Because a lot of people know I'm a graduate of the University of Michigan
now, that guy, Michigan basketball coach,
Juwan Howard is one of my favorite coaches.
All of us at the University of Michigan like to believe that our university is
one of the greatest in the world on the court and off that we stand for
excellence, integrity and accountability.
But today we're having some questions because of the fight that Juwan Howard had
last night with the head coach at one of Wisconsin.
The game was in Wisconsin at Madison, I was watching the game and
I thought, Wisconsin's playing kind of chippy.
A couple of cheap shots here and there,
a couple of elbows to a Michigan center that were not called the one called for.
And so a lot of tensions in the game.
And then the game ends towards the end,
mission Wisconsin calls a time out with 15 seconds and they call another time
out with four seconds even though they were up by 15 points.
That seemed a little bit rude.
Well there they are in the handshake line, Michigan's players,
the Wisconsin players and the coaches starting to shake hands.
And then there was something, there were some heated words and then you can see
that is Michigan head coach, Juwan Howard tall, they're sort of towards the right.
The man with the black sweaters of Wisconsin, head coach Greg, Gard,
Howard's walking off the court, but Gard grabs onto him and
then Howard looks like he's trying to get past Gard, Gard won't move.
And so Howard grabs guards shirt.
The conversation gets really heated,
people don't get people get between Howard and Gard.
However, Howard appears to be saying don't blanking touch me,
don't blanking touch me.
Gard leaves the fray as an assistant coach, Crab Inhofe enters,
it looks like crab Inhofe used to play for.
Wisconsin was something of an attacker is yelling at Howard but
there's no audience what he's saying.
Howard hits Craven off with his open right hand more of a slap than a punch and then
all hell breaks loose as players from both teams until the fray punches are thrown,
but the brawl has broken up before too long.
Hmm.
Well here's how the coaches respond to this incident first Jowan Howard,
the head coach of Michigan and he wrote on twitter, that was very uncalled for
for him to touch me as we were verbalizing and communicating with one another.
So that's what ended up happening and that's what escalated it.
Greg Gard Wisconsin coach said well apparently he Howard didn't like that.
I called the time out to reset the 10 second call,
he did not like that when he came through the handshake line.
So I'll leave it at that and the tape will show the rest of course Howard has
received much of the blame for what seemed to be something of a fight or melee.
Travis Wilson writes Juwan Howard played a long time in the NBA.
He knew exactly what he was doing,
starting an NBA fight by slapping at a guy with four people in between them,
then running away while everyone else got into it.
But others are pointing out that Greg Gard got physical with Juwan Howard first.
This is hundreds on twitter, y'all not gonna get on here and pretend not
to see the white man grabbed Juwan Howard like he was a child be scolded.
He didn't wanna shake dude's hand and he grabbed Juwan's arm,
do whatever you want except put your hands on me.
So here's the question.
Yes, I'm gonna agree.
Right off the bat, Jowan Howard should not have punched the guy slapped the guy.
He was just some Jackass of a Wisconsin assistant coach.
He was a troublemaker, Jowan Howard should not have put his own career in jeopardy to
fight with the Wisconsin assistant coach.
But having said that, I guess the question is now what about accountability?
Because there have been some other incidents in the past where people have
gotten in some trouble.
And by the way, let's go back to one more tweet read Juwan Howard's lips.
He said don't touch me, don't flip and touch me.
I counted six times and he got touched sorry, but that's a fair warning.
In my book case closed.
So again should Juwan Howard face any consequences.
And as I said, it's not the first time the coach has acted up on the court.
I remember a time back in 1984,
1985 basketball season when you head coach in Bloomington Bobby Knight.
Well he threw a chair in the middle of a game against Purdue,
Knight was mad at the officiating night.
Later claimed that he heard an old lady in the far side of the court saying Bobby I
can't find a place to sit.
And he just threw the chair.
Well no he wasn't doing that.
He was doing it because he was angry.
Well in 2016, Jack, you interviewed Metta World Peace about a number of topics,
including his role in the infamous Malice at the Palace Brawl of 2004.
Here's what Metta World peace had to say.
>> I was very unbalanced at a point in my career when I got into the NBA.
I got defensive player of the year 2003 averaging 18 points next year.
I wanted to get MVP.
I was still the best defender in the league.
I was averaging 25 points and
the year before the Elephant I think I finished six for MVP.
So I said okay I'm gonna get MVP this year and I was on my way.
But as my career was going up and my skills mentally and
emotionally I was going to opposite directions.
I'm even without the brawl but it wasn't all my fault.
Somebody initiated.
>> No I know I know.
>> Somebody initiated the action with me and I just finished it.
But most people think I started, which I did and somebody hit me first and
I went to hit that person back.
But even without that brawl, I was still going downwards.
Like my life was spiraling out of control no balance.
And then as you get older it's like, okay, do I stay this person?
Do I continue to feel like everybody hates me?
Or do I just find myself and that's what I did to parenting class, counseling,
marriage counseling, anger management counseling.
And I continue to say, okay,
I'm getting to be that person that I always wanted to be.
>> Counseling well, that's a good step but junk.
I mean, there's some suggestion that Juwan Howard,
the head coach of Michigan should undergo some sort of anger management counseling.
It's likely that he'll be suspended for a game.
Maybe the rest of the season by the Michigan administration of the Big 10.
What do you think should happen to him?
>> Yeah. So this is a tough one.
And obviously there is also some racial components to how
people are perceiving this and to perhaps what happened.
And I wannna say that it's possible that the answer is both.
So what do I mean by both?
That there could be a racial component and how people are viewing it and
Juwan Howard could be wrong at the same time.
So, I watched that tape about four times.
We can't show it to you cuz of copyright reasons of the fight basically between
Howard and Gard, we Michigan and Wisconsin.
And so there's no question that Gard touches them first.
So, and he shouldn't have done that our people focusing on that.
No, a lot of African Americans are focusing on that general mainstream media
is not focusing on that.
I looked through many articles.
Do people mention it?
Yes, they now mention it, but
there's almost no talk of should Greg Gard be in a lot of trouble?
In fact, I haven't seen any of that.
Maybe there's some sports talk, but I haven't seen it.
It's rare.
So and part of the reason we played you that Ron our test clip, they change his
name to Metta World peace is because these situations are complicated.
As a matter explained there, he's like, look,
I was going through some issues when I needed some anger management.
But at the same time it was somebody else that started the malice in the palace and
he got all of the blame.
So do people, was that partly because he went in the stands?
Of course it was right,
in this case was it because Juwan Howard slapped the assistant coach?
Of course it was.
But is it also how you perceive things.
Yes.
Because David when I remembered the Bobby Knight incident in Indiana.
I remember, yeah, of course people were criticizing him and
it was a bridge too far to throw the chair.
But generally speaking, he was perceived as one of those it's almost
like the Old Dukes of Hazzard Song and just a good old boy, right?
And I never meaning no harm.
And so and there's a character in a Sitcom that my family watches
Young Sheldon, and he's an irascible old white coach too.
It's just a Little League baseball coach, but
it's kind of part of his charm that he's irascible and quick to anger, right?
And that's a typecast in American culture.
And when you put it as a white person,
it seems like just never meaning no harm, right?
When you have a black man who does that, it's almost never perceived that way.
It's perceived as, there's a black man being violent and
aggressive and there should be severe consequences.
So that's my take on it.
You go ahead.
>> And I love that take Jen, because again, there is for
people like Bobby Knight or the people with the defenders of Jowan Howard.
Juwan Howard would say there was Bobby Knight standing up for
the integrity of the game.
He wanted clean officiating.
There was Jowan Howard standing up for the protection of his own players.
He didn't want his players attacked by an assistant coach, Juwan if he didn't
wanna shake somebody's hand, doesn't want another coach grabbing him.
And so Jowan Howard is protecting himself and protecting his players.
And I agree.
But I also agree that Jowan Howard and Michigan players are better than this.
And there's gotta be some I suppose accountability for, okay,
you shouldn't have hit somebody.
You just can't slap somebody as much as look.
When I first saw this last night and the first thing I tweeted and
later deleted it was what, given the game that I had just seen and
how horrible Wisconsin had been towards Michigan.
I wish that Jowan wrote my twitter,
wish that Juwan Howard had used a closed fist instead of a slap.
Also knowing that that assistant coach and what a Jackass he is and
I deleted because I realized, well that's that's stupid.
And you can't be advocating violence under any circumstances, but
you get how passionate we all are about somebody's situation.
So. >> Yeah, and look,
let's is you clarified in the meeting?
You're a little bit biased cuz you're a Michigan fan and you're Juwan Howard fan.
But I'm not biased and I could tell you, look,
Jowan Howard also got in an altercation last year and again with Minnesota.
Yeah.
>> So this is a couple of times it's happened and for
his own benefit, he should look into some form of anger management.
And as a guy who often gets angry on air at least I can tell you that it's real,
right?
And look, I don't have that problem in real life,
although some right when he was going to disagree.
But earlier in my life I did right.
And it's most counterproductive to yourself, right?
But in terms of what should happen, there's got to be some sort
of consequences for Jowan Howard, because then the players started fighting.
And that's why you can't have the coach doing that because it's gonna devolve and
it did, and now you've got the players in trouble and
that could affect their careers, that could affect their lives.
It's just a terrible idea overall, but I also think there should be consequences.
And I think less so because it was a less violent action, but for Greg Gard for
starting the touching in the first place, which he shouldn't have done.
I don't know what the assistant coach said.
If he said something innocuous then no, there should be no consequences to him.
If he said something outrageous that maybe that's a different situation.
Yes, then C double A has to get this under control, but at the same time it
should not be disproportionate based on old biases and stereotypes.