quite the off-season for ohio teams. osu hires away mattison and washington before the cavs hire away beilein. though i doubt it will happen, it would be a real shame if the cavs also steal yaklich.
I'll be interested to see what ends up happening with their assistants. Read on The Athletic today that all three of them are working on expired contracts right now (expired on April 30th) and no extensions have been agreed upon. Also, I know that all reports have been that Beilein wants a staff with NBA experience on his bench, but I wouldn't be surprised to see one of Yaklich, Washington or Haynes end up in Cleveland just to have a familiar mind for support. Both Stevens (Micah Shrewsberry) and Donovan (Anthony Grant) had former college assistants on their benches after first getting hired into the NBA.
some scuttlebutt that shaka is just using ttun for his texas contract and that shaka is trying to poach yaklich. not sure i believe that, but it's fun to think about.
if you're going to lose your coach to the nba despite him having no coaching experience in the nba, then you might as well replace him with a guy who has no coaching experience in college.
nugget from the highly esteemed sam webb: brad stevens said no (lulz). billy donovan not interested. gregg marshall is a no. donovan endorsed shaka.
