[Rosiak's Blog] How MU looks at the TCU move

[ToddRosiakSays]

How MU looks at the TCU move
               



I asked Marquette Golden Eagles coach Buzz Williams today how far Fort Worth is from his hometown of Van Alstyne, Texas.

               

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/111229354.html
               

[ChicosBailBonds]

I wonder who he was trying to schedule to play in Dallas?

Texas
Texas A&M
Baylor

[rocky_warrior]

Williams had been working with deputy athletic director Mike Broeker on putting together some sort of home-and-home series with a BCS-member Texas school beginning next season in the Dallas-Fort Worth area

Baylor would be the closest to the "area", but none are that close - correct?

[MUBasketball]

I wonder who he was trying to schedule to play in Dallas?

Texas
Texas A&M
Baylor

If I had to guess, I would say Texas A&M. I believe he's pretty tight with Mark Turgeon.

[mug644]

Rosiak seems to say that this will help Buzz's on-going recruiting efforts in Texas, but my take is that it is the opposite. Buzz will now have a Texas-based team in the Big East that will be competing for the same recruits. It's sort of like the challenge of going to New England and recruiting players out from the neighborhoods of other BEast teams. It's not impossible, but it is challenging.

[GGGG]

Baylor would be the closest to the "area", but none are that close - correct?

Yeah, if he talking about a "home and home," there are no BCS schools in the DFW area (until now.)

If he is talking about a game in Dallas, there are plenty of Texas and A&M alumni in the area.  Not to mention Oklahoma and OSU too.

[Brewtown Andy]

Rosiak seems to say that this will help Buzz's on-going recruiting efforts in Texas, but my take is that it is the opposite. Buzz will now have a Texas-based team in the Big East that will be competing for the same recruits. It's sort of like the challenge of going to New England and recruiting players out from the neighborhoods of other BEast teams. It's not impossible, but it is challenging.

Fair point, but the media coverage that the Big East will now get in the DFW area will help counteract that, as will Marquette thumping TCU on a regular basis.

[brewcity77]

"Depends on if you want to take the big road or the little road," he said with a laugh. "As the crow flies, about 1 hour and 27 minutes."

Only Buzz would have 1 hour and 27 minutes as an approximate time

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

I have to say, two things jumped out at me. One, he said playing TCU would be a trip "home." If he'll be at MU for as long as they'll have him, isn't Milwaukee home?

Second, he mentions that the TCU job was open at the same time as the MU job. Sorry, but I don't see any possibility that anybody other than Marquette would have taken a chance on him given his departure from New Orleans. I like Buzz and it's worked out great, but he was a huge roll of the dice.

Also, TCU used to take it to us in the Conference USA days.

[brewcity77]

I have to say, two things jumped out at me. One, he said playing TCU would be a trip "home." If he'll be at MU for as long as they'll have him, isn't Milwaukee home?

My parents retired to Florida 12 years ago with no intention of coming back, yet when they come visit, they always talk about "coming home" even though they have no property here and no intention of moving back here. But both of them have family here, and both of their kids are here. Buzz may live in Milwaukee the rest of his life, but that doesn't mean that there won't always be aspects that make Texas "home". I don't see that as a negative in any way.

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

My parents retired to Florida 12 years ago with no intention of coming back, yet when they come visit, they always talk about "coming home" even though they have no property here and no intention of moving back here. But both of them have family here, and both of their kids are here. Buzz may live in Milwaukee the rest of his life, but that doesn't mean that there won't always be aspects that make Texas "home". I don't see that as a negative in any way.

Apples and oranges. Milwaukee is not someplace Buzz has gone to retire and his kids will presumably grow up in Milwaukee. I'm just pointing out that he does not consider Milwaukee his home. I thought that stood out.

[MUBasketball]

Apples and oranges. Milwaukee is not someplace Buzz has gone to retire and his kids will presumably grow up in Milwaukee. I'm just pointing out that he does not consider Milwaukee his home. I thought that stood out.

IMO, you are reading wayyyy too much into this. He's from Texas, so a game at TCU would be a trip back home. I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life, currently in Milwaukee where I've lived for the last 8 years. Yet, whenever I'm back in my hometown, I refer to it as "being back home".

[The Man in Gold]

Some MU fans might remember the teams' last few meetings, where TCU knocked MU out of the Conference USA tournament in both 2004 and 2005 with a combination of three-point shooting and pesky defense.

Some MU fans might also remember our team being forced to rely on the ball handling of Point Forward Marcus Jackson to break the pressure defense.

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

IMO, you are reading wayyyy too much into this. He's from Texas, so a game at TCU would be a trip back home. I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life, currently in Milwaukee where I've lived for the last 8 years. Yet, whenever I'm back in my hometown, I refer to it as "being back home".

I'm simply pointing out that a guy who has lived a nomad's life and who is in a nomad's profession, does not consider Milwaukee his home despite saying he'll be here for a long, long time.

[jficke13]

Yeah, if he talking about a "home and home," there are no BCS schools in the DFW area (until now.)

If he is talking about a game in Dallas, there are plenty of Texas and A&M alumni in the area.  Not to mention Oklahoma and OSU too.

there are no "BCS" schools at all in college basketball.

[MarquetteFan94]

Also, TCU used to take it to us in the Conference USA days.

Painful.  I think they beat us three times one year (swept regular season and C-USA tourney).  Can't remember the guy's name on TCU, but he torched us.

[BrewCity83]

Boy, the first thing I thought of when I read Buzz's comments was that Buzz may want to end up coaching TCU now that they're in the BE.  Hope I'm way off base...

[GOMU1104]

Painful.  I think they beat us three times one year (swept regular season and C-USA tourney).  Can't remember the guy's name on TCU, but he torched us.

Corey Santee and Marcus Shropshire

[Henry Sugar]

Only Buzz would have 1 hour and 27 minutes as an approximate time

It would take about three hours for a crow to fly from Fort Worth to Van Alstyne, Texas.  Everybody knows that crows only fly 25-30 mph.  As the crow flies, indeed. 

/replaces monacle
//continues reading latest issue of "Science" in the study

[4everwarriors]

It would take about three hours for a crow to fly from Fort Worth to Van Alstyne, Texas.  Everybody knows that crows only fly 25-30 mph.  As the crow flies, indeed.  

/replaces monacle
//continues reading latest issue of "Science" in the study

Sugaa, you're citing the speed of traditional crows.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Boy, the first thing I thought of when I read Buzz's comments was that Buzz may want to end up coaching TCU now that they're in the BE.  Hope I'm way off base...

He'll be at Marquette as long as we'll have him there.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Sugaa, you're citing the speed of traditional crows.

What about the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

[2TimeWarrior]

He'll be at Marquette as long as we'll have him there.

I bet if one were ambitious enough they could go back on this board and find a very similarly comment about Crean!  

[GGGG]

there are no "BCS" schools at all in college basketball.

Want a gold star for that one???  Everyone knows what it means son...

[brewcity77]

What about the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Would that be an African or European swallow?