The Georgia assistant coach Akeem Miskdeen is expected to join Dusty May’s first staff at Ann Arbor, as reported by 247Sports on Wednesday and confirmed by further reports on Thursday.
May and Miskdeen had coached together at Florida Atlantic for three seasons prior to Miskdeen taking a one-season position as an assistant coach at Florida. with the previous two seasons, he served as an assistant coach with the Georgia Bulldogs.
With stops at Hampton University, Mt. Olive College, Wingate University, Kent State University, FAU, Florida, Georgia, and now Michigan, Miskdeen has played basketball for a total of fifteen years.
Georgia head coach Mike White stated, “Akeem demonstrates all of the values that you look for in someone you want to work with.” “He’s an amazing guy, a hard worker, an excellent coach and recruiter, but above all, he’s an amazing mentor to young men.””
As White said, Miskdeen is a good recruiter. That’s especially important in this recruiting class — when he was at Georgia, he was the lead recruiter for former Michigan commit, four-star forward Khani Rooths. After Juwan Howard was fired, Rooths decommitted to further evaluate his options, and Georgia was among his top options before he initially chose Michigan. Now that Miskdeen is set to be hired in Ann Arbor, the Wolverines may have a really solid shot of getting a recommitment from him at the end of the day.
This is the second reported hire that May has made for his first staff at Michigan, as he also is set to hire former Oklahoma State head coach Mike Boynton Jr. Neither of these hires have been made official by the university yet.
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