π¨ DUSTY MAY LEAVES MICHIGAN FOR THE MAVERICKS π¨
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What breaking news opens this emergency podcast about Dusty May?
I am Gary Parish. Welcome back to the Sports Ion College Basketball Podcast, where we sometimes discuss camel fighting, dodo birds, leaky black mat, and Orlando is not here with me. Just me and producer Josh. If you're watching on YouTube, honor Brandon Davies, smash the like button. If you haven't yet subscribed to the Ion College Basketball Podcast, please also do that while you're here. Let's get into it. As I. I assume you understand this is an emergency podcast. Norlander is out and about. I've got another show starting in about 15 minutes. He's got CBS Sports HQ responsibilities. I've got to go to the airport as soon as I'm done here, flying up to New York for the NBA draft. We ain't got much time, but there is big news.
Dusty May is the new head coach of the Dallas Mavericks. He's leaving Michigan after two years and one national championship. Big basketball development that impacts both the NBA and college basketball. The reigning champs in our sport. Need a new head coach. Producer Josh, turn your microphone on real quick and play Norlander's role for me. Tell me where you were, as long as it's not too personal and stuff. What were you doing when you heard the news Dusty May is leaving Michigan after winning the national championship in April? He's going to be Cooper Flagg's head coach starting soon.
Good morning, GP. I was standing in the locker room at my gym. I was checking my phone. I had just gotten a message from one of my bosses saying, good Monday morning. And I was like, that's a little weird. Why am I getting that type of message? It was clearly a sarcastic message. And because of our line of work, I went straight to Twitter and found... that michigan needs a new basketball coach and and and then it went straight to the group chat straight to well i guess i'm going to talk to you and norlander today even though the schedule was post the nba draft tomorrow night and i am sweating i didn't get a chance to stop sweating and uh made record time on the way home from the gym
Well, I'm glad you made it there safely. I hope you didn't get any sort of traffic citation. I do appreciate the hustle. Yeah, obviously this is not what I expected to be doing on a Monday morning in advance of flying to New York, but here we are. Probably the biggest... surprising coaching news of somebody jumping from college basketball to the NBA since Brad Stevens left Butler for the Boston Celtics. I think we'd known for a little while now that Dusty was intriguing to some NBA franchises, and there aren't too many college coaches I've talked to over the years who aren't at least interested in the idea of being a coach in the NBA. And so not surprised that he would be intrigued by the opportunity, not only to move to that level, but to coach one of the great young players in the sport, Cooper Flagg, the reigning rookie of the year, who of course was the number one pick in the draft.
a year ago. Eventually, Dusty will speak on this, and he'll have an opportunity to explain the decision, the thought process that he went through to reach this decision. But just broadly speaking, I can tell you that whether it's Roy Williams or Mike Krzyzewski or Tony Bennett retiring, or somebody else might be interested in jumping to the NBA. The nature of college basketball, where we are right now as a sport, has played a role in that. Now, obviously, Michigan is set up to flourish. in this nil transfer waiver world that we're living in evidence being they just won a football championship not too long ago a basketball championship a few months ago but it can be difficult you know having to rebuild and remake uh rosters every single year i i don't think anybody enjoys this i i know that
Most coaches don't want to complain about it publicly because they realize at this point how it comes across. You're making five, six, $7 million a year and you're complaining about your job. Most normal people don't want to hear that even if you're making good points. So I know that most coaches don't want to complain about the chaotic nature of the sport.
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