More May fallout: The REAL reasons he’s leaving Michigan and where Wolverines go from here
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What happened when Dusty May unexpectedly left Michigan for the Mavericks?
Two podcasts in one day in the middle of June. This isn't an emergency pod. This is a, what is this, a casually urgent podcast?
Orlando here with you. GP, I hope you're somewhere in the air right now. We wanted to do a secondary episode with me and GP together at some point here on Monday night. Talk about Dusty May leaving Michigan to take the Dallas Mavericks job. There's now no clear indication on when GP will be at his hotel. He is going to be in studio. At least that's the plan. Me, him, Adam Finkelstein, Hakeem Dermish, Chris Williamson. We'll be taking you through draft night on CBS Sports HQ. I highly encourage that. You know what? I'll promo that on the back end of this episode here. But I've got more information, context, a lot to say about this Dusty May news. GP did handle the emergency responsibilities earlier on Monday.
If you're getting to both of these late after the fact, well, we appreciate you getting to them and hope you appreciate that we're trying to give you some good stuff here. If anyone in the live chat on YouTube... Smash the like button. Brendan Davies, all that good stuff. If you've got any questions that I don't answer with my recap here, I'll try and get to a couple of them before the end of the show. But let's dive into it because it has been a day. On a personal note, I was out on a run. I was about two miles from my house. when i got one text then another and then another and another and another and another and they all started coming in and i was uh i was caught flat-footed metaphorically speaking uh the dusty news landing the way that it did you know interestingly enough
John Shire was in there, and I knew that he was in there, and I had not been told as of this morning that he had kind of moved along from that search. But I do think there's a real scenario in which if John Shire pulls that out to its full extent, maybe we're talking about Duke's coach being the head coach of the Mavericks and not Michigan's coach, but John Shire still has unfinished business and is still looking to do more at the college level, particularly with the ties to his alma mater. Dusty Mays is going to go ahead and get this done here and try and really make the vault leap to the NBA and make it last and be more like a Brad Stevens than, coincidentally enough, John Beeline, who was the most recent
sitting college coach to go to the pros. That was seven years ago in 2019. It did not work out well. He did not last a full season in Cleveland. No one expects that to be the case with Dusty and the Dallas Mavericks. I'll get to the NBA side of this in just a little bit here. As for the timeline, Dusty met with Mavericks leadership over the weekend, came to his final conclusion on Sunday that he was going to do this. as you would expect these are not easy decisions um but and i've got a big story up on this right now josh we can throw this into this all all pod descriptions after the fact on just a bit more perspective on how and why dusty may was going to inevitably get to this point but it is on an accelerated timeline so um some of the short of this is
The past two and a half months since they won the national title, life's been grand for Dusty May and that coaching staff in a lot of ways. But also in many ways, it has been eye-opening in terms of just how much has not changed. And that was previously depicted in a story I did back in April that we talked about on the show when I sat down with Dusty. But there were elements of that conversation that I had with him then that I didn't reveal. But now that he's going to the NBA, well... He's going to the NBA, so they don't need to be covered up so much anymore. And one of them was, at one point, I asked Dusty directly, do you think you will still be coaching at Michigan in college three or four years from now?
And I remember the way he looked at me when he answered it. And it was a no, I'm not sure how much longer I can do this kind of answer. And got into just a lot of the particulars when it comes to... It is so taxing as a human being to have to constantly...
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