2025-26 College Hoops Thread

[Scoop Snoop]

Michigan...new coach (yr 2), utilizing all the recruiting tools available...it's only Nov., but F4 looking probable. Dusty May won't be confused with Helen Keller.

OK. Now please explain how the cellar dwellers in the major conferences, "utilizing all the recruiting tools available", have not achieved the same results.

I'll make it easier for you. Totally disregard Marquette because Shaka is the only coach not "utilizing all the recruiting tools available". That way you are comparing apples to apples without an anomaly messing up your explanation.

If Marquette was where Purdue and Michigan are or if Marquette finishes the season winless, nothing, nada, zip, zero would be proven regarding the use of the portal. I think it is a fair guess that you are not a statistician.

Onepost gave the name Sherlock Holmes after I busted him for trying to sneak in a major revision of one of his posts. Please humor me and use that name, because I really like it. You can call me Sherlock or Mr. Holmes. Either would be fine.   

Heading out for our Thanksgiving dinner soon. Are you going to your BIL's house for yours?

[Uncle Rico]

San Francisco and Gerlufsen lost.  Cross him off the list.

[Billy Hoyle]

Shaka's Year 2 at Marquette absolutely sucked. We couldn't win any NC games, we were never ranked, we finished 9th in the Big East exactly as opposing coaches (and some of Scoop) predicted, we got crushed in the first round of the BE tournament.

Thanks to lawyers, the game has changed even since then, with unlimited transfers and revenue share, and Shaka is not utilizing that.

And, in that year, we got knocked out in the second round of the NCAA Tournament (and Dusty May led a 9 seed out of our bracket).

[Newsdreams]

Thanks to lawyers, the game has changed even since then, with unlimited transfers and revenue share, and Shaka is not utilizing that.

And, in that year, we got knocked out in the second round of the NCAA Tournament (and Dusty May led a 9 seed out of our bracket).

Thanks Chicos

[Billy Hoyle]

Thanks Chicos

I'll let him know for you.

[MU82]

Thanks to lawyers, the game has changed even since then, with unlimited transfers and revenue share, and Shaka is not utilizing that.

And, in that year, we got knocked out in the second round of the NCAA Tournament (and Dusty May led a 9 seed out of our bracket).

So? That has nothing to do with either Viper's post or my post.

But it did give you the opportunity to make yet another "Shaka sucks" post, so congrats!

[MuggsyB]

Arkansas taking Duke to the wire. 

[Uncle Rico]

So? That has nothing to do with either Viper's post or my post.

But it did you the opportunity to make yet another "Shaka sucks" post, so congrats!

Chicos did start MUPOOP as a response to the other bloggers piece on Wojo and hiring of Shaka

[Viper]

OK. Now please explain how the cellar dwellers in the major conferences, "utilizing all the recruiting tools available", have not achieved the same results.

I'll make it easier for you. Totally disregard Marquette because Shaka is the only coach not "utilizing all the recruiting tools available". That way you are comparing apples to apples without an anomaly messing up your explanation.

If Marquette was where Purdue and Michigan are or if Marquette finishes the season winless, nothing, nada, zip, zero would be proven regarding the use of the portal. I think it is a fair guess that you are not a statistician.

Onepost gave the name Sherlock Holmes after I busted him for trying to sneak in a major revision of one of his posts. Please humor me and use that name, because I really like it. You can call me Sherlock or Mr. Holmes. Either would be fine.   

Heading out for our Thanksgiving dinner soon. Are you going to your BIL's house for yours?

...bad at math. My IRA's and other investments look great of late...using all the tools to financial wins, but yeah, the Helen Keller of math.

[brewcity77]

Doesn't make sense. Maybe one of our intrepid bloggers can ask Broeker about this.

Most of the response I've gotten is that Marquette doesn't trust the long term funding model, which I think is a silly concern because if it all falls apart, there would be 31 teams in the same boat and choosing to not be part of an effective college basketball champion's league is a poor decision.

I think the bigger concern is that the PEF funding is largely going to the players, with the schools being required to buy tickets. I'm not sure the contract details of the original 8 to sign up, but the more recent 10 schools all were alloted tickets they had to pay for and could resell to their fans. If you sell them at a loss or aren't able to sell enough, you end up losing money on that part of the contract.

If Marquette was able to play for $1M for the athletics department, maybe they would make a different decision, but as it is the athletics department is getting paid to play Indiana and Oklahoma, and that guaranteed money seems to be more appealing than the risk of having to sell tickets & the main award money going to the players rather than the program.

[Billy Hoyle]

So? That has nothing to do with either Viper's post or my post.

But it did give you the opportunity to make yet another "Shaka sucks" post, so congrats!

Dude, way too much drama in your posts lately. You're better and more knowledgable than this.

There was no "Shaka sucks" but it was a "Shaka needs to modernize" post. We can keep saying "yeah, but look at what he did in 2023" but the fact is the game has changed since then and 2023 finished in a disappointing fashion. 2023 might as well be the 70s when we were a "blue blood" with how MBB has evolved since then. Shaka isn't keeping up and seems more concerned with protecting his "RVG" brand (not UT-RGV. Go Vaqueros). It's slowly becoming the modern version of Bucky's old "our academic standards are too high."