Bilas on MU's Win

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Speaking of Fifer, anyone ever check out his Wiki?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fifer

That's quite the head size.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

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Big problem with this analogy......PRN you assert that Stu wrote the letter, ala you know Crean made the statements(lies and inaccuracies).  That is not a correct statement because we don't know he said these things.  You rest your knowledge that Stu(Crean) MUST have done it because it serves only his purposes.....ah but what about the pretty little wife.....maybe it serves her purposes(get it, the pretty lady is MU here or perhaps Jay Bilas or some combination of the two).

wow, it's not offten people follow my rambling analogies so well.  You should win a prize.

RawDog, you are on my list of credible posters.  You are also on my list of incredible choke artists after losing as the #1 seed to an #8 seed in fantasy football.

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

Not sure if you purposely position what I've said in the past to serve your staggeringly dull posts, but I repeatedly said donating to the soccer stadium was an extremely nice gesture. Who could deny that? Perhaps you fail to understand what I've said. Read this very slowly...The...press...conference...was...self...serving. Can you not understand the difference? Go back (again) and re-read what I wrote.

Further, nowhere did I say that Crean put Jay Bilas up to writing anything. That's absurd and (once again) you do not understand what is going on here. I am claiming that somebody at MU -- maybe Crean, maybe the SID -- gave Bilas this information. Bilas didn't make this up out of the blue.

I suspect that if it was the SID that Crean knew about it. Considering Bilas likely has Crean's direct phone number, I am quite sure that he does not need to deal with undergraduates working in the SID office unless it's follow up on statistics to include in a piece.  

But I encourage you to use your judgement. Just remember this...when your girlfriend has festering sores about her bathing suit areas, don't be surprised when you get syphilis!

[Final Four or Bust]

Regardless of where those comments came from, if all they do is add to the aura of success (and are not totally incorrect) then what's wrong with that?  I think someone else eluded to it here...come to MU Mr. Recruit, we had a great coach 30 years ago, the new guy...so-so, you can do better, actually.  Come on. 

I personally think it would be stronger statement to say that our program has been a consistent winner throughout its history with a number of different head coaches, and Crean is just the latest.  He didn't create the success, just built on what others have done -- so if and when he leaves someone else can continue to advance that success and the program.

[RawdogDX]

Not sure if you purposely position what I've said in the past to serve your staggeringly dull posts, but I repeatedly said donating to the soccer stadium was an extremely nice gesture. Who could deny that? Perhaps you fail to understand what I've said. Read this very slowly...The...press...conference...was...self...serving. Can you not understand the difference? Go back (again) and re-read what I wrote.

Further, nowhere did I say that Crean put Jay Bilas up to writing anything. That's absurd and (once again) you do not understand what is going on here. I am claiming that somebody at MU -- maybe Crean, maybe the SID -- gave Bilas this information. Bilas didn't make this up out of the blue.

I suspect that if it was the SID that Crean knew about it. Considering Bilas likely has Crean's direct phone number, I am quite sure that he does not need to deal with undergraduates working in the SID office unless it's follow up on statistics to include in a piece.  

But I encourage you to use your judgement. Just remember this...when your girlfriend has festering sores about her bathing suit areas, don't be surprised when you get syphilis!

How?  How was the press conference self serving?  WHat bennifit did crean gain from it? What good things happend in his life becuase of it?  The thing it served was a philenthropic goal.  It raised money for something that we all love and support and you bash him for it?
When you have ANY famous person donate to ANY cause you want them to do it publicly.  If I'm rasing $ for autism and oprah gives me some dough I'm going to ask her to do a press conference.  If i want cash for aids releif in africa and brad pitt gives me a check, i'm going to ask him to do a press conference.  Are all the celebs that did commercials for katrina relief self serving?  Did you see that the LT from the rams is giving a game check to retired nfl players?  they intervied him on a morning show on espn.  What a self serving jack ass. 

Yes he wanted people to know he gave the money, because then people might, and did, emmulate him.  Just like people have been shown to emmulate any story they read about through the media.  If you read freakenomics it's realy amazing.  This even includes things like suicides, murders and yes phanthropic good deads.  It's called raising awareness.

I don't even know why i waste my time writing this though.  You are just sitting there reading this with your fist clenched murmoring things like: "no, you are a fool, he is evil...  EEEViilll..."

And the more you talk about other people's gf's the more i'm convinced you need to be set up with someone. 

[rocky_warrior]

Honestly, except for the VERY first post, that's the best thing I've read in this thread. 

Locked.

[rocky_warrior]

2)  I would be interested in the numbers of the O'Neill era and the Deane era for rankings.   Those that suggest we were so horrible prior to Crean fail to realize that we weren't have bad in the 90s.

Ok - one more thing.  The numbers through 1998 are right here
http://www.sportsstats.com/AP/Marquette.html