Michigan announces hiring of Dusty May's first staff members

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Interesting note in here… Church and Williamson both worked with the bigs at FAU.

Makes sense because Joyner and Miskdeen are both guards.

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i get very good leader vibes from a guy who can hire over his former assistants and still bring those assistants with him to fill other roles. speaks to a guy who people want to keep working with AND the ability to have tough conversations without either side taking it really personally.

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Yep. I just love the Dusty May hire and it looks like he has compiled a great staff.

Now we just need NIL to become at least somewhat competitive enough to start filling out a quality roster.

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Thought there was one other, Harrell? I think he’s in another capacity or did he not get hired

https://x.com/umichbball/status/1781020004831367454?s=46&t=SywsRwjImAPP0DFzyXGjwg

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sources tell me this an incredible staff

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Any idea on who the new strength coach is going to be?

I could not care less who the new strength coach is. I hope it’s Mike barwis

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Regardless of what happens with a given player in the portal, the future is very bright overall.

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Kim Barnes-Arico

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So the interesting stuff here is the roles:

Church is AC + GM
Williamson is AC + DPP
Gilbert is special assistant.

Then presumably Harrell is DOBO but that wasn’t announced here

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I knew it. fkng disgusting

So on the non top 3 assistants but basketball adjacent staff roles we are going from:

Jaaron Simmons Video Coordinator
Jay Smith DPP
Chris Hunter DOBO

to

Kyle Church Assistant/GM
Drew Williamson Assistant/DPP
Brandon Gilbert Special Assistant

plus presumably a separate video coordinator and DOBO coming? certainly a DOBO but maybe Gilbert and the other assistants are taking on the video coordinator roles.

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Yeah, the 4th and 5th assistant roles are clearly titled up and hired up… I guess there’s still some question what the additional spots look like and how many there are.

I think every staff in the country has a DOBO and a Video Coordinator and GAs, etc. so not announcing them implies something is still being figured out with them.

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it’s me. I am the video coordinator

The Block Ms on this graphic stress me out! It’s like a QR code or something.

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It’s a hidden message:

BESURETODRINKYOUROVALTINE

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Mike Boyton > Dusty May