Quote from: Zog from Margo on November 30, 2025, 09:36:20 PMWhen players play for a paycheck instead of a school, it's not the same game to me.
When you see that UK has a roster receiving over $20 million (https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/college/kentucky/mens-basketball/2025/10/16/kentucky-wildcats-basketball-roster-cost-20-million/86732570007/), what is your expectation for MU? Shouldn't one's expectations be commensurate with the team's payroll?
Quote from: Billy Hoyle on November 30, 2025, 06:21:53 PMya think? 61 different products for sale at the Spirit Shop with the RGV brand on it:
https://spiritshop.marquette.edu/rgv/
I've said it before, I'm afraid RGV is going to be come what "our academic standards are too high" has been to schools like Bucky in the 80s, Northwestern, etc.
I do appreciate that we have a roster of guys who are making a commitment to MU as an institution but we act like we're the only school doing this and everyone else has complete roster turnover every year.
Quote from: GB Warrior on November 30, 2025, 06:33:28 PMIf this is happening in California, just think what's happening in West Bend
Quote from: BM1090 on November 30, 2025, 09:30:59 PMIs this surprising? I felt like they didn't have a shot
Edit: looks like it was expected and I'm just out of the loop
Quote from: JWags85 on November 30, 2025, 10:42:21 PMRandy Walker was 37-46 and had 1 season over .500...definitely A-OK. Gary Barnett was 35-45, had 2 really good years and then faded. Had 2x as many 3 or less win seasons as winning years in 7 years in Evanston. Definitely won A LOT. His last year he was 0-8 in the B10 and still got hired by Colorado and was in consideration for Texas.
That 1995 Barnett team was probably the best NW team of all time, an absolute thunderbolt out of nowhere. But everything about Fitz's total resume at Northwestern completely eclipses both Walker and Barnett, it's not even a debate without a bias pushing the agenda.
Quote from: WhiteTrash on November 30, 2025, 03:19:37 PMThe Bears may only be favored in 1 of their final 5 games, but it sure is fun right now.
Dare I say, the Bears' window is just about to open?
Quote from: MU82 on November 30, 2025, 10:14:06 PMHe had 1 whole conference win in 3 of his last 4 years. That's an entire recruiting cycle. And he oversaw Hazing U.
Barnett won a lot at Northwestern, Walker did A-OK, and yes, Coach Hazy did well before the wheels fell off, too. Since the mid-90s, NW hasn't been the Rick Venturi Mildcats.
You're doing an absurd overselling of Fitzgerald's extreme fade at the end of his run. Not just 2 years. 3 of 4 + Hazing.
Quote from: GoldenEagles03 on November 30, 2025, 07:37:08 PMFreshman know what they are signing up for when they come to Marquette. Nigel is the first Freshman to start for Shaka so I don't think it would be even a little bit of a surprise to see him turn back to Sean.
We shall see soon enough.
Quote from: JWags85 on November 30, 2025, 08:55:20 PMConvenient to go the last 4 years instead of a normal 5 cause that cuts out a year they went 8-1 in the B10 and Fitz won COY.
And yes his last 2 years were really bad but he won national COY in the 2020 going 7-2 (6-1).
The hazing situation, regardless of his legal absolution, is an understandable black cloud to the hiring. But chalking him up as another "white retread" because of those last 2 years (when any other 3-4 year snapshot of his time at NW captures really good results for the job) is an absurd underselling of the coaching he did at one of the most unwinnable jobs in the country historically.
And of course MSU fans are mad. They are delusional about their place in the B10/CFB world and have been since Saban left. They weren't happy when Dantonio was hired either.
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