Quote from: Heisenberg on December 24, 2025, 08:59:38 PMPick up a few NBA cast aways before the new year and we can still make the Tourney!
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Breaking today...

Former Detroit Pistons second-round pick James Nnaji has enrolled at Baylor and is immediately eligible to play for the Bears' men's basketball team, Jonathan Givony reports -- a significant development and unprecedented path to college basketball.


https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/baylor-former-nba-draft-pick-james-nnaji/

Thank You. Marquette can definitely use this.

Saturdays was at one of Nolan's College roommates house and Sunday spoke with a few of Nolan's Family members. They said something to the effect Nolan loves Marquette but Marquette needs more than Nolan.

The current players might like Shaka but have heard some former players are upset with Shaka.

Quote from: Elonsmusk on December 24, 2025, 08:45:07 AMWell the good news is for a measured guy like you (who apparently isn't off the rails) and who formerly preached patience, and gave Wojo 5 years - Shaka will have 5 years to show that he's getting things on the right "trajectory."  He, far more than a guy like Wojo, should get 5 years, since he's already accomplished a crap ton at MU in his first 4 years.

So, lets call this Year 1 of Wojo, essentially.  To argue Shaka has to fix it in one year is silly - much like you, TAMU and other Projos suggested needing to give Wojo time to improve versus firing him after 1 or 2 years - and he didn't even have any skins on the wall for credentials of a Final Four, Sweet 16, 4 straight NCAAs at MU out of the gate before tailing off.

Step 1 is always the hardest part, brother. Denial is hard. I believe in you.

Quote from: Elonsmusk on December 24, 2025, 08:45:07 AMand gave Wojo 5 years

You keep saying this and it's simply idiotic. WE WERE RANKED IN THE TOP 10 TO START MARCH IN YEAR 5!!!

Stop acting like it was unreasonable to support the coach of a top-10 team.

Quote from: TallTitan34 on December 24, 2025, 01:25:12 PMMaybe Shaka should start recruiting past NBA Draft picks.

https://x.com/joetipton/status/2003905068341633403?s=46

Wow.

Honestly, we picked a fine year to suck. This is getting sad. Imagine being good and getting undercut midway through the season by a school who adds an NBA player.

I'm fine not having to track all this for a year.

Who will be the 1st two way contract @NBA player with full @ncaa eligibility left to leave an NBA franchise to enroll in College and play for a significant salary increase and have numerous years to play? Drafted or not. It makes no difference. It's coming. Nnaji was in KAT trade

https://x.com/tomcrean/status/2003933680675492113?s=46

Quote from: mileskishnish72 on December 24, 2025, 12:10:22 PMThere is no sign that the next 18 games are going to show us anything different from what we've seen thus far - and that is BAD. I'm in the camp that Shaka has earned some leeway by virtue of his results over 4 years (or, as some say, 3 and a half). This season, barring a miracle, is just a lost cause. This team is so sadly awful that I don't think Shaka deserves
"another year." I think he's is going to have to show what he's got this Spring - if he doesn't clear out the deadwood who have failed to grow and fill some needs with available quality players in the portal, then why wait to suffer through another year like this?

There will be those who will say that this goes against everything that Shaka has said and would be torpedoing his "relationships" schtick. He is a basketball coach and his job is to assemble a quality team and win basketball games. It's not rocket science. And, unlike Sean's mom, I think a coach should be judged by wins and losses.

I think you're being fair.  The only thing I will say is Nigel and Adrien seem to have the potential to deliver the goods.  It's their development over the next 18 games that could give us some renewed hope.

Thanks.

https://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=67371.msg1780071#msg1780071

Merry Christmas everyone and I encourage you all to take an intentional, purposeful few minutes to block out the noise, the chaos, the hysteria and focus on the blessings you have in life, that we all have.  Whether family, friends, hobbies, whatever... Its very easy to get caught up and forget the baseline goodness we all have in our lives, the stuff that we can still cherish and take pride and support from even if we feel other things aren't as they should be comparatively.  I'm more guilty of it than many and doing what I mentioned has helped me reshift perspective on things.

And the PSA that Ive found is more impactful every holiday season, especially as Ive traveled abroad and met more people of diverse backgrounds...don't ever for a single second stress over what holiday greeting you tell someone.  Its the biggest load of BS ever, on both sides of the issue.  There is no meaningful effort to prevent people from saying Merry Christmas outside of clickbait merchant talking heads.  And conversely, people who may get offended because you say the wrong holiday greeting to them aren't worth your time or concern.  If you come from a friendly/welcoming/gracious place, any sane and well adjusted recipient will appreciate that and not stress about it.

We started interviewing my son's former nanny mid December a few years ago.  After the second interview/visit, we agreed to move forward and start after the holidays.  We happily wished her Merry Christmas, not realizing at the time she was Muslim.  She still beamed and thanked us and wished us the same and later told us that despite having no connection to the holiday growing up in Turkmenistan (and later Turkyie), she enjoyed the atmosphere of it since moving to the US cause, to her and her husband, it was such a positive and friendly time.