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Thread: Burnt ROUX: Marquie Cooke

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    Default Re: ROUX: Ragin' Cajuns sign Marquie Player

    Quote Originally Posted by brina
    First of all I've never been kicked off any team whom ever you are. Get better sources or contact me and find out what happen. Of course they going to make the black guy seems like he is trouble, but nothing was said or brought up when ya'll favorite player got caught smoking weed (J.J. Ridick)
    Both schools that I left, me and the coaches came to a agreement, so if there is anything else u want to know I'll be around campus and who r u to be downing others?
    Marquie don't even worry about it you only have to be at UL 2 years and then you can leave this place I dont even know why we look at this website UL has the worst fans in college basketball. They didn't even give Turner, Fields or Barksdale a chance to get a glimpse of what D-1 ball was like, but they love their "hometown heroes" After Turner, Cooke, Dees, Barksdale, and Fields leads us to a top ten team next year, and Coach Lee leaves UL for a better job, UL will be nothing probably fall to a D-3 school. I can't wait for that. I like UL, but the fans are horrible, they could make anybody want to leave this place. Cooke just be ready to come right in and dominate at the point next year because the black players aren't allowed to come in and get better, they are already supposed to be "great". The proof is in the pudding. Turner, Fields, nor Barksdale never played 10 minutes of D-1 basketball, but they had expectations on them as if they were the seniors. Just be ready next year, or you will not want to be at UL after next year. From one of your freinds.

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    Zeebart21's Avatar Zeebart21 is offline Ragin Cajuns of Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Greatest Fan Ever

    Default Re: ROUX: Ragin' Cajuns sign Marquie Player

    Quote Originally Posted by Illtellu
    Marquie don't even worry about it you only have to be at UL 2 years and then you can leave this place I dont even know why we look at this website UL has the worst fans in college basketball. They didn't even give Turner, Fields or Barksdale a chance to get a glimpse of what D-1 ball was like, but they love their "hometown heroes" After Turner, Cooke, Dees, Barksdale, and Fields leads us to a top ten team next year, and Coach Lee leaves UL for a better job, UL will be nothing probably fall to a D-3 school. I can't wait for that. I like UL, but the fans are horrible, they could make anybody want to leave this place. Cooke just be ready to come right in and dominate at the point next year because the black players aren't allowed to come in and get better, they are already supposed to be "great". The proof is in the pudding. Turner, Fields, nor Barksdale never played 10 minutes of D-1 basketball, but they had expectations on them as if they were the seniors. Just be ready next year, or you will not want to be at UL after next year. From one of your freinds.
    Geeze didnt you just get run from the Delphi board???? You have a problem? Coach Lee, an absolutely amazing man of color by the way, has an open door policy.....Go pay him a visit...Guaranteed, he'll give you a listen....Then he'll tell you why certain people were on the floor at certain times.

    You wont get anything accomplished complaining on this board.

    Z.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeebart21
    Geeze didnt you just get run from the Delphi board???? You have a problem? Coach Lee, an absolutely amazing man of color by the way, has an open door policy.....Go pay him a visit...Guaranteed, he'll give you a listen....Then he'll tell you why certain people were on the floor at certain times.

    You wont get anything accomplished complaining on this board.

    Z.
    Who was talking about Coach Lee I was talking about UL fans wakeup and open ya eyes and read this before responding. I know Coach Lee is a good coach I play for him.

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    Zeebart21's Avatar Zeebart21 is offline Ragin Cajuns of Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Greatest Fan Ever

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    Quote Originally Posted by Illtellu
    Cooke just be ready to come right in and dominate at the point next year because the black players aren't allowed to come in and get better, they are already supposed to be "great".>>>
    Did you not just post this?

    Youre saying that the coaches dont give black players a chance...???

    Thats what I see. I truly dont believe anyone in the stands or anywhere else tells Coach Lee who to play...

    Dont bring your whining sss in here and tell me to open my eyes young man.

    The coaches make the decisions... If you were benched, or did not get enough PT, its because of 1 of 2 things..

    1. You have an attitude.

    2. You need to improve your game.

    Which one is your problem?

    Lose the chip, get better, we'll all be one big happy family.

    Mr.Z.

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    Once again BOY dont tell me who I was talking about. The fans, people like you, have no interest in a players developement. You expected first year players to come in here and take you to the final four. There can you understand that because if you cant you have the problem KID. Nothing in what I said had anything to do with Coach Lee. How the ____ could he be racist to black athletes and he's black. Stop looking for the controversy and look for the truth. The whole reason most of the players came to UL was to have an opprutunity to play for a black coach, because its not many of them in College basketball. The expectations on the UL basketball team is alot higher for players like Barksdale, Turner, and Fields as opposed to Mouton and James, Although all UL players have high expectations. This isn't a race thing so please don't turn it in to one.


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    This will ramble a bit, but here goes:

    I've been going to games since 1975 in person, and the most popular players from the fan perspectives have been African American. Wayne Julien, Dion Rainey, Andrew Toney, Alonza Allen, Graylin Warner, Dion Brown, Alfred "Pop" Turner, Dan Gay, Aaron Mitchell, Marcus Stokes, Kevin Brooks, Lonnie Thomas, etc, etc, etc. were the favorite players of their times when I've been attending games.

    The "white" players who were cheered locally were by and large local products who people in the area were familiar with from seeing them play in high school, but were never the stars of the teams.

    True fans (which I believe most of the Cajun fans are) want to see our basketball team play hard throughout the game, play tough defense, and most importantly, play like a team. I mean no "me first" mentality, make the extra pass to the open man, worry about your teammates first before yourself. I watched every home game this past year, and early in the season we didn't do this. Our passing was horrible, we continuously made poor decisions with the ball, and we were slow on defense and consistently getting beat on a man on man basis. When we started rotating a number of players about mid-point in conference, the defense picked up, we did a better job of moving the ball inside and out we created more consistant inside scoring and wide open outside shots, and we did a much better job of controlling the ball and taking less forced shots.

    I've not criticized individuals on the team (and won't), but I can't call someone else who does a racist because I don't know him or his personal beliefs. This is a "FAN" site, so keep in mind the vast majority of people here truly love the university and all of its sports teams. We go to the games day after day, week after week, and year after year, because that's what "FANS" do.

    There's people that you'll disagree with throughout your life, and you try as an adult to ignore them as much as possible, so you might as well learn that now. Most fans of college teams are like the general populace, some good and some bad.

    By the way, I spoke to Marquie at a pre-season practice (along with about every Cajun player I could) and he seems a great kid. I'm looking forward to him averaging double/double scoring and assists for the team next year. I'm hoping he doesn't have to average double digit rebounds as well.

    Sorry about the ramble.


  7. UL Basketball Re: ROUX: Ragin' Cajuns sign Marquie Player

    Quote Originally Posted by Illtellu
    The fans, people like you, have no interest in a players developement. You expected first year players to come in here and take you to the final four.
    Sad but true.

    The first thing we as fans ever read or hear about a new player is how great he is, how great he was, and how great he will be. We expect to see it right away. It is worng to place undue expectations on new players.

    If we don't see it first hand the very first time we see them play we declare the sky is falling.

    Still, I wouldn't go so far as to say fans have NO interest in player’s development. But we are impatient "fan" does come from the word fanatic after all and fanatics are not the most patient group of people.

    I was hoping Tiras Wade would play another year (and develop) because another thing fans want is to see the player they followed in college play in the NBA so they can follow him as "fans" for years to come.

    Side note: The fans of this board overwhelming picked Lee to be the coach, and the majority supported Southall coming back. I am very happy with coach Lee and the players he has recruited.

    If this years team taught me anything it's never give up, never give in. I am really looking forward to the 2006-07 of the Turner, Dees, Barksdale, Hart, and Fields era. And yes I have high hopes for Mr. Marquie

    I'm just a fan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Illtellu
    Marquie don't even worry about it you only have to be at UL 2 years and then you can leave this place I dont even know why we look at this website UL has the worst fans in college basketball. They didn't even give Turner, Fields or Barksdale a chance to get a glimpse of what D-1 ball was like, but they love their "hometown heroes" After Turner, Cooke, Dees, Barksdale, and Fields leads us to a top ten team next year, and Coach Lee leaves UL for a better job, UL will be nothing probably fall to a D-3 school. I can't wait for that. I like UL, but the fans are horrible, they could make anybody want to leave this place. Cooke just be ready to come right in and dominate at the point next year because the black players aren't allowed to come in and get better, they are already supposed to be "great". The proof is in the pudding. Turner, Fields, nor Barksdale never played 10 minutes of D-1 basketball, but they had expectations on them as if they were the seniors. Just be ready next year, or you will not want to be at UL after next year. From one of your freinds.
    Illtellu, if you are a member of the basketball team, and this is your impression of Cajun basketball fans, then we (all of us) have either not done our job of making you feel welcome, or you have come across certain fans that have made you feel uncomfortable. But for you to call us the worst fans in college basketball is overstepping yourself. For you to call us the worst means you would have experience with more than one other university, and since there are only two players currently on the roster that fit that profile, which one are you?
    My name is Terrell Hebert. I don't hide behind my log-in profile, anything I say on this board, I would gladly say to anyone in person. I don't think you meant this post as a warning to your "friend" Marquie, you could just as easily have said this to him, if you had direct contact with him. I suspect you meant to antagonize those who read this board. If you have a problem with us, come talk to us as an adult. If you are trying to stir up ill will on the basketball team or in this basketball community, and you are a member of the basketball team, then you need to leave and spread your poison elsewhere. The love we have for our basketball players transcends the shots you can block, the dunks you can thunder, the steals you can intercept or anything you can do on the court. If you have any doubts about that, ask Sidney Grider, Dwight Lamar, Alonza Allen (other states), Byron Starks, Eric Mouton and Tyrone Jones (Louisiana), among many, many others, who stayed here after their playing days because they felt the genuine love this community has for them.
    One other point: the coaching staff and media representatives have a tendency to publicize the positive aspects of recruits. Some of us do our homework on new signees so that we are not fooled when the new season begins and these new players are not the second coming of Michael. Unfortunately, not all fans do that so they are not prepared when November rolls around and all they know about the player is the good stuff they've heard about him. We have become accustomed to the coaching staff getting quality players that fit right into the system. I'm hoping that, from now on, we will be a little more patient with those who need more time to get into the flow of the system, while still expecting them to strive for excellence.

  9. Default Three strikes not enough to keep Cooke out of his game


      NORFOLK - Marquie Cooke still has options.

    He's burned three of them in the last two years, of course, seeking an education and a college basketball career, not necessarily in that order.

    Cooke, who will turn 22 next month, is nearly a text-book case on the perils of athletic entitlement.

    But do not quit on him, said Franklin Chatman, Cooke's friend and former coach at Suffolk's Nansemond River High.

    Cooke deserves more rope, even as he's untangling himself from his recent past.

    Yes, Cooke - once the Tidewater Player of the Year and a top national recruit - has either left or been dismissed from Virginia Tech, Colorado State and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette since he left high school in 2004.

    Yes, Chatman said, "the kid's made some mistakes, I'll be the first to tell you.

    "Marquie's a good guy, but is he sometimes a head case? Yeah."

    But Cooke is also like a son to Chatman, who has been an advisor, disciplinarian, advocate and more to Cooke since he was a sixth-grader.

    The rest of the story


    The Virginian-Pilot


    Homes SO Clean

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    Zeebart21's Avatar Zeebart21 is offline Ragin Cajuns of Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Greatest Fan Ever

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    Quote Originally Posted by NewsCopy
    So Cooke wound up in Louisiana last spring, but academic problems determined he'd have to sit out this entire season instead of playing in the second semester as he'd planned. No way, Cooke said. He'll stay home at his grandmother's house until further notice.

    "I'm not a person that really likes school," Cooke said.>>>>>>>>>>>

    such promise only to end up as a ditch digger.......

    best of luck, kid.

    Z.

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    Default Re: Three strikes not enough to keep Cooke out of his game

    "The world needs ditch-diggers too..."

    Ted Knight [I think} from Caddyshack


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