lol, I don’t think the guy born 30 miles from Philly is going to leave Villanova.
I like Kevin Willard from Seton Hall as well, but I don’t know his back story on how clean he is.
RE: Willard, IIRC his name popped up a time or two in the FBI thing.
I didn’t know on that.
Too soon, Official Michigan Men’s Basketball Twitter Account. Too soon!!
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One of the few good things to come of this is that we now have our chance to hire a real dirty son-of-a-bitch. It works everywhere else and it will work here. Bring in a guy who also owns part of a car dealership and has shoes and money falling out of his ass. Let’s evolve.
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Jesus Christ.
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Could be nothing, I’d have to go back and look at the context of his name’s inclusion.
Recall that Saddi’s name showed up on Dawkins’ list of “these are my guys” or whatever, but I believe some of the names were just people that Dawkins wanted to talk to (for whatever reason) and that he didn’t necessarily have any contact with previously.
Beilein is so hard to replace, in terms of his qualities (winner, academic focus, ethically grounded, outstanding basketball mind, especially offensively, talent developer - never coached a McDonald’s AA). Take away not winning a Natty his peers are along the lines of Jay Wright and Tony Bennett, maybe Mark Few.
Not many guys like that are on the market. Warde has his work cut out for him.
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No early warning of this whatsoever?! I can’t even begin to express how disappointed I am. I’ve been a fan of Beilein since he was coaching Richmond. He had said the Pistons were the only NBA team he would have considered leaving for, since they are so close to Ann Arbor and his wife didn’t want to move again. I guess Cleveland is close enough for him too.
I hate the NBA. It’s not real basketball. It’s a product. Haven’t watched it in years. My favorite college coach is now a part of it. F*** the NBA, and f*** the NCAA for being such a garbage, corrupt, organization.
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I’m not really worried about Michigan finding a great replacement. It’s a plum job. There are maybe a handful of coaches with jobs as good or better - Coach K, Izzo, Calipari, Roy Williams. Anyone who isn’t them, and isn’t dirty (which vastly narrows the field), would be thrilled at the chance.
My bigger concern is the effect on next season. With Iggy, Poole, and Matthews leaving, this move really screws up any efforts to fill those spots. Anyone Coach B was talking to will likely move on somewhere else. Michigan will need to move fast.
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Why? Why? Why?
Of this list, the only ones I would consider would be Yaklich or Marshall. Jordan has shown he’s not head coach material, failing to take a very talented Butler squad to the Tournament.
I actually feel most bad for Bajema and Wilson. You’re about to head to Ann Arbor very soon and this happens. Who knows what Beilein told them but I assume they asked him last year if he would reconsider the NBA. Wonder what Beilein told them and if they had knowledge this could happen.
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Coaches are mercenaries. No matter how much you want to believe otherwise. This is their professional livelihood.
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Prohm isn’t bad.
I just don’t see Michigan finding another coach that is as good and runs as clean a program as John Beilein, unless they hire Yaklich, and I’m not sure he’s ready to be a head coach, and I’m sure he won’t be a candidate for the position anyway. Manuel will want to go for an established head coach.
But yeah. We’re fucked. The program was simply not ready to sustain a hit like this, particularly with it coming at a time where the coaching carousel has already settled. We will NOT be attracting any sort of big name coach. I would say that the only thing I find as a MAYBE reasonable possibility is Gregg Marshall, but I’m pretty sure that Wichita State is super dirty, so that probably doesn’t work on our end.
We will likely end up with someone from the Beilein coaching tree as a our coach, I would expect it to work out poorly over the next 3-4 years, and then we’ll be able to begin a real coaching search next time. 
All expectations go out the window for next year.
It’s also peak Michigan sports to have a rival asshat sports owner hire the greatest coach in program history (after Izzo has turned it down on multiple overtures) to a job in which he will likely just end up fired within 2-3 years after Dan Gilbert forgets John’s name and decides he wants to hire KD’s childhood friend as coach.
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