What would make you show Shaka the door in March?

[1SE]

We're getting worse. Players have regressed. To fall this far, this fast, when this is the team you've spent the last 4 years recruiting... Couple that with the underperformance in the tourney since he's been here. Anything that would make you want to show Shaka the door at the end of THIS year?

[Johnny B]

The answer is no but without the hyperbole in your no option. He has had 4 straight top 25 teams. You don't fire the coach after one bad year. Now, if next year is a similar disaster and Shaka hasnt made real attempts to change things his seat gets hot real quick.

[Farley36]

Anyone else in the world is willing to take this job.  As long as there is another candidate, I'm showing him the door. 

[Vander Blue Man Group]

If he drops his pants and takes a dump on the Fiserv Foeum floor during a game, maybe.

Otherwise, no.

[wadesworld]

What happens more from here on out. Marquette wins or games where 1SE does NOT start a new poll after?

[Small Orange Soda]

I'm perfectly fine giving Shaka a mulligan so long as he has the humility to acknowledge his team building philosophy needs a serious overhaul.

[HutchwasClutch]

We're getting worse. Players have regressed. To fall this far, this fast, when this is the team you've spent the last 4 years recruiting... Couple that with the underperformance in the tourney since he's been here. Anything that would make you want to show Shaka the door at the end of THIS year?

NCAAT underperformance is always conveniently ignored by the "But look at our two 2 and 7 seeds!" crowd here.

[panda]

This team is an absolute abomination and there should be serious questions asked of the coaching staff and the direction of the program. Down seasons happen but this is so far beyond a bad season. We've been borderline competitive in two of our non buy games and looked horrible in our buy games/should've lost to valpo.

Absolutely pathetic and Shaka should be ashamed of himself thinking this roster could even come close to getting it done this season.

[willie warrior]

I'm perfectly fine giving Shaka a mulligan so long as he has the humility to acknowledge his team building philosophy needs a serious overhaul.

That...will..never happen

[1SE]

The answer is no but without the hyperbole in your no option. He has had 4 straight top 25 teams. You don't fire the coach after one bad year. Now, if next year is a similar disaster and Shaka hasnt made real attempts to change things his seat gets hot real quick.

If he publicly affirms that he's sticking with RGV and not going to the portal, or heck, even if the doesn't publicly affirm he WILL be going to the portal (and give back 500k of his salary next year to boost the pool ala Harbaugh or Venables - saving the "Rs") , there's no "if" about next year being a similar disaster.

This team is SO FAR below what any of us had expected 40 days ago - and it's a combination of players that can't play and a coach that can't coach. A bubble-team would have been disappointing but forgivable/understandable. Fighting for last place in a super weak BE (which I'd say feels more likely than not at this point) is unacceptable from a guy making 3 million a year. 

[1SE]

What happens more from here on out. Marquette wins or games where 1SE does NOT start a new poll after?

Certainly polls.

[onepost]

I'm perfectly fine giving Shaka a mulligan so long as he has the humility to acknowledge his team building philosophy needs a serious overhaul.

Hahahaha that's good stuff. Color me skeptical.

[cheebs09]

If he doesn't dip into the portal and next year is the same, I think he should be fired. If he dips into the portal and we seem to have righted the ship, even if it's not a tournament, I'm good with it.

If he continues to resist the portal, he's not the right coach for this time.

[mu_hilltopper]

I absolutely want to keep Shaka as our coach.  But ..

RGV was a theory and it's clearly been proven as untenable in today's NCAA world.

If Shaka refuses to start using the portal like all other teams, then MU would need to find a coach who will, or fold up the tents.

[Mu8891]

Uhh ... I thought Shaka makes more like
5 million to work on RGV.

[CountryRoads]

I absolutely want to keep Shaka as our coach.  But ..

RGV was a theory and it's clearly been proven as untenable in today's NCAA world.

If Shaka refuses to start using the portal like all other teams, then MU would need to find a coach who will, or fold up the tents.

Exactly. If he fails to make the adjustments and triples down on RGV, I'd want him out. He won't get fired though, he'd end up quitting after another year or so.

[Galway Eagle]

The hyperbole in the no option is ridiculous it ignores the conference championship sweep, the fact that he's gone to four tournaments straight, including back to back of our highest seed ever, reached the highest we've been ranked since 1978, the immediate rebuild, the 2 all Americans, the 4 draft picks.

I mean come on, reducing his tenure to "a S16!" is ridiculous. Next year doubling down on RGV with a similar zero growth season washes away the two years that are keeping him here. Essentially I'm considering last year and his first year minimum expectations. 2023 & 2024 bought him a mulligan year. Next would have to be doubling down and it working or admitting it needs to be changed and then it working out.

[1SE]

I absolutely want to keep Shaka as our coach.  But ..

RGV was a theory and it's clearly been proven as untenable in today's NCAA world.

If Shaka refuses to start using the portal like all other teams, then MU would need to find a coach who will, or fold up the tents.

Yes, an experiment that would have been cool had it succeeded but clearly hasn't.

But might as well fess up to that publicly now - maybe you get a few guys to transfer out which opens up some roster slots to bring 2 or 3 guys in.

[1SE]

The hyperbole in the no option is ridiculous it ignores the conference championship sweep, the fact that he's gone to four tournaments straight, including back to back of our highest seed ever, reached the highest we've been ranked since 1978, the immediate rebuild, the 2 all Americans, the 4 draft picks.

I mean come on, reducing his tenure to "a S16!" is ridiculous. Next year doubling down on RGV with a similar zero growth season washes away the two years that are keeping him here. Essentially I'm considering last year and his first year minimum expectations. 2023 & 2024 bought him a mulligan year. Next would have to be doubling down and it working or admitting it needs to be changed and then it working out.

2025 was his mulligan year.

[jesmu84]

Nothing

[jfp61]

Refusing to fix this

[ATL MU Warrior]

Not cleaning house of about 3-5 guys currently on this team that do not and will not ever be able to help the team win.

[JTJ3]

He gets this offseason to fix this.  If next year is still a problem, he's gone after next year.

It is not happening this year.  The only way there is a change this offseason is if Shaka leaves on his own.

[CountryRoads]

The only way there is a change this offseason is if Shaka leaves on his own.

This wouldn't be all that surprising to me. Several prominent coaches have stepped down due to not wanting to deal with the current climate of the game.

[NCMUFan]

The fact that this is his 5th year team and could shape it any way he wanted is really perplexing.