New BB Player housing arrangements

[mu-rara]

so much easier to smoke weed in a triple than a regular room.  especially the ones with the inner door.

That was Artie Green and O Lee we were smelling.

[Hoopaloop]

That is not true.  Marquette still has a healthy number of commuters, including freshmen and sophomores.

The policy is:

All single first- and second-year students, regardless of academic classification, are required to live in residence halls.
Exceptions are made for students residing with a parent or legal guardian within a 30-mile radius of campus, students
who are at least 21 years of age or those who have been out of high school for two full years or longer.

Of course, did not realize I had to point out that commuters can still live at home.  I am talking about non-commuters.

[Hoopaloop]

So, the "player transgressions this past year" involved solely freshmen and sophomores?  Or do you think that the upper-class leadership of the team would have behaved better if they had lived in dorms for their freshman/sophomore years?  Or do the players just need to commit their "transgressions" with the general student population (rather than with their basketball playing peers) so that they will not be "isolated" and "out of touch"?

Do you seriously think this was a "compromise"?  Did Buzz sit down with Williams #2 and say "Well, if you make my freshman recruits live in a dorm,the only way I won't take the SMU job is if you let me recruit JUCOs and overpay for a really good assistant."?

Personally, I don't think this will have any impact on behavior.  There may be a few students who interact more with basketball players and find them to be less "out of touch".  In the whole scheme of things, I imagine that there are some Journalism majors who find some Engineering majors "isolated" and "out of touch".

Believe what you want to believe among the student population and how they view members of the basketball team.  A little homework on that subject will open your eyes a bit in my opinion.  It didn't used to be that way back in the day, but has been more the norm in the last decade under TC and BW.

I believe and from what my rich alumni well connected friends are telling me is that the administration, high ranking alumni, etc were very embarrassed by the continuous headlines and distraught over the continuous Chicago Tribune coverage (clearly planted by DePaul alumni to bring down the program).  As is the course for many individuals, institutions and corporations, they go in to fix it mode.  Often this is reactionary, but normal behavior.  Your wife might be able to lend a psychological insight there.

They tried suspensions, tried other behind the scenes tactics, but also wanted to fundamentally look at how things are handled, how the athletes interact, whom they are exposed to.  They chose to go down this path after studying what other programs have done with some success.  It may not work, but it certainly will not destroy the program or even hurt it if the people here that continue to say Buzz wants chip on the shoulder type kids - it will have no negative recruiting impact at all.  Have some faith in Buzz and while we are at it, this might just pay some dividends where the students start to care about their fellow student athletes, show up more for the games and the players might be a little smarter and wiser to realize they are high profile people in which their actions can put their university and coach on the front pages of the news.   

Then again, it may not make a difference at all.  My worry then is that you may actually see the administration really do some real draconian things that truly are worthy of nervousness.  My advice to the players would be to respect their coach, their AD and the school they represent, be cognizant of their surroundings and act more diligently.  Sucks for them, but the reactions taken are based on the behaviors.  MU stays off the front pages, none of the changes (minor as they are) happen.