71-29

[DoctorV]

Ed Cooley’s record in games decided by 5 or less since 2013.

[NCMUFan]

Commendable.

[fjm]

I like Ed Cooley. But he can go Fug himself. And the refs and the announcers. What the f? Was it Ed Cooleys birthday today or some bullshwa?

It was a providence and Ed Cooley love fest. I’m sick of it.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Dude can coach.

[Viper]

Dude can coach.

yup. Seems like a good guy too.

[MUfan12]

unnatural carnal knowledge that guy

[Elonsmusk]

Dude can coach.

Yep.  Good coach.  Though we beat them by 32 last year.

[tower912]

Dude can coach.

[DoctorV]

Ed said in the presser that he begins every practice with a simulation of their game plan in the last 4 minutes of every game.

Every practice begins this way because many Big East games come down to the last 4 minutes of the game.

This might be a good idea for Coach Smart and Marquette.

Not being a smartass or ahole, I just think that this would actually be a good idea to start a practice

[ATL MU Warrior]

Providence has been my least favorite team in the Big East since we’ve been in the conference. Ed Cooley, bile he seems like a decent guy, can go F himself.

[statnik]

Providence has been my least favorite team in the Big East since we’ve been in the conference. Ed Cooley, bile he seems like a decent guy, can go F himself.

I’m getting there, while they may be smart and practice crunch time execution, if the MU games against them are any indication it seems his teams get the whistle consistently, maybe due to their physicality, but I think his coaching gets overrated just the same, to be National COY.

[Newsdreams]

Dude can coach.

Shaka $ucks

[PointWarrior]

Will be nice to say about a Marquette coach again some day.

Dude can coach.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Shaka $ucks

0-4 this year in these games.  Young team (I am a COLE) but this needs to improve (and will).

[panda]

He’s just lucky

[rgoode57]

While I never like to see MU lose, in the BE, I can suffer a loss to Providence better than to anyone else just because of Ed Cooley. The guy knows how to put a team together for BE play, and his teams consistently improve as the season goes on. And, when he loses, he does not whine about it.

[Goose]

Dr. B

I definitely respect you as a poster and appreciate your support to the program big time, but I somewhat surprised on your COLE outlook. I look at the other members of that tribe and I think you are too good to be hanging around with crew on scoop. Very surprised to see you in a group that IMO really do not see the big picture and the direction of the program.

I am pissed we lost night, but I believe they will be better for it later in the season. Tony Smith said on the radio a bit ago that he loves the fight the guys showed again last night. He added there are no moral victories, but last night was a helluva game and MU is going the right direction.

[avid1010]

Wtf is a cole?

[tower912]

Cult
of
low
expectations

A derogatory term flung around by every body at every body so much that it has already lost its meaning.

[Uncle Rico]

Cult
of
low
expectations

A derogatory term flung around by every body at every body so much that it has already lost its meaning.

-Cult of No Expectations
-Cult of Reasonable Expectations
-Cult of Puny Expectations
-Cult of Miserable Expectations
-Cult of Desultory Expectations
-Cult of Some Expectations
-Cult of Terrible Expectations
-Cult of Vacuous Expectations

[tower912]

I was a one man Cult of no expectations last year.
Mockers
of
pedantic
excrescence

[Elonsmusk]

Cult
of
low
expectations

A derogatory term flung around by every body at every body so much that it has already lost its meaning.

Fixed.  It was a derogatory term flung around by Nojos toward Projos who chose to have low expectations last year and of Shaka in general, due to his record at Texas not being very different from Wojo's at MU.

[tower912]

-Cult of No Expectations
-Cult of Reasonable Expectations
-Cult of Puny Expectations
-Cult of Miserable Expectations
-Cult of Desultory Expectations
-Cult of Some Expectations
-Cult of Terrible Expectations
-Cult of Vacuous Expectations

Cult of kraven expectations is it.

[DoctorV]

Cult
of
low
expectations

A derogatory term flung around by every body at every body so much that it has already lost its meaning.

Is it a cult like Scientology? Or like the Mansons?

[ZiggysFryBoy]

-Cult of No Expectations
-Cult of Reasonable Expectations
-Cult of Puny Expectations
-Cult of Miserable Expectations
-Cult of Desultory Expectations
-Cult of Some Expectations
-Cult of Terrible Expectations
-Cult of Vacuous Expectations

Cult uv no talent

[Dr. Blackheart]

Dr. B

I definitely respect you as a poster and appreciate your support to the program big time, but I somewhat surprised on your COLE outlook. I look at the other members of that tribe and I think you are too good to be hanging around with crew on scoop. Very surprised to see you in a group that IMO really do not see the big picture and the direction of the program.

I am pissed we lost night, but I believe they will be better for it later in the season. Tony Smith said on the radio a bit ago that he loves the fight the guys showed again last night. He added there are no moral victories, but last night was a helluva game and MU is going the right direction.

I explained this in pre-season about my expectations. I said we take a step back in Year 2 to take a step forward, but peaking in the 2nd half of the season. Why? We lost our two Alpha Go To guys, we are young and would have to stumble before we had to win, the frosh would have to play key roles.

That said, MU has slightly overperformed, yet MU is 0-4 in close games. You have to fail so you can learn to succeed.

Also in regards to Shaka (and I am all in), the coaching staff needs to focus on situationals which determine about 8 games a year. This tag rightly came with Shaka. As he said after Wisconsin they hadn't practiced end of game plays, my head started to quiver. When you look at Shaka's great overall win record you realize he has a great system. But if the staff also stressed situationals, MU can be elite. Cooley is elite.

Until all this comes together, COLE. Time is a valuable teacher.

[MU82]

As he said after Wisconsin they hadn't practiced end of game plays, my head started to quiver.

Yes, that was the one thing he said this season that left me saying, "Really?"

[DoctorV]

72-29.

9 consecutive wins for the fighting Cooleys, 6-0 to open conference

[MU82]

One of the greatest coaches ever, as illustrated by his many Elite 8s, Final Fours and national titles.

[DoctorV]

One of the greatest coaches ever, as illustrated by his many Elite 8s, Final Fours and national titles.

Nah, just doing an excellent job the last few seasons.

The way he used the portal to re-load in the off-season actually worked, and it’s not working at a lot of other places

[LloydsLegs]

Providence is good, but not as good as its record indicates.  Tough home game wins against UConn and MU.  Still have to play those teams on the road, plus two each against Creighton, X and Nova.

Providence will lose 6 of those 8 games.  My work is done here. 

[DoctorV]

Providence is good, but not as good as its record indicates.  Tough home game wins against UConn and MU.  Still have to play those teams on the road, plus two each against Creighton, X and Nova.

Providence will lose 6 of those 8 games.  My work is done here.

I hear ya.

I also heard this for two-thirds of the conference season last year as well.

Hopefully they fall off as the schedule starts to stiffen up

[tower912]

It always feels like Providence is overrated. Then they eke out another close win.  Oh, they suck and got lucky.... after they beat your team.

[Goose]

That is an awfully high number of close games. Give me the double digit win any day of the week.

[DoctorV]

Yep.
I said last season on several occasions, that at the end of the day what matters the most is wins and losses, and they are BE Champs.

We can talk data all we want, but they’ve got the BE Championship.

Next 3 games are against the top 3 teams in the BE outside of Marquette.
If MU can somehow win 2 of them then things will get really exciting around here.

[Goose]

Doctor

Already jacked up for Wednesday. A very big game for early January. The place should be rocking.

[Stretchdeltsig]

Watching the game today made me laugh at the scoopers commenting about Marquette's lack of depth a week or so ago. I disagreed then and commented that we have a deep team, as today's game showed. We probably have the deepest team ever.

[avid1010]

Doctor

Already jacked up for Wednesday. A very big game for early January. The place should be rocking.

I plan to spend 0 minutes sitting...apologies in advance to those behind me.

[Goose]

Stretch

There a lot of mopes on scoop. Depth is a big strength of this team. Plus, the depth includes different skill sets.

[CountryRoads]

Doctor

Already jacked up for Wednesday. A very big game for early January. The place should be rocking.

Same, already can’t wait. Wish the students were fully back but it’ll still be a great crowd. Big week for MU basketball coming up.