Quote from: MuggsyB on March 13, 2026, 10:25:29 PMIn '03 would have you rather have lost by 1 pt to Kentucky in the E8 than get cooked by Kansas in the F4?

No, and that's not remotely the same situation.

Let me know if you don't see the difference and I'll explain it to you.

To right this ship....Start filling up the arena and not go the way of Georgetown....

Time to spend a few million.....A few of that $800 million they have in the bank....(that is $24 millon in interest alone)

A wise investment if required....

Shaka can donte a million to....After all....He is the one who screwed this up.....

The shotmaking by both teams in the last 5 minutes of the Arizona-Iowa State game was incredible.

Quote from: Small Orange Soda on March 13, 2026, 11:36:06 PMWojo was simply a bad coach. Not up to snuff for the job.

The concern with Shaka is his judgment. "I'll be the one guy who doesn't take transfers while also signing guys who don't get D-1 offers"

He absolutely has not done enough in his career to ever justify that attitude. And yes, he's going to change, but that's a pretty poor inherent trait. He's good, but there are plenty of coaches who have accomplished more who didn't need a year like this to understand that college basketball is in an ever changing landscape and being stubborn means seasons like this.

He understood college basketball was changing.

He had a lot of success going against the grain until this year. He earned the opportunity to do it his way.

It didn't work and now he's pivoting.

He's absolutely accountable for this season and needs to fix it but some of this criticism is comical.

Quote from: brewcity77 on March 13, 2026, 07:25:27 PMThere was no point in years 1-5 where changing course made sense.

2015: Sucked
2016: Clear progress, no tourney but competitive
2017: Tourney bid
2018: Narrowly missed, but 7 of top-9 players were freshmen/sophomores
2019: Made top-10, 5-seed, should've won league
--Hausers leave, from Feb 2019 was the first notable downturn in progress--
2020: Disappointing, but no one was getting fired after COVID
2021: Sucked, fired

Probably an outlier. And if it was he'll be fine. If it wasn't, there's absolutely zero chance anyone affiliated with Marquette should want a third year like this one.

I disagree with your 80% assessment

He did well. But no one gets two years like this at Marquette. Not Wojo, not Shaka, not Al, not Jesus Christ. We're better than that. And I can't fathom any sane Marquette fan disagreeing with that.

Feels like you're making a lot of excuses for Wojo. A lot of what if's and context, which can be fair at times.

But you're certainly not doing the same for Shaka.

Get Byrd and Gwath from SDSU.

Quote from: Elonsmusk on March 13, 2026, 06:54:26 PMThis year was an outlier.  I'm confident Shaka will get it turned around within 1 year, and even if he doesn't I'm still giving him another year.  Fire Shaka after next season and I'd put it at 80%+ chance that all of Nigel, Adrien, and Royce are done at MU too.

Wojo was simply a bad coach. Not up to snuff for the job.

The concern with Shaka is his judgment. "I'll be the one guy who doesn't take transfers while also signing guys who don't get D-1 offers"

He absolutely has not done enough in his career to ever justify that attitude. And yes, he's going to change, but that's a pretty poor inherent trait. He's good, but there are plenty of coaches who have accomplished more who didn't need a year like this to understand that college basketball is in an ever changing landscape and being stubborn means seasons like this.

Talking with Damarious Owen's after the UCONN game he said Nash Walker was a better shooter than Militec.

Update Marquette's Kenpom Ranking improved to #83 Tonight

I know I have been very high on Miletic based on only a couple HS games. I want to add that during one of the games, MU's Neill Berry was sitting right behind us, along with Purdue Coach Matt Painter. We overheard Neill telling Matt Painter that Shaka wasn't there because he was at the game of a certain 6 foot guard out of Long Island Lutheran. Seeing how good I thought Miletic was, I was thinking, "this bodes well for what we could be getting in this NY recruit."