Quote from: Frenns Liquor Depot on Today at 03:05:24 PMI see a lot of people are hot and bothered today. 

Personally I am going to wait for  a "smoke and mirrors" tweet from the Marquette Mom's account before I jump out my window.

Jabs and haymakers.

I see a lot of people are hot and bothered today. 

Personally I am going to wait for  a "smoke and mirrors" tweet from the Marquette Mom's account before I jump out my window.

Why fear?   The zeitgeist on this board is that multiple players need to depart so that Shaka can hit the portal. 
To review...
Zaide was starting.
Zaide had a game where he missed several bunnies and it affected his defensive effort.
Shaka said that he and Zaide had a heart to heart about it.
AS replaced Zaide in the starting line up.
Zaide's minutes dropped.   Etc.

Why the fear?  This exactly what scoop was ostensibly looking for.  A player perceived as underperforming to leave.  Why fear more leaving?  It is what the cognoscenti want.  They should be euphoric.

Quote from: wadesworld on Today at 01:36:35 PMIt's a nothingburger that will continue to be a nothingburger.

National media were all over stories of Todd Golden sending dick pics and stalking Florida University students.  That lasted like 3 days, Florida said there's nothing to see here, and Todd Golden coached a team to a national title a couple of months later.

Auburn had to divert their flight because of a fist fight between players mid air.  The story was talked about on one episode of everyone's podcast and then nobody cared.

But I'm sure Marquette's response on Twitter to "an altercation" is going to...keep some Big East Twitter account engaged for all of like 12 more hours?  THE HORROR!

People are so dramatic.  Sports stories move fast.  This one isn't even a blip on the radar.

I think this is probably true, but MU and Shaka have positioned themselves as a very unique (and failing) brand and model of program development. They are in the news all the time because of it. So, this has the potential to be talked about a bit more and harm Shaka and MU more than a random guy leaving a random team mid year.

And, is WSB no longer a troll, seems to have hit on something rather specific here. Perhaps he knows more than meets the eye...sort of like the Transformers.

Pretty disappointed in Shaka, MU, and Zaide, but I give Zaide more leeway and grace than the other two. I liked Zaide, being an athlete is tough, losing is tough, not playing is tough. He gave his all for 2+ years. I fear this is the first domino...as it were.

Quote from: tower912 on Today at 11:25:13 AMIt is going to be funny as hell if Shaka uses the available scholarship on a high schooler.

I'd be cool with firing him if he does so.

Quote from: JWags85 on Today at 02:11:17 PMHawks looking to blow it up and presumably build around Jalen Johnson.  Trae Young is expected to be moved (if they can find a taker).

The rumor is they are also trying to move Risacher, which is a good time to revisit how totally devoid of stars the top of that 2024 draft was

What are Hawks thinking??? The multi-championship winning head of the Bulls, Arturas Karnisovas, told us that you don't need star players, just 9 very good players to win championships.

Have the Joker, LeBron, SGA, Giannis, etc. every won anything?

Quote from: MU82 on Today at 01:26:35 PMYes, it definitely is worse than a run-of-the-mill "bad season." Not sure how anybody could define it as anything other than a sports disaster.

OTOH, unlike Kyle Neptune at Nova, Shaka delivered a significant amount of good before this sports disaster, so to many folks there's at least some room for nuance.

I agree the Neptune comparison was not apples to apples. He was just someone who jumped to mind as being universally perceived as in over his head in the BE as a coach, but was never this year's MU bad.

Aside from the 'just bad' or 'disaster' season debate, the bigger question in my head is how did Shaka get here? I follow the logic of Shaka being arrogant or so fully convinced that his system would work, but it still seems unlikely for such a successful, experienced and intelligent coach.

Some of the reasons put forth would make sense if Shaka was in his 5th year of being a HC, but that dismisses all his accomplishments. I'm probably wrong, but I still think something else is going on. 

Quote from: mileskishnish72 on Today at 02:05:46 PMShaka should have sent Zaide and Cody to "time out" so they could work out their differences and foster their relationship.

But I forgot, Shaka doesn't use time-outs.

 

Hawks looking to blow it up and presumably build around Jalen Johnson.  Trae Young is expected to be moved (if they can find a taker).

The rumor is they are also trying to move Risacher, which is a good time to revisit how totally devoid of stars the top of that 2024 draft was

https://x.com/deeharp/status/2005493587400954015?s=46

Quote from: MU82 on Today at 01:26:35 PMYes, it definitely is worse than a run-of-the-mill "bad season." Not sure how anybody could define it as anything other than a sports disaster.

OTOH, unlike Kyle Neptune at Nova, Shaka delivered a significant amount of good before this sports disaster, so to many folks there's at least some room for nuance.

I would define it as a Gargantuan/🦣"sports disaster".  There's no other way to see it.  Pushing #200 NET?  Cannot Happen at Marquette.  We must respond from this debacle as quickly as humanly possible.