Quote from: GoldenEagles03 on December 23, 2025, 11:42:39 PMStill feel the exact same. I hope be recognizes that this is a place he can win big at for a long time. That will come with an occasional talent replenishment from the portal like we need this offseason.

I'd love for him to become synonymous with Marquette like Mark Few has become with Gonzaga or Izzo with Michigan State or Matt Painter with Purdue, etc. Because that would mean a whole bunch of winning here just like he's done so far.

Only if he hires Wojo to do the recruiting.

Quote from: Elonsmusk on December 23, 2025, 06:15:25 PMYou have patience to back losers, but fly off the rails when a winner struggles?  And do you recall if we pursued Owen Freeman in the portal this past off season?  You do realize just because you pursue a player, doesn't mean you land them, correct?

I'm not off the rails. The simple reality is Shaka has built his program around RGV and it is clearly a failed model, and he can't retool the roster the way it needs to be retooled without betraying everything he's said the last 4 years. I take him at his word, which means either he compromises his morals and promises to players, he doesn't compromise and we continue to suck, or he leaves.

I don't think he'll do the first option, I don't think the second is acceptable, which leaves only the third. It's not that he's not capable, it's that he's painted himself into a corner and can't stay at Marquette and quickly turn this around without betraying all the trust he's built up.

And no, we didn't pursue Owen Freeman or any other transfers. We haven't seriously pursued a D1 transfer in years.

Quote from: K1 Lover on December 23, 2025, 09:34:45 PMNearly a triple double.

20 pts, 11 boards, 8 assists, and 2 steals.

Not great shooting though.

9-22 FG 2-6 3FG (45% eFG)

0-0 FT

Kam Jones averaging 90 points/36 minutes.  The new Wilt?

Quote from: Pakuni on December 23, 2025, 06:15:55 PMA Sweet 16 run is a big success and should be celebrated.
One Sweet 16 run in five seasons shouldn't be celebrated as Marquette basketball at its zenith. It should be treated as an expectation.
And more importantly, Shaka Smart is not uniquely gifted with the ability to have success at Marquette, as at least one person here seems to believe. Kevin O'Neill had success here. Tom Crean had success here. Buzz Williams had success here. We're not some bottom feeder program rescued from the college basketball wasteland by a miracle worker named Shaka. We weren't Gonzaga before Dan Monson, or - perhaps a better comparison -Houston before Kelvin Sampson. There have been ups and downs over the past 40 years, but it's been a mostly successful, respected program since Dukiet.
Shaka's had a great run at Marquette, and that's earned him an opportunity to fix the mess he's made this season. But if he's unwilling or incapable of doing that, I have no doubt MU can find someone else to run a successful program.  MU basketball is bigger than one coach.

Right, and between 2000-2001 and Wojo a "down year" was still a winning record and a NIT invite.

And I didn't realize/recall that Few has NEVER missed the tourney.

If this is our Nova 2011-2012 year then we can all have a good chuckle some day. But also Jay was coming off 7 (not 4) straight tourney appearances with 2 S16s, an EE and a FF. That's serious money in the bank.

As I and others have said so many years times, this isn't a run of the mill down year - which most expected and could have stomached. This is a historically bad year in which it looks like Shaka has forgotten how to 1) evaluate talent 2) put together winning rotations 3) be any sort of in-game coach. And as the season has progressed these issues have gotten worse rather than better.

Quote from: GoldenEagles03 on December 03, 2024, 06:28:19 PMI know life happens and this is just a talking point, but I genuinely can't think of a better marriage of coach and program.

I would hope Shaka feels the same and recognizes he can continue to win forever here.

Still feel the exact same. I hope be recognizes that this is a place he can win big at for a long time. That will come with an occasional talent replenishment from the portal like we need this offseason.

I'd love for him to become synonymous with Marquette like Mark Few has become with Gonzaga or Izzo with Michigan State or Matt Painter with Purdue, etc. Because that would mean a whole bunch of winning here just like he's done so far.

Oh

Quote from: CountryRoads on December 23, 2025, 09:39:18 PMMU has 4 starters from Shaka's second year that have all played and scored points tonight.

Now he needs to find the next NBA players to "develop". 

Quote from: ghostofcorms77 on December 23, 2025, 01:38:37 PMI'm sorry. I was told his contract was fully guaranteed, and we had to pay other staff members, which brought the number closer to 14m.

Haynes was hired at $420k just for clarity sake.

You're a lying, ignorant piece of sh1t. FOH

Could be on the Bucks instead of the f'n Knicks