John Beilein
John Beilein
John Patrick Beileinis an American college basketball coach and current men's basketball head coach at the University of Michigan. He is the 16th head coach of the Michigan Wolverines. The 2015–16 season is his ninth at Michigan. Beilein has won 665 career games at four-year universitiesand 732 games altogether, including those at the junior-college level. He has previously coached the West Virginia Mountaineers, Richmond Spiders, Canisius College Golden Griffinsin Division I as well as Le Moyne College, Nazareth Collegeand Erie...
compared wife
(Basketball) is nothing compared to what he and his wife are going to enjoy.
edge guys listened meetings wish
I wish they listened to me that attentively in some of our meetings because our guys were on the edge of their seat.
shooting tough
If we're shooting well, we're a tough out.
drive father games gym heck jerry listen million mountain people saw truck west
I have had 1,000 people tell me that they used to go in a pick-up truck with their father and drive up on a mountain and listen to the games on the radio. We must have had a heck of a gym because I have had a million people say they saw Jerry West play.
born child experience traveling
I don't have any experience in this area. I've only had one child born during the season, but we were traveling on vans then.
awful fans good vibe
I don't do an awful lot of that vibe stuff. It's good for our fans that they've been down there before.
anybody coach coaching deal
I don't deal with it at all. I just coach my team. Anybody that is doing that right now isn't coaching his team. But there's probably going to be a lot of coaching changes.
bit shock
I don't know what to think, I'm in a bit of shock right now.
floor helped man opens people players senior style whether
Senior players have helped us make our style work. It just opens the floor for us, whether people are in man or zone.
looked mike overly practiced
Mike practiced and looked good. We are not overly concerned.
caught created deep knew maybe playing problems wore
Maybe we got a little fatigued there. We keep playing and playing and maybe that caught up with us a little. I created the problems a little. I knew that we were not going back to Morgantown for one day. That wore on us, because we're not a deep team. We need rest.
start
Now we just go back and teach. We start over.
shoot
When we shoot them like that, we can play with a lot of people.
anybody feed green
We've never had anybody like this. It's something we try to feed off of. He's essentially got a green light. He disciplines himself.