Quote from: panda on Today at 08:26:45 AMThe performance this season warrants intervention.

So stupid. Shaka is well respected in the business. If MU intervenes, good luck getting another coach worth a crap.I am as unhappy as most fans, but he gets another year. Do not expect any interference from the university. It is his program to run.

If there is no improvement next season, then I would expect a change.

Quote from: Pakuni on Today at 09:21:02 AMYou're going to drop the two most experienced players - the leading scorer and only competent big, no less - from one of the worst P5 programs in the country, replace them with a few unheralded freshmen and maybe one portal guy ... and that makes this team competitive?
There's a line between optimism and Pollyannaism, and this seems to be on the wrong side of it.

Remind me where I said "maybe one portal guy"?  Maybe count the players I listed, subtract that from 15, and do the math. 

Quote from: Billy Hoyle on Today at 01:14:07 PMthen what was Shaka brought in to do? Just make us competitive? Be Wojo II? Hasn't every MU coach been brought in to win titles and make the tourney? We're Marquette, basketball is as important to our school as any, especially in this new era of college sports.

In MLB arbitration hearings, salaries are determined by predicted future performance, not past performance. Shaka, and every coach, should be judged more on where the program is going (as was correctly done with Mike Deane, despite averaging 20 wins a year, 1 CUSA tourney title, two NCAA appearances, and a NIT finals appearance). Sorry, 2025-26 likely being the worst season in MU history does not get ignored because of 2022-23 and 2023-24. NC State fired Kerry Keats the year after beating us and going to the Final Four!

Are MU's leaders really going to say, "Don't worry about the 20+ losses and multiple 20-point blowout losses, you won a Big East title three years ago." If they do maybe MU isn't as serious about basketball as we thought.

Kerry Keats was fired because, in spite of one miraculous run, he was Wojo-esque.  3 tourney appearances in 8 years with no other wins besides what was very obviously a complete outlier.  It's bad comparison. 

Quote from: The Equalizer on Today at 12:47:32 PMThere actually is a benefit--you get to see how these guys perform against Big East level competition now rather than waiting until next season. 

If they aren't going to cut it in the Big East, I'd rather know now when there's still a chance to reuse those roster slots in the current recruiting cycle. 

We need all the help we can get next season. Taking three chances to bring in game-changing talent off the table simply because the current redshirts might want to keep their options open in 2030 is not in MU's best interest.

That's nonsensical.  If they were ready to be productive against Big East-level competition they wouldn't be redshirting.

Yet you want to throw them out there on a horrendous team and into a situation where the likelihood of failure is high.

That's not productive and believing you'll be able to identify how they'll be able to perform at this level based on limited minutes over 17  more games is ludicrous. 

We don't need 8 open scholarships to field a much better team next season. 

This coming from a portion of the fanbase that would have been fine fine jettisoning Oso and TK early in their careers. 

Some of you need to go back and take another round of Logic at Marquette.

Quote from: PointWarrior on Today at 05:28:44 PMBut Elon, VBMG and wades say everything is fine.

 

I'd like to see where I said that.

I also don't think our program is thought of as an embarrassment to the sport of basketball.

Quote from: Biggie Clausen on January 01, 2026, 04:58:01 PMIt seems extremely dumb to me, especially in this brave new world of college basketball, to recruit and pay guys who don't have the physicality or skills to help you right away.  When has Marquette *ever* had three non-injured players redshirting during the same season?  I mean, teams are signing NBA draft picks mid-season while we have three 18 year olds contributing nothing to the current roster other than "pouring into each other" and "getting lost in the fight" in practice, where it has been said the players are way ahead of where they are in games because they "fly around" or something.  What genius thought redshirting three guys in a single year would be a good idea?

And, as someone already mentioned, it's extremely dumb not to recognize the new scholarship limit. 

The issue is not the # of redshirts.  The issue is that the senior class doesn't have an All Big-East level player or anyone able to carry the team and the junior class is a complete bust. 

The problem is not having some guys that are redshirting. 

Also, it would be extremely dumb to compare the redshirts of Miletic and Pearson to those of Clark and Hamilton as they were wanted by other high-major programs. 

Quote from: onepost on Today at 04:49:37 PM2. Money is not an issue. Donors have been willing and able to spend but have been rebuffed by Shaka in lieu of RGV, from what I know.

3. No, it's not Marquette being cheap. It's Shaka actively choosing RGV and it proving to be a huge mistake when coupled with his lousy recruiting.

4. Totally agree with you on this. No idea what his personal priorities are, but hard to imagine it's anything close to the passion and dedication Lovell had.

I really hope you are right on 2 and 3. I rather believe the money is there as needed, but my enthusiasm is tempered by the cheapness and bad decisions we endured beginning in the late 1970s and lasting for a decade.

Shaka is a smart man who already has shown a knack to find the "right" people in the portal.  I'm sure he'd rather start from the ground up, but today's reality suggests RGV only works if a coach has almost no recruiting misses.

Here's hoping the ship is "righted" in the off-season.

To be clear, Shaka holds all of the blame for this this disaster but without further ado...

Players responsible for this abomination (in no particular order) -

Tre Norman
Caedin Hamilton
Sean Jones
Damarius Owens
Zaide Lowery
Josh Clark


Putting these bums out with a proven player like Chase Ross and flipping the script to say it's his fault is pathetic.

But Elon, VBMG and wades say everything is fine.

Quote from: BE_GoldenEagle on Today at 04:08:13 PMHe simply cannot. This is how we are viewed across college basketball right now. Maybe it can be a turning point for an era of Marquette Basketball, but it won't be saved this year.

https://x.com/i/status/2007126043472371856

Quote from: K1 Lover on Today at 03:34:29 PMThis is like saying that if a 6 y/o child crashes a car into a tree, it's not the fault of the parent who strapped their child's seatbelt and told them to drive — it's the kid's fault for not being a good driver.

No, it's not like that at all.

This is the responsibility of both the players and Shaka & staff.