The Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball program is in its first offseason of new leadership under Dusty May, but an old and familiar face made an appearance at practice on Monday morning.
According to a photo posted to social media by current assistant Akeem Miskdeen, Michigan legend John Beilein was in Ann Arbor on Tuesday visiting practice during offseason sessions. Beilein was instrumental in the search that ended with the hiring of May.
May admitted during his introductory press conference in March he has watched plenty of Beilein-coached teams over the years:
Well, I’ve tried to take something from everyone that I’ve worked for, worked with, so you pick up things. But I’ve studied Coach Beilein’s teams at West Virginia extensively when his son played for him, and I actually worked with Darris Nichols who was a member of one of Coach Beilein’s better teams. I told Coach Beilein the other day, and he didn’t remember this because he does it all the time, my first week on the job at Florida Atlantic as a young head coach, he walked the baseline at Indianapolis, I remember like it was yesterday, and he sat down next to me and he said, ‘You don’t know me.’ I said, ‘actually I do, you’re a Hall of Fame coach. Hopefully, an employed coach in a couple of years.’
He sat down and told me the impact we have as coaches in college and how important it is to never waiver from the integrity of the game and from the responsibilities we have as head coaches. I’ve taken a number of things from Coach Beilein. Obviously, I watched a number of his teams here, several of the players have reached out and I’m excited to develop those relationships and continue building on what all these coaches have done here.
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“Tyler Morris told me he would come downstairs and the Rose Bowl is on. And if it was that 3rd and 10 from the 38-yard line, every time he saw it, it just kind of kept his confidence up and he’s kind of rode that into this next season. He’s become a leader in the room, which has been huge for these guys. He was saying this spring that he’s told a guy like Semaj Morgan, ‘Hey, we love what you did last year, but we need more out of you.’ That’s something Tyler Morris wouldn’t have said a year ago because you had other leaders there, but he stepped up in that role for them. I think he’s going to be the main target on this team, whether it’s him or Colston Loveland… that remains to be seen. But from a wide receiver perspective, that’s going to be him.”
– TheWolverine’s Clayton Sayfie on Tyler Morris’ ascension up the Michigan depth chart
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