Giveaways at home games...

[Boognish_MU]

Ok... not that watching the team isn't enough...

http://gomarquette.cstv.com/tickets/m-baskbl-main.html

These promo items suck!  I would rather have "Marquette Plastic Cup Night" than the Final Four Replica Ring.
Look how stupid these things are:







And then they have Free Dwayne Wade Marquette Jersey night.... but for 8th grade or younger...



LAME.  I would much rather not get these stupid trading cards and have the wade jersey.


A Message to all 7th graders who don't want their jersey:
I will trade you 2 David Cubilians and 1 Dominic James cards for the jersey.... and I will even through in my Dwight Burke if I have to 

rocky's edit: resized pictures to display better...

[The Lens]

Poor TC, he wants to do everything in his power to remind the masses of his Final Four appearance, but at the same time he ends up reminding them it's been 5 years since he won a tournament game...

Darned if you do...darned if you don't...

[HarveysWallbangers]

The best part about those rings is the base. Those grooves make it look like real wood.   

[MileHigh]

i'm definitely offering an 8th grade kid money to grab me a jersey

[mu_hilltopper]

I dunno .. the ring is mildly interesting.  It does seem "late" though .. would have been great in 2003-4.

It's better than some from the past .. pom-pons .. yellow noodle things, "3" cards, that crappy radio they gave away that broke instantly ..

[HarveysWallbangers]

To Boognish's original point, I would actually like a Marquette plastic cup night. I still have my plastic cup from when they honored the 1970 NIT champs!

[RawdogDX]

Poor TC, he wants to do everything in his power to remind the masses of his Final Four appearance, but at the same time he ends up reminding them it's been 5 years since he won a tournament game...

Darned if you do...darned if you don't...

yeah, because tom crean doesn't have a job to do so i'm sure he's also the head of the promotional give away department. 

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

Poor TC, he wants to do everything in his power to remind the masses of his Final Four appearance, but at the same time he ends up reminding them it's been 5 years since he won a tournament game...

Darned if you do...darned if you don't...

yeah, because tom crean doesn't have a job to do so i'm sure he's also the head of the promotional give away department. 

If you don't think he's involved in it, you're insane.

And for the record...other than that ring...they've been spectacular the last 5 years or so.

[RawdogDX]

Poor TC, he wants to do everything in his power to remind the masses of his Final Four appearance, but at the same time he ends up reminding them it's been 5 years since he won a tournament game...

Darned if you do...darned if you don't...

yeah, because tom crean doesn't have a job to do so i'm sure he's also the head of the promotional give away department. 

If you don't think he's involved in it, you're insane.

And for the record...other than that ring...they've been spectacular the last 5 years or so.

They are spectacular and crean's responsible.  Wow, that might be the best compliment you've ever given him.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

i'm definitely offering an 8th grade kid money to grab me a jersey

ZiggysFryBaby (age 13 months) is willing to negoitate a price for the jersey.   

I wonder if this jersey will fit ZiggysFryBoy better than the medium powder blue shirt that I got last year?      

[spiral97]

i'm definitely offering an 8th grade kid money to grab me a jersey

ZiggysFryBaby (age 13 months) is willing to negoitate a price for the jersey.   

How about this deal for the jersey: I promise to think about letting ZiggysFryBaby go on one (1) date with SpiralBaby in the somewhat distant future and to give five (5) minutes to ZiggysFryBaby to allow him to try and argue convincingly in favor of the date if he so chooses.  I'll even be nice and recommend some factors that would make the argument more favorable for him: 1.) how far in the future this date is to happen (the farther the better), 2.) whether ZiggysFryBaby a graduate of Marquette University and can successfully pass a TBD quiz about MU basketball containing no fewer than twenty (20) and no more than thirty million (30,000,000) questions.

There.. I think that is fair.. deal?

[mosarsour]

i'm definitely offering an 8th grade kid money to grab me a jersey

ZiggysFryBaby (age 13 months) is willing to negoitate a price for the jersey.   

How about this deal for the jersey: I promise to think about letting ZiggysFryBaby go on one (1) date with SpiralBaby in the somewhat distant future and to give five (5) minutes to ZiggysFryBaby to allow him to try and argue convincingly in favor of the date if he so chooses.  I'll even be nice and recommend some factors that would make the argument more favorable for him: 1.) how far in the future this date is to happen (the farther the better), 2.) whether ZiggysFryBaby a graduate of Marquette University and can successfully pass a TBD quiz about MU basketball containing no fewer than twenty (20) and no more than thirty million (30,000,000) questions.

There.. I think that is fair.. deal?

Hilarious!!

[ZiggysFryBoy]

i'm definitely offering an 8th grade kid money to grab me a jersey

ZiggysFryBaby (age 13 months) is willing to negoitate a price for the jersey.   

How about this deal for the jersey: I promise to think about letting ZiggysFryBaby go on one (1) date with SpiralBaby in the somewhat distant future and to give five (5) minutes to ZiggysFryBaby to allow him to try and argue convincingly in favor of the date if he so chooses.  I'll even be nice and recommend some factors that would make the argument more favorable for him: 1.) how far in the future this date is to happen (the farther the better), 2.) whether ZiggysFryBaby a graduate of Marquette University and can successfully pass a TBD quiz about MU basketball containing no fewer than twenty (20) and no more than thirty million (30,000,000) questions.

There.. I think that is fair.. deal?

It's things like this that make me glad I have a boy. 

[Sponge Ruiner!]

I dunno- I kind of like the ring. I think it will look good on my shelf at work next my other MU memorabilia.

I think it is unique and clever.

[wadesworld]

Poor TC, he wants to do everything in his power to remind the masses of his Final Four appearance, but at the same time he ends up reminding them it's been 5 years since he won a tournament game...

Darned if you do...darned if you don't...

And when was the last time we went to a Final Four before 2003 and TC?  Over 25 years?  Yeah, I guess if TC was a good coach us fans would already have forgotten about 2003 and who Dwyane Wade is within 5 years.

[Canned Goods n Ammo]

I dunno- I kind of like the ring. I think it will look good on my shelf at work next my other MU memorabilia.

I think it is unique and clever.

I'm inclined to agree... I mean, it's a little weird looking... but definitely different from any other promotion I've seen.

How many bobbleheads do I really need?

[77ncaachamps]

Looks like a great pen holder.

[Boognish_MU]

How many bobbleheads do I really need?

That why we should have Marquette Plastic Cup night.  I would much rather have a nice new water cup for my bathroom or desk @ work that is celebrating the final four... not some make shift paper weight or pen holder

[Canned Goods n Ammo]

I'm going to take shots out of mine... a lot of shots.

Maybe we'll play "Final 4 Replica Ring Century Club".

The possibilities are endless.

Use your imaginations, boys.

[mustever]

The Marquette basketball stocking cap they gave away a few years back maybe the best giveaway they've ever had.

[IlikecreansoIcantposthere]

i'm definitely offering an 8th grade kid money to grab me a jersey

ZiggysFryBaby (age 13 months) is willing to negoitate a price for the jersey.   

How about this deal for the jersey: I promise to think about letting ZiggysFryBaby go on one (1) date with SpiralBaby in the somewhat distant future and to give five (5) minutes to ZiggysFryBaby to allow him to try and argue convincingly in favor of the date if he so chooses.  I'll even be nice and recommend some factors that would make the argument more favorable for him: 1.) how far in the future this date is to happen (the farther the better), 2.) whether ZiggysFryBaby a graduate of Marquette University and can successfully pass a TBD quiz about MU basketball containing no fewer than twenty (20) and no more than thirty million (30,000,000) questions.

There.. I think that is fair.. deal?

this sounds a lot like pimping

[augoman]

The Marquette basketball stocking cap they gave away a few years back maybe the best giveaway they've ever had.
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Agreed.  Still have mine, somewhere.

[🏀]

The Marquette basketball stocking cap they gave away a few years back maybe the best giveaway they've ever had.

Agreed.  Still have mine, somewhere.
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Without a doubt, I have/had about ten of those. A staple of my winter season. I could go for a baby blue one next year.

[Daniel]

The gold "Going to the Big East" caps a few years back were cool - still have mine.  And thw Wade t-shirts weren't bad eitehr.

[Boognish_MU]

So I got to the game a little on the early side last night (about 45 minutes) and so my surprise... the Marquette run table on the 200 level my the escalators were giving away Marquette Plastic Cups!!!!!

I wonder if they have someone who is a scooper working for them