Perry Watson

Perry Watson
Sport(s) Basketball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Detroit
Biographical details
Born April 30, 1950
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Playing career
1968–1970
1970–1972		 Henry Ford CC
Eastern Michigan
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1979–1991
1991–1993
1993–2008		 Southwestern HS
Michigan (asst.)
Detroit
Accomplishments and honors

Championships

Horizon League Tournament Championship (1994, 1999)
Horizon League Regular Season Championship (1998, 1999)

Awards

Horizon League Coach of the Year (1998)

Perry Watson (born April 30, 1950) is an American college basketball from Detroit, Michigan. He played for Eastern Michigan University, graduating in 1972.

In 1977, Watson took the head coaching position at Detroit Southwestern High School where he coached, among others, future NBA player Jalen Rose. Watson left Southwestern to take a position on Steve Fisher's staff at the University of Michigan in 1991, coinciding with the arrival of the Fab Five of which Rose was a member.

After two years as an assistant under Fisher, Watson was hired as the head coach at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he spent the next fifteen seasons.

Watson took an indefinite medical leave of absence in January 2008.[1] He resigned on March 5, 2008.[2] Perry Watson was an important character witness in the University of Michigan basketball scandal.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "UDM Basketball Coach Watson Takes Medical Leave. He is considered one of the greatest coaches in University of Detroit Basketball History, Along with Dick Vitale". University of Detroit Mercy. January 7, 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
  2. ↑ "Detroit coach Watson resigns after 15 seasons". ESPN. March 5, 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
  3. ↑ Cnockaert, Jim (2002-03-22). "Accident's effects still felt six years later: Roberson: It changed the athletic department". MLive.com. Ann Arbor News. Archived from the original on August 27, 2002. Retrieved 2008-08-13.
  4. ↑ "Ed Martin Revealed: His long and infamous road into Michigan basketball history". The Michigan Daily. 2003-05-12. Retrieved 2008-08-13.