What/Who is Hiroshima?

[Canned Goods n Ammo]

Of course "it's not the end of the world" if Buzz leaves. If your wife leaves and take the kids to New Mexico next week it's not the end of the world either but my guess is you're not trying to mess with happy where they're concerned. Just as it would behoove you to keep her happy, I think it's reasonable that the powers that be at MU be expected by our fanbase to keep our most visible and important asset content. If they can't they'll (deservedly) take major heat.
On your point #2, has anyone suggested (except maybe in jest) that new standards would result in "only recruiting white guys"?

YES. (read the thread)

http://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=32362.msg389113#msg389113

As far as "end of the world", clearly you're right... but the fervor of this board (100+ pages) wasn't really "MU will be alright", the implication was more "the admin should be fired" and/or MU was headed towards some dark days. Some people were saying they would revoke their tickets, stop donations, etc.

[ATWizJr]

Most on this board don't want the administration to mess with happy.

[Canned Goods n Ammo]

  Nah.  Just stirring the pot and trying to understand what the diff is between "jumping to a conclusion" and deciding to have an opinion based on what I just read.  If there is no diff then we are all guilty any time we make a judgement based on what we read on this board or anywhere, for that matter, good or bad.  Just semantics, I guess.

Well, I guess for me, there isn't enough "evidence" to make conclusions or more than high level speculation.

Rumors are Buzz is unhappy. Fine. I'll conclude that is reasonable (given the SMU interview). After that, I don't really know WTF is happening at MU.

It's fun to speculate on the internet, and I guess I'm just a wet blanket.

[Blackhat]

you dorks are misquoting.  I said increasing academic standards would give us a roster more like Duke, Stanford, ND.  Based on simply socio-economic factors our pool of african-american athletes shrinks.  Chicos then said only white players,.... and I guess 2002 ran with it.  

[Canned Goods n Ammo]

you dorks are misquoting.  I said increasing academic standards would give us a roster more like Duke, Stanford, ND.  Based on simply socio-economic factors our pool of african-american athletes shrinks.  Chicos then said only white players,.... and I guess 2002 ran with it.  

You're right. My bad.

Basically the end effective outcome will be more white players and less JUCOs, imo.  That will be the identity Pilarz wants, less dreads more crew cuts.  And as the "poor, tated" kids leave so will the off the court problems.

[Blackhat]

only

[Lennys Tap]

you dorks are misquoting.  I said increasing academic standards would give us a roster more like Duke, Stanford, ND.  Based on simply socio-economic factors our pool of african-american athletes shrinks.  Chicos then said only white players,.... and I guess 2002 ran with it.  

That's what I mean, Stone. What you say is pure logic. Hoop twists it into something it isn't (cause that's what he does) and next thing you know 2002 has you saying something you never said.

[Blackhat]

Chicos likes his wild goose chases.  We'll have less poor background players (like Jimmy Butler), etc. who are usually less off academically being thrust up at MU into great success stories academically.   That will be a shame, these guys will never be given a chance at MU.

[Lennys Tap]

You're right. My bad.

World of difference between "less" and "more" and "only" and the other side of only, which is none.

[🏀]

Just decided to check in on this thread, so does anyone actually have any facts behind their theories?

No? Okay.

[madtownwarrior]

with all this message board rumor mongering, maybe we can start a new MUSCOOP chant:

hir-O-shi-MA   (to the same cadence as Rob-FRO-ze-NA"

[Dreadman24]

Just in case you are really young and really Sarah Palinish when it comes to American and world history and really don't know who/what Hiroshima is ...

It's the city in Japan where the U.S. dropped the first atom bomb in 1945. Three days later, a second bomb drop, at Nagasaki, effectively ended World War II.

About 160,000 people died directly from the two bombings, and thousands upon thousands more died from the aftereffects. So, obviously, a kid transferring from one college to another to play basketball would result in similar devastation.

Class dismissed. Test tomorrow.

+1 Best response!   I now know what Hiroshima is. Thanks MU82.

[Canned Goods n Ammo]

World of difference between "less" and "more" and "only" and the other side of only, which is none.

Fair point.

"...Pilarz wants, less dreads more crew cuts" - Stone Cold

I still find this a HUGE jump and assumption from a rumor that the school MIGHT raise academic standards.

[Blackhat]

thanks for getting the quote correct.

[MU82]

Cheap political shot (Hards will be horrified) followed by a large dose of smugness. Nice post.

I minored in smugness, so I finally get to use that in practice!

[mu03eng]

I minored in smugness, so I finally get to use that in practice!

Careful your smugness doesn't combine with George Clooney's smugness....there could be devastating consequences.

[GOO]

you dorks are misquoting.   

I think is has been well established that we prefer to be called Nerds, and not geeks or dorks!

Love the Enola Gay picture, BTW.

[Dawson Rental]

Find out next Friday when the semester ends.....

Late in the day is usually when the press releases come out.  that way there's a weekend long cool off period before the Sports Information Department gets inundated.

[Dawson Rental]

  1. Seems to be the Hiroshima idea is an unprovable tin foil hat conspiracy theory.  That means it can live on and on and on with no basis in reality.

  2. So how long after finals are over can we proclaim it is not going to happen?

  1. You're dismissing Topper's comments out of hand, then?

  2. Personally, I'm going to continue to scan the skies with my binoculars until I hear an all clear from Topper or MUguru.

[Goose]

LittleMurs

I am with you. Muguru has been the go to guy on this and now Topper added his comments. I am waiting all clear from one or both of them. While not 100% in their camp on this I do think they possibly are hearing real info and not rumors.

[Lennys Tap]

Seems to be the Hiroshima idea is an unprovable tin foil hat conspiracy theory.  That means it can live on and on and on with no basis in reality.

Speaking of unprovable tin foil hat therories, how about the one that when Doo Koo Kim died boxing died with it? I hear that one's still around

[77ncaachamps]

Instead of using Hiroshima, can't we use "Jumping Out of McCormick's Windows Day"?

It's more MU relevant.

[Dawson Rental]

Careful your smugness doesn't combine with George Clooney's smugness....there could be devastating consequences.

Well, if you call abundant, cheap energy without radioactive waste devastating consequences, then yes.

[Blackhat]

  1. You're dismissing Topper's comments out of hand, then?

  2. Personally, I'm going to continue to scan the skies with my binoculars until I hear an all clear from Topper or MUguru.

All of us are, brother.   even jimmy.

[Dawson Rental]

Instead of using Hiroshima, can't we use "Jumping Out of McCormick's Windows Day"?

It's more MU relevant.

But not poster relevant, for some time now for most of us.  And MUGuru when he coined the term (actually, he called it Hiroshima II) was referring to the reaction of the posters on this board when they found out.