Huge NCAA MBB News: Beilein to Cavs
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I'm immediately curious about domino-effect on this one. I'm trying to think of who would be on the short list for U-M.
This is the job that Nate Oats would have been perfect for.
This pretty much says it all including the paycheck:
In recent years, he's become increasingly frustrated with the nature of college basketball recruiting and the retention of top players. The impending loss of freshman Ignas Brazdiekis with Charles Matthews and Jordan Poole to the NBA draft dented what might have been a national championship contender.
Beilein's son, Patrick, was recently hired as the coach at Niagara University -- about a 3.5 hour drive from Cleveland.
In recent years, he's become increasingly frustrated with the nature of college basketball recruiting and the retention of top players. The impending loss of freshman Ignas Brazdiekis with Charles Matthews and Jordan Poole to the NBA draft dented what might have been a national championship contender.
Beilein's son, Patrick, was recently hired as the coach at Niagara University -- about a 3.5 hour drive from Cleveland.
What was Michigan paying him? Doesn't seem like he would get paid that much more in the NBA. Michigan could pretty much give him as much as he wanted. This seems more like a Hoiberg scenario where he wants to test himself in the NBA while he can. Probably fed up with the dirtiness of NCAA basketball too.
I was curious about his coaching tree, and this is what I found:
https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2016/04/john_beilein_coaching_tree.html
Not a lot of qualified guys for a job that big.
I tried looking to see if I could find former players who were now coaching, but that's a tough one to find.
Tony Bennett has to be their first call.
After that, probably every coach not except Duke, UNC, and Kentucky is interested.
After that, probably every coach not except Duke, UNC, and Kentucky is interested.
Good info. I thought of LaVall Jordan having the coaching-tree connection. Michigan might not be in position for Splash, given the timing. Remaining roster also has been recruited and developed for Beilein's system, I don't know how much impact that has in short-term.
Beilein has been at Michigan for over a decade and has two final fours. What the **** is wrong with ISU b-ball fan?
It won't happen (because they can do better) but if Michigan calls he would be an idiot not to answer.
I would still not call him a Michigan Legend. I am talking Coach K, Dean Smith, John Wooden, that type of stuff.
BTW Michigan is notorious for underpaying coaches. Not sure if that has changed over the years or not. However, we got Johnny Orr because of that exact reason.
Well Michigan isn’t those schools and he will he looked at as being a legend. All time winningest coach there, two final fours. If he’s not a UM coaching legend then who is?
Somehow, the Michigan AD saying "John finally gets to fulfill his dream of coaching in the NBA at 66" probably wouldn't go over as easy as it did in Ames.
Michigan most def is not underpaying coaches anymore nor have they for a long time. If anything they are over paying their football coach and Belien was making well over 3 Mill a year I believe.
He was a top 10 paid coach in college basketball, making about $3.5 million/year. Johnny Orr was 40 years ago.
I always liked him. One of the few power house coaches that I would cheer for rather than against.
