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Title: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Tempotime on March 26, 2021, 04:40:58 PM
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/31141197/sources-texas-shaka-smart-talks-marquette-deal-imminent

This is how it’s done right here folks 🤣🤣🤣. When you know you’re about to get canned just find something else.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Chickengeorge on March 26, 2021, 04:56:05 PM
Yes.  Tempo just came.

Just a couple short hours away, and Tempo can drive up there, gaze upon Shaka's beautiful bronze skin, and think of what could have been.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: illinicalvin on March 26, 2021, 04:56:14 PM
Just a head scratching move. Dude turned us down for being too whitebread and now he has to live in Milwaukee.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: ThePAMan on March 26, 2021, 05:05:19 PM
Just a head scratching move. Dude turned us down for being too whitebread and now he has to live in Milwaukee.

Well, when you are desperate....
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Lkdog on March 26, 2021, 05:08:21 PM
Just a head scratching move. Dude turned us down for being too whitebread and now he has to live in Milwaukee.

Well, Chicago is just a short drive for his wife.
 
Agree- Milwaukee is not a diverse urban metro area.
Its like a big small town and not the greatest place for a person of color.
Helluva zoo though.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: ThePAMan on March 26, 2021, 05:18:39 PM
Well, Chicago is just a short drive for his wife.
 
Agree- Milwaukee is not a diverse urban metro area.
Its like a big small town and not the greatest place for a person of color.
Helluva zoo though.

Have always had a great time when I visted Water Street (think that is the name) or gone to a Brewer game.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 26, 2021, 05:30:06 PM
Just a head scratching move. Dude turned us down for being too whitebread and now he has to live in Milwaukee.

Enjoy the cosmopolitan metropolis of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and their fucking terrible winters, douchebag!
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: ThePAMan on March 26, 2021, 05:56:31 PM
Enjoy the cosmopolitan metropolis of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and their fucking terrible winters, douchebag!

The Champaign winters are any better?
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: ThePAMan on March 26, 2021, 05:57:42 PM
Let's be honest. If there is a choice between Milwaukee and Champaign, you are choosing Milwaukee.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: fucking on March 26, 2021, 06:05:21 PM
Why are you looking to Old 97 for rational answers?
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 26, 2021, 06:21:33 PM
Let's be honest. If there is a choice between Milwaukee and Champaign, you are choosing Milwaukee.

I do suppose Austin isnt a choice at this point
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Lkdog on March 26, 2021, 07:05:43 PM
I did get arrested one summer at Summerfest.
Jaywalking.
The cops grabbed me and the other guys and asked for IDs. Then yelled to another group of cops that we were FIBs. (Fucking Illinois Bastards).

Actually got put in a paddy wagon.
They treat their visitors well at the biggest moneymaking event of the year there.

So Shaka best wait for the light to change.


Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: fucking on March 26, 2021, 07:45:06 PM
Nobody likes a dirty hippie.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: illinicalvin on March 26, 2021, 07:45:13 PM
I do like Milwaukee but it's not a big city.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: illiniray on March 26, 2021, 07:56:18 PM
The Champaign winters are any better?

Milwaukee, WI
Weather averages
Month High / Low(°F)
December 34° / 25°
January  30° / 20°
February 32° / 21°

Champaign, IL
Weather averages
Month High / Low(°F)
December 38° / 23°
January 33° / 17°
February 38° / 21°
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Custard on March 26, 2021, 08:20:35 PM
Champaign as expected has about 50% higher average wind speed than Milwaukee so for all intents and purposes they might as well be the same. The lake effect actually keeps cities like Chicago and Milwaukee warmer throughout the winter than further inland.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: fucking on March 26, 2021, 08:21:45 PM
Does "lake effect snow" happen in Milwaukee?
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Custard on March 26, 2021, 08:25:28 PM
Yeah it isn’t a lot though
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: illiniray on March 26, 2021, 08:30:58 PM
Champaign averages 20 inches of snow per year.

Milwaukee averages 45 inches of snow per year.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Custard on March 26, 2021, 08:41:05 PM
Only 6% of that extra snow is lake effect
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Miniditka on March 26, 2021, 08:43:13 PM
Just a head scratching move. Dude turned us down for being too whitebread and now he has to live in Milwaukee.
His stock is a little lower now than it was then.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: fucking on March 26, 2021, 08:43:34 PM
I would expect lake effect to be mostly downwind from the lake. I suppose Benton Harbor gets more.

But holy shit on 45 inches. That's the same as Minneapolis, which seems to have snow on the ground from November to April.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Miniditka on March 26, 2021, 08:45:07 PM
Yeah it isn’t a lot though
People on the west side of the lake don’t really understand what lake effect snow is. They talk about it all the time, but it mostly only happens on the east side.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Miniditka on March 26, 2021, 08:46:24 PM
I would expect lake effect to be mostly downwind from the lake. I suppose Benton Harbor gets more.

But holy shit on 45 inches. That's the same as Minneapolis, which seems to have snow on the ground from November to April.
That’s not because Minneapolis gets more snow, it’s because it often doesn’t get warm enough for the snow to melt in Minnesota.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: wonky73 on March 26, 2021, 08:53:40 PM
Just a head scratching move. Dude turned us down for being too whitebread and now he has to live in Milwaukee.

Dude turned down Mike Thomas because Thomas is a flaming anus of a human beign
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Custard on March 26, 2021, 09:01:58 PM
People on the west side of the lake don’t really understand what lake effect snow is. They talk about it all the time, but it mostly only happens on the east side.

Exactly.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: fucking on March 26, 2021, 09:25:31 PM
human beign
Beigns are like donuts, but made of meat.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Lkdog on March 26, 2021, 10:38:28 PM
Nobody likes a dirty hippie.

True
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: jayboek on March 26, 2021, 11:20:10 PM
Milwaukee is a shit hole.  Went up there a few years ago for a brewers game and stayed a few miles from the ball park at a holiday Inn.  That night someone shot at the hotel and hit a window and numerous amount of cars were broken into in the parking lot.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: ThePAMan on March 27, 2021, 02:55:08 AM
Milwaukee is a shit hole.  Went up there a few years ago for a brewers game and stayed a few miles from the ball park at a holiday Inn.  That night someone shot at the hotel and hit a window and numerous amount of cars were broken into in the parking lot.

Well, that settles it.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: fucking on March 27, 2021, 05:08:16 AM
Yep. Can't argue with a personal experience.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 27, 2021, 12:50:58 PM
Milwaukee, WI
Weather averages
Month High / Low(°F)
December 34° / 25°
January  30° / 20°
February 32° / 21°

Champaign, IL
Weather averages
Month High / Low(°F)
December 38° / 23°
January 33° / 17°
February 38° / 21°

as someone who went to high school near milwaukee, there is a pretty large difference between the two, considering its 225 miles longitudinally... just showing the highs and lows doesn't really do the difference justice... lets just say there's a smaller area under the curve temperature wise for Milwaukee for you calculus dorks out there
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: ILLove1997 on March 27, 2021, 12:52:03 PM
Milwaukee is a shit hole.  Went up there a few years ago for a brewers game and stayed a few miles from the ball park at a holiday Inn.  That night someone shot at the hotel and hit a window and numerous amount of cars were broken into in the parking lot.

lol this sounds nearly exactly like my time in New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: IlliniGolf on March 27, 2021, 02:18:13 PM
Well, Chicago is just a short drive for his wife.
 
Agree- Milwaukee is not a diverse urban metro area.
Its like a big small town and not the greatest place for a person of color.
Helluva zoo though.

(https://i.ibb.co/y56881n/F1386-C39-E220-48-A3-81-AC-ADAC3-F3-F7-EEC.jpg) (https://ibb.co/BjyggxV)
(https://i.ibb.co/kcgXsYd/481206-F6-E9-FD-48-AC-94-A8-E063-DD8543-E5.jpg) (https://ibb.co/9Y9WkRM)
(https://i.ibb.co/6BzpNfJ/C066920-E-1193-47-E7-B4-A2-25-CD4541-E77-A.jpg) (https://ibb.co/TL6nrFq)
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Lkdog on March 27, 2021, 10:06:08 PM
The metro area overall is only 17% African American.
It's 1.5 MM people. Milwaukee itself is less than 600,000, hence the big small town thing. Lots of police and minority tension like a lot of urban city areas.Definitely more diverse in the actual city as you note.

I had close friends live in the city who I visited lot, and they moved to suburbs as things escalated.

I am quite sure Mrs. Shaka will have Groucho living in Shorewood and not in the city.

Let's just say the area is not ATL.

Look up David Clarke.
Lol.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: IlliniGolf on March 28, 2021, 12:19:46 PM
Milwaukee is one of top 35 largest cities in the entire country and has more black than white people but it’s a small non-diverse town. Got it. Glad your friends made it out to the suburbs in one piece.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Breal31 on March 28, 2021, 12:38:04 PM
Milwaukee is a shit hole.  Went up there a few years ago for a brewers game and stayed a few miles from the ball park at a holiday Inn.  That night someone shot at the hotel and hit a window and numerous amount of cars were broken into in the parking lot.

If you stayed a “few miles away”, then the mistake was on you and you made a bad choice. Most people would know you can stay in the suburbs and get to the park in 10 minutes

Milwaukee is a cool little town.  Easy to get in and get out. Good food options, lots of parking. Like anywhere else, has areas to avoid.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Breal31 on March 28, 2021, 12:40:25 PM
Milwaukee is one of top 35 largest cities in the entire country and has more black than white people but it’s a small non-diverse town. Got it. Glad your friends made it out to the suburbs in one piece.

It’s a pretty segregated town. On a scale of 1-10 for an African American, I’d score it about a 4.

A wealthy person like Shaka Smart will likely buy a ritzy north side /north suburb mini mansion like WoJo lived in (Mequon/Cedarburg)
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Lkdog on March 28, 2021, 12:41:13 PM
Maybe you need to read up on what a metro area is and what an amenable culture and institutions are for persons of color.
Milwaukee itself has a poverty rate of over 25 %. You can guess who is overrepresented.


Let's see where Mrs. Shaka locates.

You seem to be simplistically equating the  existence of minorities with being a good place to live for them.

Peoria has large African American population. It is only 56% white.  Awful place for minorities to live. I have worked there for 43 years.  The poverty and structural issues are tragic. Manual has grad rate around 50%. We have outreach office on south side.

Maybe this will help.
Milwaukee rated worst city in country for AA. Peoria in top 10.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/11/08/moving-the-worst-us-cities-for-black-americans/40553101/
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Lkdog on March 28, 2021, 12:44:49 PM
It’s a pretty segregated town. On a scale of 1-10 for an African American, I’d score it about a 4.

A wealthy person like Shaka Smart will likely buy a ritzy north side /north suburb mini mansion like WoJo lived in (Mequon/Cedarburg)


Exactly.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: IlliniGolf on March 28, 2021, 01:05:28 PM
Yes cities with more black people tend to have more crime and poverty, what are you trying to tell us?

When I don’t like a place I don’t stay there even when I didn’t have any extra money. Then again I had a HS diploma, some job skills and desire to work. I left Midlothian as soon as I was able to retire.

Everyone always says education will fix it but look at McLassie he’s got more education than anyone here and he lives like a hood rat by choice
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Custard on March 28, 2021, 02:11:10 PM
Hood rat 🤣
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: ThePAMan on March 28, 2021, 03:11:37 PM
Hood rat 🤣

I laughed too.  Gelato has been on a roll lately. Must have gotten hold of some good weed.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Reacher on March 28, 2021, 04:43:49 PM
Just a head scratching move. Dude turned us down for being too whitebread and now he has to live in Milwaukee.

He attended school in Wisconsin and may be from there originally?
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Reacher on March 28, 2021, 04:45:31 PM
Just a head scratching move. Dude turned us down for being too whitebread and now he has to live in Milwaukee.

Seems the writing was on wall at Texas. Smart (no pun intended) to go somewhere where he gets celebrated as a big deal again. Walk before they make you run.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Reacher on March 28, 2021, 04:47:58 PM
Just a head scratching move. Dude turned us down for being too whitebread and now he has to live in Milwaukee.

Lastly, how do we know he turned us down for being too “whitebread?” Is that a direct quote? He’s in his third urban environment in a row. Seems that is an appeal to him.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Reacher on March 28, 2021, 04:49:18 PM
I do like Milwaukee but it's not a big city.

600k doesn’t qualify as a “big city?”
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Reacher on March 28, 2021, 04:50:13 PM
Milwaukee, WI
Weather averages
Month High / Low(°F)
December 34° / 25°
January  30° / 20°
February 32° / 21°

Champaign, IL
Weather averages
Month High / Low(°F)
December 38° / 23°
January 33° / 17°
February 38° / 21°

Gonna go out on a limb and say the weather isn’t why he didn’t come here.
Title: Re: Smart leaving Texas for Marquette
Post by: Reacher on March 28, 2021, 04:51:13 PM
Dude turned down Mike Thomas because Thomas is a flaming anus of a human beign

This seems like a well informed take. I nominate this post for POTY.