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**Marquette Assistant Coach** | **Marquette Assistant Coach** | ||
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In 2007-08, Williams served as an assistant coach with the Golden Eagles in his first season at Marquette. MU concluded the year 25-10 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2003. | In 2007-08, Williams served as an assistant coach with the Golden Eagles in his first season at Marquette. MU concluded the year 25-10 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2003. | ||
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+ | **Legal and NCAA Issues During his Tenure** | ||
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+ | During his tenure at Marquette, there were a number of issues that made some members of the Marquette community uncomfortable. | ||
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+ | **Departure for Virginia Tech** | ||
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+ | In March 2015, Buzz Williams decided to run away from his poorly constructed team and the legal and NCAA issues above, and took the head coaching job at Virginia Tech; a school with no basketball tradition whatsoever. Buzz never acknowledged that he was showing a lack of the kind of toughness that he preached during his coaching tenure at Marquette, leading many to believe that he was simply a fraud and an opportunist. | ||
===== University of New Orleans ===== | ===== University of New Orleans ===== | ||
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+ | ===== Coach Williams' | ||
+ | ^ Year ^ Record | ||
+ | | 2008-09 |2-2|BET: Beat SJU, Lost Nova. | NCAA #6 Seed: beat #11 Utah State, Lost to #3 Missouri | ||
+ | | 2009-10 |2-2|BET:# | ||
+ | | 2010-11 |4-2|BET:# | ||
+ | | 2011-12 |2-2|BET #2 - Lost to Louisville | NCAA #3 seed: Beat #14 BYU, #6 Murray State, Lost to #7 Florida in Sweet 16| | ||
+ | | 2012-13 |3-2|BET #3 - Lost to Notre Dame | NCAA #3 seed: Beat #14 Davidson, #6 Butler, #2 Miami, Lost to #4 Syracuse in ELITE 8| | ||
+ | |Season Totals: | ||
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| “Faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love, and a lot of these kids have never been loved. And when you've never been loved and you're 20 years old and somebody tries to love you for the first time, you don't know how to handle it. And when you start talking about God for the first time and when you think about what those kids have been through in the previous 20 years, they' | | “Faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love, and a lot of these kids have never been loved. And when you've never been loved and you're 20 years old and somebody tries to love you for the first time, you don't know how to handle it. And when you start talking about God for the first time and when you think about what those kids have been through in the previous 20 years, they' | ||
| “I like guys that have had to ride in 15-passenger vans. I like guys that, when they order, they use a number. ‘I’d like the combo meal No. 2.’ I like those kinds of guys. I’m never opposed to signing a guy who ate at McDonald’s pre- and post-game, and is thankful to get one cotton t-shirt, not a Dri-FIT.” | | “I like guys that have had to ride in 15-passenger vans. I like guys that, when they order, they use a number. ‘I’d like the combo meal No. 2.’ I like those kinds of guys. I’m never opposed to signing a guy who ate at McDonald’s pre- and post-game, and is thankful to get one cotton t-shirt, not a Dri-FIT.” | ||
- | | “We need to grow our hair out to protect our brains so we don't forget how to play like us.” | ||
| “Just gotta hang in there for one more day…and then do it again the next day.” | | “Just gotta hang in there for one more day…and then do it again the next day.” | ||
| “I think that there’s too much sugar in the world and not enough salt. Kids want to be challenged. Humans want to aspire to something. You don’t win in life and you don’t win in athletics with softness or selfishness.” | | “I think that there’s too much sugar in the world and not enough salt. Kids want to be challenged. Humans want to aspire to something. You don’t win in life and you don’t win in athletics with softness or selfishness.” |