This is why they just need to move onto direct pay for players and a salary cap. To pretend these are still amateurs is laughable at best and parity will never come while everyone is still pretending the emperor has new clothes on.
Wow...I think I was impressed with literally every single answer he gave. He seems as though he very much understands the modern college sports landscape and appears to have a process and approach for everything he does.
Press Conferences don't win games, and this is my first time really hearing him talk at all, but darn it all I'm on board. When does basketball season start!?
I’m not even sure rehiring Beilein would’ve been the best move. Obviously he’s Beilein and all, but the program sorta feels like it needs a fresh start with a vision towards the future. Hiring Beilein again would be looking towards the past. And Beilein isn’t exactly a spring chicken so we’d most likely be looking for a new coach yet again in a few short years.
I’d much rather hire the young guy with program building ability and then bring Beilein alongside in an advisory role. Seriously. Give Beilein his own office and the keys to…!
Michigan would have to actually get a marginally respectable NIL program going for basketball then...which do you think takes longer? Organic improvement from Dusty or non-embarassing NIL for the basketball program?
No Porter is not doing wonders at Oklahoma (.545), but his total win percentage is ontrack with what it was at Loyola (.571) so it seems as though he's par for the course at the moment. Sometimes it's because a coach is just a winner and sometimes it's just a few magical seasons.
However, it seems extremely premature to automatically declare Dusty May a flash in the pan, don't you think? He's only been at one school and he already has a better total win percentage than Beilein himself ended with. Which is also a clip better than Porter Moser at his best.
To be fair, "turned into a final four school" sorta implies that they are constant participants of the final four year in and year out when technically they've only been once. Still a hell of an accomplishment FAU.
Hhmm...was not aware of him until now. A cursory glance at his Wiki page shows that he's young, has had two fantastic seasons the last two years, won his conference championship two seasons ago, 4-2 in the big dance, and has never had a losing season since he's been a head coach. Based on his performance at a smaller conference school, maybe he could turn out to be one of those alpha coaches who wins at a high clip once he gets to a bigger program.
His total collegiate head coaching win percentage is currently.646....just for the record, John Beilein's total collegiate win percentage was .640 when he retired.
One never truly knows what the future holds, but this has all the appearances of being a good hire thus far.
I mean, I don't think anyone is "happy" about the way things turned out. We all wanted Juwan to be wildly successful. Unfortunately that's not what happened.
I for one would appreciate some plain honesty from the coach.
Why is it so hard to admit that he did a terrible job this season and the players did terrible too. This isn’t what we were aiming for but yeah we utterly failed and it’s not acceptable.
Why does everything have to draped in 30 layers of PR and coach speak?
It appears that Warde either lacks the internal will and drive to push for absolute athletic greatness (do whatever it takes), thereby being more than content with mediocrity as long as we do things the "right" way, or he's utterly incompetent and doesn't even comprehend the concept of furiously pursuing dominace in the major sports.
I seriously suspect it's the former.
By all appearances Warde is the classic "Michigan Man". He doesn't rock the boat, he doesn't color outside the lines, and his idea of reaching for the stars is being smack dab in the middle of the pack. #GoodEnough
It's no wonder he and Harbaugh clashed which ultimately ended in personal dislike. Harbaugh literally emodied the concept of pursuing winning with a ferocity unknown to mankind. Warde is literally Harbaugh's opposite. Harbaugh literally strove to beat Ohio State and win championships or die trying...We won the national championship INSPITE of Warde Manual...mark my words.
Warde will do nothing about Juwan until he's beyond forced to act. The fact that Juwan is still coaching is evidence of this fact. This level of dumpster fire would never be tolerated at top baskeball programs across the country, yet Warde allows it to continue.
We need a motivated, driven, "do whatever it takes to win" AD from one of the southern programs who knows what it takes and has the balls to do it. Enough with this "Do things the right way (ie. mediocrity) / Michigan Man" bullshit.
The onus is on the basketball program. THEY need to do better. Stop playing like utter shit and people will want to watch again...it's not rocket science.
This is why the UM AD should tell the NCAA that we are no longer recognizing any of their rules or authority, the investigation is canceled, and they can go fuck themselves.
If they're not going to enforce all the rules equally for all members, then there's zero point to any of it.
Honestly? I’d go poach a strong AD from an SEC school. They seem to be the only ones who know how to fight for their schools and be willing to lead into new uncharted territory.
We call ourselves the leaders and best and yet we’ve been timidly tiptoeing behind the entire rest of the sport in almost every aspect for decades.
What qualifies this guy to coordinate a defense? Does he have any capacity to main the Raven’s style defense we’ve been dominating with?
I’m obviously not a coach but this doesn’t seem like a very impressive potential hire to me. I don’t see any evidence of continuing the defense we already run nor do I see evidence of elite recruiting so…what’s the appeal here?
Anyone care to chime in on the upside(s) I’m not aware of?
These are all very political answers. Clearly there was bad blood between him and Warde, but Harbaugh isn't going to start airing dirty laundry out in public. It's the professional thing to do. So he's going to give non-answer answers that put the university in the best light possible. Par for the course.
Holy shit...Wow. An AD with a fucking spine. About damn time. Can we fire Warde and hire this guy?? Like seriously, THIS is how you go to bat for your program. If I thought Warde was capable of learning something I'd advise him to take notes...
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Has such a transfer happened before in either sport? I'm...I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel LOL
This is why they just need to move onto direct pay for players and a salary cap. To pretend these are still amateurs is laughable at best and parity will never come while everyone is still pretending the emperor has new clothes on.
Fuck the NCAA and fuck the AD for being the NCAA's lapdog.
The NCAA goes after Tennessee and the Tennessee AD full out sues the NCAA.
The NCAA goes after Michigan and the Michigan AD asks how they can help the NCAA screw over the program.
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Wow...I think I was impressed with literally every single answer he gave. He seems as though he very much understands the modern college sports landscape and appears to have a process and approach for everything he does.
Press Conferences don't win games, and this is my first time really hearing him talk at all, but darn it all I'm on board. When does basketball season start!?
Just go…
Aw man love Dusty!
Just go ahead and lay down in the ditch! 😂
Interesting. I wonder why they care so much about internationals getting NIL.
Year 0? Having to rebuild from the ashes up after the Juwan dumpster fire sounds more like year -1 to me 😂
I’m not even sure rehiring Beilein would’ve been the best move. Obviously he’s Beilein and all, but the program sorta feels like it needs a fresh start with a vision towards the future. Hiring Beilein again would be looking towards the past. And Beilein isn’t exactly a spring chicken so we’d most likely be looking for a new coach yet again in a few short years.
I’d much rather hire the young guy with program building ability and then bring Beilein alongside in an advisory role. Seriously. Give Beilein his own office and the keys to…!
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Is it a state hurdle? Or an NCAA hurdle?
If you were a star WR, you'd be an absolute fool to commit to Michigan until they prove they can do more with the offense than run the ball.
Michigan would have to actually get a marginally respectable NIL program going for basketball then...which do you think takes longer? Organic improvement from Dusty or non-embarassing NIL for the basketball program?
To say nothing of admissions...
Beilein went 10–22 in his first season here. I guess that's the record to beat eh?
With the caveat that I know nothing about either coach beyond their win records on Wikipedia, I'd take Dusty over Niko...but what do I know *shrug*
Literally no where to go but up! Lol.
Nothing's official until it's on Wikipedia! :)
Idk, Shaka seems to be putting things together at Marquette...
2021–22: 19–13
2022–23: 29–7
2023–24: 26–9
No Porter is not doing wonders at Oklahoma (.545), but his total win percentage is ontrack with what it was at Loyola (.571) so it seems as though he's par for the course at the moment. Sometimes it's because a coach is just a winner and sometimes it's just a few magical seasons.
However, it seems extremely premature to automatically declare Dusty May a flash in the pan, don't you think? He's only been at one school and he already has a better total win percentage than Beilein himself ended with. Which is also a clip better than Porter Moser at his best.
To be fair, "turned into a final four school" sorta implies that they are constant participants of the final four year in and year out when technically they've only been once. Still a hell of an accomplishment FAU.
Hhmm...was not aware of him until now. A cursory glance at his Wiki page shows that he's young, has had two fantastic seasons the last two years, won his conference championship two seasons ago, 4-2 in the big dance, and has never had a losing season since he's been a head coach. Based on his performance at a smaller conference school, maybe he could turn out to be one of those alpha coaches who wins at a high clip once he gets to a bigger program.
His total collegiate head coaching win percentage is currently.646....just for the record, John Beilein's total collegiate win percentage was .640 when he retired.
One never truly knows what the future holds, but this has all the appearances of being a good hire thus far.
Any word on Dusty's recruiting acumen?
I mean, I don't think anyone is "happy" about the way things turned out. We all wanted Juwan to be wildly successful. Unfortunately that's not what happened.
FINALLY
It’s called ripping the bandaid off rather than slowly and painfully peeling.
I for one would appreciate some plain honesty from the coach.
Why is it so hard to admit that he did a terrible job this season and the players did terrible too. This isn’t what we were aiming for but yeah we utterly failed and it’s not acceptable.
Why does everything have to draped in 30 layers of PR and coach speak?
What a bunch of complete bullshit.
This program is utterly screwed and hopeless.
It appears that Warde either lacks the internal will and drive to push for absolute athletic greatness (do whatever it takes), thereby being more than content with mediocrity as long as we do things the "right" way, or he's utterly incompetent and doesn't even comprehend the concept of furiously pursuing dominace in the major sports.
I seriously suspect it's the former.
By all appearances Warde is the classic "Michigan Man". He doesn't rock the boat, he doesn't color outside the lines, and his idea of reaching for the stars is being smack dab in the middle of the pack. #GoodEnough
It's no wonder he and Harbaugh clashed which ultimately ended in personal dislike. Harbaugh literally emodied the concept of pursuing winning with a ferocity unknown to mankind. Warde is literally Harbaugh's opposite. Harbaugh literally strove to beat Ohio State and win championships or die trying...We won the national championship INSPITE of Warde Manual...mark my words.
Warde will do nothing about Juwan until he's beyond forced to act. The fact that Juwan is still coaching is evidence of this fact. This level of dumpster fire would never be tolerated at top baskeball programs across the country, yet Warde allows it to continue.
We need a motivated, driven, "do whatever it takes to win" AD from one of the southern programs who knows what it takes and has the balls to do it. Enough with this "Do things the right way (ie. mediocrity) / Michigan Man" bullshit.
Yup. I've dealt with ulnar nerve issues on and off and it really hampers your ability to do things with your hand and fingers. It freakin sucks.
The onus is on the basketball program. THEY need to do better. Stop playing like utter shit and people will want to watch again...it's not rocket science.
This is why the UM AD should tell the NCAA that we are no longer recognizing any of their rules or authority, the investigation is canceled, and they can go fuck themselves.
If they're not going to enforce all the rules equally for all members, then there's zero point to any of it.
Fine, get all mathy on me...LOL
What's the over/under that this guy actually makes it to campus?
Good. Fuck that bitch. Refs should never call a single foul in his favor for the rest of his career.
Continuity of culture remains to be seen. It takes more than one coach to make a program culture. And we just lost almost all of our coaches.
I think that’s rather telling unfortunately 😕
HA
How the ever living fuck did we not sue the hell out of the NCAA??
😂
Honestly? I’d go poach a strong AD from an SEC school. They seem to be the only ones who know how to fight for their schools and be willing to lead into new uncharted territory.
We call ourselves the leaders and best and yet we’ve been timidly tiptoeing behind the entire rest of the sport in almost every aspect for decades.
Basically half of this board:
Who the bloody hell would disagree?
I mean, just the same thing everyone’s been saying for a few years now. Our offense isn’t great and hasn’t been. We won on the back of our defense.
I was wondering the same thing. Thanks for the answer!
Yup. Warde clearly still thinks the year is 1985. He needs to go yesterday
Appreciate the response. Thanks!
What qualifies this guy to coordinate a defense? Does he have any capacity to main the Raven’s style defense we’ve been dominating with?
I’m obviously not a coach but this doesn’t seem like a very impressive potential hire to me. I don’t see any evidence of continuing the defense we already run nor do I see evidence of elite recruiting so…what’s the appeal here?
Anyone care to chime in on the upside(s) I’m not aware of?
These are all very political answers. Clearly there was bad blood between him and Warde, but Harbaugh isn't going to start airing dirty laundry out in public. It's the professional thing to do. So he's going to give non-answer answers that put the university in the best light possible. Par for the course.
So...yes it was a problem LOL.
Not that we didn't know that already but thought it was funny.
Holy shit...Wow. An AD with a fucking spine. About damn time. Can we fire Warde and hire this guy?? Like seriously, THIS is how you go to bat for your program. If I thought Warde was capable of learning something I'd advise him to take notes...
Must be nice to have leadership that doesn’t fucking roll over every single damn time…
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