Quote from: Billy Hoyle on February 13, 2026, 05:06:32 PMNot me.
I'll never forget an MU staff member telling me, "Buzz and his wife got so insufferable we would have taken the Creans back in a second."
Quote from: wadesworld on February 13, 2026, 11:30:28 PMHaha it's Groundhogs day. Every year they get a couple nice wins. Every time MU fans cry and say they're a top 4 team. Every year Gard's team is a Tourney team but not a threat to make a run.
Quote from: brewcity77 on February 13, 2026, 09:41:22 PMI'm going to guess you didn't spend much time on campus this past Fall, at the Spirit Shop, or the online store.
The disconnect is that using lower case relationship building to foster growth and believing that will lead to victory is plausible with transfers. But that's not what the staff has been talking about and not what critics of the model are talking about.
If you were in the Spirit Shop in Fall when they launched the upper case RGV line, honestly, it was offensive. The entire front of the store had nothing but RGV everywhere. It was not easy finding merchandise that said "Marquette" on it. RGV tables probably took up 25% of the store footprint, and when 20% is youth apparel, 20% is non-clothing merch, and 20% is the checkout counter, that doesn't leave much space for fans just looking for Marquette clothing.
And the public comments that surrounded it, from the interview with Broeker to Big East Media Day to the open scrimmages, it was very clear that when they say RGV, what they mean is recruiting players strictly from high school and developing them through their 4-5 year college careers.
People that didn't make it to campus or see how hard the Spirit Shop and website were pushing that crap may not realize how pervasive it was to the brand and how they were trying to eclipse the Marquette brand with RGV.
And no, I'm not being hyperbolic in the least.
If Shaka is going to salvage his program at Marquette, he needs to disconnect his RGV roster building model from the tenets of relationships/growth/victory. Yes, you can have good culture and use the portal, but it was very obvious that wasn't what RGV was about and why it was so widely ridiculed, especially as public comments on it persisted through the November-January losses.
Quote from: onepost on February 12, 2026, 10:33:20 PMDamn, loved having him nearby.
Sheek starred for BBE so that's gotta be a decent landing spot for us, no?
Quote from: The Sultan on February 11, 2026, 08:03:43 PMNo, but Relationships Growth Victory certainly can work with transfers. People have this strange idea that Shaka and Marquette are slavishly tied to a model regardless of the results. They are going to find out very shortly that this isn't the case, and RGV will still be splashed around.
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