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...need you.”This is the same Tommy Amaker, who was National Defensive Player of the Year his senior year at Duke; who led Seton Hall, just seven years ago, to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament; who cleaned up a tarnished Michigan program, winning a NIT Championship in the process; who generated the second-ranked recruiting class in the nation in 2000 while with the Pirates.And he needs the fans, not recruits, not administrative help. He needs us.To be fair, these glowing, totally unbiased praises of Coach Amaker must be tempered by the facts...
...intangibles may serve as Amaker’s greatest challenge. Despite his success at Seton Hall and his NIT championship with the Wolverines in 2004, Amaker has been accused of breaking down his veteran players during the season, challenging them to a point that mid-season collapses became the norm in Ann Arbor. Two years ago, Michigan started the season 16-3 before falling in seven of its last nine regular season games to plummet into the NIT, and a similar plummet occurred just last year...
...Harvard, we’re dealing with our own bit of thrilling news. No, Tommy Amaker has never sampled a Jackson 5 song, has never had his own TV show on Nickelodeon, and his dad never made ‘em say uhh, but he did win an NIT title...
Harvard has never made the NIT, and its sole NCAA tournament appearance came...
Amaker moved to Michigan in 2001, where he coached for six seasons. He failed to take the Wolverines to the NCAAs, which led to his firing, although Michigan did win the NIT...