But can any of them coach off of one foot?
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But can any of them coach off of one foot?
Juwan Howard going to get 2mil from Michigan.
Former NBA players with no head coaching experience coming back to coach their alma mater seems to be a trend (Mullin, Ewing and now this.)
Drexler = bad
Mullin = pretty bad
Ewing = Seems okay for now
Penny = Smashing success
Howard = ???
Ewing and Howard may not have had head coaching experience entering their jobs, but they were still assistants (albeit at the NBA level). Mullin was strictly a front-office guy without ANY coaching experience until St. John's and it showed. Georgetown is headed in the right direction, but they have to curb their addiction to the OOC creampuff cart.
By the same token, Howard is walking into the most stable situation of the five programs that Go listed above.
Howard was pretty good his first 10-15 years, than the last few he was just seen as an older player giving wisdom, has two rings, and over 16,000 career points, definitely marginally in the conversation but still someone players can look at and be like "damn this guy was pretty good," in my opinion. I think the biggest thing will be how he fills his staff out, I think his first act should be trying to secure Yaklich to stay as he's a good recruiter, and a good defensive mind, then we'll see what other pieces line up. I think it's an interesting move, I read an Athletic article that said the choices after Howard were Williard and Martin from South Carolina. I think Howard has potential to have a pretty high ceiling due to name recognition and being on teams with LeBron, Wade, etc. The no experience thing is going to be an interesting aspect but if he can delegate with the proper staff I could see it being successful for Michigan.
EDIT: I also didn't realize Aaron McKie is the head coach of Temple now, so that's Penny, Ewing, Howard, McKie, Majerle, Stackhouse all former NBA players that are head coaches at D1 institutions, it's kind of crazy to see so many people I've seen play in the NBA actually coaching college ball now, is this what getting older feels like??