Athletic: Joey Hauser Talks About Leaving Marquette

[TallTitan34]

https://theathletic.com/1068489/2019/07/09/how-joey-hauser-found-his-own-way-to-michigan-state/

[Mr. Nielsen]

Great. Can't read it. Paywall.

[TallTitan34]

Here are a few highlights. 

Hauser says now that this is what he wanted all along. Michigan State. Tom Izzo. He would've made the trip to East Lansing two years ago, he says, if things were simpler, if things were different.

Joey naturally assumed he'd follow his brother again. More and more, though, he began seeing his transfer as a redemptive opportunity. His original choice to go to Marquette was never made with blind certainty. Deep down, Hauser was always drawn to Michigan State. The two have history because, as most things involving Izzo tend to, there's a coincidental connection weaving back decades.

David Hauser, Sam and Joey's father, played college basketball at the University of Minnesota Duluth for a man named Dale Race. In the 1980s, Race held camps that needed a roster of instructors. Izzo, then a young assistant at Michigan State, ended up as one of those instructors.

Joey, meanwhile, couldn't come around to the idea of parting from his older brother.  "I don't want to say I made the wrong choice going to Marquette, but I think my brother played a large part in me going there. For good reason," he says over breakfast.

Marquette told him it would be smart to graduate early, enroll in college for the spring semester and use the university's strength and conditioning program. It also sounded logical, except, deep down, Hauser didn't want to leave high school early. He did so anyway.  In hindsight, his ankle was probably better off, but he regrets the decision to this day. "If I had to do it over again, even if I had the injury, I probably would have chosen to stay in high school, just because you miss a lot of things," Hauser says.

Ultimately, though, both brothers say that if they were truly dead set on playing together, they would've chosen Wisconsin.  But they were not, in fact, dead set on playing together.

The decision dragged into the night. Joey Hauser called Izzo one more time. He had visited campus in May and talked to MSU coaches constantly, but he wanted some final reassurances. He asked Izzo how Michigan State will use him, what he'll look like in the system.  Izzo ended the conversation with a question of his own. "If Sam wasn't going to Virginia, and it was between Virginia and Michigan State, where would you go?" Izzo said.

[Galway Eagle]

 blames MU for getting him college ready after the injury? Not sure how he'd have looked without coming early and using Stephens point conditioning but I'd wager not good enough that MSU would want him.

[#UnleashSean]

I can wrap my head around Joey transferring. I still can't believe Sam did.

[TallTitan34]

I can wrap my head around Joey transferring. I still can't believe Sam did.

I think it would have been better for Marquette had Joey just chosen MSU and never came to Marquette.  We might still have Sam.

[Pakuni]

Great. Can't read it. Paywall.

Sucks when commercial enterprises ask you to pay for their product.

[Mr. Nielsen]

Sucks when commercial enterprises ask you to pay for their product.

I'm fine with it. As I say to people who say they can't watch MU on CBSSN.

[The Sultan]

I think it would have been better for Marquette had Joey just chosen MSU and never came to Marquette.  We might still have Sam.

This is a really astute observation. Sam and Markus were real close and I bet the tension that existed between Joey and Markus put Sam in some bad spots - especially after reading this and seeming like Joey made the wrong choice from the beginning.

[Pakuni]

blames MU for getting him college ready after the injury? Not sure how he'd have looked without coming early and using Stephens point conditioning but I'd wager not good enough that MSU would want him.

MSU offered him well before his injury.
And I don't think he blamed MU for anything here. He just said that looking back, he wished he'd have finished high school like a normal kid. Which is completely understandable, and something a lot of people here suggested would happen when Joey came to MU early.

[The Sultan]

MSU offered him well before his injury.
And I don't think he blamed MU for anything here. He just said that looking back, he wished he'd have finished high school like a normal kid. Which is completely understandable, and something a lot of people here suggested would happen when Joey came to MU early.

Plus he would have his redshirt still to burn this year.

[#UnleashSean]

Plus he would have his redshirt still to burn this year.

I'm 99% sure he will get that back. The ncaa is dumb, but are they really dumb enough to deny a kid another year for graduating a semester early?

[The Sultan]

I'm 99% sure he will get that back. The ncaa is dumb, but are they really dumb enough to deny a kid another year for graduating a semester early?

I really doubt he get's it back, but we will see.

[Herman Cain]

I pointed out at the time that I though Joey made a mistake by coming to MU early and missing the last part of high school. Glad he realizes it now.  There is a time for everything in life.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

This matches a lot of what I believed was the most believable storyline coming out of Hausergate, Joey always wanted to go to MSU, picked MU because of his brother,  and that regret eventually caused tension that festered.

[wadesworld]

Who?

[Tha Hound]

So fucking tired of reading about this guy and his brother. It's been a chore to login this site ever since, and why I've barely logged on this website for the past however many months.

[BCHoopster]

I pointed out at the time that I though Joey made a mistake by coming to MU and missing the last part of high school. Glad he realizes it now.  There is a time for everything in life.

Joey and Sam where basically the same player, not the right chemistry to play together, one is fine, two of them were just not athletic enough
to be on the court at the same time.  Your right, to bad he came to MU.  Sam would still be at MU.  Interesting to see how Wojo plays a 3 guard
line-up.  McEwen, Howard and Anim will be the starters, upfront whoever can get a rebound probably will play.

[TallTitan34]

So unnatural carnal knowledgeing tired of reading about this guy and his brother. It's been a chore to login this site ever since, and why I've barely logged on this website for the past however many months.

Lol yet you clicked a thread titled: Joey Hauser Talks About Leaving Marquette

[jsglow]

I think it would have been better for Marquette had Joey just chosen MSU and never came to Marquette.  We might still have Sam.

That's kinda how I see it.  Oh, and let's not recruit brothers again for awhile.

[WarriorDad]

Any mention of a blind commitment to Wisconsin that they backed out of because of their mother?  Was that not the story here a month ago?

[The Sultan]

Joey and Sam where basically the same player, not the right chemistry to play together, one is fine, two of them were just not athletic enough
to be on the court at the same time. 

That's really just not accurate.  They were fine together last year and would have been even better this year.

[Billy Hoyle]

I'm 99% sure he will get that back. The ncaa is dumb, but are they really dumb enough to deny a kid another year for graduating a semester early?

not a chance. It was due to injury.

[#UnleashSean]

So unnatural carnal knowledgeing tired of reading about this guy and his brother. It's been a chore to login this site ever since, and why I've barely logged on this website for the past however many months.

Its pretty simple to not click on the post.

[Shooter Flatch]

I really doubt he get's it back, but we will see.

If he gets the redshirt back I think he eventually uses it to grad transfer. Joey will get his feelings hurt sometime in the next 2 years.