MU Basketball Featured On "CNN Presents"

[Tugg Speedman]

They compare MU's 91% graduation rate (which was recently a 100%) to UConn's 30% graduation rate.  Uconn is getting a ban from post season because of this low rate.  

They detail what MU does, interview Larry Williams, Pillarz and Jamil Wilson.  

A lot of this was featured about 10 days ago in a segment on MU before the Florida game.  This appears to be the full thing.

http://cnnpresents.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/30/the-real-march-madness/

The Real March Madness


Just how far will a college go to win the NCAA tournament? For a few teams the Secretary of Education calls "bad apples," it may be too far. These schools are not putting true student athletes on the court.

A new study of graduation rates will show almost half of the African American student athletes who will play in the NCAA basketball tournament will not graduate. And at some schools, the graduation rate for basketball players -black and white- is abysmal.

At UConn for instance, over the last four years, an average of only 25% of its men's basketball players graduated and only 14% of its African American players got a degree. Kentucky had a 31% graduation average. At Syracuse it's just about half. CNN's Drew Griffin investigates.

Don't miss 'The Real March Madness' this Sunday during an all new CNN Presents at 8:00 pm ET, re-airing at 11:00 pm and 2:00 am ET.

[chren21]

Thanks for posting that.  Great watch.

[BallBoy]

Thanks for posting that.  Great watch.

Really was a great watch. They presented the school as a model for doing right. 

[MUfan12]

After hearing about how dumb Marquette's players are, I wonder what our friends to the west thought of that.

[jtrash37]

Quite honestly, I couldn't care less what UW-Granola thinks about my amazing alma mater.  I'm extremely proud of the academics at Marquette, and the academic support Marquette affords its athletes.  The student athlete standards I witnessed while I was at MU (1989-94) seems to be alive and well today. 

[mviale]

Marquette just knocked it out of the park with that interview.  Jamil was great.

[wadesworld]

All it shows for me is the UCONN part, where is the MU part?

[Warriors4ever]

I checked online as well, and only got the UConn part.  I am hoping that perhaps the entire show will be posted after the repeat broadcasts are done.  Looks like some of the prior shows had parts 1 and 2, so that leads me to believe that maybe the rest will be posted later.

[mviale]

All it shows for me is the UCONN part, where is the MU part?

It was on cnn tv.  That was just the promo.

[MarquetteDano]

All it shows for me is the UCONN part, where is the MU part?

I believe I found the MU part.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azAcajV8qSI

[Hoopaloop]

After hearing about how dumb Marquette's players are, I wonder what our friends to the west thought of that.

Ask Butch Badger, he is on this site quite a bit and he and his pals trash us on their scout site fairly frequently.  They will say what they always say

Marquette has tutors doing the work
They're all Communications majors
The coursework is easy
Etc, etc

Who cares, they're just upset that we have caught up to them after they  had their recent king of the hill moment.

[muhoosier260]

This was awesome to see, especially in comparison to fellow BE UConn. Marquette got high praise from CNN, much deserved imo.

[real chili 83]

The tutoring program is not just for the mens team.  All varsity athletic teams have assigned tutors.  I have to believe that the men's program provides the funding.

[Tugg Speedman]

I believe I found the MU part.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azAcajV8qSI

This was most of it.  In the CNN Presents version that also included a soundbite from Larry Williams and structured it as more of a comparison of Uconn and MU.

I agree that MU came off looking great in this piece.  At the same time Uconn came off looking like a bunch of scumbags.

[dw3dw3dw3]

Somebody mentioned there was a new PR firm contracted by MU. Hopefully this is the first in a long line of positive MU headlines coming through.

[Niv Berkowitz]

The former group was the Zizzo Group, I believe. They were the ones who came up with "Gold" and told the press that (and I'm paraphrasing it) "people don't like the Gold name now...but they will!" They were basically a PR firm that said how if they shoved something down the public's throat they'd eventually accept it. If they've changed, that's just fine by me.

Wouldn't surprise me considering a new pres and AD are in charge. Agencies are the first thing to get changed.

[MarquetteDano]

The former group was the Zizzo Group, I believe. They were the ones who came up with "Gold" and told the press that (and I'm paraphrasing it) "people don't like the Gold name now...but they will!" They were basically a PR firm that said how if they shoved something down the public's throat they'd eventually accept it. If they've changed, that's just fine by me.

Wouldn't surprise me considering a new pres and AD are in charge. Agencies are the first thing to get changed.

Uh oh.  Now PR Nightmare knows who to blame for the "Gold" fiasco.  I am envisioning some scathing e-mails to the Zizzo Group soon on the way.   

[warriorchick]

The former group was the Zizzo Group, I believe. They were the ones who came up with "Gold" and told the press that (and I'm paraphrasing it) "people don't like the Gold name now...but they will!" They were basically a PR firm that said how if they shoved something down the public's throat they'd eventually accept it. If they've changed, that's just fine by me.

Wouldn't surprise me considering a new pres and AD are in charge. Agencies are the first thing to get changed.

They came up with the "Gold" name and only recently got canned?  Seriously, you could have gotten better results if the school had given this out as a group project to a PR class.

[chapman]

Uh oh.  Now PR Nightmare knows who to blame for the "Gold" fiasco.  I am envisioning some scathing e-mails to the Zizzo Group soon on the way.   

Worse, I bet they're now going to get poop in the mail.

[Henry Sugar]

Gold is still better than Golden Eagles.

Viva Bricky!

[Warriors4ever]

"perennial basketball powerhouse" - sweet!
And Jamil did a great job, came off really well in the interview. Props to him.  I had no idea the school sends tutors along on the road trips.

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

Uh oh.  Now PR Nightmare knows who to blame for the "Gold" fiasco.  I am envisioning some scathing e-mails to the Zizzo Group soon on the way.   

Gold was Crean's idea. You don't hire a PR firm to come up with something like that.

With that said, Gold is better than our current name. I've actually been thinking of this lately. I recall somebody at the time suggested the McGuires and, short of changing back to Warriors, I think that wouldve been great.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Anne Zizzo is on the BOT. That might help explain some of the boards decisions vis a vis the pr angle.

[MUBurrow]

Gold is still better than Golden Eagles.

Viva Bricky!

+24kt

[boyonthedock]

I also very much prefer gold to the golden eagles. at least its something no one else is. Don't know why marquette jesuits didn't get some play.