Welcome to Marquette Coach Wojo

[dgies9156]

OK, Coach Wojo, we're glad you are here. So now here are some of the things you did not hear in your interview but chances are you will be finding them out in the weeks ahead.

1) We are as passionate as any Dookie about our team. At any given time, about half of us will think you can't coach a youth league team and the other half will think you are God. And, depending on the day, it won't be the same half. Get used to it. We've had some great years but we've had some hard ones too. If you win next year, it probably won't be good enough for about 10% of this crowd, but we will love you anyway. You are our's and best of all, you are Polish. In case you have not noticed, being Polish in Milwaukee is like being German in Berlin.

2) All of our fan base can be divided into three parts. The first is anyone who graduated before 1982. That's the bunch of us that you might recognize from your days at Duke. We think we have a God-given right to a national championship almost every year. That's because we were here when a dude named Al McGuire was here -- and we played like latter day Dukies. We were goooooooodd! The second is anyone who live through the Bob and Mike Days, as in Dukiet and Deane. They think Marquette can't walk and chew gum at the same time. That's because we went through a malaise that lasted close to a decade. We recovered but it was a very painful time in our history. The third group is the recent graduates. They think you are here for five years and will leave for someplace else. They've been shattered by two ugly divorces and hope you're the keeper.

3) We're recovering from a really bad divorce with a guy named Buzz. He had a good record and people kinda liked him. If you read about him in Scoop, remember, he's like the wife that took off with all our money, our house and several other valuable possessions, leaving us with alimony and child support payments. It will take awhile for us to get over this one!

4) There will be certain "must" wins on your schedule. Remember how you felt about North Carolina? Yeah, we thought so. There's a team 70 miles west of here generally called the Red Rodent, Roadkill, the Red Barf and a host of other names we don't dare print in a civilized forum. Count on slaughtering him next year and the year after and the year after that. It galls us to know end that he's in the Final Four and some of us, who ordinarily hate Kentucky, are privately wearing Wildcat undershirts this week. Your life at Marquette will be much easier if the Red Rodent becomes road kill. We also have another team we love to hate. They are called "Domers" or just "that team." They're in your old conference now, so they have elected not to play us. We're proud (and perhaps stupid enough) to believe they are chickens and believe they are not worthy of us. After what Duke, Virginia, North Carolina, Syracuse, Louisville, Pitt and others will do to them, they probably don't need another loss. But if there's ever a chance they play us again, do us a favor and wipe the floor with them. Next to a national championship, that's the best formula for job security at Marquette.

5) We love that picture of you on the Duke website cutting a thread from the net after a Duke National Championship. But we are Marquette (count on hearing that chant a lot), so when you do win a national championship -- and we like to think you will here -- we don't cut the net with a scissors. We use a switchblade. Forget the ladder crap, we hold each other up and one of our team leaders hangs off the rim. About 37 years ago, we won a national title. Please read the Milwaukee Sentinel or the Milwaukee Journal from that week and realize what that meant to us. Show it to your team.

6) We will inevitably tell you how to coach. We don't know as much as we think we do, but that never stopped us. One thing you will hear a lot of is you inherited an offensively challenged team. You'll hear our point guard can't hit the urinal in the men's room, much less a basket with a basketball. He's likely better than he showed last year. But do us and him a favor! Have him him take 1,000 jumpers a day until October 15th and he can't come in until he hits 50 in a row.

7) Don't forget to call Diamond Stone. Please, don't forget to give him your new address and phone number. Tell him he looks good in gold!

Any other ideas, fellow Scoopers?

[ATWizJr]

and "Stolat!"

[mr.MUskie]

7a. And Ahmed Hill.

[Chicos' Buzz Scandal Countdown]

Awesome post - I'm over #3

[🏀]

Take over Buzz's Bunch as soon as you get your house in order.

[MikeDeanesDarkGlasses]

7b.  Don't forget the other half of next year's, Dominican Dynamic Duo, Kostas Antetokounmpo. 

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

and "Stolat!"

Nice!  A hundred year run would be great!

[Blackhat]

Welcome Coach Wojo!!

Excited for your tenure to start.

Go Warriors!

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Fantastic post Dgies. Loved it