Rapey Bros in Tank Tops

[MUfan12]

This is just too perfect not to pass on... from the UWM Post:

RAMBLINGS OF AN ANGRY SPORTS FAN: HOW MARQUETTE'S EGO DAMAGED MILWAUKEE

So Marquette Basketball, the cross-town rival of UWM, doesn't have a basketball coach. Buzz Williams left for Virginia Tech. Most Marquette fans liked it, because to them, Williams was an "awful" coach who led them to NCAA tournaments every year except this past one. Sounds like those Packer fans who call for the heads of Mike McCarthy and Ted Thompson despite five straight playoff appearances.

Is anything good enough for our cross-town rivals? (Pretty sure the only thing we beat them in is drinking and soccer.) They have all the facilities we don't, they make tournament appearances like it's a shopping trip and they have the budget for athletics that our department would sell their souls for.

On Monday, things got embarrassing with Marquette. WISN 12 reported that Virginia Commonwealth University Head Coach Shaka Smart had agreed to become MU's new head coach. Then some half-rate blogger at MU decided to corroborate that. Within hours, other Milwaukee media hopped on and shut it down, saying there was no deal in place.

No national media picked up on this, probably because they saw the reports, made one call to a higher source and then scoffed at the bogusness of the story.

Then Deadspin published this tonight, pretty much allowing the nation and college basketball fans all over to laugh at our city.

Today all those Marquette fans ran around like chickens with their heads cut off. Tod Kowalczyk, Brian Wardle, Ben Howland, and now Shaka Smart have been linked to the job. Rumors of whoever takes over the top job at MU have been flying around and everyone is grasping at straws over who should be hired, and some people are just throwing names because they're an uneducated person sitting on Twitter.

Update: this whole story is because of one foolish MU journalism student, who caused the ruckus. So congrats Mike Cianciolo from the almighty MU journalism program, you abused your power and caused a riot and probably cost yourself a real opportunity of a job with local TV stations. But don't worry, your rich mommy and daddy will pay someone for you to get the job.

Good move, Mike.

Just look... and now the city of Milwaukee is a joke. UW-Milwaukee just made a tournament appearance and our head coach is staying here.

"IF it took losing Buzz Williams to get Shaka Smart, I'd pay that price over n over again.

— Alexander Maykowski (@APMayko) March 25, 2014"


(on a personal note, I do agree with PantherU editor Jimmy Lemke that UW-Green Bay coach Brian Wardle should get the MU job.)

What is Marquette looking for (besides a girl to roofie at a party)?They won't get much better than Williams. Not to bash Rob Jeter and the amazing effort that team put in this year, but UWM would kill for five consecutive tournament appearances.

MU is paying the price of rising to the top; they no longer appreciate their spoils.

"Oh we have a budget so large, we win so much, and we play in a crap conference that can help us make the big dance annually. Nah this isn't good enough. WE WANT MORE."

Greed will be the downfall of that school, and it will be hilarious to watch it happen. Because then all those loyal MU fans will come crawling across State Street to the Cell and enjoy UWM basketball, where we make more with less.

That program is like the Jersey Shore: it's obnoxious to always hear about, a lot of people follow it because it's there, it's full of rich white boys in bro tanks who treat women like slabs of meat, especially when they think it's OK to rape a girl because the whole campus will attack her for standing up to her rapists.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Biggest joke is that they call us a rival...

[Benny B]

I got my money on Mike Cianciolo making it much, much further in the world of journalism than Joe Horning.

[Eldon]

That last paragraph was entirely unnecessary.  I'm surprised the paper let them run with it.

[MikeDeanesDarkGlasses]

Hmmm...

Sounds to me like a psychology professor made his students do a paper on the Freudian concept of "penis envy".  I'll give the guy a B as there are some grammatical errors.  

[Benny B]

Hmmm...

Sounds to me like a psychology professor made his students do a paper on the Freudian concept of "penis envy".  I'll give the guy a B as there are some grammatical errors.  

What did you give him on the size of his penis?

[MikeDeanesDarkGlasses]

What did you give him on the size of his penis?

4 inches, you jealous? 

[Benny B]

4 inches, you jealous? 

Nah.  That would be like a valedictorian getting upset because the dumb kid got a C- in gym.

[Skatastrophy]

I'm jealous.

[MarsupialMadness]

Marquette's ego has damaged Milwaukee?  Holy cow.  I hope they don't cancel Summerfest this year because MU didn't sign Shaka Smart!!!

[14thStreet]

The most offensive part of that article was his claim they beat us in drinking. Clearly didn't check his facts on that one.   

[ATVSandKARATE]

Apparently University of Weak Minds teaches its students to settle in life and not try to constantly improve themselves. U Dumb Dumb will never be the difference.

[Coleman]

How can you even get upset about something like this?

It is the equivalent of how North Korea tries to show its military might by firing a missile and it spinning out and landing 10 miles off the coast.

[radome]

Was this written before or after their Chancellor became our President?

[ChicosBailBonds]

Onion?

[NotBuzzWilliams]

http://www.uwmpanthers.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/040914aaa.html

"The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has been informed by the NCAA's Committee on Academic Performance that it was denied the final appeal of a postseason ban of its men's basketball team for 2014-15 because of past cumulative Academic Performance Rate (APR) scores.

The decision means that Milwaukee is not eligible for the Horizon League Tournament or any other postseason competition following the regular season next year."

#karma?

[Coleman]

http://www.uwmpanthers.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/040914aaa.html

"The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has been informed by the NCAA's Committee on Academic Performance that it was denied the final appeal of a postseason ban of its men's basketball team for 2014-15 because of past cumulative Academic Performance Rate (APR) scores.

The decision means that Milwaukee is not eligible for the Horizon League Tournament or any other postseason competition following the regular season next year."

#karma?

Yup! Was just about to post this. Too good...

[RushmoreAcademy]

That last paragraph was entirely unnecessary.  I'm surprised the paper let them run with it.

Where is journalistic integrity if not at the UWM Post?

This article is posted in the exact same issue on their website...  instant classic.
http://uwmpost.com/burning-rubber-you-might-get-crabs/

[MikeDeanesDarkGlasses]

Where is journalistic integrity if not at the UWM Post?

This article is posted in the exact same issue on their website...  instant classic.
http://uwmpost.com/burning-rubber-you-might-get-crabs/

I love the line "I also never wanted to make eye contact with a seagull that was standing a few feet away from me while having sex either."

Hilarious!!!!!

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Where is journalistic integrity if not at the UWM Post?

This article is posted in the exact same issue on their website...  instant classic.
http://uwmpost.com/burning-rubber-you-might-get-crabs/

She brings up some valid points.

[keefe]

How can you even get upset about something like this?

It is the equivalent of how North Korea tries to show its military might by firing a missile and it spinning out and landing 10 miles off the coast.

The problem with NK is that they are just crazy bastards. Absolutely insane.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Marquette students just ripping the guy left and right. He wanted attention, well now he has 10k people at his throat.

[Dawson Rental]

The problem with NK is that they are just crazy bastards. Absolutely insane.

Actually, I think that it works pretty well for them.  They are getting energy and other aid from their enemies.

[MikeDeanesDarkGlasses]

Actually, I think that it works pretty well for them.  They are getting energy and other aid from their enemies.

Without North Korea, this gem would have never been constructed..... a copied Mercedes 190E  that had no heat, dust flew into the cabin, and of course, no air conditioning. 

[ATVSandKARATE]

I wonder if he wrote the article in crayon...