every tweener, and every big man who is active but who has no perimeter game.  But not too much hops.  Else, the FOMO guys come looking.  If you want to win in college, you want Joey Hauser, not Jett Howard.

I often wonder if Juwan called sets for Jett, even if it wasn't the best option, to showcase his abilities knowing he was out after this year....in any case, I wish Jett luck and thank him for his time in maize and blue.

Whatever

Meh

Can't get attached to kids who are here 10 months and gone.  It's a different era get it.  Best of luck.

Howard leaving for the NBA without ever becoming anything than an erratic but sometimes decent college player, and the fact that despite that, he’ll likely be drafted in the upper half of Round 1, highlights perfectly a huge reason why neither the college or NBA games are as good or entertaining as they used to be.

Was always a 1 and done, and played like he knew it. Ain't his fault the system makes him spend a year wasting time (for him) before hitting the pros, he wasn't fully invested (hence his worst aspects being the areas where hustle can make up for a lot) and I can't say I'd have been different when I was that young if I'd have grown up like him.

Hope Buf comes back.

Unfortunately I'm not betting on Jett having a successful career unless he learns to play defense, rebound and handle the ball. I didn't see big improvement in those areas this year, and if he didn't improve much next year in college, maybe he wouldn't have helped Michigan much.  Maybe some time in the G League will help him.  This is a player who might have improved more under Beilein than he did under his dad, because Beilein emphasized the basics more.

let's play some football

So be it. His leaving was presumed for so long that I'd have been shocked it he'd stayed.

Next year will be pivotal for both Jett and Juwan. For the son, it will be time to see if he actually has the goods to play with the big boys. For the father, the chance to show if he can right the ship coming off a bitterly disappointing season.

As the Zen master said, "We'll see."

So much whining about the state of college basketball in this thread because fans don't emotionally connect with players who only play a year or two. Wish we could go back to the good old days when we got to connect with players who played a whole two or three years instead. Really felt like a family!

I can't understand why we must tiptoe around the obvious?  Jett (and all players) are entitled to make decisions about their careers just like the rest of us. Are we not able to be critical of those decisions?  And if not, why? Are we afraid of offending the fragile ego of the next high usage, self absorbed, no-defense, diva who doesn't really give a crap about team results as long as he gets his, because he might take his inflated self-worth to Memphis or Auburn or Grand Canyon?  So we can give their roster spot to someone who cares and might stick around 2 or 3 years?  It's not like we will miss his defense, hustle, ball distribution, or rebounding.

Please. These are grown men making big-boy decisions. If they are so fragile that they spend their time looking at the MGoBlog message board, I, for one, won't miss them.

MEH... I never  cared for Jett...Team played BETTER without him and could never see what all the fuss was about...NBA??? LOLOLOLOL  good luck with that..Normally when a player leaves early I get upset...Jett??? Nah Im good with that

It kinda seemed to me that Jett was playing for the draft, not the team..... or maybe it was just a freshman playing like a freshman.

Its disappointing that his time in A2 wasn't part of a team making a run in the B1G Tourney and March Madness as well.

Wish him all the best in the NBA. 

Regarding the frustration with one-and-dones, I think one promising approach is to recruit the type of guys who will be good college players, but have a flaw when it comes to their NBA potential. Hunter Dickinson and Dug McDaniel are too good examples. Dickinson can be dominant in college but may not be enough of a plus athlete to be more than a role player in the NBA, and McDaniel has a lot of awesome traits but will always be 5'11". Zavier Simpson and Jordan Morgan are good examples from years past. Those guys can end up being more valuable than higher-ranked recruits like Houstan, Diabate, and Jett, because you get their upperclassman seasons too. 

"during the NIT run"  shoot me

I am going to speculate on the meta question that I believe has impact.  The NBA values possibility not certainty which is the opposite of the rest of the world.  An individual has more value if he is younger, and his skill set has not been defined yet.  The strange reasoning of NBA GM's is that a player "COULD" have that ceiling.  This encourages players to declare early because if their value as a PRO is defined, their value is decreased.  The NBA literally values the two birds in the bush verses the bird in hand.

This means that fewer players make the decision of Franz Wagner who played himself into a higher pick by remaining another year.  Using math terms, I set the variables C equals ceiling and F equals' floor.  C is greater than F.   A player's real value is X.  A players perceived value in year one is between F and C.  NBA execs are inclined to say X equals C.  If a player waits a year, they fear that X will become known and most likely not equal C but be some value less than C.  Why bother proving you are close to C, if the NBA execs are making that conclusion anyway?  The worst thing you could do is for them to discover the real value of X.

Franz Wagner ultimately made a mistake in that a FOMO exec would have picked him high anyway.  I dispute this logic because I believe people who stay like Franz Wagner learn how to be leaders by being the alphas of a team verses having to be a sidekick and traveling 50 days a year.

Knew from the first few times watching him he was likely a one and doner. Oozes with offensive talent and NBA loves to draft potential and sometime staying to long and having them dissect your game costs you money. I can't even be mad or disappointed figured this was a thing that was bound to happen.  Jett had to much on ball responsibility this year with our PG situation. He was called on way to much to initiate offense for the team. In the league he will be a shooter however if he hopes to stick he's going to have to be able to defend a lot better then he has shown this season or be able to handle the initiation of offensive flow for team. I'll predict he has a long NBA career and may even reach All Star level at some point. 

If Bufkin goes Juwann seat is going to get hot.... I don't see how we are a tourney team without Howard or Kobe. If Kobe and Dickinson return, Dug continues to improve and we land a wing or solid 4 out of portal I see the path won't be easy! 

addition by subtraction.  Michigan is better off without him. 

Its obviously unlikely he comes back if he is getting a first round grade but announcing doesn't mean he isn't coming back

Good luck in the NBA Jett.  I'd love to see that Glen Rice jumper trabslate into a Glen Rice NBA career.

I'd love to see Kobe come back and and develop into a top five pick.