Oso planning to go pro
off topic by why are the badgers at worst solid every year? their recruiting is mediocre on paper most years but here they are making the dance 19 out of like 20 years. on their way again this year. idk why we cant at be at their level.
100%. RED rolls. Every year. Nothing fancy. This version? Davis and a bunch of low-level recruits. Meanwhile, over in Milwaukee , a basketball-only school that’s been mediocre for a decade…and Oilcan preaches more patience. Ridiculous.
The simple fact is that they don't have players transferring out of the program so you have guys who have been in the program 4-5 years every year. This year they don't have as much returning experience as normal, but Davis, Davison and Wahl have stepped up and Crowl and Hepburn have stepped in. Transfers have killed Marquette and many other programs over the years.
Wisconsin has had plenty of players transfer
Well what choice do we have? Getting mad on a message board isn’t going to do any good. Shaka is going to be given a long leash and plenty of time. This is what we signed up for.
OK, I'm discouraged.I don't disagree with Brother Oilcan that Shaka is the real deal and in a couple of years, we'll be a force with which to be reckoned. I trust Shaka, for now.What bothers me is the close but no cigar moments we've had this year. Saturday just p*ssed me off to no end. There was no reason we should have lost. None. That's on coaching and on failure to execute. I love our Warriors and have been faithful for 50 years. I just don't remember the last time -- if ever -- the team aggravated me THAT much. Failures like last Saturday's are the kinds that cause fans to lose fandom.I tend to agree with Brother Johnny B, who brings up the Badgers as a role model. They are consistently well-coached and use three-star talent to go sometimes deep into the tournament. Will the Rodents ever win a Natty? Doubtful with the talent Greg Gard gets. But, would I trade their last 10 years for ours? Absolutely.Some of the difference between us and the Rodents is lack of consistency. We've had three un-related coaches in 10 years. They've transitioned within their program once. To that end, we better hope Shaka is the real deal. Otherwise, the more instability we have, the harder it will be to climb the mountain back to where many older Warriors think we ought to be.
ScoopWe cannot change the past eight years of performance and can only look forward. IMO, we have shot the ball poorly and shot ourselves in the foot in three BE games, yet still had a chance to beat three good teams.I am not a moral victory guy and pissed off that we lost, especially I have been saying for months the need to steal some games and they did not get that done the last three games. That being said, I wonder if all the naysayers believed going into those games that we would be in the game in last two minutes. If they can hang with the big boys with horrible shooting and rebounding that gives me optimism, they are on the right track.
Brother dgies, get old, stay old. That is what Wisconsin does very well. The years they don't are the years they struggle.MU is not old. While close losses are always frustrating, don't lose track of the fact that 8 of the 11 active players this year are in their first or second year. Osa played 38 minutes all of last season. OMP averaged 10 minutes a game for Clemson. Kolek was in the A-10. It is simply not logical to expect them to be a well oiled machine or as good as they will be as upperclassmen.
A top 5 player in the country hides a lot of their blemishes this year. But yes generally this is correct.
The rest of that team isn’t very good. It’s role players like the current Marquette roster. Someone will probably take a leap for them next year and that’ll happen here, too.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.