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Michigan basketball coach Juwan Howard just threw a punch and nearly started a brawl at the end of today's game.
- Thread starter Coyote Starrk
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Both coaches should get suspended. Juwan for more games. If the Wisconsin coach gets suspended and Juwan gets fired I wouldn't be surprised.
It would be so bad if he didn't already have a similar incident with the former Maryland coach last year.
Once shame on you.
Twice shame on me.
Gotta fire him. Makes the university look like a complete joke if he can do this twice and still stay on.
Once shame on you.
Twice shame on me.
Gotta fire him. Makes the university look like a complete joke if he can do this twice and still stay on.
He should absolutely be fired. He's displayed a pattern now between the incident at Maryland last year and this.
as a kid I loved the fab 5 and really looked up to juwan. I vividly remember meeting him at slamma jamma camp and talking with him briefly. seemed like a nice guy and i'm sure he probably is, but clearly he has an anger problem that's really not a good look as a coach. I really hate "un-written rules" in sports. it's most annoying and obvious in baseball, but all sports have their stupid shit that people try to maintain and police themselves. it's so silly
It should be more than an apology. That was pathetic and if fired I am sure Howard just voided any obligations UM had that would pay him out. What a dumb move.
I agree. I was just hearing some analysis reading the Jordan brand. Michigan is a Jordan school and Juwan is a Jordan guy too. I'm sure they will make him do that plus take some anger management classe
Saw this in the replies and thought it added good context.
It's not like they hadn't had pleasant physical interactions before.
Honestly didn't have a lot of problems with it until Howard lashed out physically. Grown men yelling at each other is just sports.
Suspended and fined
Ah, the ol' after hours news dump. The cowardice of the Big Ten knows no bounds.
A fairly tepid punishment, but I like it because it gives Howard another opportunity to make UM look foolish.
A fairly tepid punishment, but I like it because it gives Howard another opportunity to make UM look foolish.
The Wisconsin coach put hands on him first? Uh... yeah shaking his hand IN THE HANDSHAKE LINE. Juwan grabbed his shirt first which started it. Not sure what some of yall are looking at.
Both coached violated "unwritten rules" which are bullshit to start with. Michigan playing their starters and running a full court press with 19 seconds to go and Wisconsin calling a timeout to not get a back court violation while playing their subs.
Unwritten rules are stupid and if they were meant to be rules then they would actually be written.
Both coached violated "unwritten rules" which are bullshit to start with. Michigan playing their starters and running a full court press with 19 seconds to go and Wisconsin calling a timeout to not get a back court violation while playing their subs.
Unwritten rules are stupid and if they were meant to be rules then they would actually be written.
Juwan Howard was going to walk by without shaking hands and Gard pulled him back. If Gard simply allows Juwan to walk by and doesn't put his hands on Juwan to impede his walk by, none of this happens.
Why be in the handshake line at all if you're not going to engage? Why deliver a drive-by threat to Gard?
The answer is Howard was looking for trouble. The perceived slights in his mind and the actions they caused are all on him.
Or if he hasn't being a big baby it wouldn't have happened either
Wish I was more surprised by how many folks on Twitter or even here are defending Howard because Gard "put his hands on him." As if that very gentle attempt to initiate a handshake and conversation at all justifies a violent response. It's alarming to imagine how many people are just one perceived violation of their personal space from a violent assault.
He sought him out, probably to explain and apologize and make sure things were good between them. Which is how an adult leading and mentoring young people leads by example.
Juwan escalated a situation that didn't need to be escalated and showed his lack of leadership by letting his emotions get the best of him.
That's clownshoes full stop
So they decided to punish the school and its fans instead by keeping him. Enjoy your awful coach. Lol
At least we know now crashing the ADs wifes car and lying to cops about it and punching someone gets you the same punishment.
The blue wall has no floor.
The blue wall has no floor.
The jury is probably still out on him because this year has been disappointing but he has overall done a solid job.
Howard is 100% at fault and deserved his suspension, but handwaving away Gard's part in it is stupid. He started the confrontation that Howard escalated out of control.
OP
OP
I don't mean wins and losses. I mean as a coach and leader of young men. He's a petulant brat.
Juwan did shake some of the players hands. It was Gard who lost his cool and decided to jerk juwan back as juwan attempted to walk by. Gard also lost his cool, he should have simply let juwan walk by but he was offended by the lack of handshake and that is why Gard impeded juwan from walking past.
In essence, Gard caused the entire incident to happen because his fragile ego couldnt take a black man walking past and not shaking his hand. How dare Juwan. He should "know his place".
People giving Gard a complete pass here are something else.
I think you missed the part where Juwan lowered his mask and threatened Gard ("I'll remember that"). The incident wasn't caused by the lack of a handshake, it was Howard's snipe at Gard.
It always takes two to tango but the evidence is mounting that Howard cannot control his emotions.
I'm not saying juwan is without fault, as you stated it takes two to tango.
But "I'll remember that" being taken as a threat..a threat of what exactly? That juwan will run up the score next time they play? It certainly does not justify putting your hands on a grown man.
Juwan is not Gard's student athlete that needs to be "taught a lesson"
If I was Gard here, I would have just laughed off the words and not put my hands on Juwan. There is a reason Gard was also punished and fined.
Fair punishment, IMO.
This is..... a really dumb post on multiple levels, haha. Basketball/sports/coaches aside
This is..... a really dumb post on multiple levels, haha. Basketball/sports/coaches aside
In any context "I'll remember that" is a threat. Of what exactly depends on the person saying it. Note that Juwan Howard has literally threatened to kill another Big Ten coach in the past.
As for putting hands on a grown man, it's a handshake line. The whole purpose of the line is physical contact.
Lol you better not play any walking dead games or you might end up attacking your tv
All the characters in that game famously got along and lived happily ever after lol
When you've seen people on Era type shit like "snitches get stitches", and they mean it, you realise that a disturbing number of people took a lot of childhood nonsense with them into adult life and seem to wear it as a half-assed badge of honour or something. It's so weird to see.