Bruce Weber is well know for talking LOUDLY at press conferences; even when there is a microphone, and thus no need for AMPLIFYING HIS VOICE.
It’s something all college basketball coaches do: a lot of screaming. Well Bruce Weber is making a lot of noise right now, and he hasn’t even said a word. There’s a whole lot of noise building towards the idea of Weber leaving Kansas State to take the Marquette vacancy.
(UPDATE: With the elimination of Tennessee, Cuonzo Martin emerges as another leading candidate for the MU job)
We first reported from a source within Marquette that Weber, a UW-Milwaukee and Marquette high school alum, was rather interested in returning to coach in his hometown. We didn’t say that MU had reciprocated any interest, or that the bargaining began, but….
…the Bruce Weber to MU idea took off on the internet, and it was, for the most part beloved oddly by both Marquette fans and K-State fans. (Who at least wished him well)
Then the Shaka Smart thing happened. The entire Milwaukee television media acted like the dog in “Up” chasing a squirrel. That squirrel being some kid at the MU television station tweeting something about a non-existent press conference. Which is lead Marquette basketball to make an announcement that they were….having a banquet at the Harley-Davidson museum.
Then nothing happened. And more nothing happened. Then on March 27th, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel threw Weber’s name out there.
More nothing has happened since then. Like the missing Malaysian airliner, the supply of actual legitimate information on this story is nowhere close to the demand. People want to know what Marquette is doing on their coaching search. However, people don’t really know what the Golden Eagles will do. And MU themselves are telling all of us nothing.
Last night, both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel named Bruce Weber as one of the viable, leading candidates for the job.
So that’s where we’re at. We don’t know if Bruce Weber will take the job in Milwaukee. We just know that he’s as much the front-runner as anyone else.
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