Reacting to Michigan hiring Juwan Howard as next head coach
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
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🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In the hours following reports that Miami Heat assistant and former Michigan basketball star Juwan Howard would take over the vacant Wolverines' head-coaching job, we discuss some of our early reactions to the hire.
We look at how hiring Howard grades for Michigan and what went into hiring him over other candidates. We also look at the key challenges that Howard faces in his first head-coaching job and first coaching gig in college. We break down some of the early recruiting pushes Howard will have to make, as well as looking at how we would handle retaining some of Michigan's key assistant coaches.
Finally, we close by taking a peek at the coming months for Howard, what that could look like and also gauge just what kind of team he is inheriting for the 2019-20 season.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz on the phone lines with me as always. This is a reaction podcast. |
| 0:21.9 | By now, I'm sure everyone has heard. Juan Howard is Michigan basketball's next head coach, |
| 0:28.3 | replacing John B-line. They went about 10 days without a coach. But Joanne Howard, former |
| 0:34.8 | player during the Fab 5 era, part of the Fab 5 19 year NBA career and has been coaching with the Miami Heat for the last six years. |
| 0:44.8 | We're going to try to cover all the bases that we can. |
| 0:46.9 | You know, the impact, recruiting, how it went down, whether it was handled right, what this hire means, expectations. |
| 0:52.9 | We're going to try to handle it. We're going to work |
| 0:54.8 | pretty quickly through this podcast, but first, right off the bat. Steve, how would you grade |
| 1:01.0 | this higher, you know, using the A letter scale? Obviously, the answer is really, you know, |
| 1:09.4 | ask me in three years and then we'll grade it. |
| 1:11.7 | But just from what we know was available, |
| 1:14.8 | what Howard's capabilities are, |
| 1:17.2 | what he's shown as an assistant with the Miami Heat, |
| 1:19.9 | how would you grade it? |
| 1:23.8 | Tough one. |
| 1:27.1 | B plus probably, which I don't think is like a bad thing. |
| 1:30.5 | Okay. |
| 1:31.3 | I think of the candidates that actually did come to the forefront in the search, |
| 1:37.3 | like legitimate ones that Michigan probably could have gotten. |
| 1:40.4 | I still think I take him over anybody else. |
| 1:47.3 | You know, like Ed Cooley, like, no. |
| 1:51.0 | You know, so I got to think, you know, here's my thing is, you know, like, it takes, you know, like, it takes, uh, for a guy, like, if the guy's good enough sorry i'm like really |
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