Michigan Coach Dusty May to Dallas Mavs

[Pryght]

1 hour ago, Stuhoo said:

When the IU job actually opened he was not going to leave UM after one year.

IMO, if IU had truly been his dream job, he would have left Michigan after one season, just like DeVries left West Virginia.

Goodman is an idiot, but in this case I think he's probably right. Dusty never seriously wanted the IU job because (1) he didn't want to coach in a fishbowl environment, and (2) he was concerned about how a potential failure at IU could affect family members who still live in Indiana. Those are reasonable concerns.

That said, circumstances have changed dramatically. He just won a national championship and is now headed to the NBA. Concerns about the IU fishbowl or the possibility of failing there are likely much less significant than they were a year ago.

If both DeVries and Dusty struggle over the next few years, and college basketball reaches a more stable place with NIL and roster management, I could easily see the stars aligning for Dusty to become IU's next coach.

From an IU perspective, yesterday felt like a win-win. Either DeVries succeeds and IU has its coach, or he doesn't and Dusty may eventually become a realistic option.

One other thing worth noting...over the last 30 years, only two coaches who left college basketball for NBA head coaching jobs have finished their NBA careers with winning records. The NBA is hardly a guaranteed path to long-term success.

[Stuhoo]

8 minutes ago, str8baller said:

I still think it’s personality driven. Scheyer and Hurley could have pro jobs and probably better ones than the Mavs. But they’re staying in college.  
 

You can count me as one who is a little surprised May jumped this early at that job. For all the talk of “Dream jobs,” the only thing we know for sure is Michigan wasn’t it for May. 

That's a really good point. Generally? The NBA is currently a more stable environment and has a longer downtime season than college. But each coach's professional and family situation is different.

I suspect that Cooper Flagg had a fair bit to do with Dusty's decision. A ten plus year run with a bonafide future top five player on the planet is pretty compelling.

[Stuhoo]

1 minute ago, Pryght said:

IMO, if IU had truly been his dream job, he would have left Michigan after one season, just like DeVries left West Virginia.

Goodman is an idiot, but in this case I think he's probably right. Dusty never seriously wanted the IU job because (1) he didn't want to coach in a fishbowl environment, and (2) he was concerned about how a potential failure at IU could affect family members who still live in Indiana. Those are reasonable concerns.

That said, circumstances have changed dramatically. He just won a national championship and is now headed to the NBA. Concerns about the IU fishbowl or the possibility of failing there are likely much less significant than they were a year ago.

If both DeVries and Dusty struggle over the next few years, and college basketball reaches a more stable place with NIL and roster management, I could easily see the stars aligning for Dusty to become IU's next coach.

From an IU perspective, yesterday felt like a win-win. Either DeVries succeeds and IU has its coach, or he doesn't and Dusty may eventually become a realistic option.

One other thing worth noting...over the last 30 years, only two coaches who left college basketball for NBA head coaching jobs have finished their NBA careers with winning records. The NBA is hardly a guaranteed path to long-term success.

I don't think that IU was Dusty May's 'dream job' but I do think that the pull would have been strong and he would have been the IU Coach if the timing had been right.

[iu eyedoc]

2 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

Too angry a take for me. Sure, if Dusty wanted to be at IU he would have waited, but with no guarantee of Woodson's exit day. He was already done with FAU, the IU job was not open that year, and he got an offer that was about as good as it gets with UM. When the IU job actually opened he was not going to leave UM after one year.

Also, at the point the IU job actually opened up he already understood that the college game is a mess and the NBA is a world's better gig. 

This! If IU had opened up the same time as UM, dimes to dollars he takes the IU job. If laughable to suggest that any coach would pass up a top 20 program HC position, at the height of his career value at the time, to stay at a borderline top 100 program in hopes that a specific job opened up the following season and that he would be assured that position. And the squeaky clean IU thing...yeah,OK.

[iu eyedoc]

46 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

I don't think that IU was Dusty May's 'dream job' but I do think that the pull would have been strong and he would have been the IU Coach if the timing had been right.

Probably was at one time, but he obviously began to dream bigger. I heard he wanted the Celtics job but had to settle for the Mavs, unless he wanted to stay at Michigan another year or two in hopes of a Joe Mazzula scandal. 

[Brass Cannon]

40 minutes ago, iu eyedoc said:

This! If IU had opened up the same time as UM, dimes to dollars he takes the IU job. If laughable to suggest that any coach would pass up a top 20 program HC position, at the height of his career value at the time, to stay at a borderline top 100 program in hopes that a specific job opened up the following season and that he would be assured that position. And the squeaky clean IU thing...yeah,OK.

This century Michigan is the better basketball program 

[Muskie plays the four]

Said it before and got roasted. Dusty's Greene county people really didn't want him at IU. We're very happy about Michigan.