Education
University of Detroit Mercy.
basketball coach basketball player
University of Detroit Mercy.
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 National Basketball Association 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. He resigned on March 5, 2008.
Perry Watson was an important character witness in the University of Michigan basketball scandal.
