Jay Smith - University of Michigan Director of Player Personnel & Development - Episode 334

Jay Smith is currently the Director of Player Personnel and Development at the University of Michigan under Juwan Howard. Smith has over three decades of collegiate basketball coaching experience on all three NCAA levels.Early in his 34 year coaching career, Smith was an assistant coach at Michigan for seven seasons (1989-96) where he helped the Wolverines to six NCAA Tournaments, two Final Four and assisted in recruiting what some consider to be "the greatest class ever recruited" the famed "Fab Five." During his time in Ann Arbor he aided in the coaching of All-Americans Rumeal Robinson, Loy Vaught, Terry Mills, Chris Webber, Jalen Rose and Howard. Prior to his return to Michigan, Smith spent the last three seasons as the head coach at Kalamazoo College (2016-19). Before returning to a head coaching role with Kalamazoo, Smith was an assistant coach at University of Detroit Mercy for eight years (2008-16) after taking two years away from the game following his stint as the head coach at Central Michigan. In his near decade with the Chippewas, Smith led CMU to a pair of Mid-American Conference (MAC) regular season titles (2001, '03), the 2003 MAC Tournament championship, and a trip to the NCAA Tournament led by eventual NBA player Chris Kaman.Before heading to Mount Pleasant, Smith earned his first head coaching job at Grand Valley State University in 1996-97. Smith started his coaching career as an assistant at Kent State for five years (1984-89) where he helped the Golden Flashes to a pair of NIT appearances in 1985 and 1989.He played one year of basketball at Bowling Green State University (1979-80) before playing his final three years at Saginaw Valley State (1981-83).Smith was a standout high school basketball guard at Mio Au Sable and still holds the Michigan state record for career scoring with 2,841 points -- a record he set without the 3-point line. Don’t miss our Hoop Heads Pod Webinar Series with some of the top minds in the game across all levels, from grassroots to the NBA. If you’re focused on improving your coaching and your team, we’ve got you covered! Visit hoopheadspod.com/webinars to get registered. Make sure you check out our new Hoop Heads Pod Network of shows including Thrive with Trevor Huffman , Beyond the Ball, The CoachMays.com Podcast and Cavaliers Central with Justin Matcham, our first podcast dedicated to covering the ins and outs of an NBA team. We are unbelievably excited for the content we’re going to be bringing you in the weeks ahead as more of our new shows come to life. If you’ve ever thought of hosting your own basketball themed podcast or a pod that covers an NBA team we want to hear from you about joining our great lineup of show hosts.Be prepared to take some notes as you listen to this episode with Coach Jay Smith from the University of Michigan.Website - https://mgoblue.com/sports/mens-basketballEmail - [email protected] - @coachjaysmith45 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.