The Detroit News · Jun 27, 2018
Wojo: Beilein can keep raising the ceiling at Michigan
Ann Arbor — It was flattering, enlightening, even invigorating. And now that it’s over, in many ways, John Beilein is just getting started.
On the day before summer practice began, with his most-heralded freshman class on campus, with a new contract coming any day, Beilein isn’t spending much time looking back. Yes, the NBA was intriguing, and if the Pistons had offered him the job, he said the decision would’ve been “a tough one.”
When it became public a few weeks ago, it seemed like an odd courtship, a college basketball lifer exploring the NBA at 65. But after assessing the possibility of what he could build, Beilein recognized what he’s already built, and has no plans to go anywhere else.
