tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10389503.post3757192245698285906..comments2023-10-20T04:16:20.694-05:00Comments on Cracked Sidewalks: Coaching Carousel ReduxUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10389503.post-20863330300076850792011-02-14T15:37:21.818-06:002011-02-14T15:37:21.818-06:00I frankly think Buzz is not the long term answer f...I frankly think Buzz is not the long term answer for Marquette and his over reliance on the JUCO system is going to hurt us. MU is getting a very poor reputation. First, its the team that is always "almost" there and Buzz's recruiting of JUCO players won't help us land big time recruits. Players will not want to come to Marquette to play with that type caliber talent. <br /><br />I am defining talen by not only their physical kills, but basketball intellect to which DJO has practically 0 - he's an idiot. Flat our idiot. Never seen someone try to repeatedly drive through 5 players.<br /><br />We come out and do great, but then our opponent will adjust at half and we're left clueless. <br /><br />This team is a joke!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06198504207105168937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10389503.post-39979981473198499482011-02-14T13:36:33.682-06:002011-02-14T13:36:33.682-06:00Yeah, thats exactly it. I think DePaul should be ...Yeah, thats exactly it. I think DePaul should be in. Way to hit it out of the park.Vandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02112825480327967650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10389503.post-86868484257485038912011-02-14T12:46:56.466-06:002011-02-14T12:46:56.466-06:00Wait a second. We will make the tourney because o...Wait a second. We will make the tourney because of our conference? That doesn't even make sense. So DePaul will make it because of the conference too?<br /><br />You still have to win games to make it and if MU wins the games they should they will finish 11-7 in the BE and another 20 win season. <br /><br />The schedule has not been favorable, only three ranked teams in the BE have come to Milwaukee this year, we will have played six road games against ranked BE teams this year. The upcoming schedule is far easier than the last 10 games. In the last 10 games we played 8 ranked teams and gone 4-6. Only one game against a ranked team remains.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10107084042104896551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10389503.post-15215213148950722072011-02-14T10:28:01.349-06:002011-02-14T10:28:01.349-06:00Look, stats are great and I would be ignorant to i...Look, stats are great and I would be ignorant to ignore some of the good things Buzz has done with the program. He handled the Crean transition well and his teams always play hard. I will, however, be critical of his ability to actually coach a basketball game. His bench skills always seems to put him behind others in the Big East and he rarely "out-coaches" his opponents. <br /><br />While I am not ready to start the "fire Buzz" campaign just yet, I will ALWAYS question te manner in which he was hired. Under the stewardship of a new AD, in my opinion, the hiring process was a disaster. Crean left right before the Final Four. The fact that MU did not set up a Base Camp at the Final Four is ludicrous. Why didn't we have a presence there? Because our top athletic brass was busy attending the Women's NIT Final Four. Um, excuse me? <br /><br />Personally, I feel like MU "settled" for Buzz. He has done his best to get the players to buy-in and play hard, but for someone that spends a self-proclaimed (and somewhat ridiclous)20hrs/day on his job, what the hell is he doing during that time? We know he doesn't believe in practicing FTs...<br /><br />I hope I am proven wrong over the course of time (and I will certainly be happy to admit it if it comes to be,) but it just seems like when crunch time arrives, Buzz teams have issues closing vs teams of equal or better talent. Part of that - if not most if it - is on the coach and his staff. <br /><br />I still thnk we'll make the NCAA (only b/c of our conf) but this year's team doesn't pass the eye test. I am not sure Buzz does either.Vandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02112825480327967650noreply@blogger.com