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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Please please please let this be true
Cat is out of the bag on why Dusty May has fled the Michigan Wolverines for an NBA head coaching gig with the Dallas Mavericks
Big time news broke to start the week with Michigan men’s basketball losing head coach Dusty May to the Dallas Mavericks. It’s already become clear why May decided to make this move.
atozsports.com
Intel has dropped a hint on why Dusty May has left Michigan
According to Jeff Goodman, Michigan will be getting $5 million in buyout money due to May leaving before his contract is up. Goodman also dropped two tidbits on what May has decided to leave after two seasons where he went 64-13.The state of college basketball and not knowing what it will look like in five years, and the opportunity to coach Mavericks PF Cooper Flagg are the two reasons May is leaving Michigan, according to Goodman.
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OREGONSOCKPUPPET
It's Puppet Time!
I don't keep up with coaching moves but only 10 coaches to move to the NBA in the last 30 years is surprising.
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When a coach who has had success leaves college these days and cites "the changing landscape" as the reason why......most people think of one thing, but it's actually 2 things.
Thing 1 - you have to kiss the ass of 16, 17, 18 year olds just to get them to come to your school, you then have to kiss their ass the entire time they're at the school, the rules can seemingly change from day to day...............that's a huge chunk of your time and energy that isn't spent on a single Xs and Os thing.
Thing 2 - the only success you had at your current stop is because the rules changed, allowing you to buy all the best players and assemble a super squad........and the ability to do that could change tomorrow.
If Dusty May is complaining about the changing landscape of college basketball, he's a Thing 2 type of complainer.
Thing 1 - you have to kiss the ass of 16, 17, 18 year olds just to get them to come to your school, you then have to kiss their ass the entire time they're at the school, the rules can seemingly change from day to day...............that's a huge chunk of your time and energy that isn't spent on a single Xs and Os thing.
Thing 2 - the only success you had at your current stop is because the rules changed, allowing you to buy all the best players and assemble a super squad........and the ability to do that could change tomorrow.
If Dusty May is complaining about the changing landscape of college basketball, he's a Thing 2 type of complainer.
OREGONSOCKPUPPET
It's Puppet Time!
Dusty May is an excellent coach and would successful anywhere in the college game. Just looking at his resume, he had 6 winning seasons at Florida Atlantic. He went 126-69 at a school that has only been to the NCAA tournament 3 times (only once before he got there) with limited resources. He didn't get all the best players. He got Yaxel who was the best player, but the other players improved a lot from the previous year, and I don't think any of them besides Yaxel were even in the top 20 overall transfer portal rankings which actually shocks me. I thought he got all top 10 guys with the way people mentioning it. I doubt he a thing 2. I mean you also get to coach on the highest level of basketball in the world where only 30 jobs exist. I'm glad he is gone. He would have been a thorn in the big ten for a while had he stayed.
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calibuck
Too soon old, too late smart
Wonder if the percentage of college coaches moving to the NBA has a higher %age of success than the football coaches making that move? Don't really care much, just an idle thought. Also, the players at the NBA level are all so good, it's hard to (for me at least) get into the game, as a simple step left can cut off passing lane, and goes unnoticed. The 'changing landscape' of college basketball/sports is what is called 'systemic risk', meaning that the risk is equal to everyone, but cannot be quantified. This from a guy that used to have season tickets to the Warriors. Go Bucks!
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I see his reasoning as plausible actually.
His job skill is coaching high level basketball. Who is the more stable employer right now, college or NBA?
Coaching at the high college level right now is like working in a start up. There are good things and bad things but there is a lot of uncertainty. It could be gone in 5 years or greatly transformed.
The NBA will be the NBA in 5 years, you just have to win and you'll have a job. Also, that job will look pretty much exactly like the job looks today.
It's not like he's an owner of the start up or anything, so why take the extra risk/deal with the uncertainty?
Don't get me wrong, fuck M*chigan.... but I don't see this as some big cover up or anything. It's a boringly common example of a job hop more than likely BUT it's hurts tsun so I'm here for it.
His job skill is coaching high level basketball. Who is the more stable employer right now, college or NBA?
Coaching at the high college level right now is like working in a start up. There are good things and bad things but there is a lot of uncertainty. It could be gone in 5 years or greatly transformed.
The NBA will be the NBA in 5 years, you just have to win and you'll have a job. Also, that job will look pretty much exactly like the job looks today.
It's not like he's an owner of the start up or anything, so why take the extra risk/deal with the uncertainty?
Don't get me wrong, fuck M*chigan.... but I don't see this as some big cover up or anything. It's a boringly common example of a job hop more than likely BUT it's hurts tsun so I'm here for it.
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I didn't mean to imply he isn't a good coach. He obviously is. But, 1) Why didn't he win it all at his previous stops (obviously talent acquisition) and 2) What's his expectation now for next year? The year after that? He's gotta keep buying through the transfer portal. The first year he tries that and it doesn't work, the Dallas Mavericks aren't going to be calling.
It's this......only any bemoaning of "the college landscape", especially from a guy who just won a title BECAUSE OF the college landscape, should fall on deaf ears. I don't even know if he is complaining about it.....but if that's his stated reason? Bullshit. You left because you wanted to, not because the stupid rules in the NCAA forced you to. You, more than anybody else, benefited from those stupid rules.
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This has always seemed like it was going to be May's end game, he was never going to be a career Michigan man.
I don't really think it has a ton to do with the "landscape" either. He's just a guy who has wanted to work up to coaching at the highest level.
I don't really think it has a ton to do with the "landscape" either. He's just a guy who has wanted to work up to coaching at the highest level.
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Yep, more than likely he left just to jump ship to greener pastures (however he defines it)
I wish this was the beginning of an embarrassing, program killing scandal of some sort but I think we have to settle with simple old Schadenfreude from our hated enemy getting their panties wadded over losing a good coach.
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