Why RGV? Maybe $400 million donors at other Power 4 schools?

[rocky_warrior]

Miss some shots and we're 3-7, with losses to Central Michigan and Valpo.

Is a negative shooting % possible?

[Viper]

Is a negative shooting % possible?

go 0-for and maybe make one for the other team?? 😂 akin to Jalen Hurts having two turnovers the other night on a single play!

[CountryRoads]

Thanks for sharing.
Interesting times for men's MUBB.

Agree. Great article. Hopefully many more like it coming. For the first 15 minutes, it was cool that MU was different and resisting the new landscape (even though they've always taken transfers??). Now that everyone else has long since adjusted, no one cares or respects it anymore, it's no longer commendable, and we're just fading into irrelevance as a result.

Like has always been the case, MU can't compete for recruits with certain schools. Though it's inexcusable that the season has been a lost cause since before Thanksgiving and we're a lowly Q4 team that started 3 seniors and 2 third year players. I'm checked out on RGV and I'm for whatever it takes to get us out of it the fastest. I think the attendance numbers this year will show many feel the same way.

[Pakuni]

Is it reasonable to expect MU to regularly outperform schools that pay more? BYU and Utah are examples of schools that MU has often been better than in the past but now look like they will be able to pay more.

No, it's not reasonable to expect MU to regularly outperform schools that pay more more. Just like it's never been reasonable to expect MU to regularly outperform Duke, UNC, Kansas, etc. Some schools will always have resources and advantages that Marquette does not. This is not a new phenomena.
Likewise, it's not unreasonable to expect that Marquette regularly outperforms schools with lesser resources and is on par with programs with similar resources.

Again, none of us have access to MU's books, but there's no reason to believe the program is or needs to be in the poor house.

[MarquetteMike1977]

As a result of the refusal of both of these key roster-building principles in the age of NIL, this Marquette team.  It is one thing to stand on your principles, but when everyone else is playing within the rules and building a roster through the transfer portal, it's going to be either adapt or lose your job.  If coach Smart doesn't start using the portal, Marquette might turn into DePaul, and then coach Smart will be out of a job, like it or not. This is how the game is building rosters.[/i]

https://bustingbrackets.com/shaka-smart-and-potential-tournament-in-dubai-lead-the-week-of-bad-beats-basketball
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Agree Dislike NIL but it is a reality

[Galway Eagle]

True, although Henry and Joey already had brothers in the program at Marquette, so I'd argue they were special cases.  Then again, I forgot that Greg Elliott - at least according to some Scoopers - was Izzo's top target in that year's recruiting class, and possibly - again, according to some Scoopers at that time -  the most coveted recruit of Izzo's entire career.  That's just how it was in the Wojo era. 

Markus chose us over Indiana, Baylor, and Arizona. While not Duke MSU etc it seems worth mentioning.

[Pakuni]

Markus chose us over Indiana, Baylor, and Arizona. While not Duke MSU etc it seems worth mentioning.

Wojo always gets his man.