This Board's Sick Obsession With Bucky

[GGGG]

I wasn't even talking about Luke.  I was talking Henry and Sam Hauser. 

[MU TommyDieHard]

Underdogs get a lot of press.  And especially underdogs that win no matter how the game goes down.  It is something we have to live with until we start doing it. 

[MU TommyDieHard]

I do like Hauser.  That will help.  Need players that aren't replicas of each other. 

[Freeport Warrior]

They are not our main rival.

You never used to annoy me and I thought you were moderately funny, but who are you to tell anyone who and who isn't our main rival? I don't post Bucky hate, but I don't like them and root against them for a variety of reasons, many of which posters here have brought up. The only "sick obsession" is your desire to stir @#$% up constantly.

[frozena pizza]

Very well said! 

If we want to be like Maryland, Gonzaga or even WI we need to start getting the right in-state recruits.  Like Stone or this kid Herro from Whitnall that led a team to state semis.  Kids like Herro and Diener remind me of Koenig.  Why are we not looking for the next Diener out there?  We have no one on this current team that has the moxie of a Diener or Koenig.  Lets face it.

Face what?  That we got Ellenson and the very example you use, Diamond Stone, went to...yes, Maryland?  So by that logic, the original post is spot on and we should care more about Maryland than UW.

[frozena pizza]

It's always nice to beat your in-state rival like we did this year.  Unfortunately the team they just knocked out beat us 3 times this year and I don't see us beating X any time soon unless we get some seriously big bodies very soon.  Hauser is a nice player but does nothing to address that need.

[HoopsterBC]

It's always nice to beat your in-state rival like we did this year.  Unfortunately the team they just knocked out beat us 3 times this year and I don't see us beating X any time soon unless we get some seriously big bodies very soon.  Hauser is a nice player but does nothing to address that need.

Great point, Wisky has big bodies that know how to play defense, we have a smaller team that does not know how to defend, its that simple.  X killed MU twice scoring
at least 90 points a game, against a good D team, 63.  MU is to small and not quick enough to defend.

[GooooMarquette]

People will definitely stop talking about Bucky if we start more threads about Bucky

Well played.

[79Warrior]

They are not our main rival.  They are a team we play every year, like the 9 teams in our conference.

Agree. I do not live in Wisconsin. Beating them is nice. Once that game is over on to the next one. I don't care what Wisconsin does in the NCAA

[shoothoops]

What I like about Marquette is the increased efforts of trying to make the school less local and regional and make it more National and Global. There is a long way to go. I am aware that a significant number of MU students come from Wisconsin and Illinois. However I am all for the geographic, racial, and other types of diversification as much as possible moving forward.

[Warrior Code]

When your team sees its season end in the conference tourney, fans turn their attention elsewhere. When your rival is having a good run, it's only natural that would draw some of that attention. There are no MU games to discuss or much new recruiting news at the moment.

When MU makes its next run, you won't see any* threads about Wisconsin. Not an obsession so much as lack of alternative, more positive topics. (From where I'm sitting, anyway)


*I hope, anyway, but Scoop is a silly place

[rocky_warrior]

I started a thread on this and the mods deleted it.  Hopefully this one will pass muster ...

You talking about this thread - titled "What Goes In The Superbar and What Goes Here?".  It was hardly about Bucky.  Only the closing paragraph.  It got moved, and answered in the Suggestions board.

http://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=51205.0

[Tugg Speedman]

You talking about this thread - titled "What Goes In The Superbar and What Goes Here?".  It was hardly about Bucky.  Only the closing paragraph.  It got moved, and answered in the Suggestions board.

http://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=51205.0

You have a suggestion board?  I do not see a link for it on the left hand column.

[MerrittsMustache]

You have a suggestion board?  I do not see a link for it on the left hand column.

Is there a thread where I can recommend that the Suggestion Board be more easily located?

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

I agree the constant whining about how Bucky is better than us right now is obnoxious.

But to say Bucky isn't our main rival is just silly. If not them, who is?

[GooooMarquette]

This board has a sick obsession with suggestion boards.

[Marcus92]

Love the MU-UW rivalry (yes, it is a rivalry, the longest in school history).

But...it's also different from most others. Michigan-Ohio State, Duke-North Carolina, Alabama-Auburn — they're all in-conference rivals. Our win at the Kohl Center this year (awesome as it was) didn't help us one bit in the Big East standings. Ultimately, it's just another non-conference game. We face every conference opponent twice, and I honestly care more about how we do against Xavier and Villanova than I do against the Badgers.

I'd gladly exchange beating UW for a 12-6 conference record and an NCAA bid. Any season, any day of the week. No contest.

I bleed blue and gold. But I don't hate the Badgers; they're a great program that represents the state with pride. And I see no contradiction between those two ideas.

[mu03eng]

Is there a thread where I can recommend that the Suggestion Board be more easily located?

Is there a thread where I can complain about your need to have a thread about said Suggestion Board being more easily located?

[rocky_warrior]

You have a suggestion board?  I do not see a link for it on the left hand column.

There's a link for it on the main page
http://www.muscoop.com/index.php

Is there a thread where I can recommend that the Suggestion Board be more easily located?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=muscoop+suggestion+board

Is there a thread where I can complain about your need to have a thread about said Suggestion Board being more easily located?

http://www.scout.com/college/marquette/forums?s=415

[tower912]

What is he going to cut and paste to the suggestion board?

[mu03eng]

http://www.scout.com/college/marquette/forums?s=415

[Skitch]

Love the MU-UW rivalry (yes, it is a rivalry, the longest in school history).

But...it's also different from most others. Michigan-Ohio State, Duke-North Carolina, Alabama-Auburn — they're all in-conference rivals. Our win at the Kohl Center this year (awesome as it was) didn't help us one bit in the Big East standings. Ultimately, it's just another non-conference game. We face every conference opponent twice, and I honestly care more about how we do against Xavier and Villanova than I do against the Badgers.

I'd gladly exchange beating UW for a 12-6 conference record and an NCAA bid. Any season, any day of the week. No contest.

I bleed blue and gold. But I don't hate the Badgers; they're a great program that represents the state with pride. And I see no contradiction between those two ideas.

A school doesn't have to be in your conference to have a great rivalry:
Clemson/South Carolina
Georgia/Georgia Tech
Georgetown/Maryland
Iowa/Iowa St
Kentucky/Louisville
Florida/Florida St/Miami

[GWSwarrior]

Despising them is fine.  I hate the B1G, Bucky included.  Many here hate ND.  But I don't see half a dozen threads stretching for pages each essentially saying we suck only because ND is the S16.

Somebody is wrong on the internet and it is Heisenberg's job to correct him. if you don't like reading about/ comparing MU to Bucky go read another thread.

[Marcus92]

A school doesn't have to be in your conference to have a great rivalry:
Clemson/South Carolina
Georgia/Georgia Tech
Georgetown/Maryland
Iowa/Iowa St
Kentucky/Louisville
Florida/Florida St/Miami

No debate here. MU-UW is a great rivalry. (You could add Cincy-Xavier to the above list.) It's just different.

That's not to say the Badgers don't matter. I've been to the last four away games at the Kohl Center, and I enjoyed every minute of our victory there. It was a great win. But to me, the Badgers don't matter as much as conference opponents.

Your results may vary. To each his own.

[Tugg Speedman]

I agree the constant whining about how Bucky is better than us right now is obnoxious.

But to say Bucky isn't our main rival is just silly. If not them, who is?

I said that UW and the nine conference foes are our main rivals.  Yet no one gets as exercised about their success like Bucky.

Again it is simple, to graduate from MU and live in WI you must have an inferiority complex that Bucky success = MU failure.