Assistant Meatchikin to Texas
From TFB --
In the three seasons prior to Yaklich’s arrival at Michigan, according to Kenpom.com (advanced stats for College hoops) the Wolverine’s adjusted defensive efficiency looked like this: 94.0, 100.5, 100.5. In the three years that Yaklich was on campus, that number looked like this: 99.2, 90.5, 86.2. Those last two ratings were good for second-best in college basketball the past two seasons.
Yaklich began his collegiate coaching career in 2013, after he was hired at Illinois State (his alma mater) as an assistant where he would remain for three seasons before being hired away by John Beilein at Michigan.
Texas hired their “Offensive Coordinator” last off-season when Coach Smart was able to hire Neill Berry away from Iowa State. Texas now has their “Defensive Coordinator” in Luke Yaklich and if the numbers are any indicator, he is a very good one.
On an interesting note, Michigan did lose a commitment from their 2019 class from 6’7 Denton (Guyer) Wing Jalen Wilson, who is a consensus top 50 recruit in the class. Wilson’s primary recruiter to Michigan was Yaklich.
Does this mean that Texas has a shot at a late addition of Wilson? I find it unlikely. Texas does have an available scholarship with Elijah Mitrou-Long transferring to UNLV, but all of the chatter in North Texas concerning Wilson is that he is likely headed to Kansas to play for Bill Self.
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