The Everlasting Craptastical Mystery Thread

[Warriors4ever]

I don't believe what I just saw!  Please tell me that didn't happen.

[🏀]

Hey Dutch, saw your comment on your site about us being up to 49 pages talking about you guys talking to buzz.  To be honest, a good portion of those 49 pages are about kringles.

Probably only 10 or so.

[dbwarriors]

From Gardner's twitter a few minutes ago: "Frustrated and mad"

[Dutch]

Hey Dutch, saw your comment on your site about us being up to 49 pages talking about you guys talking to buzz.  To be honest, a good portion of those 49 pages are about kringles.

starting to pick up on that as i read back through this.  

either way, this is exciting for us to be talking to/about a coach like Buzz.  We know what it's like too as June Jones, our football HC, flirted with an offer from Arizona St. in December.  it's painful and you feel betrayed, even if they stay.

looking forward to some fun/friendly banter once we're conference mates come 2013.  

[mr.MUskie]

They should certainly care.  Those of us who buy tickets and sign an annual paycheck to the school do our part in signing their paycheck.  Getting a couple hundred messages urging them to a certain course of action is something they would be foolish to ignore.  The phone calls they probably got would certainly do more, since those donors give more money than the scores of e-mailers.

They SHOULD care, but do they?  How many thousands of kids go/have gone to MU?  They got a couple hundred emails.  Big deal.  Did I email them?  Damn right.  Do I think it made a difference.  Not so sure.

[seinfeld]

I don't believe what I just saw!  Please tell me that didn't happen.

wow what a flub

[ZiggysFryBoy]

From Gardner's twitter a few minutes ago: "Frustrated and mad"

Big SHEESH didn't want Jeter to go to Miss St.

[Canned Goods n Ammo]

They should certainly care.  Those of us who buy tickets and sign an annual paycheck to the school do our part in signing their paycheck.  Getting a couple hundred messages urging them to a certain course of action is something they would be foolish to ignore.  The phone calls they probably got would certainly do more, since those donors give more money than the scores of e-mailers.

No. Just no.

Larry far closer to the program day to day. We may not like the decisions he makes, but on some level we have to trust him. He should NOT be doing his job based upon fan emails. We don't know 99% of what goes on at that program. We just don't.

Ted Thompson does not read fan emails to know what player personnel decisions to make.

These guys can't operate like that.

Buzz doesn't consult MUScoop to determine the starting line-up.

[Blackhat]

Ted Thompson sucks and is lucky he hit the jackpot with McCarthy.  

[MerrittsMustache]

Ted Thompson sucks and is lucky he hit the jackpot with McCarthy Rodgers.  

[brewcity77]

I don't believe what I just saw!  Please tell me that didn't happen.

Utter heartbreak. I'm in shock.

[Da 'Lanche]

From Gardner's twitter a few minutes ago: "Frustrated and mad"

If you get the sporting news app. on the Ipad (or iphone) it lists all the players tweets in real time....Gardner and Juan Anderson tweet non-stop about anything and everything....are you really reading into his tweets that he is frustrated and mad about Buzz leaving?  Really?  

[Hoopaloop]

All of the people that emailed in today obviously think they care.

I'm all for people "being heard", but if our AD needed a bunch of emails to see that Buzz is valuable, he's an absolute failure as a employee and as a person.

Emails should not be how the AD does his job.

+1

[seinfeld]

Utter heartbreak. I'm in shock.

How did El Salvador not get red carded for clotheslining Boyd

[MUMac]

All of the people that emailed in today obviously think they care.

I'm all for people "being heard", but if our AD needed a bunch of emails to see that Buzz is valuable, he's an absolute failure as a employee and as a person.

Emails should not be how the AD does his job.

What if all he heard prior to this week were the alums who complained?  LW has not been here all that long.  I doubt, until recently, those who love Buzz would have been bending his ear.  Those that are bothered by the articles and charges of last summer, the JUCO's (just because they are JUCO's), the fact that basketball get's so much attention ... are likely the ones that he has heard from.  It may be a small smattering in the overall universe, but if that is all he heard, he may think they are reflective of the MU community.

So, the emails may have influenced him some.  Maybe not, but I suspect he has heard from the pro Buzz crowd loud and clear during the NCAA run and this week.  Prior to Walker's article on LW, I would not have given two thoughts about making sure LW knows how important Buzz is.  That article changed things.

[KipsBayEagle]

I will say this, they will have quite the famous alumni thread

[KipsBayEagle]

theres a ton more

[Blackhat]

I don't know, when McCarthy's system allows Friggin Flynn to throw 6 td's.

Either way, Thompson's crap defenses have been crap when Jim Lovat is our S&C guy.   Bring back Redding to put em back on the horse steroids.

[Warriors10]

A Kardashian?!?!  They lose all cred.

[MUMac]

From Gardner's twitter a few minutes ago: "Frustrated and mad"

Maybe he is reading this thread and doesn't like soccer either.

[MU82]

Frank Martin just decided to go from Kansas State to South Carolina. By any measure, South Carolina is a considerably worse college basketball job.

It hasn't been truly competitive for eons and it is a football school. No basketball coach there will ever be in Steve Spurrier's stratosphere.

K-State, meanwhile, has been an extremely good program, with a Final Four appearance under Kruger and a deep run just a couple years ago under Martin. It is a basketball school.

So maybe it was about money and only about money. Or Martin just felt it was time for a change. Or Martin didn't get along with administration. Or Martin prefers a more moderate climate. Or Martin's family hates Manhattan, Kan. Or ...

That's why we're needlessly beating our heads against the wall trying to figure out what's going on in Buzz's head. Marquette is as good as all but a dozen or so jobs out there, but that doesn't mean he won't be able to justify leaving if that's what he really wants to do. We can wail, "But Marquette is a better job than Wherever U." And even though we'd be right, it doesn't mean Buzz will agree.

Having said all that, I still think Buzz is staying. No claims of inside info. Just a feeling based on reading between the lines of stuff he's said, his work on the recruiting trail, the general impression that he feels he has unfinished business at Marquette, etc.

[brewcity77]

How did El Salvador not get red carded for clotheslining Boyd

I don't know...when he got up with a face full of blood, I figured there had to be a red. Then when they signaled for 5 minutes...seriously?

Still...if Shea clears it, the game was over.

[mu_hilltopper]

But... isn't this a thread built upon crap, piled with more crap, and topped off with a SMU17/18 cherry of crap?

Well, I agree, but you gotta draw the crap line somewhere.  Soccer is over that line.

[ATWizJr]

wow what a flub
[/quote.  Simple save. Keeper boots it in extra time. No Olympics for us?  Are we out?

[Canned Goods n Ammo]

What if all he heard prior to this week were the alums who complained?  LW has not been here all that long.  I doubt, until recently, those who love Buzz would have been bending his ear.  Those that are bothered by the articles and charges of last summer, the JUCO's (just because they are JUCO's), the fact that basketball get's so much attention ... are likely the ones that he has heard from.  It may be a small smattering in the overall universe, but if that is all he heard, he may think they are reflective of the MU community.

So, the emails may have influenced him some.  Maybe not, but I suspect he has heard from the pro Buzz crowd loud and clear during the NCAA run and this week.  Prior to Walker's article on LW, I would not have given two thoughts about making sure LW knows how important Buzz is.  That article changed things.

Right. Larry shouldn't listen to a bunch of complainers either.

These guys get paid VERY well to make rational, long term decisions for MU.

Emails are nice, and they can't hurt. But, lets not overstate it.

These guys shouldn't be listening to the whims of the average internet dork. Have you seen this place after a loss???