Kolek planning to go pro
I doubt college students would rock HS gear. Hopefully they were just some knuckleheads visiting and back in Mom's basement Saturday
I buried this in another thread before last night's game, but after last night, it apparently needs its own thread. Last time it was a generic appeal of the student section. Today I'll make it more specific: To the boys in section 103 wearing the Maine South HS gear and anyone that decided to join in, stay home on Saturday if you're going to boo any part of the team - coaches or players. The student section was pretty empty last night, but I'd rather see holes in the student section than hear boos from across the arena. In the other thread, I mentioned that a highly-rated recruit will be there on Saturday. To be clear, there was at least one known recruit in the house last night, and he was certainly close enough to section 103 to hear the boos. Again - the administration isn't going to make a coaching change based on boos from a small group of kids, particularly with the team basically locking up a tourney berth by handily avoiding a bad loss last night. But a 16- to 18-year-old kid will let that factor into his decision, either questioning the coach's future or asking whether he wants to play in front of a student section that boos its own 18-9 team. Regardless of how you feel about the coaching staff, there is no upside, only downside. I'll appeal on another level for Saturday. Saturday is the final home game for Howard, Anim and Johnson. Each of these kids have made a special contribution to MU in their own way, and the team wouldn't be in line for an NCAA tourney bid without them. These kids have remained loyal to Wojo and his assistants, and the coaches have played an important role their lives over the last few years. I would imagine that they may talk about him being like a father to them when they make their senior day remarks. If you boo the coaches on Saturday, you are not only undermining the recruiting process, undermining the coaching retention process (because if the team catches fire the first weekend of the tourney, everyone will suddenly be worried about the coaches leaving) and disrespecting the coaches. You will also be disrespecting the seniors being recognized that day.
Yes he does. He hands out pizza and donuts to the students quite a bit actually. It’s strange that you ask if Wojo is putting in effort and in the same post state that he doesn’t seem to be putting any effort into it.How do you know? And if you know, why did you ask?
Maine South?That explains a lot.
The boos finally showing up shows the general frustration building in the fan base. A coach college or pro making millions is not immune to boos when the performance justifies them. He’s mike dean with less passion on the court that would have been gone already if not for coach K’s coattails that hes been riding.
Anyone thinking they were booing the team, the program and/or Wojo due to results from this year are giving these HS kids too much credit. They were likely booing because they wanted Gardiner in the game (at least that is what I'm guessing).
Maine South is where Tommy Gardiner attended. The basketball program drove up last night for the game to support Tommy. They have photos from the game on Twitter.
Exactly. The kids won't be there again on Saturday. https://twitter.com/MaineSouthHoops/status/1232876830258008065
More than just them were booing
As someone who attended Marquette during Mike Deane's tenure I don't know how you can possibly think Wojo is running a similar level program.