1. Buzz has lost the team
2. Buzz can't make adjustments. The press got us back into it and when he called the TO, he made adjustments to attack the 1-3-1. Going small at the end really helped us defend the 3
3. We have a weakness at 5. Young. Will still be inconsistent at times, but we will be fine.
4. Junior is a disappointment/can't be the PG next year
5. Buzz can't develop young guys. Hello, Junior, CO, and DG
6. This team is better when it slows down and values each possession. (This one is for you, murf)
7. Having a team meeting immediately after a game doesn't work
We still aren't going to win the national championship this year. The BEast is really tough and sometimes you lose to really good teams. But this is a good team and Buzz can coach. Interesting that it was the young guys carrying the team during the second half and not the upperclassmen. (until DJO's 3's) Upperclassmen still looked tentative on offense during crunch time.
And Buzz is doing it with all of his guys for the first time. As Ners pointed out in a different thread, after the amigos left, all we had was Lazar, Hazel, Cubillan, and Acker from the Crean era. Buzz brought in his people and we haven't missed a beat.
I never heard ANY of those "myths" except maybe the part about point guard. Junior was phenomenal last night. He also was great at UConn and proceeded to lay eggs vs. both St John's and Seton Hall. If he can bring it like that every game, we've got something here. Louisville's pressure will be a huge test.
Quote from: TallTitan34 on March 10, 2011, 06:33:47 AM
And Buzz is doing it with all of his guys for the first time. As Ners pointed out in a different thread, after the amigos left, all we had was Lazar, Hazel, Cubillan, and Acker from the Crean era. Buzz brought in his people and we haven't missed a beat.
Otule and Fulce were signed under Crean.
8. The baby blue uniforms are jinxed.
Quote from: TallTitan34 on March 10, 2011, 06:33:47 AM
And Buzz is doing it with all of his guys for the first time. As Ners pointed out in a different thread, after the amigos left, all we had was Lazar, Hazel, Cubillan, and Acker from the Crean era. Buzz brought in his people and we haven't missed a beat.
With all due respect....finishing in 9th is missing a beat compared to the past. Unless you mean not missing the tournament...which I agree.
Quote from: Marquette84 on March 10, 2011, 08:19:39 AM
Otule and Fulce were signed under Crean.
But both were signed because of Buzz's Texas connection. They are Buzz's guys. I do not remember, but Butler may have also signed under Crean.
Quote from: willie warrior on March 10, 2011, 08:35:34 AM
But both were signed because of Buzz's Texas connection. They are Buzz's guys. I do not remember, but Butler may have also signed under Crean.
Butler was when Buzz became head coach.
Fulce and Otule signed to play for head coach Crean.
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 10, 2011, 08:30:26 AM
With all due respect....finishing in 9th is missing a beat compared to the past. Unless you mean not missing the tournament...which I agree.
I agree but what I have been thinking at times this year is that in the past 2 years I have had Marquette beating USU, Mizzou, and Memphis to make the Elite Eight and then Washington and NM to make the Sweet 16. While I know those were somewhat biased, wishful predictions on my part, we were one possession away on both of those. And this year I have at times felt hopeless about there teams and have always held that we are a 1st round exit this year. This could be the year that we somehow make a run to the Sweet 16 or Elite Eight out of nowhere, depending on draw.
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 10, 2011, 08:30:26 AM
With all due respect....finishing in 9th is missing a beat compared to the past. Unless you mean not missing the tournament...which I agree.
With all due respect, I've already put this myth to bed. Looking at 11-7 vs. last year's schedule and 9-9 vs. this year's schedule and calling it "missing a beat" is putting your head in the sand and willfully ignoring context. This year's conference schedule was MUCH tougher than last year. Keep towing the party line though!
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 10, 2011, 08:37:27 AM
Butler was when Buzz became head coach.
Fulce and Otule signed to play for head coach Crean.
Fulce signed with MU because of Buzz. If Buzz had been an assistant a different school, Fulce likely would have gone to that school instead.
Quote from: MerrittsMustache on March 10, 2011, 08:43:34 AM
Fulce signed with MU because of Buzz. If Buzz had been an assistant a different school, Fulce likely would have gone to that school instead.
How can you possibly say that? Fulce only followed him from T A&M to UNO to JUCO to MU. Technically Crean signed him, so he's a Crean recruit. Ignore all context!
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 10, 2011, 08:30:26 AM
With all due respect....finishing in 9th is missing a beat compared to the past. Unless you mean not missing the tournament...which I agree.
My interpretation of "not missing a beat" was that MU has not seen a signficant decline in talent or on-court success under Buzz, which is often the case when a coach defects. To each his own.
Another myth put to rest:
"This team does not deserve a bid! If we make it to the tournament it's only because of the expanded field/soft bubble/lunar eclipse/Hale Bopp comet's orbital trajectory!"
This team's resume would have deserved a bid in any year prior, period.
Until we lose our next game!
Quote from: tower912 on March 10, 2011, 06:19:10 AM
1. Buzz has lost the team
2. Buzz can't make adjustments. The press got us back into it and when he called the TO, he made adjustments to attack the 1-3-1. Going small at the end really helped us defend the 3
3. We have a weakness at 5. Young. Will still be inconsistent at times, but we will be fine.
4. Junior is a disappointment/can't be the PG next year
5. Buzz can't develop young guys. Hello, Junior, CO, and DG
6. This team is better when it slows down and values each possession. (This one is for you, murf)
7. Having a team meeting immediately after a game doesn't work
We still aren't going to win the national championship this year. The BEast is really tough and sometimes you lose to really good teams. But this is a good team and Buzz can coach. Interesting that it was the young guys carrying the team during the second half and not the upperclassmen. (until DJO's 3's) Upperclassmen still looked tentative on offense during crunch time.
I'm glad 1 win can solve all of these issues. I can't wait for everything the next win solves.
Oil crisis maybe?
Quote from: PuertoRicanNightmare on March 10, 2011, 06:34:49 AM
I never heard ANY of those "myths" except maybe the part about point guard. Junior was phenomenal last night. He also was great at UConn and proceeded to lay eggs vs. both St John's and Seton Hall. If he can bring it like that every game, we've got something here. Louisville's pressure will be a huge test.
I believe it was 79 Warrior who reported that his sources said that Buzz had "lost the team". Complaints about Buzz's lack of adjustments and poor development of young players have been common. Murf believes we should be a slow tempo team. Cadougan's plusses and minusses have been discussed forever. I think Chicos' sources reported that the coaching staff had concluded that he was not all that and would never be.
Quote from: Marquette84 on March 10, 2011, 08:19:39 AM
Otule and Fulce were signed under Crean.
Thank you again for your wisdom. Who was the lead recruiter on Fulce and Otule?
We need to get a coach that can compete within the Big East. Buzz is simply overmatched as there are so many Hall of Fame caliber coaches in the Big East.
Where is "Groove?"
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 10, 2011, 08:37:27 AM
Butler was when Buzz became head coach.
Fulce and Otule signed to play for head coach Crean.
Then recommitted to play for head coach Williams.
It's funny ... the same guys who say Fulce and Otule signed to play for Crean are the ones that blame Buzz when guys like Christopherson, Mbakwe, Taylor and Williams transferred or asked out of their LOIs.
Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.
Regardless, anyone who thinks Crean gets the credit for the recruitment of Otule or Fulce is completely divorced from reality.
Funny thing - Buzz is a pretty damn good coach when the players play a pretty damn good game. At least for some on this board, he is best suited to coach a D3 team anytime the players play a bad game.
On a related note, why do we have to reply to CBB "with all due respect"?
Quote from: 2002MUalum on March 10, 2011, 08:59:46 AM
I'm glad 1 win can solve all of these issues. I can't wait for everything the next win solves.
Oil crisis maybe?
True. Those positive about our players and coaches use victory to taunt the haters.
Those negative about our players and coaches use defeat to taunt the fanboys.
Neither side will accept the other's chararterization. Both will insist that fairness and rationality underpin their conclusions.
I'm schitzophrenic. During the games I'm waiting for things to unravel. Every mistake has me off my feet screaming and every good play is more relief than joy. Afterwards comes joy in victory or perspective (hopefully) in defeat.
Quote from: leever on March 10, 2011, 09:49:31 AM
On a related note, why do we have to reply to CBB "with all due respect"?
He is a priest.
Quote from: leever on March 10, 2011, 09:49:31 AM
Funny thing - Buzz is a pretty damn good coach when the players play a pretty damn good game. At least for some on this board, he is best suited to coach a D3 team anytime the players play a bad game.
On a related note, why do we have to reply to CBB "with all due respect"?
Because if you have Direct TV and piss him off, he will cut off your feed in the middle of a Marquette run! :)
Quote from: Lennys Tap on March 10, 2011, 10:14:50 AM
True. Those positive about our players and coaches use victory to taunt the haters.
Those negative about our players and coaches use defeat to taunt the fanboys.
Neither side will accept the other's chararterization. Both will insist that fairness and rationality underpin their conclusions.
I'm schitzophrenic. During the games I'm waiting for things to unravel. Every mistake has me off my feet screaming and every good play is more relief than joy. Afterwards comes joy in victory or perspective (hopefully) in defeat.
Bingo.
I'm guilty of it too, but I'm still amazed at the emotional "thinking" that goes on around here.
When MU wins, it proves Buzz and Co. shouldn't be questioned and have no problems. When they lose, Buzz is over his head and next year they will be worse.
C'mon people... have a little perspective.
With this said, great aggressiveness and great wins the past 2 nights. Outside of the ND game at home, I think this is the best they have played. I also like the rotations on the bench. I feel like it keeps them a little fresher and they run and gun pretty hard.
As a fanboy, my only frustration comes from those who knee jerk so harshly after defeats. I always preach a little patience, perspective and context - it sucks losing 9 games in a conference season...but when you go back and look at the opposition and number of road games at ranked teams...just part of Big East basketball..and maybe even more so this year.
Quote from: 2002MUalum on March 10, 2011, 01:17:29 PM
Bingo.
I'm guilty of it too, but I'm still amazed at the emotional "thinking" that goes on around here.
When MU wins, it proves Buzz and Co. shouldn't be questioned and have no problems. When they lose, Buzz is over his head and next year they will be worse.
C'mon people... have a little perspective.
With this said, great aggressiveness and great wins the past 2 nights. Outside of the ND game at home, I think this is the best they have played. I also like the rotations on the bench. I feel like it keeps them a little fresher and they run and gun pretty hard.
Hopefully Buzz spreading out the minutes the last two nights will pay off tonight. He did a good job the last two nights.
Quote from: Jamailman on March 10, 2011, 08:42:24 AM
With all due respect, I've already put this myth to bed. Looking at 11-7 vs. last year's schedule and 9-9 vs. this year's schedule and calling it "missing a beat" is putting your head in the sand and willfully ignoring context. This year's conference schedule was MUCH tougher than last year. Keep towing the party line though!
With all due respect, no you haven't. Each season is unique onto itself. You are compared against your peers (your fellow conference members) in that given year. That's why we have standings and record wins and losses each year.
Part of not "missing a beat" is keeping up with the rest of the conference. If they improve, then we need to improve as well. That's what it means not to miss a beat...literally, that's what it means. We did miss a beat because we haven't kept up with the Jones this season. Doesn't mean we won't in the future, but this year we did not.
Of course there are going to be years when you can say, "if only this team played in last year's season because the conference was so much worse". That's not how life works. It's certainly not how business works or sports.
So with all due respect, no you didn't put that myth to bed. A, it's not a myth. B, it's reality.
This is not a negative opinion, it's simply based on fact of where we finish In years past, we were in the range for 4th through 6th....this year we are 9th with an 11 seed. That is missing a beat, IMO. Hopefully next year we are back in the upper half of the league and not relegated to an 11 seed.
Quote from: Ners on March 10, 2011, 09:30:59 AM
Thank you again for your wisdom. Who was the lead recruiter on Fulce and Otule?
Do players sign on to play for coaches and schools or the assistant coach? Next time their is recruiting press release in this country that is done that shows the player signed with X university to play for the assistant coach, let me know.
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 10, 2011, 01:50:55 PM
With all due respect, no you haven't. Each season is unique onto itself. You are compared against your peers (your fellow conference members) in that given year. That's why we have standings and record wins and losses each year.
Part of not "missing a beat" is keeping up with the rest of the conference. If they improve, then we need to improve as well. That's what it means not to miss a beat...literally, that's what it means. We did miss a beat because we haven't kept up with the Jones this season. Doesn't mean we won't in the future, but this year we did not.
Of course there are going to be years when you can say, "if only this team played in last year's season because the conference was so much worse". That's not how life works. It's certainly not how business works or sports.
So with all due respect, no you didn't put that myth to bed. A, it's not a myth. B, it's reality.
This is not a negative opinion, it's simply based on fact of where we finish In years past, we were in the range for 4th through 6th....this year we are 9th with an 11 seed. That is missing a beat, IMO. Hopefully next year we are back in the upper half of the league and not relegated to an 11 seed.
I agree with Chicos on this one.
So what if MU, for the first time, wins three games in the BE tourney?
Have they "missed a beat?"
What if they win a tourney game, compared to last year's first-round exit? What if they win two, something that hasn't happened in eight years? will Chico still be here telling us they missed a beat?
This is such a silly debate because there are many, many ways one can measure a team's success and many, many factors (and yes, schedule is one of them) that play into it. Limiting it to only regular season/conference record makes little sense.
By that logic, the Green Bay Packers "missed a beat" in the 2010 season. After all, their regular season record was better in 2009.
Perhaps we should wait until the season is over before deciding whether or not the team missed a beat this year.
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 10, 2011, 01:52:49 PM
I prefer Druid
If I had to guess, I would have thought you to be a Paladin.
Quote from: tower912 on March 10, 2011, 06:19:10 AM
2. Buzz can't make adjustments. The press got us back into it and when he called the TO, he made adjustments to attack the 1-3-1. Going small at the end really helped us defend the 3
Not a myth imo. I Think Buzz has gotten better at making adjustments. Hopefully he continues and the discussion becomes moot.
3. We have a weakness at 5. Young. Will still be inconsistent at times, but we will be fine.
Before last night our two 5's were putting up 10 & 8 over the 2nd half of big east play. Pretty good for underclassmen
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 10, 2011, 01:50:55 PM
With all due respect, no you haven't. Each season is unique onto itself. You are compared against your peers (your fellow conference members) in that given year. That's why we have standings and record wins and losses each year.
Part of not "missing a beat" is keeping up with the rest of the conference. If they improve, then we need to improve as well. That's what it means not to miss a beat...literally, that's what it means. We did miss a beat because we haven't kept up with the Jones this season. Doesn't mean we won't in the future, but this year we did not.
Of course there are going to be years when you can say, "if only this team played in last year's season because the conference was so much worse". That's not how life works. It's certainly not how business works or sports.
So with all due respect, no you didn't put that myth to bed. A, it's not a myth. B, it's reality.
This is not a negative opinion, it's simply based on fact of where we finish In years past, we were in the range for 4th through 6th....this year we are 9th with an 11 seed. That is missing a beat, IMO. Hopefully next year we are back in the upper half of the league and not relegated to an 11 seed.
Wow, you really are stubborn, aren't you? Stick to your talking point if you like, but here are the two conference schedules last year and this year, using Pomeroy's rankings.
2010Rank Opponent Location Tournament Team?
4 Syracuse Away Yes
8 West Virginia Away Yes
13 Georgetown Home Yes
21 Villanova Home Yes
21 Villanova Away Yes
31 Pittsburgh Home Yes
38 Notre Dame Home Yes
43 Louisville Home Yes
56 Connecticut Away No
67 St. John's Away No
72 Seton Hall Away No
75 Cincinnati Away No
83 South Florida Home No
88 Providence Home No
88 Providence Away No
156 Rutgers Home No
172 DePaul Away No
172 DePaul Home No
Three road games against tournament teams. 8 games against KenPom top 50. 6 against the top 35. 5 against the top 25. Mirror opponents were #21 Villanova, #88 Providence, #172 DePaul. At top 25 Pomeroy team (which we moved up to after last night) would be expected to go 13-5 or 12-6 through that schedule.
2011Rank Opponent Location Tournament Team?
6 Pittsburgh Away Yes
12 Syracuse Home Yes
14 Louisville Away Yes
15 Notre Dame Home Yes
15 Notre Dame Away Yes
16 Cincinnati Home Yes
21 Connecticut Home Yes
21 Connecticut Away Yes
22 West Virginia Home Yes
30 Villanova Away Probable
32 Georgetown Away Yes
34 St. John's Home Yes
59 Seton Hall Home No
59 Seton Hall Away No
73 Rutgers Away No
95 Providence Home No
129 South Florida Away No
202 DePaul Home No
Six road games against tournament teams. 12 games against KenPom top 35. 9 against top 25. Mirror opponents were #15 Notre Dame, #21 UConn, #59 Seton Hall. A top 25 Pomeroy team would be expected to go 10-8 or 9-9 through that schedule, which is exactly what we did.
Looking at 9-9 and the 11th seed in the Big East tournament in a vacuum and saying "MU clearly missed a beat" is doing one of two things (or both):
1.) Promoting an agenda
2.) Telling the world you're a simpleton who can't comprehend facts within context
Which one is it? Pick one. Or just admit you're wrong and stop saying it.
Jamailman - I admire your persistence, but you should really read Ner's signature.
Quote from: rocky_warrior on March 10, 2011, 02:34:33 PM
Jamailman - I admire your persistence, but you should really read Ner's signature.
Point taken, that will be my last input on the subject.
Quote from: Jamailman on March 10, 2011, 08:51:16 AM
Another myth put to rest:
"This team does not deserve a bid! If we make it to the tournament it's only because of the expanded field/soft bubble/lunar eclipse/Hale Bopp comet's orbital trajectory!"
This team's resume would have deserved a bid in any year prior, period.
Yes. It does NOW.
2 BET wins and a week ago, I would not have said the same thing.
Quote from: rocky_warrior on March 10, 2011, 02:34:33 PM
Jamailman - I admire your persistence, but you should really read Ner's signature.
LOL. Nothing stubborn about it. I get the schedule was tougher, but aren't you arguing that in isolation? Wasn't every OTHER Big East team's schedule tougher this year as well? Based on the data you provided...yes. If that is the case, then we did miss a beat in comparison to the other teams in our conference who handled that tougher schedule better.
I agree with you, the schedule was tougher...our schedule. But so was everyone else in the conference but you don't seem to take that into effect in your analysis.
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 10, 2011, 02:47:32 PM
LOL. Nothing stubborn about it. I get the schedule was tougher, but aren't you arguing that in isolation? Wasn't every OTHER Big East team's schedule tougher this year as well? Based on the data you provided...yes. If that is the case, then we did miss a beat in comparison to the other teams in our conference who handled that tougher schedule better.
I agree with you, the schedule was tougher...our schedule. But so was everyone else in the conference but you don't seem to take that into effect in your analysis.
Actually, you're wrong.
The difficulty of each team's schedule would depend on mirror opponents and road vs home opponents. It would be hard to argue, for example, that USF - with DePaul, Providence and Pitt as its mirrors, and Syracuse, Georgetown, ND, Lousville and MU all at home - had a tougher schedule than Marquette.
Quote from: Pakuni on March 10, 2011, 02:20:15 PM
So what if MU, for the first time, wins three games in the BE tourney?
Have they "missed a beat?"
What if they win a tourney game, compared to last year's first-round exit? What if they win two, something that hasn't happened in eight years? will Chico still be here telling us they missed a beat?
This is such a silly debate because there are many, many ways one can measure a team's success and many, many factors (and yes, schedule is one of them) that play into it. Limiting it to only regular season/conference record makes little sense.
By that logic, the Green Bay Packers "missed a beat" in the 2010 season. After all, their regular season record was better in 2009.
Perhaps we should wait until the season is over before deciding whether or not the team missed a beat this year.
Depends on the criteria, doesn't. So when Mike Deane's 3rd year we won the CUSA tournament to go to the NCAA tournament...did we miss a beat or were we significantly worse that year than the year prior?
I think Bill Cords and the university determined he missed a beat and kept missing it because of the downward trend in comparison to the conference we were in.
We can go back and forth all day and each come up with examples supporting the position. I've told you for years now that I divide the seasons up into pre-conference, conference and postseason. Postseason is a crapshoot. Comparing one postseason to another postseason I find to be deeply flawed. Seedings are different, locations different, who you play, etc. The conference season, is much more consistent, though even it has it's discrepancies because of mirror games from one year to the next, etc.
I'm thrilled we're going back to the NCAAs. I'm not thrilled we finished in the bottom half of the conference and didn't keep up with the rest of the teams...by finishing 9th, it means we did miss a beat and did lose ground to at least 3 if not 5 teams in the past year's comparison. We finished about where I expected, but that doesn't mean what we expect is what we should achieve or strive for.
Hoping next year we are back in the upper half of the Big East, that seems an absolute bare minimum requirement for this program. Do you disagree?
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 10, 2011, 01:52:07 PM
Do players sign on to play for coaches and schools or the assistant coach? Next time their is recruiting press release in this country that is done that shows the player signed with X university to play for the assistant coach, let me know.
Yeah, good point. It's obvious that Fulce signed to play for Billy Gillespe at A&M, Buzz at NO and Crean at MU. It is just a freak of a coincidence that Buzz happenned to be at each of those 3 schools when Fulce signed. :o
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 10, 2011, 01:50:55 PM
Part of not "missing a beat" is keeping up with the rest of the conference. If they improve, then we need to improve as well. That's what it means not to miss a beat...literally, that's what it means. We did miss a beat because we haven't kept up with the Jones this season. Doesn't mean we won't in the future, but this year we did not.
Of course there are going to be years when you can say, "if only this team played in last year's season because the conference was so much worse". That's not how life works. It's certainly not how business works or sports.
So with all due respect, no you didn't put that myth to bed. A, it's not a myth. B, it's reality.
Just to be clear then - TC "missed a beat" (sometimes many.many beats) every year after his peak performance in 2003?
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 10, 2011, 01:52:07 PM
Do players sign on to play for coaches and schools or the assistant coach? Next time their is recruiting press release in this country that is done that shows the player signed with X university to play for the assistant coach, let me know.
Sigh ...
After Crean left, Otule and Fulce had the same opportunity as Taylor and Williams to ask out of their LOIs and sign elsewhere. They chose instead to reaffirm their commitment to Marquette and its head coach, Buzz Williams.
End of debate.
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 10, 2011, 02:53:39 PM
Depends on the criteria, doesn't. So when Mike Deane's 3rd year we won the CUSA tournament to go to the NCAA tournament...did we miss a beat or were we significantly worse that year than the year prior?
I think Bill Cords and the university determined he missed a beat and kept missing it because of the downward trend in comparison to the conference we were in.
Pretty weak. The anaology of Deane does not pass the smell test, even for you, when the term "not missing a beat" was made in the context that Buzz had his own players. Deane, the one you so loved and made you despise Crean all because he replaced Deano, was let go because there was concensus among the decision makers that he would definitely take a step, two or more back with his own recruits. Pretty weak.
Quote from: MUMac on March 10, 2011, 03:03:43 PM
Pretty weak. The anaology of Deane does not pass the smell test, even for you, when the term "not missing a beat" was made in the context that Buzz had his own players. Deane, the one you so loved and made you despise Crean all because he replaced Deano, was let go because there was concensus among the decision makers that he would definitely take a step, two or more back with his own recruits. Pretty weak.
So, you're suggesting Deane's 1999 class (aka Krunti Hester) wasn't going to lead MU to great heights?
Quote from: Pakuni on March 10, 2011, 03:02:14 PM
Sigh ...
After Crean left, Otule and Fulce had the same opportunity as Taylor and Williams to ask out of their LOIs and sign elsewhere. They chose instead to reaffirm their commitment to Marquette and its head coach, Buzz Williams.
End of debate.
Also, I would argue Fulce's history shows that he was coming to MU because of Buzz.
Most important number in evaluating a season? Big East regular season wins + Big East tournament wins + NCAA tournament wins. We're in year 6 of our Big East experience and our totals are as follows: 10, 11, 14, 14, 13, 11 (and still counting). If we lose tonight and in the 1st round of the NCAA, it's fair to argue that we slipped back to where we were in our first 2 Big East seasons, at least temporarily and given Buzz's two empty classes, I think understandably. Win a couple of more games and you can say that we haven't skipped a beat at all.
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 10, 2011, 01:52:07 PM
Do players sign on to play for coaches and schools or the assistant coach? Next time their is recruiting press release in this country that is done that shows the player signed with X university to play for the assistant coach, let me know.
So then why blame Buzz for the transfers of Christopherson and Mbwake?? Clearly they signed with MU before Buzz was ever on staff, correct?
Nonetheless, the fact you are trying to debate this particular point makes you look more ridiculous than usual. Joe Fulce followed Buzz from A&M to UNO to Marquette - and you think he signed with MU for the sole purpose of playing for Tom Crean?? Just stupid.
Joe Fulce signed the night that Shumpert announced to Geo Tech. The boards were up in arms, and then the Fulce committment broke out of no where.
Buzz, I believe, has made reference to the fact that Joe was going wherever Buzz was coaching.