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But... is he a "lifer"?Otherwise, what's the point?
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Very impressed with Wojo so far, his comments, actions, team building, and recruiting have been top notch. If he can couple this with an equal talent for in game coaching and player development....we could be looking at a future great. Obviously, way too early to tell.
Lets be honest here. If Marquette lands Ellenson everybody here will be praising him as the next Al and without even coaching a game. What he has done since he got here has been nothing short of remarkable.
I'm also so impressed with what Wojo says, and I'm very optimistic about the future.I was less than impressed with Bilas' focus on 'environment' not 'culture' Seems to me that they are exactly the same thing, but Bilas chooses to hang on the word choice. But, that's a frivolous complaint about a solid article.
Other than the fact that Bilas and Wojo are, y'know, both Duke grads, so it's not like Bilas is without bias here...
Really like Wojo's approach. Gotta give Cords credit in his BBAll coaching hires. I hope Wojo can take the ball and advance the program like Crean did from deane and like Buzz did from Crean. I have tremendous confidence that Wojo is gonna elavate us even further. For those that want to respond that he hasnt coached a game. Remember just that, that its just a game and its a simple game. Players play and recruiting is 90% of winning. Dumb or arrogant basketball coaches always want to take credit for their coaching accumen, good coaches understand winning is done by the players and winning is done by winning in recruiting. That is why Huggins, mocked Crean by calling him Tommy Naismith. (To my point, the reason guys like Huggins, Knight and amny others after huge early success did not win later in their careers is not becuase they became stupid and forgot everything they knew. It was becuase their recruiting fell off.) additionally, it is a tremendous pleasure to be able to read an article of this nature and not be immediately bombarded with 15 passive-aggressive posts by a certain banned poster. hopefully the ban is permanent and we do not have the displeasure of having everything that is good about MU basketball pissed all over by a certain poster, as a feel good post devolves into a back and forth of MU fans and the resident troll who calls himself a fan but finds the need to only focus on the negative or negative possibilities all of the time. hopefully the mods are reading this and giving it some though.
Overall, a great article that makes me even more confident in the future of the program. As for whether he is a lifer, it is pointless and counterproductive to even worry about that, IMO (and I certainly had my fears when Crean and Buzz departed). Ideally, Wojo has great success and stays for a long-time. However, even if he departs at some point for Duke to replace Coach K, then that means he has had great success here and I am confident that we would find an excellent replacement. Hopefully we don't have to worry about that for a long while.
I do like the way he is embracing the history and all of the players, not differentiating between Al's guys, Hank's guys, Rick's guys, etc. Making it all one big kumbaya singing "We are Marquette". Now he needs to start inviting the all of the message board guys. No 'ners guy' or 'sultan guy' or 'bma guy' or 'chicos guy' or 'dodds guy' or 'ganzer guy'. Now if he can bring all of THOSE warring factions together......
I was being sarcastic... figured that was apparent. We are in agreement.
I would take the Rick SLU program right now.
This gets me all jacked up.
Should have made it JenryJamilJaeJamailJrJaun.
May wish to see them play before getting too jacked. Otherwise we might see a few bipolar events on the blog.
Touch 'em all, Wojo.And looking forward to the threads that turn "sustainable environment" into a meme.