What is your favorite Buzz scandal? What do you consider a non-issue?
Personality trait you found endearing while he was at MU that now annoys you?
Dry mopping the corners and his hillbilly act was a little annoying.
Liked that he wrote hand written letters to coaches.
Buzz's bunch was a kind thing to do.
Loved the team success.
Loved the dance on WV logo.
Brought in great players to the program.
Obviously player scandal and his handling of it tarnished him here. But I think he will get cheers initially for his overall contribution to the program.
If the question was asked a few years ago, my answer would be different but I generally view Buzz in a positive light now. Sort of the "more than one coach removed" rule I guess where MU is now on their second coach since him and Buzz is on his third school since MU. Same kind of deal with Crean.
Anyways, I'd say Life Lessons. Really felt I grew as person watching them. Also, I schedule meetings at work at odd times like 10:42 or 2:14 now. It makes my coworkers think I really know what I'm doing and not that I'm crazy or anything.
I'm not going to lose my voice cheering for him, but I think a nice warm welcome would be appropriate especially since we're honoring one of the players he coached. I'm interested to see the crowd's reaction though. Students were pretty young when he was here.
Buzz is, and was, a dirtbag. Running the Buzz's Kids media blitz before leaving Marquette to soften his image in case of blowback was disgusting propaganda.
His teams won games, so we looked past the BS and the scandal, but all that did was reinforce the cult of the coach and the ugly side of fandom. And I was part of it, cheering for the "quirky, aw shucks" Buzz, something he never was.
I liked Buzz. Sorry his time here ended on a sour note. Interesting selection for HC, imo, replacing Crean. He wasn't necessarily a 'fit'...Buzz for MU or MU for Buzz. But, Crean's F4 aside, MU's best coach since Al. Brought in talent. Won big games. A really good coach of basketball. Post game radio interviews w/Homer & Mac were always interesting. I hope Buzz kicks arse in the Big Ten and I hope he gets a solid ovation on Saturday. I also hope Marquette kicks his arse with an over early beat down on Saturday!
Favorite Buzz Memory: The year we beat Xavier and Syracuse to go to the Sweet Sixteen I was in the band with the team in Cleveland. We waited for what seemed like forever on the plane on the tarmac as the team had a celebratory pizza party. When they finally arrived, Buzz brought all of the extra pizza on the plane to give away. So I can proudly say that one time, Buzz Williams gave me a whole pizza on an airplane. That pizza made its way back to Campus Town East and was lunch for the next few days.
When he left, I was definitely one who put him into the "slimeballs I'm glad to be rid of" category. But time heals all wounds. I'll probably cheer/clap when he's announced on Saturday. I'm interested to see the cheer/boo percentages.