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Author Topic: Should Marquette leave the Big East?  (Read 23185 times)

vogue65

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Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« on: February 16, 2017, 08:09:11 AM »
Why not?
With a BOT like we have we are delusional to think we can play with the big boys.
The other night I  watched Syracuse play Louisville and W.V. play Kansas and there was NO COMPARISON with what I  see with us or even with the so-called Big East.
There is no shame in being with your own kind, the A-10 or conference USA might be where we belong. 
A little history, the BOT forced Al McGuire and Buzz out, they think Marquette is Bucknell, Princeton or Northwestern.  We will never be Duke or even Duke lite. 
Why not play Fordham or St. Bonaventure if the BOT wants to limit recruits to that profile of student athlete?
Villanova plays Division II football, they don't try and play ND, they know their place. 
When Marquette played big time basketball was then, this is now.
We don't need a new coach, we need a new BOT or a different league.

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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2017, 08:15:53 AM »
Sometimes there is fishing.  Sometimes there is dynamiting the pond.  This falls well into the latter.

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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2017, 08:17:15 AM »
Oh sweet Lordy Jesus.

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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2017, 08:19:23 AM »
"A Plan? Oh man, I hate plans. That means were gonna have to do stuff. Can't we just have a strategy......or a mission statement."

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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2017, 08:20:02 AM »
We'll be in the A10 in no time if we're welcoming UCONN to the BE.
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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2017, 08:22:28 AM »
We'll be in the A10 in no time if we're welcoming UCONN to the BE.

Ners, is that you?
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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2017, 08:24:44 AM »
Fire Wojo
Cut the basketball program
Burn down the University
Send the Joan of Arc back to France

vogue65

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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2017, 08:25:04 AM »
Sometimes there is fishing.  Sometimes there is dynamiting the pond.  This falls well into the latter.

Sometimes the truth hurts.

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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2017, 08:26:24 AM »
Fire Wojo
Cut the basketball program
Burn down the University
Send the Joan of Arc back to France
I was on campus when they built the JofA, we asked why?  Because ND has the golden dome and touchdown Jesus.

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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2017, 08:30:39 AM »
Oh, and it was free, like joining the Big East, seemed like a good idea at the  time.

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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2017, 08:38:16 AM »
I forget; did a Big East team win the national championship last year? And did we beat that team when they were ranked number 1 this year?
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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2017, 08:42:32 AM »
Why don't we just drop to Division 2 or Division 3 while we're at it. We're clearly not cut out for Division 1...

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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #12 on: February 16, 2017, 08:47:47 AM »
Why do some people enjoy being so miserable? Get a grip, enjoy life. These are college kids throwing a ball in a hoop.

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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #13 on: February 16, 2017, 08:55:26 AM »
Should Marquette leave the Big East?

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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #14 on: February 16, 2017, 08:57:05 AM »
Usually the trolling person at least pretends to make valid points.  You just make me giggle.
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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #15 on: February 16, 2017, 08:57:51 AM »
I thought this was sarcasm at first then the guy followed up with idiotic comments. (And if it is sarcasm it's a crappy rip off Marcus's post from the other day)

You realize we're still of of the top 20 (15?) programs with the most NCAA appearances, and also most post season appearances. A fall from greatness hurts and causes people to irrationally think like this but there's a whole other level of falling from greatness we could hit (see DePaul or Loyola) and to think it'd be better to preemptively cut our biggest asset because we're average right now is completely idiotic.
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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #16 on: February 16, 2017, 08:58:53 AM »
We'll be in the A10 in no time if we're welcoming UCONN to the BE.

Why? You think that adding a legit basketball program will cause the Big East to implode?

Even if it did, most of the BE teams would join MU in the A10 anyway  ;)

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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #17 on: February 16, 2017, 09:04:57 AM »
My first thought was that you should leave this board and not Marquette leaving the BE.  But, your point should be considered if we continue to struggle against BE competition.  Perhaps we should compete in the much easier Big Ten.

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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #18 on: February 16, 2017, 09:08:51 AM »
I clicked on this thinking that it would be a question about if it would be possible for Marquette to join the ACC as a basketball only member one day. At worst I thought it would be some weird point about UConn joining the Big East. But this, just wow.

I'm curious, I know why people perceived the BOT as "running Buzz out of town." They didn't. But I understand why people think that. I wasn't around in the 70s, in what way did the BOT run Al out of town?
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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #19 on: February 16, 2017, 09:16:53 AM »
Benny does not approve of this thread.  To even call it amateurish would be an insult to amateurs.

The closet thing to a troll job this would be is if a one-armed troll was sitting on a moldy tree stump masturbating to a picture of one-legged gnome cutting down that same tree.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny.  Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.

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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #20 on: February 16, 2017, 09:28:22 AM »
Your premise is akin to amputating the lower leg after spraining an ankle.     Right now, things are a swollen, painful, and funky colored.   It will be ok.   No need to amputate.   
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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #21 on: February 16, 2017, 09:29:36 AM »
Why not?
With a BOT like we have we are delusional to think we can play with the big boys.
The other night I  watched Syracuse play Louisville and W.V. play Kansas and there was NO COMPARISON with what I  see with us or even with the so-called Big East.
There is no shame in being with your own kind, the A-10 or conference USA might be where we belong. 
A little history, the BOT forced Al McGuire and Buzz out, they think Marquette is Bucknell, Princeton or Northwestern.  We will never be Duke or even Duke lite. 
Why not play Fordham or St. Bonaventure if the BOT wants to limit recruits to that profile of student athlete?
Villanova plays Division II football, they don't try and play ND, they know their place. 
When Marquette played big time basketball was then, this is now.
We don't need a new coach, we need a new BOT or a different league.

Did you also get a degree from DePaul and got your hoop programs mixed up?

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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #22 on: February 16, 2017, 10:12:12 AM »
Why don't we just drop to Division 2 or Division 3 while we're at it. We're clearly not cut out for Division 1...
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That one armed troll is Wojo.  The one legged gnome, is just that, a one legged gnome.  He's a man of extravagant tastes. 
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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #23 on: February 16, 2017, 10:24:57 AM »
Hopefully on the agenda at the next Big East conference meeting, as being 3rd in basketball conference RPI is evidence enough to fold.  Maybe curling is a better sport to pick up.  Perhaps the Big Ten, SEC, and Pac 12 will also do a sanity check and either move to Division III or fold basketball.

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Re: Should Marquette leave the Big East?
« Reply #24 on: February 16, 2017, 10:37:01 AM »
Was there any rational thought given before making this thread?  The conference is so competitive even our bottom feeders can pull off some upsets.  There's simply more parity in college basketball now.  Not only that but the Big East is still overlooked.  We're in a premier conference and playing well.  A young team with a young coach going through growing pains.