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MUScoop => Hangin' at the Al => Topic started by: LAZER on March 25, 2014, 11:10:17 AM

Title: Willie Atwood
Post by: LAZER on March 25, 2014, 11:10:17 AM
Was MU ever in on Willie Atwood a JUCO PF?

I just saw Jerry Meyer switched his pick from Iowa to VT right after the Buzz hire.  I found that interesting.


http://247sports.com/PlayerInstitution/Willie-Atwood-at-Connors-State-College-61944/Predictions

Title: Re: Willie Atwood
Post by: leever on March 25, 2014, 11:17:09 AM
Interesting, but not surprising.

Buzz is going to build the program from the bottom up using his best tool for a quick turnaround - JUCOs.
Title: Re: Willie Atwood
Post by: Dawson Rental on March 25, 2014, 11:18:26 AM
Quote from: LAZER on March 25, 2014, 11:10:17 AM
Was MU ever in on Willie Atwood a JUCO PF?

I just saw Jerry Meyer switched his pick from Iowa to VT right after the Buzz hire.  I found that interesting.


http://247sports.com/PlayerInstitution/Willie-Atwood-at-Connors-State-College-61944/Predictions


Yes, Marquette was.
Title: Re: Willie Atwood
Post by: Dawson Rental on March 25, 2014, 11:20:01 AM
Quote from: leever on March 25, 2014, 11:17:09 AM
Interesting, but not surprising.

Buzz is going to build the program from the bottom up using his best tool for a quick turnaround - JUCOs.

Perhaps that's why Buzz goaded a freshman forward who he decided not to offer while at Marquette into quitting at his first team meeting at VT.  (VT had all its scholarships taken.)
Title: Re: Willie Atwood
Post by: lurch91 on March 25, 2014, 11:25:22 AM
[quote author=LittleMurs link=topic=43084.msg596543#msg596543 date=1395764401]
Perhaps that's why Buzz goaded a freshman forward who he decided not to offer while at Marquette into quitting at his first team meeting at VT.
[/quote]

What?!?!?

At the first team meeting? I guess so much for evaluating the program and players first.   I think Crean at least goaded the players he wanted off the team in his office and made sure there were plenty of plants around to be smashed.
Title: Re: Willie Atwood
Post by: Dawson Rental on March 25, 2014, 11:34:28 AM
From a VT source:

"In what amounts to a highly petty, unnecessary confrontation, Buzz challenged Thompson about his dedication and offered to grant him a release from his scholarship OVER A BUZZING CELLPHONE DURING THE FIRST TEAM MEETING. Did that need to be done in public? A call-out like that? Let's be real here. Unless Trevor took the call and interrupted the meeting, then you can bring yourself to overlook that. Especially if you know you might be on thin ice with the player anyhow. This is not how I foresaw the first team meeting under Buzz going upon hearing about the kind of guy he is, and the positive energy he is supposed to bring."

http://www.gobblercountry.com/2014/3/23/5539674/virginia-tech-hokies-basketball-trevor-thompson-to-transfer-Buzz-Williams-named-new-coach (http://www.gobblercountry.com/2014/3/23/5539674/virginia-tech-hokies-basketball-trevor-thompson-to-transfer-Buzz-Williams-named-new-coach)
Title: Re: Willie Atwood
Post by: Skatastrophy on March 25, 2014, 12:13:45 PM
Quote from: LittleMurs on March 25, 2014, 11:34:28 AM
From a VT source:

"In what amounts to a highly petty, unnecessary confrontation, Buzz challenged Thompson about his dedication and offered to grant him a release from his scholarship OVER A BUZZING CELLPHONE DURING THE FIRST TEAM MEETING. Did that need to be done in public? A call-out like that? Let's be real here. Unless Trevor took the call and interrupted the meeting, then you can bring yourself to overlook that. Especially if you know you might be on thin ice with the player anyhow. This is not how I foresaw the first team meeting under Buzz going upon hearing about the kind of guy he is, and the positive energy he is supposed to bring."

http://www.gobblercountry.com/2014/3/23/5539674/virginia-tech-hokies-basketball-trevor-thompson-to-transfer-Buzz-Williams-named-new-coach (http://www.gobblercountry.com/2014/3/23/5539674/virginia-tech-hokies-basketball-trevor-thompson-to-transfer-Buzz-Williams-named-new-coach)

Gotta tip the bottle over, lol.
Title: Re: Willie Atwood
Post by: texaswarrior74 on March 25, 2014, 01:47:46 PM
Buzzcut at the first meeting ....won't be the last Hokies
Title: Re: Willie Atwood
Post by: 4everwarriors on March 25, 2014, 02:23:36 PM
This could be F*ckin' new hash tag, aina?

willie@wood
Title: Re: Willie Atwood
Post by: keefe on March 25, 2014, 03:13:48 PM
Quote from: LittleMurs on March 25, 2014, 11:34:28 AM
gobblercountry

Is this an all-girls school?
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