Quote from: Marquette Fan on January 01, 2026, 10:05:56 PMI tend to get grief when I've posted about the women's team on the other board.  And this thread is often me just posting and I get tired of talking to myself sometimes 😂.

They did just get a verbal commitment for a class of 27 kid from defending state champions Kimberly - the Paper Makers - not sure if anyone cares about that 😀.

I care, and I always appreciate your updates, even if I don't comment myself. Keep posting!

Quote from: CreightonWarrior on January 01, 2026, 01:57:35 PMWe're at the point now where it can't be a coincidence that every bye team has lost in the expanded CFP. The schedule really needs to be addressed.

Sample size is too small IMHO. Let's see in another 2-3 years. Despite the results of these last two years, I think if you polled all coaches, the majority would say they'd rather have the bye and need fewer victories to win the title.

On a related note, I really like this final four. Different teams from the same ol' same ol' and good storylines.

Indiana is the best story in college football. Ole Miss, jilted by its coach and led by a QB who got no major offers and wasn't even the starter early this season, is a great story. Lots and lots of "experts" felt Miami shouldn't have even been in the tournament. Oregon, often a contender but never a champion; will this be their year?

I'm rooting for that famed and feared football school, Indiana! But I really won't be rooting against anyone.

Quote from: Vander Blue Man Group on January 01, 2026, 02:47:52 PM"Have conversations with 90% of the roster".  More ridiculous hyperbole. 

We have one open spot.  If two more open up and Shaka 1) actually uses the portal and 2) does well in the portal, next year's team could be competitive. 

I would be more than happy to have the following guys back next season:

Parham
Owens
James
Stevens
Phillips
Clark
Pearson
Miletic
Walker
Egbuonu
Johnston

You're going to drop the two most experienced players - the leading scorer and only competent big, no less - from one of the worst P5 programs in the country, replace them with a few unheralded freshmen and maybe one portal guy ... and that makes this team competitive?
There's a line between optimism and Pollyannaism, and this seems to be on the wrong side of it.

Quote from: Hards Alumni on January 02, 2026, 08:30:06 AMThe assumption is that the same thing happens this off season and next year.

Again, if they want to fire him for this year, then do it.  But he's the guy running the program.  Not the Board of Trustees, not Mike Broeker, not Kimo.

If you start stepping on the coaches responsibilities everyone in college basketball will take note.  And that's worse than another losing season with a stubborn coach.

Right.
If Mike Broeker has such little faith in Shaka's ability to turn around the ship that he needs to insert himself into the process, then he should just fire him and bring on a coach he does believe in.
The AD's role in the inner workings of the program - and by that I mean roster-building, recruiting decisions, lineups, player development - starts and ends with hiring a coach and providing the resources he needs.

Quote from: GoFastAndWin on January 01, 2026, 10:30:12 PMIn a perfect world, Shaka wouldn't bring up this WSB Tweet, but instead reach back to when Dan Hurley made a derogatory comment about his Huskies letting some nobody named Tre Norman make a big contribution. And Tre would get some PT and respond with the game of his life. It would light a fire under every underachieving player on this team, which is just about everybody, and the team could position itself for salvaging this impending shipwreck. Everyone here has written him off. I wish someone, anyone on this team would just go off and take matters into their own hands and set an example.

They aren't good enough basketball players to do this.

Quote from: Elonsmusk on January 02, 2026, 08:16:44 AMYet another odd take to just try to find any way possible to blame Shaka. Our best player has been Nigel James. The fact Chase is struggling with Nigel at PG is more of an indictment on Chase than Shaka for not briging in a PG through the portal.

He's talking about last season.

Quote from: Hards Alumni on January 02, 2026, 08:30:06 AMThe assumption is that the same thing happens this off season and next year.

Again, if they want to fire him for this year, then do it.  But he's the guy running the program.  Not the Board of Trustees, not Mike Broeker, not Kimo.

If you start stepping on the coaches responsibilities everyone in college basketball will take note.  And that's worse than another losing season with a stubborn coach.

And my point is, he ran it into the ground. It needs intervention the same way wojo needed intervention following what was ultimately his last season.

I don't think potential coaches will look at a marquette admin negatively for "meddling" following this horrendous season.

Quote from: panda on January 02, 2026, 08:26:45 AMThe performance this season warrants intervention.

The assumption is that the same thing happens this off season and next year.

Again, if they want to fire him for this year, then do it.  But he's the guy running the program.  Not the Board of Trustees, not Mike Broeker, not Kimo.

If you start stepping on the coaches responsibilities everyone in college basketball will take note.  And that's worse than another losing season with a stubborn coach.

Quote from: Hards Alumni on January 02, 2026, 08:07:22 AMHe's the coach.  Either you allow him to evaluate the roster and run the program or you don't.

He's earned one more year, but if things don't go well, obviously his head is on the block.

Once you start micromanaging coaches from the Admin level, you've started a clock.

The performance this season warrants intervention.

Quote from: Billy Hoyle on January 02, 2026, 07:52:08 AMBut he shouldn't have had to; he should have been able to remain in his previous role, but Shaka refused to go get a PG in the Portal.

Yet another odd take to just try to find any way possible to blame Shaka. Our best player has been Nigel James. The fact Chase is struggling with Nigel at PG is more of an indictment on Chase than Shaka for not briging in a PG through the portal.