Here's why politicians are falling all over themselves to placate companies investing heavily in all things AI ...

It would be nice.

great to be respected AND winning...

Quote from: tower912 on Today at 09:48:15 AMFrom the outside, Shaka was just mentioned in an Athletic article as one of the 40 most respected people across all sports.

we cracked the Kenpom bottom 245 checking in at #121..

Quote from: #UnleashJosh on January 17, 2026, 06:31:43 PMGuys.... yall don't need to keep explaining that Shaka errored with not adding portal players in the off season.

Failure to recruit the portal is not his "error"--his error lies in his entire operating philosophy . . .

- not using the portal
- prioritizing your current roster over always looking to improve your team
- not dealing with agents
- ignoring potential recruits if they desire to maximize earnings
- believing that low-major recruits reliably can be "coached up" to Big East level
- prioritizing culture and relationships over performance
- prioritizing retention over improvement
- prioritizing practice over games

Let's face it, with 2500+ players in the portal every year, there are plenty of underdeveloped, unproven transfers that are functionally identical to the underdeveloped, unproven HS players he's been recruiting. 

If the only thing Shaka changes is taking those players from the portal instead of HS, results won't be any better. 

The answer is not simply "recruit the portal."  It's recruit (and land) Big East ready talent wherever he can find it.

Quote from: NCMUFan on January 22, 2026, 06:02:37 PMThings are looking up.

After the Marquette Butler game our NET Rank remained the same today at #142

Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on Today at 08:34:34 AMThe thing is, with this SC, that power is not applied evenly. They ruled against numerous Biden initiatives while allowing all but the most insane things from Trump, such as his ability to fire Fed Reserve members at his whim. The outcome is based on whatever the SC wants it to be and reasons are retrofitted as needed, sometimes to mindnumbing degrees.

The SC desperately needs to be reformed. Personally, I like the idea that each President gets to nominate 2 Justices per term, with the two longest serving members being retired.

When the Philippines wrote a new constitution post-Marcos, they 1) limited Presidents to one term, and 2) made 70 the mandatory retirement age for their Supreme Court justices. I'm all of both when we have to write a new Constitution in 2028.

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.

Broeker answers to Shaka and Kimo is more interested in making Facebook videos to seem like the cool dean in the Simpsons episode where Homer went back to college.

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.