29 years ago today...

[Avenue Commons]

Sorry buckwheat, you are wrong.

GO WARRIORS!!!!

You're funny, old man. Check back in when the name is changed back to Warriors. 

Let me know when it happens.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Diener was anti-Gold, but has always been behind the Golden Eagle.

Travis Diener, prefers Warriors.    Chicago Tribune

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-03-08/sports/0503080280_1_marquette-career-travis-diener-basketball-court


"It is not the way the great Warriors' warrior--yes, Diener prefers Marquette's former nickname, Warriors, to the current Golden Eagles--would have chosen to end it."

[ChicosBailBonds]

The alumns that are all up in arms don't realize that the world has passed them by.

If you were 22 twenty one years ago you are 43 today. Add a decade and you are 53.  Add two and you are 63 YEARS OLD.

The fight is over.  Marquette was on the right side of history. And that's what leadership is about.

Ring Out Ahoya

Wrong side of history.  Right side of history.   Overused by both sides.  Go Warriors

[Warrior Code]

Let's not copy Notre Dame...that short, ugly ginger irish chick with the beard and pipe in green knickers is an embarrassment to that school...

Errr... what? I don't follow you.

[Da 'Lanche]

It was a dry joke...implying that the annoying little N.D. leprechaun mascot that runs around football and basketball games is really a woman.   I fear we are losing the intensity of the rivalry with N.D. that I enjoyed in the early 80s at MU....just trying to be a smart ass and honor that tradition.

[Lighthouse 84]

It was a dry joke...implying that the annoying little N.D. leprechaun mascot that runs around football and basketball games is really a woman.   I fear we are losing the intensity of the rivalry with N.D. that I enjoyed in the early 80s at MU....just trying to be a smart ass and honor that tradition.

I can't believe you had to explain that. Hilarious!  I thought your post could have been in the Superbar post of Who's got a good joke I can use tonight.....

http://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=24382.0

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

I don't give a $hit whether you believe me or not. I was there and you weren't.

Go write a bunch more comments about how hiring Wojo would doom us to never getting any good recruits.

I remember a conversation I had with Don Kojis in which he declared the moon was made of green cheese.

[GGGG]

I don't give a $hit whether you believe me or not. I was there and you weren't.

Go write a bunch more comments about how hiring Wojo would doom us to never getting any good recruits.

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

[GGGG]

Marquette should have dropped the native imagery when they dropped willie.  Had they done that, instead of finding a "respectable" way of depicting natives, Marquette would still be the Warriors.  Really trying to do the "right thing" is why Warriors is gone now.

[mu03eng]

I don't think the recent alums have an attachment to Golden Eagles, and I don't think they would object to a change to Warriors.  In fact, there will always be a vocal minority of current students that advocate for the Warrior simply because it's rebellion against the man and that's what college students do.

Having said that, Warriors is unfortunately never coming back.  Hell, it couldn't even win the Meme Tournament.

[willie warrior]

I remember a conversation I had with Don Kojis in which he declared the moon was made of green cheese.

Kojis was and is a legend at MU. Arguably the best in MU history. So that makes him exactly right. How do you know it is not made of green cheese? And you know that nobody has ever landed on the moon to prove differently...or was that a movie?

[willie warrior]

That may have been my idea. I wanted us called the "Flames." Guess what we could do to a cheerleader at halftime!

Can't do that. Flames; name already taken by James Brown's backup singers. The Famous Flames. One of them always threw the royal robe on James when going to his knees screeching "Please..please..please..don't go." Besides, that would be considered discriminatory.

[willie warrior]

I do see a Native American being told the direction to row the boat...

You see a Jesuit directing an Indian which way to row the canoe. I see a Jesuit pointing to the Indian saying "He da man"

[Coleman]

Kojis was and is a legend at MU. Arguably the best in MU history. So that makes him exactly right. How do you know it is not made of green cheese? And you know that nobody has ever landed on the moon to prove differently...or was that a movie?

slurp slurp

[willie warrior]

Diener was on local television at the time rallying for Warriors (his eligibility having ended), so I'm going to call BS on this.

Exactly as I said. Diener is a true warrior.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Exactly as I said. Diener is a true warrior.

"It is not the way the great Warriors' warrior--yes, Diener prefers Marquette's former nickname, Warriors, to the current Golden Eagles--would have chosen to end it."

-- Chicago Tribune....good to see.  I'd expect nothing less.

[Jay Bee]

We are the Marquette Warriors. If a youngster doesn't understand this, chalk it up to ignorance, youth or being a slurper.

[jesmu84]

nm. got posted, then split.

[mu_hilltopper]

Keeping the vigil.  Bump.

[real chili 83]

Go Warriors.

[GGGG]

#neverforget

[4everwarriors]

Once Warriors, always Warriors, ai na?

[wadesworld]

Once Warriors, always Warriors, ai na?

I was thinking more like the Gold.

[omni77]

You are either a Warrior or a Golden Eagle and that's OK. Like most Warriors, I always thought Golden Eagles was pretty lame along with being PO'd about how the name was changed in the first place. This past summer however, I had the good fortune to watch some real golden eagles doing their thing from atop the bluff at Devils Lake and realized that these are some pretty cool, impressive animals, not at all 'lame'. No, Golden Eagles is not very original and old Warriors will probably always feel it lacks the swagger we once had, but the mental visual I now have of these majestic birds has given this old Warrior a fresh perspective. Nothing builds swagger like a trip to the F4, so let's just do it.   

[GoldenWarrior11]

It is kind of funny to hear announcers like Greg Gumble, Bill Raftery and Gus Johnson still refer to us as the Warriors.  Makes it hard to move on when you have iconic announcers still bring up the glory days of the past.

I don't think I have ever heard St. Johns, in the past 10 years, be referred to as the Redmen.  Obviously, that is way worse, but still.