Quote from: Scoop Snoop on Today at 09:26:35 AMAt the beginning of this horrendous season, some of Shaka's defenders insisted that this was just "one bad season". Eventually, one of those scoopers later conceded that it was a "catastrophe". It took quite a while for the narrative to disappear from scoop that Shaka's stunning success in his first 3 1/2 seasons somehow made this "one bad season" acceptable.

This "one bad season" is the culmination of FOUR years of RGV and recruiting from only HS. Shaka has to be held fully accountable. This is his RGV team. 

Butler is a good example of balanced roster building in the Portal era. They had one of the highest rated HS classes coming in this year while bringing in transfers to fill holes, and not million dollar guys (Jones is a transfer from South Carolina State, Butler from Drexel). They start two recruits and three transfers, and bring two freshmen and two transfers off the bench.  And, like us, they had to move their true freshman PG to the starting lineup after their upperclassman starter got injured.

Quote from: Mu8891 on Today at 09:47:40 AMScoop - I agree. It's a total train wreck of Shaka's stupid decisions.

Do you actually think he will be
" held accountable " ?  Not a chance.
No way Broeker or Kimo will do anything...

If you watch and listen to him, I am more and more convinced that he thinks this is fine, his team is " improving " and he will run it back next year.

He has a season to complete.
There will be plenty of time to make changes in April.

Quote from: wadesworld on January 17, 2026, 04:22:39 PMProbably. But I guess that's my point. I couldn't tell you, because it's not something anyone really cares about. Losing 19 games instead of 20 would do nothing to change how this season was, at least if you ask me.

It's not what I think a about, it's the facts. 
Interesting so many BE teams have had losing seasons lately.  It's just a fact. Now think about itl

From the outside, Shaka was just mentioned in an Athletic article as one of the 40 most respected people across all sports.

Scoop - I agree. It's a total train wreck of Shaka's stupid decisions.

Do you actually think he will be
" held accountable " ?  Not a chance.
No way Broeker or Kimo will do anything...

If you watch and listen to him, I am more and more convinced that he thinks this is fine, his team is " improving " and he will run it back next year.

Quote from: Scoop Snoop on Today at 09:27:49 AMGot it! Reality checks are not welcome in this thread.

More than enough reality in the games and the rest of Scoop lol.

Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on Today at 08:59:40 AMWasn't Marquette trying to be more like St. Louis at one point?

The thing with SLU is they have the money to keep Schertz there as they have a billionaire backing their program - the guy has the arena named after him, the court named after his company, and paid enough to change the name of their business school to his name. He's failed to buy multiple sports teams so he "bought" SLU basketball.  Sad to say but we wouldn't have the money to outbid SLU.

Quote from: Billy Hoyle on Today at 09:37:00 AMMeanwhile, on our offensive possession under two minutes, still having a chance to win, Butler played amazing one-on-one defense and made the correct switches, taking away our drives, resulting in constant kickouts and causing us to use nearly the entire shot clock.

Yes. I thought back to a couple of seasons ago when Stevie successfully defended 4 Butler players on one possession late in a close game. 
A team that understood switches, help, rotations.  Same coaches

We're starting to see Hamilton used a little more as expected in recent games and he's had some decent moments. I think feeling toward him as a player would be somewhat more positive if this is how he'd been used from the start of the season.

Meanwhile, on our offensive possession under two minutes, still having a chance to win, Butler played amazing one-on-one defense and made the correct switches, taking away our drives, resulting in constant kickouts and causing us to use nearly the entire shot clock.