During the Marquette UConn game they showed the Al McGuire banner and gave a shout out to Chico's for producing a movie on Al.

Hopefully Shaka realizes that when he played NJ, AS, RP and CR all at max.minutes we beat the #4 team in the country. Gotta have your best players on the floor as much as possible - these are 19-22 year olds in peak physical conditions - they can all manage 35 min of max effort 2 times a week.

Quote from: muwarrior69 on March 09, 2026, 08:29:35 PMThey beat us in the '71 NCAA tournament opening round.

How about the year after we won the natty, not 71

Kudos to Israel for the detailed tracking, hah.  Subs are hard to track.

https://www.inss.org.il/publication/us-forces-middle-east/#map

Today was a bat-shyte crazy day for Mr. Market.

More to come, no doubt.

Quoteif Iran were to attack ships under U.S. protection transiting the Strait of Hormuz — a potential choke point in the global energy trade — American forces would respond aggressively.

Lol, I though we were already "winning decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy".  Hard to believe there's more aggressive tactics.

Iran would love for the US to send warships through the strait!

The crowds and intensity in these pool games is off the charts.

Really enjoyable to watch.

Quote from: muwarrior69 on March 09, 2026, 08:29:35 PMThey beat us in the '71 NCAA tournament opening round.

Jeezus! THIS after you diss the upset over UCONN and tell us you require a repeat performance holding Karaban to 2 points before you will grace Marquette with your acceptance that the team has improved.

You and Willie make a cute couple.

There are some-but probably only a few-here who are familiar with Nixon's VP Agnew's phrase "Nattering Nabobs of Negativism" You fit the description perfectly.

Quote from: GoldenEagles03 on March 09, 2026, 10:15:43 AMThey are fine at evaluation of talent. The worry should have been "will they use the portal?" But that question seems to have been answered.

Shaka knows what talent looks like.

I truly question this.  For 13 games Hamilton started and got 20+ minutes a game.  He had game after game where he would go 0-4 or 1-5 on layups.  The whole deal with MU being the worst layup team in the country started with and was exacerbated by Caedin.  His defense was even worse.  The entire fanbase saw it and was besides itself.  Meanwhile an All-BigEast Freshman, ironically, sat behind him.  Much of MU's seasons fortunes went up when the switch that everyone elso could see finally happened. 
My greatest fear with the Jones injury was the when Sean got healthy, Nigel would go back to the bench.
Those are two glaring examples that make me question Shaka's ability to assess talent.
Frankly, most of the Junior and Senior class and those that have left from them make you question it, also.
I guess we will see and the leash at this point has to be pretty short.  Another poor evaluation of talent by Shaka and he will likely be unemployed at this time next year.

Quote from: forgetful on March 09, 2026, 09:53:19 PMIf only this was predictable before we went and attacked them.

Right!? A political regime that showed little remorse for killing those that oppose them. Who would have guessed they would fight dirty when attacked unprovoked!?

Sorry, wrong thread.  But the investment implications remain.