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I can assure with 100% certainty that Buzz was doing his best to win games. To think he was purposely throwing games is naive.He coached that Xavier game like he did any other game in his career. When the game is on the line, he rolled with his upperclassmen. Buzz has ALWAYS done that (credit to Sultan's earlier point). Can you argue that's the wrong call? Absolutely, I think it was. Buzz absolutely made the wrong call in that game. But he also was absolutely not trying to lose.
Buzz has always done what? Sultan's point?
And, I can assure with 100% certainty that your opinion that Buzz was doing his best to win games is just as much of an opinion as mine - that he wasn't doing his best to win games.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
TAMU you hit the nail on the head completely. Buzz was coaching the same way he always was. It didn't work and he didn't adjust. Honestly, the idea that he wasn't coaching to win gives him more of an excuse than he deserves.
There have been a lot of outrageous positions taken on a myriad of topics in Scoop history. None is more outrageous than the "Buzz didn't play the guys I think he should have so he must have been trying to lose" meme. Out-freakin'-rageous.
They just do not seem to understand, that even if Buzz decided he was leaving he would not still try to win, because it would hurt him in negotiating for a new job to not win as much as possible.
Please TAMU and Sultan - STop trying to grasp for straws to try to support your season-long wrong take on last year and Buzz. It's foolish. Trying to argue Buzz did what he always did is ridiculous. Buzz IS a hell of a lot smarter and better basketball coach than what he was last year - to think otherwise is foolish. He either was subliminally throwing games, or his EGO had gotten so incredibly big - that after hearing grumbles among the fanbase with his coaching/playing time allocation last season that he was hell bent on trying to prove people wrong, or felt he was a good enough coach to win at this level playing 4 on 5.
I am of the opinion that Buzz knew this was his last year at Marquette before the season started.
So let me get this straight...We are arguing that he was a good coach with a bad year.You are arguing that he threw games on purpose.And you are portraying us as crazy? LOL...no use arguing with a tin foil hat wearer. So I won't.
LOL - Can't attack the argument, attack the person. Nice Sultan. But please, why would you choose to play 4 on 5, and the guy who is the invisible player...play that guy MORE minutes than any other player? Please, weigh in on why Burton was benched for 6:30 of the last 7:00 against Xavier in Big East tourney? Neither of those decisions seems very intelligent or something you just chalk up to "he was a good coach that had a bad year." LOL. Funny. At what point do you not let a little common sense rule if you are Buzz - Gee, I know I'm playing 4 on 5, and the 1 game I tried the other guy for 32 minutes, we won..arguably our best win of the year, on the road...and that guy played a nice part in getting us to the winners circle. Perhaps I'll try that a few more times hereafter? Hmm. But nope. 9 minutes the next game. Comical.
My #donedeal has proven to be a few days early.... How is this thread surviving??
I am firmly convinced that TAMU and the Sultan are the same person. They march in Lockstep. Ners is their Avatar.
So is Todd Mayo no longer at Marquette still? 16 page thread...