The Altercation

[tower912]

I agree this is likely a mountain out of a mole hill.  Best of luck, ZL.

[MU82]

A mediocre player leaving a horsesh!t college basketball team is barely news (except to those invested in the program, such as Scoopers).

As soon as "altercation" between a player and a coach became a possible thing, it became actual news ... but really only if it turns out to have been a physical altercation.

Will we ever find out what really happened? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe a player or two will write a letter about it.

[brewcity77]

National media were all over stories of Todd Golden sending dick pics and stalking Florida University students.  That lasted like 3 days, Florida said there's nothing to see here, and Todd Golden coached a team to a national title a couple of months later.

Auburn had to divert their flight because of a fist fight between players mid air.  The story was talked about on one episode of everyone's podcast and then nobody cared.

What silly false equivalencies. Yeah, when Florida & Auburn barnstormed to 1-seeds, the Final Four, and in Florida's case a national title, people forget about the scandals.

This isn't the biggest of deals, but it's another in a long line of regular rakes Marquette is stepping on and I'm pretty sure we aren't going to have a Final Four to help us forget administration's stupidity.

[wadesworld]

What silly false equivalencies. Yeah, when Florida & Auburn barnstormed to 1-seeds, the Final Four, and in Florida's case a national title, people forget about the scandals.

This isn't the biggest of deals, but it's another in a long line of regular rakes Marquette is stepping on and I'm pretty sure we aren't going to have a Final Four to help us forget administration's stupidity.

You do realize those things both happened in November of 2024, right? Nobody cared about it by December of 2024. It certainly did not take until April of 2025 to forget about those scandals, which were WAY worse scandals than a freaking Tweet for God's sake. To term this a "scandal" is hilarious.

[panda]

Marquette twitter posts average around 15-20k per post.

The Altercation post is settling just below 600,000 views.

Another social media win for the home team!

[muwarrior69]

Now that we have an opening are there any NBA players we can bring on board?

[Johnny B]

Marquette twitter posts average around 15-20k per post.

The Altercation post is settling just below 600,000 views.

Another social media win for the home team!

You keep acting like this has some negative impact on the program when in reality no one gives a rats ass what the twitter account says. Just cause it got shared by a few sports anyalists and a bunch of ppl scrolled past it without a thought generating views for it doesn't mean anyone cares. Completely zero stakes situation. Laughable

[connie]

Now that we have an opening are there any NBA players we can bring on board?

I heard Giannis was involved in an altercation...

[brewcity77]

You do realize those things both happened in November of 2024, right? Nobody cared about it by December of 2024. It certainly did not take until April of 2025 to forget about those scandals, which were WAY worse scandals than a freaking Tweet for God's sake. To term this a "scandal" is hilarious.

I didn't call it a scandal. I also didn't make stupid false equivalencies.

Auburn was forgotten because they beat Houston the next day. Florida was a talking point for 4 months. But again, really, really ludicrous comparisons.

[panda]

You keep acting like this has some negative impact on the program when in reality no one gives a rats ass what the twitter account says. Just cause it got shared by a few sports anyalists and a bunch of ppl scrolled past it without a thought generating views for it doesn't mean anyone cares. Completely zero stakes situation. Laughable

It absolutely has a negative impact on the program in the same way a big win has a positive impact on the program. People remember talented teams and dumpster fires. This situation is the current floor for our programs pathetic state now.

[Pakuni]

It absolutely has a negative impact on the program in the same way a big win has a positive impact on the program. People remember talented teams and dumpster fires. This situation is the current floor for our programs pathetic state now.

In the words of John McEnroe, you cannot be serious.
A big win gets Marquette on Sportscenter and ESPN socials, on the front of the Journal Sentinel sports page and website, and talked about by prominent names in college basketball like Goodman, Parrish, Katz, Bilas and Rothstein.
This Tweet did exactly none of those things.
It's not close to the same thing.

[panda]

In the words of John McEnroe, you cannot be serious.
A big win gets Marquette on Sportscenter and ESPN socials, on the front of the Journal Sentinel sports page and website, and talked about by prominent names in college basketball like Goodman, Parrish, Katz, Bilas and Rothstein.
This Tweet did exactly none of those things.
It's not close to the same thing.

This is 2025. Different no one is watching sports center. Socials are the preeminent news source.

This is also the biggest spotlight the team experienced so far this season. Smh

[Pakuni]

This is 2025. Different no one is watching sports center. Socials are the preeminent news source.

This is also the biggest spotlight the team experienced so far this season. Smh

Sportscenter's X account has 41.5 million followers. The main ESPN account has 56.3 million.
And you're here acting like 600K views on a MU tweet is massive and the same thing.
OK.

[panda]

Sportscenter's X account has 41.5 million followers. The main ESPN account has 56.3 million.
And you're here acting like 600K views on a MU tweet is massive and the same thing.
OK.

Quick check over at the sport center account and they average around 150-200k views/tweet. So yes 600k is a lot

[GB Warrior]

Sportscenter's X account has 41.5 million followers. The main ESPN account has 56.3 million.
And you're here acting like 600K views on a MU tweet is massive and the same thing.
OK.

[wadesworld]

I didn't call it a scandal. I also didn't make stupid false equivalencies.

Auburn was forgotten because they beat Houston the next day. Florida was a talking point for 4 months. But again, really, really ludicrous comparisons.

Agreed. It's a ludicrous comparison because MU's Tweet is as nothingburger as nothingburgers come, yet you and a number of others are acting like this is some meaningful problem for the program. It's hysterical how offended you get over every little thing.

Absolutely nobody was talking about Todd Golden's dick pics and stalking four months after it happened. Heck, not even four days after it happened. The only time it popped up after November was when Florida's formal investigation was completed and concluded he didn't do anything against his contract or Florida's code in November. Nobody cared beyond one podcast cycle.

[cheebs09]

I don't think this is some major blow to the program. However, I do think it's another example the AD leadership may not be very good.

[GoFastAndWin]

Sorry if this has been said somewhere else, but here's my view of the edited Tweet by MU Basketball.

As has clearly been discussed, usage of "the" altercation implies that indeed there was an altercation. If we are going to speculate as to how the original/troll Tweet was inaccurate as to details of "the" altercation, we might as well consider the possibilities. Maybe it was inaccurate as to the parties involved. Zaide vs Shaka? Zaide vs Caedin? Zaide vs some combination of Shaka, Caedin, and Cody? Zaide, Sam Hauser, and Ben Steele vs Shaka, Joey Hauser and Markus Howard? 😩

[PointWarrior]

In the end, who really gives a crap besides a few over-obsessed scoopers about Zaide leaving/kicked off or how it was handled by Marquette?   Move along to bitching about RGV....