Oso planning to go pro
The difference, keefe, as you know, is in the past it did not matter. Teams with great players would still get their asses kicked by the Warriors. We've lost that lovin' feelin', aina?
We got our ass kicked in the NCAAs even under Al at times. Kentucky, IU, etc.
We will be bickering for the next two decades over coaches. I again remind us to look back at the university administration’s actions seven plus seasons ago that adopted ex-judicial academic requirements on student athletes. The types of players who were accepted under EVERY coach in Marquette’s basketball history until that time, and who were critical and center to MU’s most successful basketball teams, were now not accepted. There was one JUCO player accepted in ALL MU sports sine then, and who MU academically handheld starting from high school to ensure he would be eligible, transferred before he could play. One of the reasons was because his coach wanted him to redshirt so he could shore up his academic progression track (and not have to sit for dropping a class).Since that time, MU has not won an NCAA game. Not under two coaches. One who had achieved a consistently high level of success not seen in decades, who all of a sudden didn’t. The other, a top, long-term assistant under the best college coach of all-time. The BOT hired Wojo under the belief Wojo could win under these new rules, and indeed have rewarded him with three contracts for reaching a lower level of successNow, we will argue whether Wojo is a good game coach (he’s not), a recruiter (mixed), face (he is), team manager (mixed), systems (offensively he is), etc. , but the fact of the matter we must now realize, that under these requirements, not Buzz, Al, Rick, KO, Deane, Hank or Wojo are likely to have sustained success on the floor. The university’s expectations do not match those of the fans. Something has fundamentally changed in the historical mission of the university and we keep blaming the basketball coaches.
So true.Pillarz and LW are (thankfully) gone but the people who hired them aren’t. So their “legacy” lives on. Too bad.
Only four of the trustees around when SP and LW were hired are still on the Board. There are 24 outside trustees, most of which have been appointed during the Lovell administration.
Names that will live in infamy:Jean-Felix Moupegnou...Ja Morant...Sindarius Thornwell...Quincy Pondexter...Kim English...Brook Lopez...Austin Croshere...and PETER F#CKING PAVIA
In that case I stand corrected. Maybe there’s hope after all.
Really? The IU game you cite, and clearly did not see, was a 1 point game at halftime. I think we lost by nine. I guess that is an ass kicking in your book.
If they're anything like Lovell, I wouldn't get your hopes up.
An example of a 70+ man who has lost his marbles and slipped through the cracks to earn a MU education and is stuck in another century looking for unicorns. Check
Doesn't have a MU education.
Dont know what you have against 70 year olds. And sorry, dont have an MU education unless you count CEUs back in the dayBBA and MBA from UW Whitewster and proud of it. MU fan since@53 or 54. Long time ago--memories fade. Have never spent time looking for unicorns. Too busy getting to 70+.
And of course, according to you that is the only credible education to have. All others are not really educations.
This whole narrative is asinine. You don’t get a top5 haul/cache of Garcia, Lewis, Oso, and probably Mane by being severely hamstringed. And if the recruiting firm of Johnson, Wojciechowski, and Killings indeed secured this stellar crop of young athletes and minds (last I checked their academic bonafides are super) while operating under strict academic qualifications guidelines? Seems like massive raises are in order. Wow, DOING IT THE RIGHT WAY. Imagine that.
Then you would think that those of us about twenty years younger than you, who have followed MU twenty years longer than you, would have more of a right to be outraged by the current state of the MU BB program.
Not by lower seeded teams, mid-majors, or in the first game, hey?
You've been an MU fan since '33 or '34? Impressive.