It was a crazy whipsaw of a day for the market. Up big for the first two hours, then dove like a hawk that spotted a rabbit. Finished down 1.5% (QQQ down 2% plus).

NVDA was up 5% but finished down 3%.

Quote from: Charlotte Warrior on Today at 05:31:25 PMThat so many people are losing their sh@& is beyond funny to me.  Shaka is a great coach, builds a program the university and the Alumni can be proud of, does it right and really connects with the players.  I'm glad we stay out of that portal mess, I don't want a "rent a team".  I'd sign up to have him coach my kids every day of the week.  We are having a down year, things will improve, guaranteed.  Step back and take a breath, enjoy the season.  The sky is not falling.  2025 may not be our year, don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.  Sheeesh

Would like to hear about this guarantee.
It is about returning MU to BB greatness.  Not about coaching kid teams.
The rules about building a team have changed.
One can do it the old way and be a bottom dweller because one isn't using all the resources available to them that other teams are using.

Quote from: Charlotte Warrior on Today at 05:31:25 PMThat so many people are losing their sh@& is beyond funny to me.  Shaka is a great coach, builds a program the university and the Alumni can be proud of, does it right and really connects with the players.  I'm glad we stay out of that portal mess, I don't want a "rent a team".  I'd sign up to have him coach my kids every day of the week.  We are having a down year, things will improve, guaranteed.  Step back and take a breath, enjoy the season.  The sky is not falling.  2025 may not be our year, don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.  Sheeesh

We've been a bad basketball team for an entire calendar year.  The only difference is the guys who have the talent to make us an actual contender are too young to truly affect winning at a high level.  Congrats on having the patience to wait until 2027-2028 to be good again; in today's day and age, at a program the caliber of Marquette, I personally find that inexcusable.

That so many people are losing their sh@& is beyond funny to me.  Shaka is a great coach, builds a program the university and the Alumni can be proud of, does it right and really connects with the players.  I'm glad we stay out of that portal mess, I don't want a "rent a team".  I'd sign up to have him coach my kids every day of the week.  We are having a down year, things will improve, guaranteed.  Step back and take a breath, enjoy the season.  The sky is not falling.  2025 may not be our year, don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.  Sheeesh

The only silver lining of our season being over in two weeks is there is absolutely no excuse not to the play the freshmen and sophomores every minute humanly possible.  Enough with the meaningless "well embedded mole" bullshit via Rothstein, it's time to sink or swim.  Play Owens, Clark, Phillips, James, Stevens, Parham as much as you possibly can, and if they prove themselves, bring em back.  If not, then be a highly-compensated college coach and move on to someone more talented.  This isn't a charity, as much as Shaka's loyalty to scrubs is Make-A-Wish lite.

I would love to see him pull Ian's redshirt and see what he's got.  There's no use in redshirting a guy most of us were surprised is sitting when we need to know right now who can hack it at this level.  I'm done with the Caedin Hamilon, Al Amadou, Emarion Ellis, Tre Norman, Keeyan Itejere leeches who stay on the roster when they have no business playing at this level.

Quote from: wadesworld on Today at 03:36:02 PMJJ Andrews, Tarris Bouie, Carey Booth, JP Estrella, Devin Royal, Kon Knueppel, Nyk Lewis, Jamarion Bateman, Micah Gordon are all top 50 recruits that have taken official visits to Marquette during Shaka's time here.  Dooney Johnson, Cam Ward, Devin Cleveland, Antonio Pemberton, Donovan Davis, Jaxson Davis are, depending where you look, top 50 recruits that have all been offered and shown legitimate interest.

2027 is a huge year for Shaka.  I know recruiting rankings don't guarantee a kid's success (or lack thereof), but I can take 2 down years if Shaka is starting to up the talent level in the program with freshman classes.  The class of 2026 is a good start.  2027 needs to be better, or Shaka needs to start building the roster in more modern ways.  If the class has 3 of Cleveland, Pemberton, Jaxson Davis, Donovan Davis, and Micah Gordon I can be patient.  If Jack Kohnen is the highlight of the class, then the talent isn't really improving a ton.

In general, I of course agree with your point and have said the same exact thing.
But what makes you think 2026 was "a good start"?  We have one player that projects to be a true difference maker, and two guys that SCREAM Tre Norman and Caedin Hamilton-esque talents.

Ethan Johnston was terrible this past summer, really from the time he committed onward.  To me, he looks like a longer Tre Norman.  And Nash Walker is so bad at everything but shooting that Shaka's spinniest spin on his commitment was "he's bad at everything but shooting".  I would argue 2026 was much more comparable to the 2022 Chase Ross, Ben Gold, Sean Jones class than anything close to Nigel James, Adrien Stevens, Sheek Pearson, Ian Miletic, Michael Phillips class: in other words, a giant step back.

That's why losing out on Dooney Johnson was such a killer.  THAT is the level of talent Shaka needs to be bringing in every year, and the kid was a local product that the staff felt was in the best position for.  I'm as low on Marquette basketball as I was in the 2020-2021 Wojo era, and that's fucking alarming.  Only difference is Shaka is actively making life so much harder on himself: he's playing with one arm tied behind his back (no portal usage) and blind (settling for back-end top 100 kids and no-name projects no one else wanted).  He's basically the Helen Keller of college basketball.

Quote from: Jay Bee on Today at 04:55:51 PM#FakeNews #Lies

So you're saying we have less for hoops than VCU, which committed $4.5 million for revenue share, meaning men's hoops players are getting around $400k each from the school?

Quote from: Galway Eagle on Today at 03:33:15 PMI'm not saying you're wrong but some of those guys you picked their lowest rankings

I used 247 consistently for all of them. I wasn't cherry picking different services.

Quote from: Billy Hoyle on Today at 01:53:14 PMwe do have an advantage when it comes to what we can provide to players via revenue share over P4 schools who see 75% of the amount allocated to football.

#FakeNews #Lies

Exc

Quote from: ATL MU Warrior on November 19, 2025, 09:13:04 PMYou know this was bad when Willie doesn't even bother to show up and gloat.

Except I am not gloating. I have always wanted MU to succeed. And there is no reason they can't succeed. But when you look at what is happening this year, it is obvious that there are big time issues. Put the blame for that where you want.