TheWolverine.com CHAT: Michigan football, hoops, recruiting, more
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Michigan basketball coach Juwan Howard and his staff are essentially starting over, building around returning center Hunter Dickinson. The Wolverines landed a key piece from the transfer portal in point guard Jaelin Llewellyn, but they’ll be looking for more with Moussa Diabate and Caleb Houstan staying in the draft.
Northwestern’s Pete Nance would be an obvious chose, as our Anthony Broome pointed out earlier today.
2021-22 at Northwestern: 14.6 ppg, 6.5 rebs, 2.7 ast., 49.7% FG (45.2% from 3pt) | Years of eligibility remaining: 2*
“This would be the white whale addition for Michigan. Pete Nance took a major leap last season at Northwestern, upping his three-point shooting by almost ten percentage points (45.2%). He went through the 2022 NBA Draft cycle and elected to withdraw and is one of the bigger pieces remaining in the portal.
“Nance is the fourth-best available player remaining in On3’s Transfer Portal rankings and would form the best frontcourt duo in the Big Ten with Dickinson. If it is at all realistic, Howard and Michigan should be banging down the door to bring him into the fold. Nance would slide right into the starting power forward role in Ann Arbor. North Carolina is also presumed to be a potential landing spot.”
Can Michigan land him? We talk about that and more in today’s chat.
Discussing Michigan coach Bo Schembechler’s legacy
Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel said there was one reason he came to U-M as a player in the 1980s — coach Bo Schembechler.
“Integrity,” Manuel replied. “His belief in doing things the right way and pushing you to make sure there are no shortcuts. There’s no cheating. It’s just you having to do the work, and then competing against others and seeing if you can have success.
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“That was important to him. That was paramount to what he taught us, and how he led us was about that and about character, and that you are a representative [of the school]. What you do represents who you are. How you do things is a representation of who you are. Always carry yourself with high character and always work hard and do things the right way. For that, I will always have those lessons with me.”
Schembechler was in the crosshairs during the Dr. Robert Anderson sexual misconduct case involving a number of Michigan athletes. Manuel didn’t address that directly, but he did allude to it.
“We’re all fallible. We all mistakes in life,” he said. “Nobody’s perfect, and neither were either Bo or my dad.
“But it’s that effort to try to do it and recognizing when you fall short that you have to get up and work on doing things the right way again. That’s always lived with me my entire life.”
We talk about Bo’s legacy and more in today’s chat.
