Now that I think about it, it is worse than a cop-out. Most of the explanation to his fans, students, and university was about the last time he was ejected back in the stone age. This is today.
He is an expert, and we all want to hear.
He gave the ref the finger, or fingers, in a gesture for more than one. Certainly it had been said before and the guy refused to listen.
Just when I was getting ready to write that John Beilein is a true representative. It was an embarrassment, having to be restrained. Whatever excuses you might conjure, his ejection is what stands out AND the childish way he did it. Then he follows-up with "interesting meeting" and he is such a bigshot everyone will stop in their tracks and change.
Two days later we still don't know what Beilein holds as the cause for the crummy performance. It all looks very much like his first tantrum this season--remember, it hasn't happened in 40 years--and the not so well publicized admission he was completely wrong.
Sans a comeback, at that time Michigan was on their way to a loss. It all made sense. The same 5-6 players cannot bring it big time every 4-5 days for a whole season.
Also at that time, Beilein hadn't solved or even reacted to the slow-down press or Dread-guy open shooting.
The team has weaknesses, coach, and your behavior only looks like cheap excuses. It could even be motivational theatrics for a game where you are beaten.
In the game the remainder of the team showed a little moxie in almost tying it up, but that was short-lived. Teske is one of those who didn't have his best game. Charles isn't going to give up. Poole, 1-8 on good-look 3's is not going to cut it. Livers deserves to replace Iggy. Simpson too will always try and he usually does not get pushed to the ground.
Excuses, excuses. Michigan could have been alone in first place. Instead what we have is a loss. A loss with a coach who, at the moment I do not want to watch on video.
We are... empty seats.
In contrast to Beilein, Charles Matthews scored 24 (which is high for him) and he was a lot more direct and respectful to all:
"They punked us. Simple as that," said redshirt junior wing Charles Matthews, who finished with a team-high 24 points."They outrebounded us by 10, had 12 offensive rebounds. You're not winning a game giving a team 12 offensive rebounds. It's all about who's going to rebound and who's going to defend. And we didn't do that."
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/2019/02/15/he-fights-us-michigan-players-cool-john-beileins-fire/2883794002/
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