Severe Lack Of Marquette Recruiting Coverage

[GGGG]

Rosiak was in Houston, but I understand your point.

[mu_hilltopper]

You people and your lofty journalistic expectations .. you can't blame Rosiak if no one called him with the news so he could write about it.   Sheesh.

[NersEllenson]

I understand Todd Rosiak was away and the rest of the staff was probably in Green Bay.

Listen, I'm going overboard on this for a point.  I told a friend of mine today that if Bronson Koenig ends up committing to Wisconsin on a Sunday and there is only a small blurb about it like there was about Steve Taylor yesterday, I'll buy him dinner at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse and I'm pretty sure I won't have to worry about that.

I agree the coverage/blurb was pretty lame in the MJS - However, in your above example...since Koenig is a Wisconsin kid...it would only be reasonable to expect that it would get more ink than signing a Chicago kid.  However, I'd still suggest that if UW did land the Number 1 high school prospect out of Illinois, it would have garnered a lot more ink than what we've seen with Taylor and MU.

At the end of the day, I'm just happy that we definitely aren't inferior to UW in our recruiting ability, and are trending toward being superior.  Granted, Bo does have a good one coming in, in Sam Dekker - on the balance, I'd say the MU roster is more talented top to bottom without a doubt.  Hopefully that shows up on the court this year, and the next several.  (I believe it will.)

[GGGG]

I am not sure UW and MU have ever been more different in their approach on the basketball court.  I mean, we barely even recruit against them any longer.  Dekker and Taylor are examples.  Neither school considered the other player - neither player considered the other school - but both will be formidable on the court.

[TedBaxter]

I am not sure UW and MU have ever been more different in their approach on the basketball court.  I mean, we barely even recruit against them any longer.  Dekker and Taylor are examples.  Neither school considered the other player - neither player considered the other school - but both will be formidable on the court.

Marquette was starting to look into Decker when he verballed to Wisconsin and at least according to Harv and Roy Schmidt, Bo Ryan was watching Taylor a little in July.

I think Wisconsin does a very good job of targeting players and they get a majority of the players they offer as Bo Ryan doesn't offer many.  It seems like Buzz offers more players, but when you get down to it, he is able to get many of his top targets as well.

[MUMac]

You people and your lofty journalistic expectations .. you can't blame Rosiak if no one called him with the news so he could write about it.   Sheesh.

Well, to Ted's point - the JS obviously knew about the commitment - they at least had a comment on it in the paper (albeit buried in the dead tree version).  I am also confident that Rosiak knew about it as well.  

Now, I don't believe Ted is blaming Rosiak - in fact, his comment on the matter speaks for itself.  

To me, this year really demonstrates that the past few years it was Rosiak and Rosiak alone.  MU had articles written in the summer.  Unfortunately, with Todd's new duties, no one else at the JS seems to care about MU enough to actually write about them - unless it is to be critical ...

[TedBaxter]

Todd Rosiak hopes to have something by next week on Steve Taylor, according to his twitter tonight.  Great.  

[GGGG]

Look, let's just face it.  Marquette basketball recruiting is not what most MJS readers are all that interested in.  Packers, Brewers, Badger football...all of that is more important to their readership at large right now.  You can hardly blame them for putting Rosiak on the Brewer beat at this point in the season.  Milwaukee isn't Louisville.  In Louisville, the Cards are the only game in town and basketball is the most important of those games. 

[tower912]

Plus, with the Brewers leading the Central, more coverage is essential and inevitable and TR is going to have his hands full getting content out for Brewer nation.    It isn't a slam against MU.   Pennant races lather up fans and JSOnline is doing the smart thing by getting them as much Brewer info as possible.  

[Skatastrophy]

Todd Rosiak hopes to have something by next week on Steve Taylor, according to his twitter tonight.  Great. 

You've spent enough time complaining about something without figuring out a way to change it.  We all know the problem, it's time to either come up with a solution or hush up about it.

[TedBaxter]

You've spent enough time complaining about something without figuring out a way to change it.  We all know the problem, it's time to either come up with a solution or hush up about it.

OK, I'm done complaining.

[fanofTR]

You guys are complaining now? Wait until this upcoming season when we dont even have a writer covering Marquette because of budget cuts. Were extremely fortunate with what we get now, believe me.

[ringout]

If we agree we like Rosiak's coverage ( I think most of us do), then we should be glad the Urinal thinks enough of him to keep him busy during the  summer.   What are there, like 2 reporters in the whole fracking newsroom over there.