Kolek planning to go pro
Jimmy has a great story and I respect the hell out of how he plays. But I have a hard time rooting for someone who publicly craps on my alma mater regularly. Even a Domer like Pat Connaughton shows Marquette more respect.He's a fine NBA player, but right now I certainly don't regard him as a Marquette player.
Is there any publicly available coverage of Jimmy criticizing or distancing himself from MU? I have never seen this outside of unspecific scoop chatter.My two cents is that Jimmy’s NBA run is signficantly underrecognized by MU and this board. Maybe there’s a reason for the former, but I’m not aware of it. This guy has put together an astonishing career as the second best pro to ever come through Marquette.
He allegedly avoids returning to MU while most of the other former high profile MU basketball alums have come back and spoken to the team during Shaka’s time. He went and shot around at MSOE rather than MU during their series against Marquette. He allegedly did not provide a congratulation/well wishes video to Barb while most other high profile #mumbb alum did. Someone shared a video of him after game 5 in Milwaukee saying something along the lines of “Get me the eff up outta here. Tyler Community College alum.”I think he gets his fair share of praise from MU and from Scoop. MU posts on social media every round they advance and every big game he has. I would assume they’ve reached out to try to get him back on campus since Shaka arrived. He seems uninterested.
Why is being friends with Mark Wahlberg bad?Dwyane Wade is friends with Tom Crean, that's way worse.Jimmy demands excellence from everyone around him and lo and behold he found it in Miami with Pat Riley + Eric Spo. Heat Culture is to "out work everyone". How can one not root for that. What has KAT or Ben Simmons ever done? Why are you siding with them? Jimmy is a grinder, he personifies what #mubb is when #mubb is at its best. We're gonna see it next season when Justin & O Max join the league. Just like Wes, Jae, Dwight & JTA before them. Same with Wade, he wasn't annointed.
Why is being friends with Mark Wahlberg bad?
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
I've seen it since his time in college. I think people still root for the guy because he played at Marquette and is having success in the NBA, but I think his "character" is starting to be "revealed" the more we see of him. But most people don't want to say it. Which is fine, never meet your heroes. But that water bottle full of sand has been tipped over and we see what's inside of it.
I have no idea what Marky Mark is like now, but he has a pretty disgusting history:https://time.com/3623630/mark-wahlberg-pardon/
He's a fine NBA player, but right now I certainly don't regard him as a Marquette player.
Old news - High school drop out street punk who seems to have done a good job rehabilitating himself. Jimmy’s OK with his racism being youthful stupidity and a thing of the past so I am too.
Two peas in a pod.
I have no idea what’s behind the rift between Jimmy and MU, but did you ever consider for even a moment that Marquette might bear some of the responsibility? Our alma mater isn’t perfect.Or maybe he reads Scoop and and tired of the libelous BS spewed by bias on a regular basis.Nothing I’ve seen from JFB suggests he’s a dick. What I do see I find admirable. I hope he and MU can figure things out, but I’ll continue to support both. Choosing who’s right or wrong in a divorce without knowing all the details is a fool’s errand.
but his "get me the F out of here" felt very personal to me.