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I highly doubt Wisconsin snags a good coach if they get rid of Gard. They aren’t a basketball school, they’re in a small unattractive city, they play an unattractive brand of basketball and have a known dbag as an AD.
Madison is probably the best city in the Midwest. Chicago included. And I love Chicago.
I would take the Rick SLU program right now.
Madison is probably the best city in the Midwest. Chicago included. And I love Chicago. Love him or hate him, Barry Red Pants is one of the most respected figures in college athletics. A very good guy to have on your side. UW is a public ivy and a classic American college that draws from all over (What's up Coasties!). Please do not let the guy who dropped out of UW-Oshkosh but is draped in red and hates MU cloud your judgement.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
I personally can't stand Chicago....but even I find this to be a ridiculous post. Give me Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, or even the Twin Cities before Madison or Chicago.
I'm from Bay View. My wife is from Sauganash. We live in WFB. I've never been to Lolla or Navy Pier, do you like them? Doesn't seem like my thing. But I do like Chicago. And yes I've spent a lot of time in Lake View / LP. I'm only 42, where would you expect me to spend my 20s / 30s? Beverly? Jefferson Park (shout out Gale Street Inn)?Sorry about the Public Ivy, i forgot they didn't make the first 8 but were listed with 9 other schools as "Worthy runners-up".My bad.
Never been to GR but I hear great things. I find the Twin Cities to be the very peak of suburbia. Olive Garden here we come. Chicago isn't just one of the great American cities, it's one of the great world cities. But if I'm a coach, raising a family but still enjoy great restaurants and some culture, Madison is it.
Wicker park, Logan square, Pilsen, and east humboldt Park All have extremely unique spots entirely different cultures from Lakeview/LP and very similar to Bay view. Edgewater is making an intriguing revamp of its neighborhood as well. West loop has revamped a lot of old buildings in a similar way the third ward has. I’d inly suggest Jefferson Park or Beverly if you were into Irish pubs and talking to Firefighters and cops non stop. Sarcastic apology accepted.
You forgot the crime, the corruption, the taxes, and the horrible school system. But otherwise, cool place.
You are the worst.
Good thing nothing like this exists in any other major city in the world.But let's talk about some of these things.For example, the violent crime rate in Chicago ranks 28th among major cities, well below the likes of Houston, Nashville, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Washington, Atlanta, Cleveland and, yes dear friends, way below that of Milwaukee. The schools? Seven of the 10 top-rated high schools in Illinois are in Chicago, and that's not accounting for the many excellent private schools in the city.And then there's this:Chicago Public Schools students have made the fastest academic progress of the 100 largest school districts in the country, with all racial groups making similar improvements.That’s according to a new analysis by Stanford University researcher Sean F. Reardon, who told a gathering of Chicago’s educational brain trust Thursday that test scores for the average Chicago student went up by about six grades in the five years between third and eighth grade.https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/cps-student-scores-show-equivalent-of-6-years-of-learning-in-5-years/Corruption? Plenty of it. Hardly unique to Chicago. But yeah, the taxes are high. Even so, it's far less expensive to live in Chicago than New York, Boston, Seattle, Washington, Los Angeles San Francsisco, Miami, Philly, etc.
I was not trying to be silly. I posted that Wojo has trouble recruiting point guards, which I found surprising since he was a all-American point guard. I know Howard can play the point guard position if needed, but he is a not a true point guard. The poster also pointed out that Wojo recruited Traci Carter. Carter was a true point guard, but Wojo decided to start Hani over him at point, so how good was Carter who could not beat out a fellow freshmen that was more suited for small forward than he was at point? I have been attending MU games since 1962 and have seen many great point guards. Howard is the best pure shooting guard we have ever had. I am really impressed by his ability this year to drive and make the 2 point shot, which is a significant improvement over last year. He is not a point guard by nature and he is out of position when he plays there. Just like Sam is out of position when he plays the four or subs in at center.
What about compared to Madison?