We just watched One Battle After Another.

Really liked it, and can see why it's getting so many plaudits.

Thought Sean Penn was especially good, but the acting across the board was outstanding.

Quote from: onepost on December 21, 2025, 08:38:40 PMDo you think we see Shaka on the MU sidelines for 2026-2027, 82?

It would be nothing more than a guess, but I'd guess yes. Nothing would surprise me at this point, though.

Kenpom #116 - what's the lowest Kenpom rating Marquette has ever been?

They're been a lot of personal bludgeoning attacks recently among Scoopers.  Everyone seems a bit wound up.  But I suppose that's understandable. 

Quote from: Elonsmusk on December 21, 2025, 09:32:11 PMI think he is better than what he has shown.

When people show you what they are, believe them. He is what he is, and that's not good.

Josh Johnson
Max Brosmer
Chris Oladokun

Half your starting QB's this coming Thursday.

Merry Christmas NFL fans.

I guess you're allowed to tackle wide receivers before they touch the ball?

Drake Maye is pretty good. I didn't even realize he was in the same draft as Caleb and Jayden. 

Quote from: Elonsmusk on December 21, 2025, 09:46:36 PMProbably years of seeing Wisconsin have success doing it for about 25 years..

Nope, nope, nope.
Made this same point in another thread. Bo Ryan's "projects" were by and large four-star, top 100 recruits, not zero stars he was snaring away from prep schools and low majors.
Copy/pasting from the other thread ...

Bo Ryan's developmental bigs:
Brian Butch, 5-star, McDonald's AA, RSCI #7
Greg Steinsma, 4-star, RSCI #37
Jon Leuer, 4-star, RSCI #87
JP Gavinski, 4-star, #92 on 247 Composite
Jared Berggren, RSCI #100, 4-star
Evan Anderson, RSCI #95, 4-star
Frank Kaminsky, 3-star, 247
Ethan Happ, 3-star, 247 #150

All of these "developmental" guys, with the exception of Kaminsky and Happ, were top 100 players recruited by high-major programs. Kaminsky had offers from other P5 programs and in Happ's case, he grew three inches from high school to college, so he was seen coming out as a kind of unathletic 3/4 who developed into a crafty/skilled post player when he got tall.

Quote from: Elonsmusk on December 21, 2025, 09:32:11 PMCaedin was known to be a 5 year project. I don't see it as doubling down/tripling down by staying the course on him.  He's just at the mid-point of his development at MU. I think he is better than what he has shown.  He's pressing a ton and sped up, trying to prove he belongs and is a mess mentally.  Think the whole team is pressing for that matter.

I just find ripping the crap out of Shaka for one bad year incredibly ignorant and classless considering he brought a better resume to the job than any MU hire in history - and massively exceeded expectations in Years 1-3, met expectations in Year 4.

I understand this season has been brutal, we've gotten blown out repeatedly. Yet it was the stress test of RGV, and I feel the players have largely been the ones who haven't performed - and from that underperformance Shaka has gotten into the spin cycle grasping for straws to try to improve the performance. 

There's nothing Shaka can do during the season - other than do what he's done - trying to tinker with lineups.  To jump to the conclusion that he won't do anything different this off season is pure speculation at best.

Like Pakuni said, I don't blame Caedin. He seems like a decent kid, great teammate, etc. I just don't think he's very good at basketball, and has never really shown himself capable. My larger point though, is why are we at a place where he's starting? The idea that Shaka could be the one high major coach who could eschew the portal was ludicrous. Everyone whiffs on high school recruits; I don't want Marquette's coach to be the only one who drags his bat back to the dugout while everyone else takes another crack at it.

I like Shaka, but my larger point was that there were choices made over multiple years that led us here. This isn't a fluke. He made some mistakes (like all coaches do), and yet Tre Norman is still getting an NIL check. And it's been repeated ad nauseam, but those teams in year 1-3 had transfers.

I'm not writing him off, and I do think it's possible that he rights the ship. I think his recruiting has improved. But he's gonna need to eat some crow and not run these third years back next year.