Todd Mayo is no longer with Marquette!

[forgetful]

Couple of '14 players back on the open market today - Ray Kasongo - 6'7" power forward who supposedly qualified grade-wise and Jaquan Lyles may not be admitted as well.

I'd be happy if we could land either of them.  I have a feeling they are somewhat fine academically (Florida and Cal are looking at Kasongo), but that Oregon with its very highly publicized problems recently is upping the requirements to reign in problems.

[HutchwasClutch]

Mayo's not the worst kid in the world, but he was just typical of the borderline character guys that Buzz brought aboard that would then cause problems once at MU.  Hopefully that crap ends with Wojo.  This revolving door and playing seasons with a short-handed roster just gets tiresome.

[SaveOD238]

My gut is telling me that this was a wojo decision. Best of luck to Todd in his future endeavors. I hope he gets his cup of coffee one day

Did Wojo ask Todd to Wo-Go?


...sorry...I couldn't resist...

[HutchwasClutch]

My gut is telling me that this was a wojo decision. Best of luck to Todd in his future endeavors. I hope he gets his cup of coffee one day

I agree about whose call this ultimately was.  Mayo didn't seem to be wavering at all when Wojo was hired.  Why all of a sudden in July would he come to this decision?  He could have been trying to catch on to an NBA summer league's team, competing in pre-draft workouts (even though he wouldn't have been picked), to at least put himself in front of NBA scouts and front office personnel.  

If we're right about this, good for Wojo, that's what leaders come in and do, make tough decisions.

[HutchwasClutch]

Could Levin and/ or Wally E. make up a hardship story for their reason to transfer to petition the NCAA for immediate eligibility?  Come on, get creative guys!  

[Nevada233]

Todd will be 24 next March. NBA GMs aren't beating down the doors of seniors who are almost 6 years older than lottery picks and arent as talented.

[HutchwasClutch]

I think this departure opens up a big opportunity for Cohen if he's ready. 

[tower912]

Todd is a scorer.  With this development, all of his transgressions come back into play and a case can be made that Buzz was more lenient with him than most coaches would have been.   As good as he was down the stretch, he is lucky he was still on the team.  Best of luck, Todd.    Thank you for your time at MU.  

[HutchwasClutch]

Apologize if this has been mentioned already, but the real beauty of this news is back to three available scholarships for the strong 2015 class.  So some short-term pain, but long term gain.  Hello Henry, Stone, and Cheatham?  Whew, that would be an incredible class to start the Wojo era, and it's more possible now than it was 24 hours ago.

Never mind, idiot.

[GGGG]

Apologize if this has been mentioned already, but the real beauty of this news is back to three available scholarships for the strong 2015 class.  So some short-term pain, but long term gain.  Hello Henry, Stone, and Cheatham?  Whew, that would be an incredible class to start the Wojo era, and it's more possible now than it was 24 hours ago.

Todd was done after this year anyway.  It doesn't open up any additional scholarships for next year.

[GGGG]

nm

[HutchwasClutch]

Dude went to 4 high schools,  the fact we got him to 3 seasons is a borderline miracle.

+1, very good point.

[HutchwasClutch]

Todd was done after this year anyway.  It doesn't open up any additional scholarships for next year.

Geez, that's embarrassing, thanks.

[tower912]

Mayo's senior season will be comparable to Blue's senior season.   

[HutchwasClutch]

Speaking of Blue, man does he look scrawny in that picture.  Has he set foot in a weight room since MU? 

[4everwarriors]

No loss at all----zip, nada, zero
Adios

[JTBMU7]

FWIW, I heard that Todd was a big reason the team had such poor chemistry last year. I think Bert constantly giving him extra chances while sitting guys like Steve and JJJ was an issue that just festered.
Anyway, there are worse things than having a bad attitude. Todd never got into any trouble outside of grades and being flaky. Hope he does well wherever he goes and that this creates some opportunity for the young guys on the team.

[4everwarriors]

Wonder if the cat has busted out a smile yet?

[4everwarriors]

Anyone wanna speculate when mikehunt reports this chit?

[Skatastrophy]

Mayo and Vander were the two commits that made the administration's academic staff the most frustrated. Demotivated enough that they questioned MU's commitment to anything more than becoming a crappy version of Kentucky.

That's leaving out the extracurricular crap.

This should be the end of cleaning house, as far as I've heard.

[tower912]

FWIW, I heard that Todd was a big reason the team had such poor chemistry last year. I think Bert constantly giving him extra chances while sitting guys like Steve and JJJ was an issue that just festered.
Anyway, there are worse things than having a bad attitude. Todd never got into any trouble outside of grades and being flaky. Hope he does well wherever he goes and that this creates some opportunity for the young guys on the team.

I have read that elsewhere.   It must have been quite a conundrum, having a guy who had a history of academic problems, was late for practice, was the big reason for poor chemistry, but who could occasionally take over and win games.   Or, attempt to take over and lose them.   As a coach, if you keep him around because you need a scorer, what does it say to the young guys?   But, if he is the one guy who can create his own offense, how can you not run him out there?  Maybe the problem wasn't that Buzz didn't give him consistent run until the last 10 games.   Maybe the problem was that he gave him run at all and alienated the young guys. 

[chapman]

I think Chico and I called this a while back...not sure this was voluntary...

Yep, a few including both of you told us he wouldn't be back no matter what we were being led to believe.  This is no loss for the upcoming season because, as the Goodman tweet indicates, Wojo never factored Mayo into his plans at all.

Anyone wanna speculate when mikehunt reports this chit?

Already done.  Not exactly accurate since we didn't have 11 scholarship players as he says, just 11 eligible to play this year...probably in the not surprised camp as well and had the article penned back when we did only have 11 scholarship players.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/269296071.html

[GGGG]

FWIW, I heard that Todd was a big reason the team had such poor chemistry last year. I think Bert constantly giving him extra chances while sitting guys like Steve and JJJ was an issue that just festered.
Anyway, there are worse things than having a bad attitude. Todd never got into any trouble outside of grades and being flaky. Hope he does well wherever he goes and that this creates some opportunity for the young guys on the team.

Exactly.  Todd's problems were all on Todd.  If anything, Buzz gave him WAAAYYY too long a leash.

[GGGG]

Yep, a few including both of you told us he wouldn't be back no matter what we were being led to believe.  This is no loss for the upcoming season because, as the Goodman tweet indicates, Wojo never factored Mayo into his plans at all.

See I don't see how this makes any sense.  Todd leaving right after Wojo started, or even back in May, would have made more sense for both parties.  He gets to start off his professional career in the right way.  And MU can try to find someone to take his scholarship.

Now both the program and him are behind the eight ball.

[bilsu]

My take on this is that Mayo realized that Wojo was not going to start him and that led to him quitting. As I said before everyone is happy with Wojo until they find out they are not starting or not playing much. To be honest the player I was worried the most about being unhappy with this year's playing time was JJJ. With Mayo leaving that gives a lot more opportunity to JJJ and I am happy with that.