Fore!

[The Sultan]

You go from top 10 to unranked in 2 weeks. What do you call it?

Performing poorly.

[MarquetteDano]

Excuses, excuses, and more excuses. Five years of EXCUSES! Excuses are the tools of incompetence. Wojo is an INCOMPETENT coach and should be removed ASAP,

Extreme.  Let's see how this year plays out first.  Then next year you have everyone back with McEwen and Elliott.  Then talk about removing coaches.

You remove Wojo now and who transfers and leaves?  A little patience would be prudent.

[The Sultan]

Excuses, excuses, and more excuses. Five years of EXCUSES! Excuses are the tools of incompetence. Wojo is an INCOMPETENT coach and should be removed ASAP,

Extend him. Improvement year to year should be rewarded.

[GooooMarquette]

I'm stunned at how quickly this season went off the rails.

We have the talent to make some noise in the Dance, but we need to show some mental toughness that has been MIA lately.

Go Marquette!

[Goose]

Johnny B
Wanting to believe something does not make it true. It was fools gold and it made folks giddy with excitement. After six years of no NCAA success, I prefer substance over trying to believe in miracles.

[Shooter McGavin]

Extend him. Improvement year to year should be rewarded.

Probably sarcastic but correct.  Year to year improvement the right way.  And if he lands a loaded class with a decent year this year and a great one next then he has us rolling.  Think big picture guys.  You are micromanaging.

[CTWarrior]

The metrics have had MU ranked in the 25-30 range pretty much all season.  This was never a top 10 caliber team, if we're being honest.

At the Connecticut get together for NMD when we played Nova, I said that even though we were ranked 10th I thought we were really around 20 and most there agreed.  So I thought we were over-rated.  But that doesn't mean we are regressing to what we are, because the number 40 team in the country doesn't lose those four games in a row, let alone the number 20 team.  Especially when they only needed one to share the league title.  We lost home games to Creighton and Georgetown for crying out loud.  The road losses to Nova and SHU are understandable, though perhaps not the way we lost them.  If you don't want to call it a choke, I'm fine with that.  Let's call it a collapse.

[GooooMarquette]

Probably sarcastic but correct.  Year to year improvement the right way.  And if he lands a loaded class with a decent year this year and a great one next then he has us rolling.  Think big picture guys.  You are micromanaging.

Agreed. The last four games have been brutal, but we are still getting better year to year. Starting over would put us back a couple of years and might cost us some very good returning players.

[Galway Eagle]

Johnny B
Wanting to believe something does not make it true. It was fools gold and it made folks giddy with excitement. After six years of no NCAA success, I prefer substance over trying to believe in miracles.

This. I disagree with you tremendously about the outlook of next season and feel you underestimated us this season however you're still right that our start made for inflated expectations and as you put it "fools gold"

[curbina]

Let your winners run and cut your losses! Wojo, is a loser!

[Mike Deane's Seat Belt]

Goose was spot on with fools gold.   

"They are who we thought they were" finally the luck ran out and the wheels fell off and here we are where the metrics have had us the whole time.

Was fun while it lasted.  National programs talking about us.  Markus was unstoppable. The hauser brothers deAdly duo. 

All this has gone away and we are left with a big steaming pile with no reason to expect a different result at this point

[willie warrior]

The Woj era had a chance to add its first tangible victory today. 0-1 in the NCAA's, no BET title, no NIT titles, if you care about in season holiday tournaments, nothing there either. I'm not advocating getting rid of Woj, but today was the worst loss of the Woj era. Everything set up for MU, and I'm at a loss. Just an abysmal ending to what was shaping up to be a remarkable season.

But listen to the excuse makers, we are trending up. Hogwash. We sure have been trending in last 4 games.

[muwarrior69]

Probably sarcastic but correct.  Year to year improvement the right way.  And if he lands a loaded class with a decent year this year and a great one next then he has us rolling.  Think big picture guys.  You are micromanaging.

We are coming back with almost the same team as this year. What makes you believe we will be any better? Gtown is going to be better, as is Providence, X, Creighton and Seton Hall. No way we win 12 in the league next season especially now that every team knows how to play Markus.

[willie warrior]

Fools gold was served? Whatever man.. so people wanted to believe this team was very good finally after 5 or 6 years of mediocrity. So what. Dont patronize people

Still mediocre, and trending down the toilet.

[Johnny B]

Johnny B
Wanting to believe something does not make it true. It was fools gold and it made folks giddy with excitement. After six years of no NCAA success, I prefer substance over trying to believe in miracles.

There was substance. They beat good teams. Made it high in the polls. Had late leads in the last four games but just pissed it away. It's a good team. Yes they are not great and probably not top ten but they ain't some joke of a team. I think most people thought they were top 20ish which seems about right. But anyways..we can dream right

[Goose]

Johnny B
Even in a down year for college ball this is not a top twenty team. If they were, they get a four seed or better. It is a long season and they ended up falling short of being a top twenty team. Hey, I have been dreaming for 42 years and get it. That said, it is only a dream at this point.

[Johnny B]

Still mediocre, and trending down the toilet.

Mediocre is NIT ish. This team will be a six seed. Should have been better. Yes they choked the last four away. Yeah its pathetic but reality is this is the best season we have had since the E8 year and its not even close. Maybe they turn it around and make a run. Maybe not. This is not some garbage team here. Just an awful stretch. They are better than this

[BM1090]

We are coming back with almost the same team as this year. What makes you believe we will be any better? Gtown is going to be better, as is Providence, X, Creighton and Seton Hall. No way we win 12 in the league next season especially now that every team knows how to play Markus.

We are low on guards this year. We have Koby, Greg and Symir coming.

Why do everyone else's players improve next year and ours dont?

[muwarrior69]

There was substance. They beat good teams. Made it high in the polls. Had late leads in the last four games but just pissed it away. It's a good team. Yes they are not great and probably not top ten but they ain't some joke of a team. I think most people thought they were top 20ish which seems about right. But anyways..we can dream right

Its been more like nightmare!

[BM1090]

Johnny B
Even in a down year for college ball this is not a top twenty team. If they were, they get a four seed or better. It is a long season and they ended up falling short of being a top twenty team. Hey, I have been dreaming for 42 years and get it. That said, it is only a dream at this point.

4 top 20 teams get 5 seeds. That's likely where we will be.

[MarquetteDano]

We are coming back with almost the same team as this year. What makes you believe we will be any better? Gtown is going to be better, as is Providence, X, Creighton and Seton Hall. No way we win 12 in the league next season especially now that every team knows how to play Markus.

Baring injury, I have complete confidence we will be better next year.  We gain Elliott and McEwen,  and only lose Heldt and Chartouney.  Plus you have young players with another year's experience, Joey and Brendan specifically.

You are saying no way we win 12 games in the Big East next season?  Assuming Howard returns, care to wager?

[muwarrior69]

We are low on guards this year. We have Koby, Greg and Symir coming.

Why do everyone else's players improve next year and ours dont?

Because we have regressed over the last 4 games and obviously no one knows how to fix it.

[4everwarriors]

Let's hang a banner, hey? Goose is spot on. This team is a 6 seed going into the Tourney. If we draw an athletic mid-major in the first game, we'll be waitin' on next year...once again.

[Bad_Reporter]

Let's hang a banner, hey? Goose is spot on. This team is a 6 seed going into the Tourney. If we draw an athletic mid-major in the first game, we'll be waitin' on next year...once again.

+1 Doc

[CTWarrior]

Baring injury, I have complete confidence we will be better next year.  We gain Elliott and McEwen,  and only lose Heldt and Chartouney.  Plus you have young players with another year's experience, Joey and Brendan specifically.

You are saying no way we win 12 games in the Big East next season?  Assuming Howard returns, care to wager?

I think it is going to take a lot better team to win 12 games next year than it did this year.  I personally think we can do it again.  A lot depends on McEwen.  If he is as good as we hope and everyone else comes back, we will be a lot better next year.  I tend to be pessimistic about newcomers, as they seem to be less than advertised more often than not.  I think the inability of Chartouney to play a passable 10-15 minutes at PG is a huge unexpected problem for this team.