Oso planning to go pro
I don’t know if Goodman and Buzz had a falling out per say, but they’re definitely not as close as they used to be.Goodman ripped Buzz when he had his monologue on why they were “robbed” of a NCAA berth last year.
Smoke screen. Plausible deniability so he can now push him for Texas
Buzz burning a bridge? Shocking.
Texas Tech Head Coach Mark Adams Suspended. Will he survive?https://hoopdirt.com/hot-texas-tech-suspends-mark-adams/
Seems like an excuse to get out a puppet coach most players don’t seem to like. The hot rumor is Grant McCasland from UNT is already set to slide in
Aaaaand the Texas Tech fans are already talking about Shaka as a replacement.Football schools really think they own the world, huh?
Anyone talking about Shaka for any job right now has no understanding of his career. At the beginning of the St. John’s game, Bennetti remarked that Shaka got a “massive ovation” from the crowd. He’s in year 2 at a basketball school where the fans love him and he’s got the program rolling. And we’ll be able to give him a raise. Compare that to how he was treated by Texas, which was his “grass is greener” job. Shaka won’t be going anywhere for a while.
Well, that's because MU is view as this year's VCU, hey?
Wojo did this to us
VCU fans said damn near the same thing when Illinois, Marquette, and who knows who else came calling eight or ten years ago. I wouldn't stake anything to my perception of happy he is with the fans, how good the program is, or MU's ability to give him a raise.The difference between now and then is, as you point out, UT. He's done the Big XII gig. It's my hope that that's enough because if this year is any indication of future success, his name will come up a lot in coming years.
Marquette has been looking for their coach-til-retirement guy for 45 years. Maybe it's hindsight but looking back, the coaches since Al all left for one of two reasons: bigger ambitions or got fired. Having done the Texas thing, I'm not convinced Shaka has bigger ambitions anymore (though I'm certainly not in his head to know). So that leaves getting canned...which doesn't appear likely anytime soon. As long as things don't nosedive I really do think Shaka can be the "til retirement" guy we've wanted for so long.Wojo: I actually think Wojo would have loved to be a "til retirement" guy (other than Duke), but he just wasn't a fit. Fired.Buzz: Bigger Ambitions. He was never staying anywhere for long.Crean: Bigger Ambitions (but if you asked him today, he knows he shouldn't have left)Deane: Sucked. FiredO'Neill: Bigger Ambitions.Dukiet: Sucked. Fired.Majerus: I'm too young to know what exactly went with Rick, but moving to the NBA feels like a Bigger Ambitions kinda move.Raymonds: Wasn't Al.
My understanding was Majerus to the Bucks was more an easy way out for both parties.
This is correct.I’m not sure if O’Neill had bigger aspirations per se than he was just a vagabond