Cat is out of the bag on why Dusty May has fled the Michigan Wolverines for an NBA head coaching gig with the Dallas Mavericks
Big time news broke to start the week with Michigan men’s basketball losing head coach Dusty May to the Dallas Mavericks. It’s already become clear why May decided to make this move.
The Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball program is looking a lot different following Monday morning’s news that Dusty May would no longer be the head coach.
May decided to make the jump to the NBA to be the new head coach of the Dallas Mavericks. Michigan has turned to Mike Boynton Jr. as its interim coach.
Coming off a national championship season, the Wolverines will have new leadership.
Intel has dropped a hint on why Dusty May has left Michigan
According to Jeff Goodman, Michigan will be getting $5 million in buyout money due to May leaving before his contract is up. Goodman also dropped two tidbits on what May has decided to leave after two seasons where he went 64-13.
The state of college basketball and not knowing what it will look like in five years, and the opportunity to coach Mavericks PF Cooper Flagg are the two reasons May is leaving Michigan, according to Goodman.
It was originally said by Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel following the national championship that May had agreed to a new contract, but that never became official. Ironically, May is the first head coach to jump from college basketball to the NBA since John Beilein left in 2019 to coach the Cleveland Cavaliers.
We’re in a current era of college basketball where rosters are costing millions and millions of dollars to put together. Elite transfer portal players are drawing north $6 million per year, and there’s no current structure within college sports to tell where the future is going to go.
May gets his first NBA head coaching job at 49 years old just three seasons after he was the head coach at Florida Atlantic. It’s easy to see why he did it, but the timing is tough for Michigan in the month of June.
Boynton being in-house is one thing working for the Wolverines. Still, it’s a tough day to be a Michigan basketball fan.