What would make you show Shaka the door in March?

[Vander Blue Man Group]

You keep saying this and it's simply idiotic. WE WERE RANKED IN THE TOP 10 TO START MARCH IN YEAR 5!!!

Stop acting like it was unreasonable to support the coach of a top-10 team.

We were ranked in the top 5 last season.

[Vander Blue Man Group]

The current players might like Shaka but have heard some former players are upset with Shaka.

Care to share more?

[MU82]

The current players might like Shaka but have heard some former players are upset with Shaka.

Without names and reasons, as well as something to vouch for the credibility of the source, this sounds questionable at best.

[Small Orange Soda]

Without names and reasons, as well as something to vouch for the credibility of the source, this sounds questionable at best.

Former players are fans too.

[Zog from Margo]

I'm not off the rails. The simple reality is Shaka has built his program around RGV and it is clearly a failed model, and he can't retool the roster the way it needs to be retooled without betraying everything he's said the last 4 years. I take him at his word, which means either he compromises his morals and promises to players, he doesn't compromise and we continue to suck, or he leaves.

I don't think he'll do the first option, I don't think the second is acceptable, which leaves only the third. It's not that he's not capable, it's that he's painted himself into a corner and can't stay at Marquette and quickly turn this around without betraying all the trust he's built up.

And no, we didn't pursue Owen Freeman or any other transfers. We haven't seriously pursued a D1 transfer in years.

I think "betraying trust" is an overstatement. Ben Steele said in his article that he expects a couple of players to transfer after the season and Shaka has not said he would never use the portal. Shaka has given the guys he recruited every chance in the world to succeed. He's already favored them over players in the portal. So giving them years to show what they have before telling them they won't be playing in the future at MU is not betraying any trust IMO.