Dusty May wants Michigan basketball ‘to be good now’

Michigan basketball head coach Dusty May finalized his coaching staff on Thursday and announced the hires of Mike Boynton, Justin Joyner, Akeem Miskdeen, Kyle Church, Drew Williamson, and Brandon Gilbert.

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Boynton, Joyner, and Miskdeen will fill the three on-court coaching roles. They will also be able to recruit off campus, while Church and Wiliamson, coming over from FAU, will serve in off-court assistant roles. Gilbert is serving as special assistant to the head coach. He also comes from FAU and served in the same role there.

In terms of the coaching staff, the new Michigan basketball head coach did an impressive job building a staff, especially hiring three assistant coaches with no ties to him. Boynton is a former head coach. He’s an exceptional recruiter and coached Oklahoma State to four top-50 defenses according to the Kenprom rankings.

Miskdeen and Joyner have future head coach written all over them. It’s also possible that their ties to players could help Michigan basketball land some players in the portal, although each of these hires is about the long term.

Dusty May wants to win now

Yet, in an interview on the “Defend The Block Podcast“, Mike Boynton talked about how May isn’t patient. He also said that May wants Michigan basketball to be good next season, which seems realistic in this new age of college basketball.

“In my early conversations with Coach May … he’s not a very patient person,” Boynton said via The Wolverine.com. “You would think, there’s been a lot of turnover, maybe your fan base would be patient if things get off to a little bit of a slow start and give you a chance to build, and he’s not of that mind at all. He wants to be good now.

“In light of the new age of how college athletics work, with guys being able to transfer and play right away, there’s an opportunity out there. And we’ve called several people who we’re connected with throughout the recruiting space, and a lot of them want their kids here, want their kids playing for Coach May, want their kids playing at the University of Michigan, having the opportunity to get a degree at some point from the University of Michigan.

“So, we can strike a great balance. We think we can put some really, really high-quality, high-talented freshmen who we can develop over some years alongside some guys who’ve had some experience winning in college basketball, being in college basketball practices that have had success. That we can balance our roster in a place that we can be competitive right away. That’s the mission that he’s set out for us, and our job as a staff is to follow that mission and try to execute it to the best that we can.”

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