Oh boy, even more boot lickers in here now.

Quote from: BCHoopster on February 22, 2026, 09:29:05 PMSo where was Shaka this weekend?

Are you asking for Mrs. Smart?

Quote from: Scoop Snoop on February 22, 2026, 09:20:06 PMFIFY

Either way.

Let's also not rule out the concept/idea of  Shaka/MU hyping up one of their guys that they know will be moving on to allow said player to get better offers if/as he departs.

Not saying it's happening in this case, but I could see it happening with someone like Damarius if Shaka and player decide to move on.

It would be more difficult to pull off with Caedin 

So where was Shaka this weekend?

Quote from: MU82 on February 22, 2026, 05:44:57 PMMany of the domestic terrorists also had guns.

FIFY

Quote from: MuggsyB on February 22, 2026, 10:51:27 AMStoats are highly skilled and strong.  They can eliminate predators that are much larger.  Generally you don't fk with them.

They make really nice looking jackets

Quote from: Jay Bee on February 22, 2026, 07:48:55 PMFWIW, things are quite a bit better in MN. Lots of the restaurants near me are again operating, or operating more normally. Apparently now there's suppose to be nexus re: a crime convicted or charged in order to mess with people.

All better now, huh?

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-i-saw-minnesota-ice-war

"The observers proved to be a problem for DHS, as its agents were caught on camera, over and over, striking, gassing, abusing, and murdering civilians. So the government adapted again.

DHS agents began recording the observers and scanning their faces. They then used government databases to identify them. Sometimes they showed up at their homes to threaten them."

<snip>

"The Twin Cities have tens of thousands of residents who cannot leave their homes for fear of being abducted by DHS. These people cannot go to work. They cannot shop for groceries. They cannot go to doctors' appointments. Many of them cannot send their children to school.

Various civic groups have self-organized to help them. Food banks deliver groceries. People donate money to pay rent. Doctors finish their shifts and then make house calls. The governor told us about a group of doulas who make secret home visits to deliver babies to mothers who cannot go to a hospital, because DHS agents view health care facilities as abduction traps.

Think about that: You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth."

<snip>

"Many of the people abducted by the government are taken without cause. When the government runs out of excuses to hold them, or is forced to release them by the courts, they send them out the front door of the Whipple Building, often in the dead of night. Alone. No cell phone. No jacket. In the freezing cold and snow.

A civic group called Haven Watch now stands guard at Whipple around the clock so that former prisoners of the regime do not freeze to death after release. While we were at Whipple talking to observers, a mother and two small children emerged from the building. They had nothing with them other than the clothes on their backs. It was about 15 degrees, the day after an unexpected snow. The three small humans haltingly made their way across the ice and slush in the road. Someone from Haven Watch met them and ushered them into a warm car.

I ask you: What do you think would have happened to this woman and her children had the United States government sent them into the cold and snow, far from taxis or transport, with no way of contacting anyone for help?"

Quote from: #UnleashJosh on February 21, 2026, 12:41:21 PMAny season where marquette isn't competitive is a bad a season. It doesn't matter how bad, 10-20 5-25 13-19 15-15? The goal every year should be being an ncaa tournament team. Anything lower than being on the realistic bubble is an objective failure. It doesn't matter how hard one fails.

Shaka tried something, it clearly didn't work. He gets a one season pass for the rapidly changing college atmosphere and the attempt at rgv.

Its time to rid ourselves of this sentiment, its clearly not sustainable.

This includes cutting the fat. Players like Trey who can barely find time off the bench, people like caedin who don't belong in D1 basketball, Josh gets a 2nd chance to ball.

Keeping players (and paying them) who clearly don't belong in major D1 basketball to stay on the end of the bench of 15 players is asinine.

These are nothing more then scholarshipped walk on with no hope or potential to make a difference.

If Shaka uses all 15, the end of the bench better be filled with young projects who would have a hope of being a difference maker in a couple years.

But people like sultan believe in "glue" guys. 

I'm growing more and more frustrated with this bolded sentiment. To me, Shaka rightly filled in his first MU season roster with transfers, while maintain key players and bringing in at least one of his own recruits. The roster had good balance and he committed to fostering the idea of getting old and succeeding from within. There is no doubt that RGV worked, to the tune of high seeds, a double BEast championship and several NBA players. This success included last year (though folks might point out the fading at the end of the season). Sure, there are few nits that one could pick (maybe he could've brought in another big man after Oso left, maybe he could've not relied on Kam as PG last year), but overall the results justified the approach.

This year has shown the vulnerabilities of putting all eggs in the RGV basket. Caedin hasn't developed (and the hype around him last summer is now seen, rightly, as absurd) , Ben and Chase aren't the needed senior leaders, Zaide proved to be mercurial and unwilling to accept a lesser role, and on. It's been a disaster, even with the glimmer of hope of Nigel, Royce and Adrien.

But to act like this season was easily forecasted is just ludicrous. None of us should be surprised that Shaka stuck with what has been working, even if it has, for this year, proven to be his effort to make guys believe what they might do, which they now have shown that they couldn't do.

And now, Shaka has explicitly acknowledged that this year hasn't been up to par and has indicated his intention to modify his approach. He has said that he wants to keep the young core (is he implying that he'll be willing to cut the underperforming upperclassmen?) and will expand how he recruits by tapping into the portal.

So, yeah, it's been hard to be a fan this year. At the same time, I just don't get the feeling that we've been on this long slide downwards, don't have a capable coach and are unlikely to ever bounce back. (Just to be clear, I was very very concerned about Shaka's openness to change during the middle of this season. I have chosen to take his public statements about turning the page as true evolution.)

Quote from: MarquetteMike1977 on February 21, 2026, 01:51:38 PMMarquette has the most losses since the 1964-1965 season staying with the status quo or close to the status quo would be...........

Would prefer to error on the the side of more transfers rather than less to get the best roster

Are you intentionally pointing out the irony there? 1964-65 was Al's first season as coach. Times have changed to be sure, yet I'm sure we're all happy that Al wasn't fired after such as disaster of a season.

FWIW, things are quite a bit better in MN. Lots of the restaurants near me are again operating, or operating more normally. Apparently now there's suppose to be nexus re: a crime convicted or charged in order to mess with people.

PS - not really related, but scary situation in parts of Mexico right now.  I have family that lives in areas where people are essentially locking down after the killing of El Mencho. Very concerning.