Quote from: Pakuni on March 02, 2026, 06:25:07 PMThe athletic department has unlimited financial resources?

Scoop is where I've learned that Marquette doesn't have enough money to compete in the NIL world but also has no ceiling on what it can spend.

Is there a rule that every scholarship player is required to be paid NIL money?

Quote from: Vander Blue Man Group on March 02, 2026, 02:08:52 PMSo the staff responsible for two #2 seeds no longer knows how to develop and coach 2 seasons later?

Seems to me this is a talent/recruiting issue more than anything, which is also the responsibility of the staff. 

No issue if some new blood is added to the staff but I'm pretty sure Shaka and company didn't completely "lose it" so quickly.

there is it - talent and recruiting. You can't develop a player into a high major, Big East level talent if their celing is Horizon or Missouri Valley.

Quote from: The Sultan on March 02, 2026, 11:48:16 AMYou may be thinking of a different team. We only started playing UAB in the 90s when we were both in CUSA.

Anyway, I am not listening to any accolades over players not currently playing until I actually see them on the court.

Exactly!

Shaka's runs ghost screens all the time, never tough hard nose picks, because the bigs are to soft. Zero pick and roll, Tyler was as good as any guard doing that. Zero inside game, hard to get easy buckets then, so they jack up threes.  It would be fine if they ran more plays for Stevens as he is not good enough to create his own shot, has no midrange game. Getting one shot a half does not work for me.

Quote from: JWags85 on March 02, 2026, 02:50:43 PMGood thing you avoid stock/investing Reddit.  The lunatics there (not even just the famous WallStBets) would celebrate deliriously if a United/Delta/American Dreamliner went down as long as they had puts.  People would look forward to natural disaster season (hurricanes/tornados) the same way gamblers get excited for March Madness or opening weekend NFL

The investing subreddit is a bunch of doomers, but mostly buy-and-hold doomers. Honestly they're mostly VOO and chill, and would get along okay in boglehead communities. 

A lot of the other investing communities on Reddit are filled with meme stocks, options dumbassery, and crypto shilling,though. 

Quote from: Jay Bee on March 02, 2026, 06:10:37 PM#FakeNews #Lies

It's not as if we are "maxxed out" on what we can give "student"-athletes.

The athletic department has unlimited financial resources?

Scoop is where I've learned that Marquette doesn't have enough money to compete in the NIL world but also has no ceiling on what it can spend.

Some of the guys that were here for some of Shaka's first few years just had terrific basketball IQ and a really good feel for the game. Some of it was experience and some of it was just innate to those guys. Kam Jones, Ighodaro, Mitchell, and of course Kolek all were smart players with different skillsets that really knew how to work with each other.

Joplin's decision making on offense wasn't quite at the level of those others but I thought he actually had a high IQ on defense. He had a knack for getting in passing lanes, and even came up with timely blocked shots and rebounds despite not being an explosive athlete.

I don't know that anyone amongst the current sophomore through senior classes shows the basketball smarts of the guys mentioned above. Ross is excellent at getting into passing lanes on defense but as a senior that seems to be his only above average trait.

The freshmen do show some promise as being a step above the sophomore through senior classes in hoops IQ but they've got a long ways to go to get where we want them to be.

Hopefully whomever they add this offseason has a better feel for the game and are better decision makers plus a bit more polished offensively than most of this year's team was. It's been a tough watch although occasionally there have been very brief fun moments like national Marquette day.

Quote from: Pakuni on March 02, 2026, 04:58:42 PMEvery dollar you give him is a dollar that can't be spent elsewhere.

#FakeNews #Lies

It's not as if we are "maxxed out" on what we can give "student"-athletes.

Quote from: Zog from Margo on March 02, 2026, 03:39:39 PMA little selective editing on your part, but I know you do not believe it matters if teams make FTs. (It's an odd belief because making all of the missed FTs and the missed opportunities for FTs off missed front ends was pretty much the difference in the game yesterday.) In any event, I said shooting which includes more than FTs. MU shoots like crap in both form and substance.

#FakeNews #Lies

I have never said that I do not believe it matters if teams make FTs. That's patently false. I said team FT% isn't of meaningful relevance to winning basketball games. Very different statements.

Now, "the difference in the game yesterday" that you're attributing yesterday's loss to is also bizarro thinking. In what world would the expectation be to make 100% of free throws?

#muMbb scored flippin 0.81 points per possession. 3 missed front ends, but also 2 made and 1's. If we say net 12 possessions used at the line... 11/12 = .092. Free throws helped our offense yesterday - they were not 'the difference in the game'. You shoot sub-43% eFG% and turn it over more than 20%, with sporting an OR% below 20%, you're in deep sh1t.

It may be " remarkable " that there's been no staff changes in Shaka's time ...
But that's NOT a good thing.

All of his staff seem to be complete yes men.  I can see them now ( last summer)
... " yes, Shaka .. Hamilton CAN play in the BE "

How is it that none of them have moved to a head job ?  Do they $uck or are they just not ambitious?

Every single past coach has had guys move on / up to a head job.  Even WOJO had two , Stan Johnson and Dwayne Killings.

But ... I'm sure the last thing Shaka wants is to have someone give him honest feedback.