What would make you show Shaka the door in March?

[panda]

Memories like those are never erased, they are etched in stone.

Your gratitude towards them is what's easily erased, and for that you should be ashamed

lol - this is cooky banana pants type posting.

Buddy we are 0-6 against high majors this year, should've lost to valpo at home and just got our butts kicked by gtown at home.

Our coach looks absolutely clueless on the sidelines and 90% of this roster is slated to return next year. The future is so wildly bleak that I am willing to overlook his past successes. It's even easier to over look them given the fact he completely turned his back on the roster building strategy which gave him that success.

[WhiteTrash]

What a jag.

Expecting his seniors to not completely suck arse

MU gave Shaka a suck arse GM to assemble his team, and expected Saka to not completely suck.

[Galway Eagle]

It's not illogical. The logic is that he built a 4-year run of success effectively on the backs of players: transfers Morsell, Kuath, Prosper, & Kolek, Wojo recruits Lewis, Ighodaro, Jones, & Mitchell, and his own recruits Joplin & Ross.

When he was using the transfers he no longer takes and the players he didn't identify, he did well. But we saw results start to flag last year with his own guys taking a heavier load and see complete ineptitude with his first full RGV roster.

This happening once, it's a disastrous season. But letting it happen again would be courting DePaul territory. And once a coach is on the hot seat, they never really get off.

I'm not ignoring the first four years, I'm following the logic that they were an anomaly this staff is actively choosing to not repeat.

Come on acting like he didn't identify Oso is disingenuous. You're better than that.

[DoctorV]

lol - this is cooky banana pants type posting.

Buddy we are 0-6 against high majors this year, should've lost to valpo at home and just got our butts kicked by gtown at home.

Our coach looks absolutely clueless on the sidelines and 90% of this roster is slated to return next year. The future is so wildly bleak that I am willing to overlook his past successes. It's even easier to over look them given the fact he completely turned his back on the roster building strategy which gave him that success.

Pretty sure I wouldn't want to be your buddy

[panda]

Pretty sure I wouldn't want to be your buddy

That would be a condescending usage of the term for those keeping score at home.

[BM1090]

In the post game with Homer, he didn't take any fault. Blamed Chase & Ben not showing up, said we need 5 guys to play like Owens, effectively blaming everyone else's effort, but the biggest avoidance goal I've seen this season is Shaka avoiding accountability.

You're off your rocker with this one.

[onepost]

Mizzou should've moved on from Dennis Gates after an 0 for SEC season. Kentucky should move on from Pope. UNC should've moved on from Davis.

This is really dumb.

UNC SHOULD move on from Hubert Davis.
He's a bad basketball coach.

[ATL MU Warrior]

Brew's responses in the last few pages makes sense if you remember he picked this abomination of a team to finish second in the Big East. He is simply lashing out and assigning blame for being so wrong.

[Hards Alumni]

He's kind of behaving and coaching like a guy who's going to step down after the season.

Glad someone else sees it.  The current landscape doesn't seem to be what he signed up for, and if he can't do things his way he may call it a day.  Someone like Shaka can easily transition to broadcast like Jay Wright.  Shaka is worth $15m (quick google search, don't @ me) and could walk away and be very comfortable for the rest of his life if he chooses.

Which he may.

[muwarrior69]

Glad someone else sees it.  The current landscape doesn't seem to be what he signed up for, and if he can't do things his way he may call it a day.  Someone like Shaka can easily transition to broadcast like Jay Wright.  Shaka is worth $15m (quick google search, don't @ me) and could walk away and be very comfortable for the rest of his life if he chooses.

Which he may.

Yeah! It does feel like Buzz's final season. The real question is will the Administration let the boosters spend their money to field a competitive team or do they have to go too. It will be an interesting off-season or perhaps sooner.

[Biggie Clausen]

Shaka will get another shot at a P5 job if he steps down after this season and maybe takes a year or two off to do TV or just disappear altogether.  He will be able to tell another school, "I tried to do something different with RGV, and it didn't work.  But look how much success I had when I used the transfer portal and got Kolek and O-Max."  Now, it wouldn't be a *good* P5 job; it'd be somewhere like Georgia Tech, Penn State, Ole Miss, etc.  But he'd get another shot.

If he stays at MU another year and sticks to the philosophy he's backed himself into, and next year's team is as bad as this year's, that will be very hard to come back from.  So, it would not surprise me at all to see him quit.  Based on his vibe during last night's press conference, it seems like he can't wait for the season to be over.

[GB Warrior]

Gottlieb announced he's finally focused on basketball, maybe we should get him

[LloydsLegs]

Y'all nuts

[wadesworld]

If that's the best you can come up with, probably time to log off and save yourself further embarrassment. Tonight ain't the night to defend this BS.

Nobody is defending "this BS."  What I'm defending is Shaka having 4 years of being an awesome coach at Marquette and firing him because he failed in year 5, which he obviously did.  The idea that he shouldn't get a chance to correct this is crazy, and the idea that he should he needs to "prove he deserves to be back" as our coach on a rolling 12 month basis is the most insane take Scoop has ever produced.

I can just imagine the coaching search if Shaka is fired.

Josh Schertz sitting in Broeker's office, deciding whether he might want to jump to Marquette, interview with Arizona State, or stay at SLU for another year: "So, Mike, you went a decade with no NCAA Tournament wins, Shaka came in and won a BE regular season and Tournament title, got the two highest seeds in your program's history, made a Sweet 16, and you fired him after his first missed Tournament.  Is that the kind of leash I would get if I'm taking this job?"

Broeker: "Well, Josh, I didn't hire Shaka, and we look at a 7 seed as a down year here at Marquette."

Scherz: "But you worked as closely with Shaka as anyone in the athletic department for his first 4 years, traveling with the team, etc.  Again, will I get fired after I miss the Tournament?"

Broeker: "Oh, Josh, we don't look at it season by season. We look at it on a rolling 12 month basis.  Shaka may have got a 7 seed in 2025, but January 2025-January 2026 he was garbage so we had no choice.  You can do an A- job through 3.5 years, but if a 12 month period is a failure, we're moving on.  Again, high expectations here at Marquette."

Scherz, trying to figure out if he should fall out of his chair laughing or look around to find Ashton Kutcher running out of a hiding spot, certain he is on "Punked."