Buzz Williams, right, greets his players after being introduced as Marquette's coach. Williams met the media Tuesday in Milwaukee.

Milwaukee ? Buzz Williams knows he’s not the kind of high-profile hire who will generate a lot of, well, buzz for Marquette basketball – at least not right away.

But Williams says the attributes that made him an effective recruiting guru under Billy Gillispie and the man he’s replacing, Tom Crean, also will make him a successful head coach at a major program: tireless hard work and an emphasis on personal relationships.

“There are coaches that have done way more than me that I respect, that I admire,” Williams said Tuesday after he was introduced as the Golden Eagles’ new coach. “And I’m not deceived (about) how unbelievably grateful I should be for this position, and I feel very blessed.”

That said, Williams told his players that outside perception doesn’t really matter.

“Whatever the perception is of me, and of them, now it’s us,” Williams said.

Williams, a former assistant to Gillispie at Texas A&M and under Crean at Marquette last season – with one sub-.500 season as the head coach at University of New Orleans sandwiched in between – signed a six-year deal to succeed Crean, who left for Indiana a week ago.

The last time Marquette had to search for a basketball coach, they landed perhaps the hottest candidate available in Crean.

Marquette now has a much higher profile in the world of college basketball, but didn’t make the same kind of splash with its new coach. Does it matter that Marquette didn’t land a fast-riser such as Washington State’s Tony Bennett or Xavier’s Sean Miller?

Star guard Dominic James told his teammates the answer was no. People might scratch their heads when Williams’ name flashes across the news ticker at the bottom of the screen on cable television, but that won’t stop Marquette from winning.

“When his name goes across the ticker, the whole country’s going to be like, ‘Who’s that?,'” James said.