(Photo: David Zalubowski, Associated Press)
It’s a leap and a splash, a dive into a deep unknown. Everyone knows about Juwan Howard, the Michigan player of Fab Five fame, an NBA stalwart for 19 seasons, an NBA assistant for six more seasons, a man with a quarter-century of experience at the highest level.
It’s what we don’t know that makes his hiring a huge, tantalizing risk by Michigan. A basketball program led to great heights by John Beilein — who was here 12 seasons and coached 1,297 college games in 41 years — is being turned over to a guy whose coaching record on any level is 0-0.