Coach B on the earlier-than-usual B1G tournament this year:

“I’m not going to say I’m in favor or against it. I’m usually always* in favor of the cards I’m dealt.”

Bad grammar there*, coach, but wonderful attitude.  Not bad advice for ANYONE in ANY endeavor or walk of life.
Take control of what you CAN...

The man even has a paternalistic plan (go fishing?  play whiffle-ball?) for helping his team pass the extra time,
learned (the column said) at Richmond and at [next door to me] Canisius College.

DAMN, it will be a sad day for us all in the M family when he retires..

"DAMN, it will be a sad day for us all in the M family when he retires.."

That is the truth!

Like I said in another post, he'll be very hard to replace.

It's best to not even think about it...

I was very down on JB at the beginning of last season. No D. No rebounding. No driving to the hoop. Pass around the perimeter and jack up a three as the shot clock expires. Obviously last year's team started coming around and finished the season well, doing all the things they didn't at the start of the year. This year's team has done all the above since the start of the season. JB has done a great job all season. He has always been a class act. I too hope he stays around for a long time.

flabluefan1 wrote:

I was very down on JB at the beginning of last season.  No D. No rebounding. No driving to the hoop.  Pass around the perimeter and jack up a three as the shot clock expires.  Obviously last year's  team started coming around and finished the season well, doing all the things they didn't at the start of the year.  This year's team has done all the above since the start of the season.  JB has done a great job all season.  He has always been a class act.  I too hope he stays around for a long time.

I remember defending JB to you last year.  Last years team was not what you describe.  They were suffering from a few things that made them soft to start the year.  Irvin was not 100% from his back surgery.  Wilson was trying to figure out his roll.  Wagner was not consistent and Walton was just an average PG.  It just took time to gel.

https://nypost.com/2018/02/27/a-coach-worth-rooting-for-in-college-basketballs-darkest-hour/

Fish I remember our discussions well. IMO all of JB's teams except for this year's have initially begun their seasons by relying way to much on the three, not rebounding and not playing D, especially very weak against defending the other team's bigs down low.

When Mc Gary and then Morgan started playing D down low, rebounding and scoring some down there, then UM became a formidable team. Last year when Mo and DJ started driving to the hoop, rebounding and playing some D was when UM got good.

This year Mo and Mathews started out playing D rebounding and driving to the hoop. Now pretty much the entire team does those things. Come tourney time anyone can beat anyone but IMO this team is as complete a team as any that UM has had including the NC game team. If they keep playing like they did v OSU, PSU and MD they will go very far.

wshoes wrote:

"DAMN, it will be a sad day for us all in the M family when he retires.."

That is the truth!

now that Red is gone he is the best coach that M has. That includes a close vote over Hutch. Harbaugh probably sitting about 4th right now.