Oso planning to go pro
Prior to Covid, Rowsey was on the verge of getting called up for a cup of coffee in the NBA. He was having an incredible season in the G League. Was shooting 48 percent from the NBA 3 line, 59 percent EFG and 94 percent from the line. 20 points per game. Hopefully he can keep up the momentum when basketball restarts.
Semantics...but regardless, he has a less than stellar BE record. Again, MU should finish top 3-4 every year. That's not having unrealistic explanations, that's not embellishing or asking for too much. That's just reality a program like MU's should be top 3-4 every year in conference.
If only sports were so predictable. First year records count, they are also impacted by what is in the cupboard and whether the players left fit your coaching philosophy. I am not ignoring his first year, but find it intellectually dishonest of someone not to mention they aren’t his guys. For some reason Al McGuire’s worst year at Marquette was his first when he took over a bad team. Probably just a coincidence and semantics. Those losses still counted against Al’s record as do Wojo’s, but I believe most reasonable people understand the impacts of transition years. Can you imagine MU Scoop after 1967? Al has been here two years and his overall record is 22-30. The details should matter, it isn’t as black and white as you and others want to make it.
What did Al do in year 7?
I disagree with this completely, player development is a huge issue. Markus didn't develop with Wojo, he developed because his brothers pushed him and trained him.
Well just off the top of my head a few would be: Do other schools in the BE have a private jet available to them for recruiting??(I don't know that answer), what MU spends on basketball is greater than the other schools in the BE, and you only cite the AL, but what about the new sports science facility that they have now, I can be almost 100% certain no one else has that. That's not even mentioning the fact that they play in a state of the art NBA arena, players have access to NBA players like Giannis etc, and on top of that, what other school in the BE(with the exception of Nova) can lay claim to having recent or current popular NBA players like D Wade, Jimmy Butler and Jae Crowder as alums?? That's just a few things, I'm sure I can come up with more..but again, give nthose things in and of itself, there is no reason MU shouldn't be a top 3-4 team in the Big East consistently. The one thing that would really elevate them and push them over the top(even nationally) is state of the art dorms for the players. They had the chance to get those and Lovell slow played it and it got taken off the table. That could end up being one of the worst decisions for the MU program in history.
Serious question. What is the school's buyout? My understanding is that the school has to pay the remainder of the contract. (All my employment contracts worked that way). Not really a "buyout" just fulfilling the contractual obligation. Are coaches agreeing to contracts that allow the school out at a lower amount than the contract calls for? (I know this is sometimes negotiated at terminations but didn't think so in the contract) Seems like a request that will piss-off the coach and get him looking for another job ASAP.I'm no expert but I've only heard of the employee or coach paying the buyout.Plus the bigger, and original question/assertion, is why is MU having to go through another renegotiation in just two years? If the BoT "loved him" this should be an every 5 year process. If I loved my coach I'd lock him up and give him a meaningful raise.My understanding is they "like him" not "love him".
Al was able to identify with inter city black players at a time when a lot of schools did not want to. I loved Al, but I do not think he would automatically make MU great again, if he magically reappeared.
You want the honest answer?
Al was a great leader of young men. He used his leadership skills to Recruit great players and motivate them to maximize their talent within a team concept. I think those personal attributes would generate success in any era of sports .
I have the internet. It was more of what I like to call a rhetorical question.
Why are you celebrating being one of the last auto bids 2 of those 4 years?
You won’t get the honest answer from the internet.
Concerns about Wojo: Scheme. In game adjustments. Not concerns about Wojo: Player development, transfers.
As others have mentioned, I don't think the rate of transfers/exits is a huge concern.What is concerning to me, however, is how many of these departures seem to come as total and complete shocks (to us and, from what we can see, to Wojo). That leaves Wojo flat-footed with his dumb a$$ thousand yard stare scrambling to find some last minute band aid. I don't follow other programs closely enough to really compare, but I feel like the norm elsewhere is that transfers/exits are usually pretty well anticipated. I mean did anyone, anywhere on this board write that they thought BB was going to leave? Did anyone contemplate Hausershima? Did anyone predict Ed was going to hang them up? Again, I don't know what inkling Wojo had of these, but if he didn't it suggests he doesn't have much of a clue what's going on with his guys and that's a big problem.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
I don't think any of the exits you mentioned were a shock to Wojo. Honestly, the only departure that I think was a "shock" was Hausergate. Ed's minutes had dwindled down to nothing and was clearly third on the depth chart at the 5. Bailey is already ancient in professional basketball years and doesn't want to waste some of his prime years not getting paid. Hausergate definitely falls into the realm of shocking.