Severe Lack Of Marquette Recruiting Coverage

[brewcity77]

No, it wasn't that I watched MU rcruits like Chris Grimm play in Michigan, or Johnny Wolf in Ohio, or Ryan Amoroso in Minnesota, or recruits like Brandon Ewing, Dameon Mason & Jerel McNeal play in Illinois..... couldn't be any of those things. Hell, when the IHSAA decided that Ooze couldn't play in high school, I went down to interview him and watched Simeon play Julian with him.

I had built up a network of high school, college and AAU coaches from coast to coast. I went to AAU tourneys and high school games, open gyms and individual workouts. I provided and traded information with most of the national recruiting experts that you are familiar with.  To this day, I have college coaches from several different programs call me an ask for my opinions on kids.

Jim--did you go to Marquette? Just wondering about rules regarding conducting interviews with recruits before fall classes start. Seems like the NCAA would class you as a booster if you went to MU. I've been wondering this regarding pretty much all the recruiting pundits...figure if they went to college, any contact between them and potential recruits (even if it isn't regarding the school they went to) would be seen as off-limits by the NCAA. How is that handled?

[dw3dw3dw3]

Jim--did you go to Marquette? Just wondering about rules regarding conducting interviews with recruits before fall classes start. Seems like the NCAA would class you as a booster if you went to MU. I've been wondering this regarding pretty much all the recruiting pundits...figure if they went to college, any contact between them and potential recruits (even if it isn't regarding the school they went to) would be seen as off-limits by the NCAA. How is that handled?

Well for every knucklehead who thinks you're worthless, there are 20 more in the weeds who appreciate the work you do to help spread the word to people out of the know, especially with the pro-am.

[brewcity77]

Well for every knucklehead who thinks you're worthless, there are 20 more in the weeds who appreciate the work you do to help spread the word to people out of the know, especially with the pro-am.

And +1 to that.

[bilsu]

You do not have to be an alum to be considered a booster. I do believe there is an exception for reporters including those on sites like Scout.

[Skatastrophy]

Dear IWB,

Please ignore Canadian Dimes.  Everyone else does. 

You can't hate on people for "hiding behind screen names."  It's the Internet.  The whole "insult me to my face" argument is like "my dad can beat up your dad" in a way.  Just saying.

I will fight you in person, though.  You can choose the weapons.  It will be in World of Warcraft instead of real life, though, so I hope you're level 85 brah.

[Hards Alumni]

Dear IWB,

Please ignore Canadian Dimes.  Everyone else does. 

You can't hate on people for "hiding behind screen names."  It's the Internet.  The whole "insult me to my face" argument is like "my dad can beat up your dad" in a way.  Just saying.

I will fight you in person, though.  You can choose the weapons.  It will be in World of Warcraft instead of real life, though, so I hope you're level 85 brah.

Clearly you were watching South Park when you wrote this.

[IWB]

First off, I don't hate people for hiding behind screen names, its just that the majority of people that continuously take shots at others are the same people that do 'hide" behind those names.

As far as my status goes, first off, I did not go to MU, I am not a booster, nor am I a season ticket holder. With that out of the way, I am viewed as a member of the media and over the years have been credentialed by Marquette, Wisconsin (football & basketball) UWM, UWGB, Milwaukee Bucks, Milwaukee brewers, Green Bay Packers, the Admirals, Wave, the NCAA, the Big East, the Big Ten (football and basketball) and USA Basketball, so the NCAA would not have an issue with me. As it is, I am also a certified NCAA event director.

[Lennys Tap]

First off, I don't hate people for hiding behind screen names, its just that the majority of people that continuously take shots at others are the same people that do 'hide" behind those names.

As far as my status goes, first off, I did not go to MU, I am not a booster, nor am I a season ticket holder. With that out of the way, I am viewed as a member of the media and over the years have been credentialed by Marquette, Wisconsin (football & basketball) UWM, UWGB, Milwaukee Bucks, Milwaukee brewers, Green Bay Packers, the Admirals, Wave, the NCAA, the Big East, the Big Ten (football and basketball) and USA Basketball, so the NCAA would not have an issue with me. As it is, I am also a certified NCAA event director.

I've always found you to be accurate and generous in sharing information about MU. Don't know why anyone here (or anywhere else) would do anything but thank you.

[IWB]

Thanks Lenny's, it is appreciated, and not just because I used to play softball for Lenny's Tap!

[dbwarriors]

I could not agree more.  That's the problem when there is a lack of competition.  The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel is the only game in town.  Therefore, there is no real incentive to make big effort on the Marquette beat.

Todd Rosiak does a nice job during the season, but once it ends, the coverage disappears.  Rarely do you see a story about a potential recruiting, etc.  Journalism has gotten lazier over the last 10 years.  That's why you've seen such a rise in sites such as this one.

Yeah. Where's Rosiak? He should be all over recruiting updates in the offseason as the Marquette b-ball beat writer. Get with it, Todd

[IWB]

Todd is pulling Brewers duty this summer. The Journal always had two guys on the Brewers, Haudricourt and Witrado. Witrado went with Garry Howard to The Sporting News, and Rosiak picked up Witrado's Brewers assignments.

[GGGG]

Hey, props to TedBaxter.  Obviously his complaining got the ball rolling on the recruiting talk.  This group has been more interesting to read in the last 48 hours than it has been all summer!

[MUMac]

Hey, props to TedBaxter.  Obviously his complaining got the ball rolling on the recruiting talk.  This group has been more interesting to read in the last 48 hours than it has been all summer!

+1000 on all points.

[TedBaxter]

Not that the Journal-Sentinel or the Marquette fan websites would ever be able to generate the number or articles or tweets that the Louisville sites do, but just for grins, go to the Louisville Courier-Journal website or the Louisville Scout site and just look at the amount of team and recruiting news the newspaper and website put out.  Demling covers Kentucky and Indiana schools as well as Louisville and he and Mike Hughes have something new almost every day. 

Jeff Rabjohn's from the Indiana Rivals site even went to Vegas and watched Indiana recruits in action last month as well as covering the Adidas Invitational.

Yesterday Rob Schultz had an article in the Wisconsin State Journal about their big men.  Their Scout and Rivals sites have articles every week or every other week it seems on recruiting.  Yesterday, MU target Matt Thomas from Onalaska was profiled on the Wisconsin Scout site and he doesn't even have a UW offer yet.

I know the money isn't the same for subscriptions to the Marquette Hoops site as those above and that the Journal-Sentinel covers the Packers, Brewers and Badgers in the summer, but to say the coverage is below average is about as nice as I can say it. 

[ringout]

Thanks Lenny's, it is appreciated, and not just because I used to play softball for Lenny's Tap!

Hey IWB.  I'm just disappointed there is not more of you and Mark Miller on the Scout Insider board.  You two and BMA have the most credibility in my opinion.  TedBaxter adds value too.  Don't give up on us.

[fanofTR]

Yeah. Where's Rosiak? He should be all over recruiting updates in the offseason as the Marquette b-ball beat writer. Get with it, Todd

Yeah he is the Brewers beat writer now with Haudricourt. Travels road trips, home games, the whole nine yards, Guy is going on a year straight with no vacation traveling around the country. Brewers postseason race>Marquette summer recruiting/open gyms in terms of importance. Simple fact

[77ncaachamps]

Simple fix is to get a Twitter Marquette feed gatherer (I don't know the tech term for it).

All of my favorite CBB analysts and recruiting gurus sometimes mention Marquette. Sometimes you'll read tweets mentioning Buzz and/or assistants in the house to watch a certain team and/or player.
I even follow Marquette fans who retweet other sources' info on MU recruits.

There are tons of MU mentions...ON Twitter.

If there was a box that could continually update Twitter feeds with Marquette mentions, I bet our OP wouldn't be posting this thread.

[MUMac]

If there was a box that could continually update Twitter feeds with Marquette mentions, I bet our OP wouldn't be posting this thread.

Don't know that I agree with this part of the comment.  Ted was not commenting that he was lacking information.  His direction was more towards the lack of "press" MU receives - in the paper and on the webpages.  Ted is far from lacking on information.  Trust me.   

[77ncaachamps]

Don't know that I agree with this part of the comment.  Ted was not commenting that he was lacking information.  His direction was more towards the lack of "press" MU receives - in the paper and on the webpages.  Ted is far from lacking on information.  Trust me.   

Gotcha.

But if the dude checked Twitter, he'd have more than a handful of MU content.
Much of which is mentioned at Scoop and some that aren't.

[TedBaxter]

Listen, I check twitter all the time and that's not the issue.  There's the listing of players getting offers on twitter and then there's articles on players getting offers where you find out what school(s) really stand out with a player, possibly what the player is like off the floor, what he is working on to improve and maybe some tidbit about the players background that can shed some light on him as a person.

The last MU recruiting article from a Marquette/Milwaukee area site was Jim Ganzer's story on Steve Taylor's (Simeon High School) unofficial visit to MU nearly two months ago on Marquette Hoops.  

Do you think there have been more players who've been to the McGuire Center since this article came out in the June and now the August contact periods?  Gabe York was one visitor before he verballed to Arizona and I've heard mention of more and some of those have been on twitter and others haven't been.  If Marquette had a newspaper and website really focused on all aspects of the program 12 months a year, we could know more and frankly should know more, but that's my opinion based only on what I've seen from coverage of other Big East and Big Ten schools.

[NersEllenson]

If July was quiet, it was for a reason.

I saw plenty of mentions of our Big East brethren both in recruiting interest articles and recruit commitment articles. Some programs are just flat out getting it done. Others are seemingly preoccupied by issues that remain fresh in their origin. Hell, even UConn seems to be handling their dysfunction better than us.

Truthfully, about a week ago, I had assumed we were done with 2012 since there's nary been a peep on any recruit committing to the MU program this summer. Could be worse though: could be last summer when we missed on the 'high five'.

Curious to know your reaction to the Steve Taylor signing?  Is adding the 3rd 4-star talent for this class enough to satisfy you?  (Who also happens to be rated the Number player in Illinois, be 6'8", and play at the premier hoops school in Chicago?)

Are we flat out getting it done or do you still have complaints??

[TedBaxter]

Can someone send me an alert when a Journal-Sentinel article comes out about the Taylor verbal?  No, I don't consider the little blurb yesterday an article. 

Hope everyone understands what I'm referring to now and yes, a Sunday verbal doesn't lend itself to quick journalism, but the Chicago paper(s) had articles with quotes.

[Skatastrophy]

Can someone send me an alert when a Journal-Sentinel article comes out about the Taylor verbal?  No, I don't consider the little blurb yesterday an article. 

Hope everyone understands what I'm referring to now and yes, a Sunday verbal doesn't lend itself to quick journalism, but the Chicago paper(s) had articles with quotes.

I get all of my MU news by setting up a Google News alert.  You may not want MU bball news from all over the nation because it gets to be a bit much, but I like it.  For what you're asking, I'd set this up:

Go to:  http://www.google.com/alerts

Enter the search term "marquette steve taylor site:jsonline.com"

I realize that this is a bit too much instruction for a silly request, but it's something that I'm sure you'll find useful if you're looking for specific news in the future but you'd rather not do the leg-work every day.  Hope that helps

[GGGG]

Can someone send me an alert when a Journal-Sentinel article comes out about the Taylor verbal?  No, I don't consider the little blurb yesterday an article. 

Hope everyone understands what I'm referring to now and yes, a Sunday verbal doesn't lend itself to quick journalism, but the Chicago paper(s) had articles with quotes.

The MU beat reporter was in Houston covering the Brewer game.

[TedBaxter]

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.