So Who Wants The DePaul Job?

[DawsonCreekFillanderer]

There's a reason why I pushed so hard with the university, Cords, the students, etc to go to a General Admission policy.  

Our hero!

[Dawson Rental]

Here's my idea for DePaul.  Use the 3 million this way.  Hire Theus for 500,000 to 600,000 say, then give the remaining 2.5 or 2.4 million to a really good PR firm with the direction to use it to build up Theus as the best college basketball program builder in the history of the NCAA.

Could work.  

[Chicago_inferiority_complexes]

The first one I set up and we had to move it to a larger room in the union due to the size.  We had to move it to room 215 ( my memory is fuzzy on the meeting room number as this was a decade ago ) but we gave out stress balls in the form of basketballs for the students to use for finals.  There may have been subsequent meetings but that first one was at capacity of that meeting room... I'd say over 100 people

I'm almost positive you also pointed this out when he first made the claim that only a few people (9 or 15 or whatever it was) showed up for an event welcoming him to campus, as if that was the sole event welcoming him to MU.

Point being, using ONE poor attending event as representative of the interested on campus in Marquette basketball was absurd.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Here's my idea for DePaul.  Use the 3 million this way.  Hire Theus for 500,000 to 600,000 say, then give the remaining 2.5 or 2.4 million to a really good PR firm with the direction to use it to build up Theus as the best college basketball program builder in the history of the NCAA.

Could work.  

They can have Nelligan and Zizzo Group.   

[ChicosBailBonds]

Our hero!

You're caught fabricating crap again and showing how totally wrong you are and this is your typical response.  How you remain posting on here is a mystery. 

Typical.  Maybe you should tell us how great the student attendance was in 1977 as that would be equally irrelevent?

[DawsonCreekFillanderer]

You're caught fabricating crap again and showing how totally wrong you are and this is your typical response.  How you remain posting on here is a mystery.  Typical.  Maybe you should tell us how great the student attendance was in 1977 as that would be equally irrelevent?

why not dazzle us with some tale of insider knowledge. funny how you are well outside the arc of college hoops. someone so connected should have the ear of college hoops power brokers.

[MUfan12]

They can have Nelligan and Zizzo Group.   

That's Gold! Gold, ZFB!

[marq101]

Oliver Purnell according to Goodman and foxsports.com

http://twitter.com/goodmanonfox


Here's a Sporting News Story
http://www.sportingnews.com/college-basketball/article/2010-04-06/reports-clemsons-purnell-headed-depaul

[DawsonCreekFillanderer]

Whatever his contributions to the program (and I do think they were significant), the guy is a borderline pathological liar.

End game.

[Chicago_inferiority_complexes]

Here is the original thread, posting a story from Brian Hamilton of the Chicago Tribune, who said that Crean was using the story about "17" people showing up for a Crean, Coffee and Whatever event.

http://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=8582.25

Chicos also posted a story, on that thread, from some moron claiming that Marquette had been to the NCAA's once in 16 years before Crean's arrival. Don't know where that claim (source) came from but obviously some suggested it was Crean ...

I also got something incorrect earlier. Crean had been feeding people information that the attendance numbers were aroudn 7,200 before he got there. I thought he suggested 12k -- that was the actual # in attendance, apparently.

BTW, the Scoop search function is fantastically more efficient than using Google to find ancient stories about Crean statements from 2008 ...

[Dawson Rental]

Oliver Purnell according to Goodman and foxsports.com

http://twitter.com/goodmanonfox


Here's a Sporting News Story
http://www.sportingnews.com/college-basketball/article/2010-04-06/reports-clemsons-purnell-headed-depaul

Probably the best they cold do at this point.

[ChicosBailBonds]

why not dazzle us with some tale of insider knowledge. funny how you are well outside the arc of college hoops. someone so connected should have the ear of college hoops power brokers.

Connected to individual programs like DePaul?  Hardly.  Connected to programs like IU and some others due to the Big Ten Network, Mountain West Network, ESPN...yes.  Then again, who was it here that told you guys almost a year ago the tournament was going to 96 teams.  Yes, connected where I need to be but I'm not here to dazzle you or your pals like Mr. Hayward.  Sorry.

As for contributions at Marquette, I'm very pleased with what my team accomplished.  Many of thing policies and programs put into place are still alive and well more than a decade later (well, at least a good chunk of them....some should be resurrected in my opinion).  General admission seating, fanatics, 288-GOMU, gomarquette.com, streaming of games, tiered ticket pricing, players\coaches calling season ticket holders, etc, etc.  Standing the test of time is always a nice recognition.  My team worked their asses off.  

By the way, welcome to the board, it's so good to have such a "new poster" that has never been here before.  

[vacinator]

I appreciate what Crean did for MU and I bet he appreciates what MU did for him - but IMO Kevin Oneil put MU back on the map as a BB program - we lost steam with Dean and Crean took it to a new level