Malcom Moore has MU in his final 4

[MuMark]

Well since we have 3 Jucos graduating this year and its highly unlikely we sign 3 Jucos to replace them we can all rest easier that our Juco rate will be below 38% next season.

Lets say we sign 1 and have 3 out of 13 on the team next year.

Is 23% too high?



If these kids were bad students or bad kids I could see merit in this discussion.

All 5 will play significant minutes on a good team this year.

You know its funny.......once the kids get here I don't seperate them into high school recruits and Juco recruits.....they are all just Marquette players to me.

[ChicosBailBonds]

This whole conversation is stupid.  Chico's, nobody gives a rat's ass if you know Howland or anyone else.  And who cares what Howland does?  He doesn't coach here.  Buzz does.  And last year, we saw who had the better team.

I only mentioned it because he's a pretty good coach...three Final fours in the last five years.  He knows his stuff and thought it was worth passing on.  Obviously you disagree.  Have a good weekend.

Peace

[El Duderino]

Chico's, do you believe JUCOs are inherently lesser people? By their very nature less worthy of the Marquette uniform?  Untouchables whose presence in very small numbers may be tolerable, but any more than a few simply too much to bear?

It seems you could not care less with whether they're good kids, who go to class. work toward a degree and represent MU well on and off the court. What matters is that they're JUCOs.
Me, I'd rather have a roster full of JUCOs like Jimmy Butler and DJO than high schoolers like Jeronne Maymon, but perhaps I lack your keen insight into the dangerous mind of a junior college athlete.
So, explain to me your bias. don't tell me what Duke and North Carolina does. Marquette isn't Duke and North Carolina. Tell me what Chico's Bail Bonds has against kids who attend junior college.

And, once again, you continue to avoid my question ... likely because you have no good answer. Still, I'll try again:

How is having a few JUCOs on one's roster create more instability, or a indicator of less attention to academics, than recruiting several kids every year who have no intention of attending classes for more than three semesters (at best) and no interest in obtaining a college diploma?
Why is the latter acceptable in your world, but the former  a big no-no?

I like that Buzz has given great kids like Butler, DJO, and Fulce a chance to come to Marquette and get a lifetime of great memories while at the same time they both produce on the court and represent the university in a wonderful fashion.

Some of these JUCO kids out there come from very tough home environments that can contribute to why they aren't academically ready to get into a major college out of high school, but that doesn't automatically make them bad kids who are unworthy of a Marquette scholarship. 

I can really respect that some of these JUCO kids decide to work hard at getting their academics in order and in turn a major college like Marquette gives them a second chance at attending a major university. So long as they behave themselves and represent the university in a great manner like all the other JUCO's that Buzz has recruited, i don't care at all what the ratio of JUCO's ends up being.

Buzz only has two jobs IMO when recruiting

1. Bring in good kids that don't shine a negative light on the university by getting in trouble or not going to class.

2. Bring in talented players that help win games

Nothing else matters