What went wrong in Juwan Howard's Michigan tenure, and what's next for the Wolverines in their head-coaching search
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2024
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
In a loaded basketball episode, Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz break down a number of key topics pertaining to Michigan firing Juwan Howard, and what’s next for the Wolverines’ program.
They open with a look at how Juwan Howard’s once-promising coaching tenure went so south, so quickly. They discuss roster management, a loss of momentum, defensive struggles and late-game woes, as well as where Howard could have improved in the offseason. They then pivot to look at what Michigan can learn from the last five years, and what can be applied to the Wolverines’ head-coaching search. They look at how a roster can be constructed at Michigan, why a coach used to “doing more with less” can shine in Ann Arbor and why college coaching experience is critical to whomever the Wolverines choose.
In the second half of the episode, they take a look at some of the top coaching candidates. They look at unlikely, but worthy candidates they would call first, realistic candidates that make the most sense, and some dark-horse candidates they are intrigued by. They also spend a lot of time discussing a potential return by John Beilein.
They close with more discussion about how Howard’s tenure turned so sour, and discuss a number of smaller topics along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, |
| 0:04.0 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me, |
| 0:08.0 | and we're actually living up to the basketball part of that intro this time. It's been a while |
| 0:13.1 | since we've done a basketball-specific episode. I, Steve can attest it. I feel like half the time we're |
| 0:18.2 | on the phone, I'm like, man, we we got to talk about this basketball team. They're, they're going through these epic struggles, but, but it's |
| 0:24.2 | almost kind of like a like watching a slow motion car wreck this season where it's like, okay, |
| 0:30.4 | do we, do we talk about it now or do we wait until the dust settles? And it's like, here's |
| 0:34.2 | another game and another. So it's anyway, the season's over. |
| 0:37.9 | They went 8 and 24, worst record in program history. |
| 0:41.3 | I have a whole list of stats that basically indicate this is probably the worst season in program history. |
| 0:47.8 | And not 48 hours after the season ended, Michigan head coach, Juanawan Howard, was fired after five seasons leading |
| 0:55.9 | the Wolverine. So this episode will be a lot about that, more so than, you know, what went into |
| 1:01.1 | 8 and 24. It'll be a lot more about the coaching change. We'll talk about what went wrong in the |
| 1:06.2 | Joanne Howard once promising Joanne Howard tenure. The biggest lessons learned as it pertains to Michigan and the basketball program moving forward. |
| 1:14.8 | The most important trait, Michigan must look for in its next head coach. |
| 1:18.8 | And then we're going to name, we'll name a few names, but we're going to pick our first call if we were in Michigan's shoes, the candidate who makes the most realistic sense, |
| 1:29.1 | and then a dark course candidate that we're not ruling out to be Michigan's next head coach. |
| 1:34.7 | So Steve, I'm going to let you go first, but, you know, Juan Howard, we were talking about right |
| 1:38.0 | before we hit record. There was a moment, I would say, in 2020, 2021, you know, when when he he had Michigan in the top five within his first |
| 1:47.2 | couple weeks on the job because he won the battle for Atlantis. And in that 2020 season, |
| 1:51.1 | we never got to see it through. But then the next year, you know, he added some transfers. Franz |
| 1:56.9 | Wagner had his breakout season. They win the Big Ten. They make the elite eight. |
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