Quote from: GoldenEagles03 on December 01, 2025, 02:48:50 PMGreat question. Caedin Hamilton has started 8 of 8 games this season.

Josh Clark and Michael Phillips are somehow playing less than Owens.

Clark and Phillips are also playing less combine than Caedin is.

This is how your culture turns bad quickly.

Quote from: jesmu84 on November 28, 2025, 05:21:01 PMOr, at best, defensive energy like Stevie.

Stevie is a top tier Marquette defender.  Pretty much only bigs were ever on his level. Its Oso, Jae, and maybe Trent if we are being nice to include another guard.

Sean has yet to be a better defender than upperclassmen versions of Markus Howard.

Quote from: CTWarrior on December 01, 2025, 02:41:44 PMI know Shaka is all about culture, but what kind of successful sports culture doesn't begin with play the best guys or the guys who give you the best chance to win?

Great question. Caedin Hamilton has started 8 of 8 games this season.

I need to know who the sean truthers are, and where they buy their drugs from.

Quote from: GoldenEagles03 on November 30, 2025, 10:28:49 AMI'm leaning Sean.

Nigel has been clearly better but I don't see any way Sean returns next season if he's a backup behind a Freshman PG and I'm sure Shaka wants Sean back next year because we don't have another PG set to return or on the recruiting trail.

You can't go into next season with 1 PG and Shaka won't want to use the portal to find a backup for a Sophomore PG either. I'm leaning Sean when fully healthy.

I know Shaka is all about culture, but what kind of successful sports culture doesn't begin with play the best guys or the guys who give you the best chance to win?

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.

Most of them do. Because they either redshirt or aren't ready to contribute much. James is clearly a better player, so he should be upset if Jones takes his spot that he already earned.

Should be able to get tix pretty cheap this year 

Quote from: Juan Anderson's Mixtape on December 01, 2025, 01:20:40 PMCompletely agree.


We are pretty much in agreement.  The only thing I slightly disagree with is your last sentence.

You can overcome a 4th year player being a below average starter if the rest of the roster is good enough.  Unfortunately, the sophomores and juniors have a grand total of 1 low level BE starter (Royce), 1-2 rotation players (Zaide, and maybe Sean), and a whole lotta mess.

Fans are justifiably upset, that we agree on.

You can overcome by acquiring talent to make up for the misses in recruiting. I have a hard time believing Shaka didn't see the writing on the wall with some of these guys. I think he is stuck in his way and hopes that he will be able to cultivate teams full of talent + sustained growth and development using this model, but the reality is that may be taxing.

I do not have season tix, and I have yet to buy any tix through the website.  But, I have attended 4 games and sat in the lower bowl for all 4 games and have not paid more than $30.  I'm not tech savvy at all, but I stumbled across a way to get them cheaply.

I happened to be checking the schedule on ESPN website and the little blue pop up link that says "tickets as low as $8" beckoned me.  I clicked on it and it's very simple.  You can sort by cheapest, or upper bowl, or lower bowl sideline, corner or end zone.  The pricing is dynamic, so if you're okay rolling the dice,  you can get lucky.  I did that for one game and saved $10 per ticket.  The quoted price includes fees, the only wildcard so to speak, is the taxes.  It takes you to Vivid Seats, and the tickets end up in your MU Gameday App.

I'm 4 for 4.  BTW you can buy them well in advance also.

Quote from: MU82 on December 01, 2025, 12:57:55 PMI can't speak for other "people," but I said only that Shaka had a history of developing players, so I was hopeful that we would see significant improvement from the likes of Lowery, Owens, Parham and Hamilton. I think the first part of my statement was absolutely true. And as an optimistic fan, I don't think it was crazy-talk to have realistic hope for the second part of the equation.

Unfortunately, the significant improvement hasn't happened, and there arguably has been regression for a couple of them.

It's been said on here before, but there's also the real possibility that guys like Kolek, Oso, and Kam caused Shaka to overestimate how well he and staff can develop players. It's one thing to develop guys who show they can be studs down the road (i.e., Nigel), and another to develop guys who first picked up a basketball in high school. It doesn't take an expert to know that, with the latter, you're choosing a longer growth journey for a product with a lower ceiling.

As corny as the RGV marketing is, I think it's still a good model on paper. Shaka just needs to realize that when it comes to the R, the emphasis shouldn't be on relationships. It should be on recruitment.