6 posts tagged AlMcGuire

After the remarkable pace of news out of the Marquette program for most of last week, things slowed down just a bit - - - but here are few nuggets from the past several days to get you caught up. Per this article from the Tyler Morning Telegraph, Buzz Williams hired Scott Monarch as his first assistant coach.

After the remarkable pace of news out of the Marquette program for most of last week, things slowed down just a bit - - - but here are few nuggets from the past several days to get you caught up. Per this article from the Tyler Morning Telegraph, Buzz Williams hired Scott Monarch as his first assistant coach.

ESPN's Andy Katz is reporting that Indiana will announce Marquette's Tom Crean as its new coach tomorrow. My first reaction on reading that: Really? That's a step up? Why would Crean leave a Marquette team that finished 5th in the Big East and earned a 6 seed in the NCAA tournament for a scandal-ridden Indiana program?

Courtesy of a faithful Cracked Sidewalks reader, here is the actual Sports Illustrated cover story recounting Marquette's 1977 National Championship. If that link is slow, here's the landing page. Good reading and thanks!!

OK, more content to come later today but in the interim, here are a pair of items passed along from fans of the blog: "McGuire," Dick Enberg's one-man play about Al McGuire, will run at Hofstra University's Black Box Theater in Hempstead, NY on Feb. 9 and 10.

“I think the world is run by ‘C’ students.” Al McGuire