Kolek planning to go pro
Had zero to do with it. Rookie coach mistake.
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Kid can flat out ball. Went from potentially undrafted as a freshman to the lottery. Worked his ass off to get der. Woulda looked outstanding in an MU uni, hey?
He went to MU because his mom was sick.
BS. Fake news. Lie. Please supply links to this made up story.
MU may have won the National title last year. Herro's leadership and skills would have reigned in Howard's game.
While Burton’s career was taking off, little did he or his siblings know, Burton-Malone was dying. She was diagnosed with breast cancer as early as 2009. Even her daughter doesn’t know when for sure. Burton-Malone tried to keep it under wraps and didn’t tell her children until 2012. The decision had a monumental impact on Burton, who decided to attend Marquette so he could stay close to home and support his mother. Burton-Malone would undergo chemotherapy treatments and still come to games.""I guess I would say I didn’t process it right away,” Burton said. “It took me a little bit before I actually processed it and realized she was actually gone.”The family had time to prepare for her death. Burton-Malone had planned her own funeral. But it rocked Burton’s world. Burton had attended Marquette to be close to his mom.Now that she was gone, he didn’t have a reason to stay. Instead, her death was a reason to go.“He couldn’t even go to the stadium or stuff because it took a toll on him because he always thought about my mom because she was always there at the games — and loud,” said Burton’s brother, Omar.Burton not only wanted to leave Marquette, he wanted to quit basketball."https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/college/iowa-state/cyclone-insider/2017/03/14/deonte-burton-leaving-legacy----bright-pink-one----honor-his-mom/99162890/Let me know if you want more "made up", fake news, BS, Lies as this isn't the only article on this subject. You are welcome!!Love and KissesCheeks
I’m confused about why some are so certain there was something more nefarious about Deonte transferring. Are we that hard up to paint Wojo in a negative light we want to dredge up the death of his mother and convince others there was something else despite his own words? The kids mother dies and he’s in a world of hurt and transfers. Five years later, it’s still a referendum on Wojo. No one knows anything other than what Deonte said. Amazing
The only people, to my recollection, I've seen say something definitive about deonte and how wojo "threw him under the bus" is ners and Herman.
And Herman constantly quotes Ners, as if that's "proof" of something.
I have a friend going blind from diabetes. He is selling his library of 1,400 books, mostly military.I know hard to believe. Well I looked over his collection and probably half were about some "inside story". Conspiracies about the Titanic, Pearl Harbour, Bengazi, 911, Chappaquitic, the assinations of the Kennedy's, the Kursk sinking, TWA flight 900, Pentagon secretes, and on and on.My rakeway, is that we are living in a time when EVERYTHING is a conspiracy.MUScoop trades in conspiracies. What a world we live in.
Lenny, they're all in cahoots. All these journalists over different time periods interviewing him heard the same thing, wrote the same thing.....but it's a giant lie, fake news, all because......well because someone thinks their bestest coach fandom is in jeopardy. Don't worry, Buzz did plenty to get him to MU, and Deonte's mom liked Buzz a lot. But every one of these authors says the same thing, that he stayed locally because of his mom.https://www.si.com/nba/2017/06/17/nba-draft-prospect-deonte-burton-journeyhttps://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/college/iowa-state/cyclone-insider/2017/03/14/deonte-burton-leaving-legacy----bright-pink-one----honor-his-mom/99162890/https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/columnists/gary-damato/2017/03/15/damato-emotional-homecoming-burton/99185454/http://www.isdhoops.com/article/mothers-loveEtc etc etcYup, all in cahoots....all making up the same lies and fake news. Congratulations.
To say Stan Johnson was THE reason Markus Howard chose Marquette is blasphemy. To say Deonte’s mom’s illness was THE reason he chose MU is totally fine.
I totally agree that it's silly to say one factor is THE reason for this kind of thing. Heck, it's usually silly to say one factor is THE reason for anything in life. There almost always are multiple factors for any big decision. including the reasons Burton chose MU and chose to leave MU.
Why are you so worked up over this it is past history. Different historians have different takes. Of all people you should know that news stories are sourced by PR.
Thanks for adding a couple of articles (why you relinked two I don't know). Originally you said that THE reason that Burton came to MU was his mother's illness and that THE reason that he left was her death. In discussing Deonte's decision to attend Marquette, one article states "Williams was integral in getting Deonte to Marquette". Translation? He was A reason (as was his Mom's illness). I'm sure there were also other reasons. Saying one was THE reason is lazy - and wrong.His departure is a little trickier, but the article you cite talks about his close relationship with Buzz and about how skeptical he was of the new staff. Sure sounds like he may have stayed had Buzz stuck around. At the very least, his skepticism with Wojo and co. is A reason he left.Bottom line - simplistic answers ("THE reason" as opposed to "A reason") to life's big decisions are almost always incomplete and therefore wrong. One of your own articles makes that clear.