Oso planning to go pro
Pulling Apollo 11’s number was easy, probably the easiest move the team could have made.The real question they have to ask is what they will do with #0. Markus was the #1 scorer in the schools history, but had limited team success. Plus looking back it is still ridiculous that #22 wasn’t really close to be retired for jerel. My guess is the school might genuinely be biding itself time to see if markus has nba success going forward. If not I’m interested to see when #0 goes back into circulation. And when.
Zero will get retired and deservedly so. If 22 was ever gonna be retired, it would have been years before Jerel even got on campus.
How much team success did Jerel have?
Relative to Markus, Jerel clearly had team success.He never missed the tourney. Won 2 games tourney games to zero. Finished top 25 all but his freshman season. Lost to top 10 teams in jr and sr year. All well playing in an undoubtedly better conference. Meanwhile markus made the tourney 2 times, got blown out in both. He might of made it a third time, but that years team finished 1-6 in its last 7. Zero top 25 finishes. One player clearly played on better marquette teams than the other. They both finished 1st as all time leading scorers, while Jerel's total was well lower, Jerel also leads the program in steals.My point was more that the admins have a tough decision to make.
Relative to Markus, Jerel clearly had team success.He never missed the tourney. Won 2 games tourney games to zero. Finished top 25 all but his freshman season. Lost to top 10 teams in jr and sr year. All well playing in an undoubtedly better conference. Meanwhile markus made the tourney 2 times, got blown out in both. He might of made it a third time, but that years team finished 1-6 in its last 7. Zero top 25 finishes. One player clearly played on better marquette teams than the other. They both finished 1st as all time leading scorers, while Jerel's total was well lower, but Jerel also leads the program in steals.My point was more that the admins have a tough decision to make.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
You calling Al dumb?
Brother Newsie:Not since he took two technical fouls in the 1974 National Championship game against NC State.
Retiring numbers is silly, but deciding which players' numbers to retire based on team success is sillier.
Markus isn't just the programs all time leading scorer. He's the conference's all time leading scorer and top 25 in NCAA basketball history. He's also a 2 time all American. No disrespect to Jerel, he's one of my all time favorites, but Markus' resume beats his comfortably
People show up for awards, but I doubt it made a real difference in their life.
People need to stop acting like the Markus years were some sub-.500 second coming of Bob Dukiet.
I hope Kolek is killing it in practice…But, Mike Deane once said ( or was it Allen Iverson ?) … no one ever scored a point in practice!?
Honestly, if the NCAA begins to follow the NBA and allows 6-9 numbers for jerseys, so much is easily solved as more and more programs will begin to face the same problem MU has (running out of available numbers due to retirement status).
He also had three 50+ point games that I remember. Sometimes I watch his USC performance to cheer me up. When he had it going he was a lot of fun to watch as was Rowsey. Unfortunately we had very poor coaching and roster construction during his four year period.
Wen Oliver Lee graduates, hey?