05/22: Michigan gets its best realistic replacement for John Beilein by hiring Juwan Howard
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
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🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On Wednesday, Michigan officially hired alumnus Juwan Howard to coach its men's basketball program. The first 20 minutes of this podcast are dedicated to that decision, with Parrish and Norlander bringing some deeper context into why this decision was made and why it's different from the Penny Hardaway hiring at Memphis. Then the guys get to notable five-star commitments within the past week (20:00): Precious Achiuwa to Memphis; Jaden McDaniels to Washington; Trendon Watford to LSU.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Perish. It's Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019. Welcome back to the CBS Sports |
| 0:12.9 | Island College basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camera fighting and leaky |
| 0:16.8 | black Matt Norlander is here with me. Big news on Wednesday afternoon. |
| 0:20.5 | Joanne Howard has reached an agreement to be the next head coach to the Michigan Wolverines. |
| 0:24.3 | No, he's never been a head coach before. No, he's never worked on a college campus before, |
| 0:28.2 | but he is a member of the FAB 5 with a long NBA career and has spent the past, I believe, |
| 0:33.6 | six seasons on staff with the Miami Heat working under Pat Riley and Eric Spolstra. |
| 0:39.0 | And so that makes him qualified at least on some level to do what he's now being asked to do, |
| 0:43.6 | which is build Michigan or keep Michigan nationally relevant to keep it a nationally relevant |
| 0:49.1 | program. Matt Norlander, your thoughts on Michigan's decision to hire. |
| 0:52.7 | Joanne Howard. Gary Perish, my thoughts are interesting higher. I think a worthwhile |
| 0:57.8 | hire. I think a logical hire. I have a column up at CBSBORS.com or pull up that CBSBORS app on |
| 1:03.1 | your phone or iPad. Give it a read if you so please. The biggest reason why I think this makes sense |
| 1:09.9 | is not just that Joanne Howard and I can't, I'm going off of the expertise of members of the |
| 1:14.9 | media who covered the NBA and have either gotten to know Joanne Howard or know of his reputation, |
| 1:20.4 | the people that surround him, right? So he has developed a fairly established reputation in a |
| 1:25.4 | relatively short amount of time. Goes from a 19 year NBA career to coaching in the pros. He has |
| 1:31.3 | interviewed for NBA head coaching jobs this year. So he's got the coaching credentials. |
| 1:37.2 | Even though he's ever done in college, he carries a certain amount of cash out there, which I think |
| 1:40.8 | just should not be immediately dismissed. And then, you know, I got to think once it looked like |
| 1:45.2 | he was going to get this job, I don't know how much this will ultimately prove to matter. I think |
| 1:49.3 | it might matter. You look at what Penny Hardaway's doing. His situation is not parallel to Howard, |
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