Oso planning to go pro
Little energy? What team are you watching Stretch?
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
You people are drunk. Before the season started, everyone tried to tell you that this team wasn't very good on paper. The Big East coaches, the media, KenPom, T-Rank, Haslam, some of the more sane scoopers, all of them said that this team would likely finish towards the bottom of the Big East. Hell, Shaka said it every chance he got when speaking publicly preseason. The fact that we're not sub-500 right now is a testament to Shaka coaching up this roster. The fact that other than Bucky and Bonnies, this team has been in every game is also a testament to Shaka coaching this team up. We have one guy who was a high major starter before this season. The rest is a bunch of high major bench players, a mid-major starter, and a bunch of freshmen who were ranked 90 or lower...playing in a league full of teams that have been playing together for years and are supplemented by 24 year old men on COVID years. How anyone expected a top 5 conference finish is beyond me.Shaka could have gone after immediate impact transfers, lord knows there was plenty of them. Instead, he went after a bunch of freshmen, young transfers, and two good but not great grad transfers to teach the youngings how to play defense. Shaka is zigging, while the rest of the basketball world is zagging. His strength as a coach is relationships and development. Maybe it blows up in the face of insta-transfers, we won't know for a little bit.This doesn't mean Shaka is immune from criticism. He fooked up on Saturday. His offense doesn't match his personnel. Rebounding is getting better but still suspect. But let's not dismiss our coach's strengths when he hasn't had the time to show them off yet.
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.
Seem to be a lot of people here arguing against nonexistent posters who believe this team should be ranked and atop the Big East.
https://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=62247.0There have been plenty of posts that have said that we could finish in the top of the Big East.
Can I see some of those posts saying MU should finish in the top of the Big East? I'm sure not seeing any in this thread or any recent ones (with all the drunk people you're referring to), but maybe some really old ones I've missed.Expecting this to be a bubble team - which they were a couple of weeks ago, by the way - is not the same as "ranked and atop the Big East."
What bothers me is the close but no cigar moments we've had this year. Saturday just p*ssed me off to no end.
I just bumped the thread containing predictions.
Seems like the MU admin has been drunk for a decade since buzz hire.
++ dgies predicted 21-8, apparently accounting for canceled Covid games.
Honestly, buzz may have been their most drunk hire. Sure, it worked out great, but outside of a short stint at UNO, had done nothing to deserve the job.
So literally no one, except you, has said "ranked and atop the Big East" in this thread.
As a former, famous Wisconsinite said, "Winning isn't everything... it's the only thing!"
Arguably the greatest coach in NFL history, Vince Lombardi was 7-5 with no playoffs in his culture-building first season with the Packers.
Arguably the greatest coach in NFL history, Vince Lombardi was 7-5 with no playoffs in his culture-building first season with the Packers. Here's hoping Shaka does as well as Vince did from Year 2 on.
He took over a team that went 1-10 the previous season. So, he brought about massive improvement his first year while also building his culture.Someone forgot to tell him you can't do both, I guess.