Did Buzz Get In Trouble With The BE?

[Tugg Speedman]

I posted this in the Philip Nolan thread but thought it worthy of its own discussion.

This blogger was incensed that Buzz made the he and the Media (and Philip Nolan) wait 75 minutes after the Seton Hall Game to talk to him.

http://jimhaguesports.blogspot.com/2011/03/theres-no-buzz-with-marquettes-coach.html?spref=fb

In his post he said this ....

The NCAA and Big East Conference have regulations that the coaches are supposed to adhere to after games. There's a 10-minute cooling-off period, followed by the losing coach and losing players, then winning coach and winning players. It's a policy that is religiously enforced during the entire NCAA Tournament.

Has anyone heard of this rule before as it relates to BE regular season games?  I have not.

down in the comment section he then wrote ....

No, it's not the first time Buzz has pulled this routine...In fact, he did almost the same thing last year at Newark and Marquette won that game. He wasn't found for about a half hour last year. This was far worse.

And no, it's not the first time this year, because I received assurance from the Big East office that he had done it ''several times'' and was already once warned.

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Has anyone heard about any of this before?  I have not.  Has Buzz gotten in trouble with the BE for taking too much time to talk to the media after a game?  Has he repeatedly violated this rule?

[NavinRJohnson]

Seriously, who cares?

[karavotsos]

Something tells me that's not the first time that dude's been stood up.

[Lennys Tap]

Jim Hague is reporting that the Big East has put Buzz on double secret probation and that he (Hague) has been awarded a pulitzer for an expose' on meanness in middle school girls field hockey.

[bilsu]

I thought the rule was in place for Big East tournament. I was not aware it appled to regular season games.

[Blackhat]

Taco Bell is open till 2.....what's this cat crowing about?

[ZiggysFryBoy]

What's the BE gonna do besides lighten his wallet a bit?  And who cares??

[Skatastrophy]

This guy's mad because he couldn't update his blog on time?  He has 13 followers... ouch.

Stop giving this guy page views.  He's a joke.

[T-Bone]

Well, it's possible for the BE to fine him and possibly even suspend him for a conference game or two.  That's why it's interesting - regardless of the source.

Anyone know of any precedent in the BE?  I can't imagine with the number of star/HoF coaches in the BE that this hasn't happened before.

[VegasWarrior77]

Taco Bell is open till 2.....what's this cat crowing about?

+1
From his picture I thought he was pissed because he hadn't eaten since the second half of the game!

[4everwarriors]

What's the BE gonna do besides lighten his wallet a bit?  And who cares??

Hit the billfold, but leave the sweet tea alone. Rules are made to be broken, aina F*ckin'?

[Tugg Speedman]

This guy get more interesting by the hour he just added this to the comments section.

Apparently he is an MU grad and get this ...


As for your knowledge of the Tyshawn Taylor recruiting, you couldn't be more wrong...and I know how everything went down....Hurley, someone who I've known for over 40 years, did not influence Taylor one way or the other...He let Taylor make the decision, but the early morning phone call certainly didn't help....

And I am not wrong about Taylor...In fact, I was trying to persuade Taylor to come to Marquette and taught him the fight song and sang it with him on many occasions prior to him making the commitment....

And when Taylor made his commitment, Hurley made sure that I was the first one he told, because it was my alma mater.

Do you actually think I want to see my alma mater fail?????

[mileskishnish72]

You can't blame the guy for getting a little exercised about the long wait - both of his followers were very upset!

[TedBaxter]

This guy get more interesting by the hour he just added this to the comments section.

Apparently he is an MU grad and get this ...


As for your knowledge of the Tyshawn Taylor recruiting, you couldn't be more wrong...and I know how everything went down....Hurley, someone who I've known for over 40 years, did not influence Taylor one way or the other...He let Taylor make the decision, but the early morning phone call certainly didn't help....

And I am not wrong about Taylor...In fact, I was trying to persuade Taylor to come to Marquette and taught him the fight song and sang it with him on many occasions prior to him making the commitment....

And when Taylor made his commitment, Hurley made sure that I was the first one he told, because it was my alma mater.

Do you actually think I want to see my alma mater fail?????

Well, it's a recruiting violation for alums to talk to recruits like that before they sign and it's B.S. that Hurley didn't influence Taylor. 

A high school coach who starts bitching about the letter of intent release within a couple hours of a coach being reported as leaving by ESPN isn't thinking about another school option?  Yeah right and Bob Hurley and Kansas assistant Joe Dooley aren't tight either.  Just remember that Bill Self and Dooley were in a New Jersey hotel waiting for Taylor's letter of intent release.

[GGGG]

I'm pretty sure alums can talk to recruits. Especially if they are press members and after they sign their LOI.

[Tugg Speedman]

I'm pretty sure alums can talk to recruits. Especially if they are press members and after they sign their LOI.

That is not what he said ....

I was trying to persuade Taylor to come to Marquette and taught him the fight song and sang it with him on many occasions prior to him making the commitment....

I read that as he was tampering in the recruiting process well before the LOI.

I'm and alumni, I go to games and I give MU money.  If I start a blog and call myself a "journalist" does that give me license to call MU recruits and start badgering them to go to MU?  Can I stand in their front yard and scream out "Ring out ahoya" too?

[GGGG]

Well alum doesn't mean booster anyway. He's a putz no doubt but I doubt this was a recruiting violation.

[pbiflyer]

Well alum doesn't mean booster anyway. He's a putz no doubt but I doubt this was a recruiting violation.

Actually, if you read the post from MUs compliance official, am alum is a booster by default.

[jaybilaswho?]

Rosiak quote Crowder saying that that last time Buzz held the guys that long after a game was the Badger game.

The showing against Seton Hall was so poor and the timing so troubling, in fact, that Williams afterward held a closed-door meeting that ran well over an hour in the team's Prudential Center locker room.

"Last time I can remember one that long was probably after Wisconsin," Jae Crowder said. "We blew an opportunity; we didn't do what we needed to do; we didn't handle business. But we still have a chance."

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/goldeneagles/117562413.html

[StillAWarrior]

Actually, if you read the post from MUs compliance official, am alum is a booster by default.

And putting aside the fact that he's a "journalist" (I don't know how that affects things), particularly so if he's "trying to persuade Taylor to come to Marquette and taught him the fight song and sang it with him on many occasions prior to him making the commitment...."

[Pakuni]

And putting aside the fact that he's a "journalist" (I don't know how that affects things), particularly so if he's "trying to persuade Taylor to come to Marquette and taught him the fight song and sang it with him on many occasions prior to him making the commitment...."

I would suggest the journalist angle is this: no serious, credible, ethical journalist would use his position and access to a high school kid to attempt to influence where he goes to school.
So, either Mr. Hague is lying about his interactions with Tyshawn Taylor or he has zero credibility as a journalist. Either way, it's not good for him.

[ChicosBailBonds]

He is a journalist and an award winning one.  Journalists do have jobs to do.  He wasn't there on assignment for his blog, he was on assignment for his paper.

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

He also happens to be on staff at a Big East school...Rutgers.  I'm pretty sure he knows the rules.  He's been a beat writer for college and pro teams for a long time.

[MUfan12]

He also happens to be on staff at a Big East school...Rutgers.  I'm pretty sure he knows the rules.  He's been a beat writer for college and pro teams for a long time.

Not quite. Rutgers-Newark is a D3 satellite campus. That's where he works.

Dude is a hack. The fact that he would omit the real school he works for shows that.

[Pakuni]

He's been a beat writer for college and pro teams for a long time.

No he hasn't.
He's a freelancer who, when he had a staff gig, worked primarily for a bunch of newspapers in the 30-40,000 circulation range.
No shame in that. It's a brutal industry to try to carve out a living in these days and plenty of very talented people work at smaller newspapers. But let's not make out Mr. Hague to be something he isn't. He hasn't been a beat writer for college or pro teams for a long time, and he doesn't work for a Big East school. He's the PA announcer for a Division III basketball team.

Regardless, this whole tempest in a teapot is ridiculous and anyone who thinks less of Buzz over it is an idiot. If he broke a rule, the Big East will deal with him, I'm sure. But any "rulebreaking" he engaged in was the result of him trying to do what's best for his team going forward. If that offended  the fragile sensibilities of a small-town freelancer, I can live with that.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Thanks for the clarification...I saw Rutgers...my bad.

Doesn't change the fact he was there to do a job.


All that being said, I don't mind that Buzz chewed his guys out.  Buzz is an adult, he knows the rules and will have to accept any punishment if there is any.  I also sympathize with the reporters trying to do their jobs. 

It's a two way street.  Calling the guy a hack?  Seems uncalled for.