What a day it was for college basketball. In one of the most surprising coaching moves ever, Michigan head coach Dusty May decided to leave the Wolverines abruptly for the NBA on the eve of the draft.
Michigan State fans finally got a break from being in the headlines for an unfortunate reason as May’s departure gave the Spartans something to cheer for. Honestly, the news gets even better when you consider that Moneyball begins on Tuesday and we’re about to see some Michigan State hoops highlights that’ll hold us over until late-October or November.
Dusty is gone and it was a shock to anyone who follows college basketball because he said back in April that his contract extension with Michigan was “a formality”.
Everyone was surprised by the news on Tuesday, including his own Michigan players.
According to Anthony Broome of On3, Trey McKenney said that he found out how everyone else did on Tuesday. There were reports of a team meeting where he shared the news, but if what McKenney said is 100 percent true, May only had a meeting after the team had found out about the pending contract with the Mavericks.
If the McKenney report is true, that means that a popular belief among Michigan State fans has been confirmed: May is an untrustworthy coach.
Michigan State fans have been called biased — probably mostly true — for saying this for months, but ever since rumors began to swirl about May’s alleged tampering, the rest of college basketball began to notice. It was reaffirmed when May called out Jeremy Fears for “dangerous” and “dirty” plays without addressing his own guys (McKenney and Aday Mara) who had faced similar accusations.
Michigan State fans feel vindicated
This isn’t even about Dusty leaving for the NBA. I don’t blame him one bit for wanting to coach in the NBA as opposed to college basketball, especially after winning a national title. What more is there to prove? Why waste the energy in the NIL and transfer portal era?
This is more so about a coach saying that he wasn’t leaving and that an extension was a formality before trying to pull an Irish goodbye as his players found out the same way we all did.
Snake-like move, in my opinion.
There’s obviously a chance that he was planning on telling them but the news got out a little earlier than he would’ve liked, but he should’ve at least alerted his guys that he had an interview and that this was a possibility. It rubs everyone the wrong way when a coach doesn’t have a meeting before the news goes public.
Michigan State fans spotted the fact that Dusty was a sneaky, untrustworthy head coach early on and they were only vindicated on Monday afternoon.
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