05/13: John Beilein stuns college basketball by leaving Michigan to coach the Cleveland Cavaliers
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 14 May 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The basketball world woke up to surprising news Monday morning: John Beilein was walking on Michigan to take a job with the shaky Cleveland Cavaliers organization. This episodes goes heavy on that, including why Beilein doing this should -- or maybe shouldn't -- be that surprising, in addition to evaluating Michigan's program in the greater hierarchy of college basketball (20:00) and trying to establish which candidates actually make sense at the early stage of UM's search. From there, GP and Norlander get to Kentucky taking back its standing with the No. 1-rated recruiting class (40:00), followed close behind by -- well, well! -- Memphis (49:00) and the apparent monster Penny Hardaway has assembled for 2019-20.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Tertius, Monday, May 13, 2019. Welcome back to the CVS Sports I on |
| 0:11.2 | College Basketball Podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting in Leaky Black, Mandor |
| 0:15.7 | Landa is here with me and big news on Monday morning. John B. Live has left Michigan after |
| 0:20.5 | 12 years. He's now the head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. I wish him luck with |
| 0:24.6 | that. At Michigan, he won two Big 10 regular season titles, two Big 10 tournament titles, |
| 0:29.2 | made the championship game of the 2013 and 2018 NCAA tournament. He was the 2018 CVS Sports |
| 0:36.6 | National Coach of the Year, just a tremendous man, tremendous coach. And now he's off to |
| 0:42.4 | the NBA. Your thoughts, Matt Norlander. I was stunned. I did not see this coming at all. |
| 0:51.1 | I know you wrote a column, which our listeners can check out at CBS Sports.com on CBS Sports |
| 0:56.6 | App about why this shouldn't necessarily be surprising. I've got some rebukes as to |
| 1:02.8 | why it is, but parish, why why to you is this not such a surprising deal? Okay, so when |
| 1:07.9 | I say it's not surprising, I don't mean the timing wasn't surprising. For instance, if |
| 1:11.7 | you would have asked me last night while I was watching Game of Thrones, hey, do you think |
| 1:15.2 | anything crazy is going to happen tomorrow morning? I'd be like nothing crazier than this |
| 1:18.9 | drag and flying around killing everybody. Probably not. I didn't think John B. Live was going |
| 1:23.6 | to accept the Cleveland Cavaliers job on Monday morning. Let's be honest. This is one |
| 1:28.2 | of those rare instances where the guy who actually got the job was it was not reported. |
| 1:34.8 | He was ever a candidate for the job. Like go read Adrian Wozniarowski or anybody else |
| 1:39.8 | connected to the NBA or anybody in college basketball. There was never a tweet or report |
| 1:44.7 | anything that said John B. Line is a candidate for the Cleveland Cavaliers. And then boom, |
| 1:49.5 | I mean, I don't know if John B. Line is going to be a candidate for the Cleveland Cavaliers |
| 1:55.0 | coach. So when I say it's not surprising, I mean, I don't mean the timing of it. That was |
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