Jett Howard hits back at speculation about Juwan Howard's status with Michigan: 'Stop with the bs'

There’s been plenty of chatter around the Michigan men’s basketball program since Sunday, when it was rumored that head coach Juwan Howard got into a physical altercation with strength coach Jon Sanderson. It’s since become apparent that the confrontation remained verbal.

And amid all the talk online, one of Howard’s sons, Orlando Magic rookie guard Jett Howard, chimed in. He strongly advised the ill-informed to keep out of it.

“Before y’all make any speculations about something know the full story. Grown men acting like middle schoolers spreading false rumors/information and trying to degrade another man. Grow up, hella childish.. He ain’t hit no one either, stop with the bs,” Howard said on social media.

Howard played one season with his father for the Wolverines in 2022-23 before going to the NBA Draft.

Jeff Goodman offered some insight into the ordeal

After Michigan reportedly said it would review the alleged conflict between Howard and strength and Sanderson, college basketball insider Jeff Goodman provided the latest on the incident.

Howard and Sanderson allegedly had a confrontation at practice but no punches were thrown. Howard has a zero-tolerance policy for such incidents following a 2022 incident when he struck a Wisconsin assistant coach.

Goodman revealed what sources told him regarding the alleged blow up between Howard and Sanderson.

“Right before practice started Jace Howard was in the training room and he’s been out all year,” Goodman said on The Field of 68.. “And he’s frustrated and he starts to really get into the trainer. He’s frustrated and he starts almost berating the trainer …

“From what I was told it didn’t matter who it was, whether it’s a trainer, whoever was there at that time, he just let his frustrations roll out and they rolled out on on the trainer and the strength coach Jon Sanderson, who’s been there for a long time dating back to the John Beilein era, who is six-eight, 270 played … got pissed off because he saw how Jace was treating the trainer. And he basically said something to the effect of, that’s why the ‘effing’ culture is the way it is or something to that effect.” 

Once Sanderson allegedly started yelling, Juwan Howard stepped in.

“Well, Juwan Howard heard this,” Goodman said. “They were walking onto the court right before practice when this happened. Juwan Howard heard this and he obviously got pissed off, and there were no punches thrown … I was told they were toe to toe, chest to chest, right up in each other and had to be restrained. Bunch of the players saw this … Sanders took some time away from the program, he did not go to the game at Iowa. Juwan Howard was still at the game in his normal seat of last few weeks, which was the first assistant chair, basically … 

“And I was also told that Juwan never addressed the situation with the players or anything or hadn’t as of 24 hours ago. Maybe that’s changed now. Obviously, Michigan is looking into the situation now according to my sources, and Juwan also has a no tolerance policy based on his history.”