Dwyane Wade's outdoor basketball court

[Newsdreams]

No sweat Brew, I'll pickup your slack.

LittleMurs, Zaire Wade to Marquette fan number two.  Number one has been claimed by his Daddy. 

Should we start the Zaire Scoop name campaign?

[Texas Western]

So if you could give back the final four, D Wade, Travis, the three Amigos, getting into the BEast, etc in exchange for not having Tom Crean as a coach for nine years, you would do it?

I honestly don't know what this board perceives as Crean's sins. He was, according to many scoopers, a douche, had odd habits, may or may not have been responsible for wasting money on some sort of altitude chamber, never followed through on his donation to the soccer team, and left his job in a very unprofessional manner. If you told me in 1999 that this would be what I had to endure for hiring Tom Crean, but I would be rewarded with a final four, a future NBA hall of famer, entry into the Big East, and all the success of the Buzz Williams era, I would take that deal in a second. In fact, every single scooper would have made that deal. Honestly, I think the price tag for Buzz' success was actually a lot more difficult to swallow.

Al really f**cked over all future Marquette coaches. If you aren't great and retire here, you are doomed to be hated by this fanbase.

Crean returned us to the national conversation. The personality quirks are nothing but a side show. As far as I am concerned he delivered big time and that's all I care about.

[Dawson Rental]

Should we start the Zaire Scoop name campaign?

Done.

[ChicosBailBonds]

1) I'm thinking the strength and conditioning coach, the one who works directly for the basketball team, is probably someone they would turn to when looking for "cutting edge" conditioning tools.
2) Yes.  Monarch needed to pass an NCAA certification test just like everyone else in the department.  So why is Bert the one to blame for Monarch's failure to carry out those standards, and then lying about it?  I continue to be baffled by this.  We're talking about a professional who failed to do his job properly, and you want to blame this on someone else.  This isn't some toddler who can't control his behavior.  We're talking about an adult, who gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to do his job properly, and failed to do so.  I'll tell you what, if I went into my company's bank account and started slowly transferring money from it into my personal bank account without their consent, I'm going to go ahead and say I'm the one who will be going to jail, not my CFO.  But hey, maybe some lawyers should give your reasoning a try, I bet that'll work out real nice for them.
3) If the video coordinator can't figure out how to fix it, should we blame the coach since he's the boss?  To you, it depends.  Is the coach Bert, or is it Crean?  If it's Crean, it's obviously the video coordinator's fault.  If the boss is Bert, Bert has no control of his employees and needs to be held accountable.

Glad you were able to settle the restless IU fans down during your absence.  We missed you here.

Now, back to this....you again still failed to answer the question at hand.....which is why all of these experts were all using it in the same fashion (wrongly) and required an expertise that the basketball coach wouldn't have, yet the basketball coach is responsible and apparently DIRECTED it be used this way....was the basketball coach at MU directing the Phoenix Suns to use it wrongly?  The Detroit Pistons?  Various NFL teams?  That is absurd....at an epic level.

The Monarch analogy is stupid, point blank stupid.  Burt knows the rules just as Monarch does, Burt IS RESPONSIBLE for having his staff follow those rules, execute those rules, it is part of their job.  It is NOT part of the basketball coach's job to know how to operate the video equipment or how to use some advanced conditioning equipment.  That is a specific level of expertise that only a few people would know and they are hired on staff for their specified talents.  As a manager, etc, you follow what those people of expertise are telling you.  It is nowhere on the planet comparable to one of your assistants violating NCAA rules when everyone on the staff knows those rules.  Everyone.

Again, you are a smart guy, you are going way overboard to link something that isn't there.

Finally, I'm not settling anyone down, but I do love the continued conspiracy theories on that.  I guess if it's on the internet, it must be true.   I told you why I've been away from here...very busy of late, tons of travel, dealing with an ailing parent and her news is worse the last few weeks.  Fortunately I get to spend time with her this weekend (she's resting as we speak) which we are enjoying.

[ChicosBailBonds]

The cost of this chamber....silly.  $41K.  Are you kidding me.  We spent 3X to bring in some clown team with a RPI for 330 to bring down our SOS probably 3 to 5 times a year.  A home game would bring in anywhere from $250K to $400K per game.  $41K in what was thought to be able to add 5% to 10% productivity to players at the time....no brainer, easy calculation.

Wadesworld.....Jayd Grossman was on the athletic training staff for all of MU athletics, not just Men's Hoops.  That's how they are structured, they serve all teams, and do not report to men's hoops. 

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