Favorite MU Player - THE POLL

[Aughnanure]

75 options restricted to no current players. Hope I didn't miss anyone. Let me know if I did (don't vote, you only get 1) and I will add. Also, let me know if there were any doubles

[greenman]

Jimmy is on there twice.

[Aughnanure]

Jimmy is on there twice.

Yep, thanks - just saw that.

[wadesworld]

Scott Christopherson

[Aughnanure]

Scott Christopherson

Vetoed, but I would've accepted Ryan Amoroso.

[tower912]

Great.   Now I have to pick just one.    Geez.  

[Goose]

I picked the former owner of The Gym bar.

[jeffreyweee]

Jerel!

[PJDunn]

No one played with more passion than Terry Reason.  Awesome guy.  Would definitely have benefited from a 3 point line. 

[wardle2wade]

As much as I like Wardle and Wade, Wes gets the nod from me.  Very solid player for MU, hard worker, consistent, and all around class act.  It's hard not to like the guy.  His success is something which is very much deserved. 

[thanooj]

As a kid I loved doc rivers and used to dream about playing in NBA with him.  But as  a 5'10" Irish kid from Iowa, I had to lower my goals.

I think I saw doc win the opening tip over benoit Benjamin at creighton when I wad little.

I also loved jerel from day one.

My dad would vote for George Thompson.  He carried a program clipping and picture of George in his wallet through high school.

My son would vote for Maurice "machine gun" acker.  He loved that guy.

[MU82]

Everybody please note there already is a 5-page thread with all kinds of tributes to our faves. Doesn't mean we can't keep going on this one, though it does seem redundant.

[frozena pizza]

Move vote is that you trim the list to 10-15 names and alphabetize them.

[Tugg Speedman]

Everybody please note there already is a 5-page thread with all kinds of tributes to our faves. Doesn't mean we can't keep going on this one, though it does seem redundant.

Why do people get so anal about  this.  Who cares?

[jefffla01]

Looks like most of the voting is for very recent MU favorites-----not much historical perspective shown.

The greats Lucas, Thompson, Lee, the Dream ect made this a formidable program----I voted for Thompson.

Guess Im just showing my age------nothing wrong voting for the recent greats-----just want us forever MU fan to remember the greats from our past.

[madtownwarrior]

Not complete without Joe Nethen...

[JD]

I wish i could cast a vote for a pre 1990 great.  However i'm unfortunate not to know much if anything about them

I wish i could see some video footage of games, and players that I've been hearing about!

[real chili 83]

How about adding Dean Marquardt....for the post accident break out game he had against Digger and Co.

[mutrainer71]

Add Bob Wolf, the best pure shooter in the modern age and his running mate, Jimmy Burke, he of the 2 handed set shot.  They were runners up in the 67 NIT, beat Providence and Jimmy Walker, and lost to Clyde Frazier and SIU.  Also in that tourney was Jim Valvano at Rutgers and his teammate Bobby Lloyd.

Runner up-Gary the Goose Brell.

[brewcity77]

I voted for Steve Novak. Best pure shooter I've seen at any level. But that's not the reason. It's because as a young student at Marquette, Steve was always cordial on campus. He also was the guy that bridged eras. Shortly after I arrived, we went to the Final Four with Wade. Then we turned to crap, but Novak was steadily there for us, and was the leader when the Three Amigos showed up and lifted us back up.

For me as a younger (34) MU fan, I break MU basketball into 5 eras. There's the pre-me era, which is really anything before the 1990s. Then there's the 90s, which had a mixed bag (O'Neill good, Deane not so much). After that, the early-Crean era and the late Crean era, and finally Buzz.

I feel like we reached a height with Wade I haven't seen before in my life, and Novak was a big key to getting there. But we didn't sustain that. When we got back to building a truly quality program, Novak was the guy that was there to lead that.

Still baffled how someone picked anyone other than Novak first at Marquette Madness for a 3-point shooting contest. I loved Wade, but Super Steve is my favorite of all-time.

[wadesworld]

Vetoed, but I would've accepted Ryan Amoroso.

Why not?  I still keep in touch with him and watch his games whenever they're televised on TWC (surprisingly quite a few of their games have been).  Great guy.

[bilsu]

I voted for Tom Flynn. He was my first favorite player as a young lad. Also part of brotherly rivalry. I liked Flynn he liked Wolf. I liked Thompson he liked Meminger. Today I live and die MU and he lives and dies UW. In my opinion he has always been on the wrong side.

[77ncaachamps]

What, no OTHER?

If I limit myself to the players I witnessed play their four years at Marquette, it's Aaron Hutchins.
Nothing hits home more than a gutsy PG who's smaller than you and is killing the opponents.
He was "me" on the court for his whole 4 years at MU. It was truly rooting for the little guy.

If I limit myself to the players I witnessed play at any period during my years at Marquette, it'll be Tony Miller.
I loved the way he ran the team from his position.

If I limit myself to all players I have watched during their Marquette careers, I'd say Dwyane Wade. He was special, even if we only had him for a limited time.

[79Warrior]

Not much love for the players from MU's NCAA championship. Geez, how many MU players have played in TWO NCAA championship games? How about Bo, Earl and Lloyd.

[77ncaachamps]

Not much love for the players from MU's NCAA championship. Geez, how many MU players have played in TWO NCAA championship games? How about Bo, Earl and Lloyd.

I'd love to say Mo Lucas was the best ever or even Kojis.

But I haven't seen much of them in game footage.

This is where the vets need to school the young'uns on MU history...

Or just make peace that generations will always debate this barbershop/bar/water cooler topic.