Quote from: CountryRoads on December 30, 2025, 11:35:35 PMBen is a good kid. As is Chase. Both seemed a lot happier when they were lower in the pecking order. "Stars in their role" if you will. RGV calls for incremental role elevation every year, but sometimes a guy just fits his role and is happy to just stay in it. And that's ok.

This is a cause of some of this year's problems.  Last year's core of Kam, Jop and Mitchell played together for three years, then you add Kolek and Oso for the two years before that. All consumed huge minutes.  Not a lot of room then to expand your role if you are a senior or junior today.

So today you have a scenario where we find that yesterday's role players are not star players.

Quote from: avid1010 on December 31, 2025, 07:46:11 PMThere is no way Shaka doesn't use the portal moving forward??  I'd like to see them target more "sure things" after their freshmen year like they did with Kolek, O-Max, etc... 

Sean, *Zaide, Trey, Damarius, Royce and Caiden as our upper classmen next year doesn't work. 

My faith in Shaka remains strong.  He'll figure it out, but it seems like he needs to use the method that immediately made him successful at MU.  His recruiting classes look awful. 

I defended him not using the portal, but I don't see how playing 2 freshmen a ton of minutes is any different than using the portal in relation to the other players on the team.

This continues to be said here now and then and it's astounding.  If someone was brought in here with the express intent to ruin this program, they couldn't have done better.  Because anyone can see things are not looking up for future seasons because we've got players sitting out with major injuries or have 2 or 3 or whatever top 30 recruits coming on board. 

No competent coach does what Shaka's done to bring us where we sit today.  And that place is one of, if not THE worst team in modern program history.  There's no excuse for what he's done.  It's not just an off season or rebuilding year, it's egregiously bad and negligent handling of a major college program. 

Quote from: Viper on Today at 09:00:34 AM0-0 in '26 we are!! And that first 0 in your 0-0 is likely to remain until November, unfortunately

With any luck it'll be gone in a week.

A caveat:

Play the seniors less and less as the end of the season approaches and give those minutes to those bench players who have earned more time.

This season is about game experience for next year.

But that assumes growth within the bench.

Quote from: wadesworld on December 31, 2025, 09:39:19 PMNope. This is about basketball. We will be 0-0 for the year beginning in a little over 2 hours.

0-0 in '26 we are!! And that first 0 in your 0-0 is likely to remain until November, unfortunately

Jay Bee, 

Couldn't have said it any better.  That rotation simply gives the team a better chance to win.  Full stop. 

Quote from: Markusquette on Today at 12:22:16 AMYou saved me some time with this reply so I'll shift gears a bit. Despite Clark's offensive game resembling Hamilton, I'd like to see their minutes split for a few games, since Clark at the very least offers enough length on defense to block shots.

rim run Clark for some lobs. Maestro Shaka, nope. Let's go with Hamilton. He has good footwork.

Quote from: MarquetteMike1977 on Today at 04:15:44 AMSeton Hall's NET ranking did drop from 45 to 46 after beating Marquette

#FakeNews #Lies

It did not.

But they do deserve the Ohio.

Quote from: MarquetteMike1977 on December 31, 2025, 09:08:01 PMMarquette Basketball
Predictions Update
Dec 31, 2025
•   After losing to Seton Hall 79-73 yesterday, Marquette is now projected to finish the regular season 10-21 (5-15 Big East).
•   The odds that the Golden Eagles make the NCAA tournament are currently 0.3%.
•   We currently rank Marquette as the #101 team in the country, and the #9 team in the Big East.
•   Next game: Sun, Jan 4 at #9 UConn. Our power ratings give the Golden Eagles a 4% chance to win.
Bracketology Projections
Make NCAA Tournament   0%
Get Automatic NCAA Bid   0%
Projected Seed (if Selected) 13

It may be infinitely small, but it is not zero. Who knows, we may win 4 straight in the BET. Strange things in sports do happen. Now how is that for optimism in 2026.