Michigan basketball: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree

Michigan strength coach Jon Sanderson, who's been there since 2009, resigned due to the fallout from Juwan Howard's son Jace going nuts on a trainer and then Juwan going nuts on him:

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Sanderson wrote that Jace Howard “was berating” a trainer and caused a “scene” that prompted several players to stop and watch. Sanderson described the scene as “totally out of control,” and said the trainer was trying to calm Jace Howard down and get him to discuss the matter privately. Noticing the trainer looking increasingly desperate and “panicked,” Sanderson intervened, yelling at Howard from roughly 30 feet away “you’re a student athlete and he is a professional. You don’t talk to a professional like that. That is disrespectful and entitled.” He said he repeated that the tirade was “disrespectful.”

Sanderson wrote in the email to Manuel that he tried to de-escalate the situation, turning his back and walking away. When Sanderson looked back, he said Juwan Howard came at him, “angry and ready to fight,” repeatedly yelling as players and staff held him back.

“He kept aggressively pursuing me to fight, as the players and staff were doing their best to restrain him. He was out of control, it was an ugly scene. I had no choice but to stand my ground, I didn’t back down. A few of the players and staff got in front of me as well in an effort to keep us separated,” Sanderson wrote.

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Juwan was internally cleared of the incident even though he's supposedly on a zero-tolerance anger policy. The Wolverines are 8-23 this year.

MSN