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Let me preface this by saying this message is only directed toward a small group of fans. Not everyone.Buzz Williams is on the verge of taking his FIRST Marquette team to the NCAA tournament and people on here are giving him directions to Arkansas. Others say the season is over and they wont go to a NIT game if thats where we end up. We finished tied with UCONN and Villanova in Big East play: teams with established coaches in Wright and Calhoun and more talented players. I think we can agree it would be stupid for these teams to dump their established coaches, but people here want to dump Buzz with a team of all of his players for the first time? Reality check people: even the best teams in college basketball don't make the tournament every year. Syracuse, UCONN, North Carolina, Arizona, and others all missed the tournament recently. Should they have fired their coaches?If we were to end up in the NIT, some of you won't go to the games because that's beneath you? I've seen tons of threads saying the team doesn't have heart. Well it seems to me some of you people gave up on this team and nothing says that more than refusing to go to a NIT game. What the hell kind of fans are you?
Exactly. Well said. I've been thinking about a lot of the same points all year, and it's true. Greedy fans expecting a lot.
An extremely passionate one thank you very much! Perhaps you are satisfied with mediocrity. I frankly am not. I want MU to be one of those perennial NCAA teams. Uw has been, no damn reason MU can't be either. I'm not on the fire buzz bandwagon, but something wasn't right with this team this year, and he didn't seemingly do anything to try to fix it either. Everyone is responsible for this craptacular season.
Please enter reality and realize YOU CAN'T MAKE THE NCAA TOURNAMENT EVERY YEAR. The top schools in the country can't even do that yet you want Marquette too?
The whole season hasn't been craptacular, but the ending most certainly was.And if MU ends the season as a worse team than the one that began, then Buzz will deserve every barb directed his way. Is anyone on MU improving?
Otule has developed a lot over the last few months, as has Cadougan. Some of the guys who needed to be the cornerstone of this team (DJO, Buycks, Crowder) all seem to take turns disappearing for minutes/halves/games at a time. Makes it hard on a team when you never seem to know who the go to guy is for any given game/situation.
Great - we are happy to tie for 11th because UConn and Villanova finished there too...
I've been a Cadougan backer, but the more I see him play, the less sure I am that he's a good enough ball handler to be the starting PG next year.
Certainly a disappointing end to the season, especially after the UConn win. It seems some/many here got caught up in the fact that Marquette has always had double digit wins in the BE, and though we should always be there. I admit, I thought we would this year too. But alas, it didn't happen.The way the regular season ended was disappointing. Still a chance in the post-season, though I have to say the guys aren't giving me a lot of confidence. As much as others want to blame Buzz, I still like him, and believe a lot of the losses this year are on the players. In every game they had a chance to execute, and didn't. Yes, perhaps Buzz could have had a better plan, or taught some things better in practice, but for the most part he did OK. He's still a great recruiter, and I think a decent coach.Also - I'd like to point out to those that think he isn't integrating HS players well, that Cadougan, Otule, Blue, Garner, Erik Williams, and Jones all played a number of minutes today, and made significant contributions to the team. 76 minuted for non-jucos today. It wasn't enough to win, but showed promise that they are all developing as players.That's my rant, and I'm sticking to it.
We finished tied with UCONN and Villanova in Big East play: teams with established coaches in Wright and Calhoun and more talented players.Great - we are happy to tie for 11th because UConn and Villanova finished there too...
Those "other" two 9-9 teams are also going ot be playing in the NCAAs next weekend. MU likely won't be.
One of those 9-9 teams missed the tournament last year with far better talent than we have and a hall of fame coach.
We finished tied with UCONN and Villanova in Big East play: teams with established coaches in Wright and Calhoun and more talented players.
I find it hard to be happy with the direction this program is heading. We've been, at best, a first weekend of the NCAA Tournament out since 2003. There is nothing that leads me to believe that we are close to anything better this year. This program has been running in place for a long time.