Path to Success 2025-26 in 2026: Rotations

[Billy Hoyle]

This is a brutal take.

If someone was brought in here in 2021 with the express intent to bring Marquette a Big East Championship, BET title, and multiple 2 seeds in his first 4 seasons we would all be laughing our asses off that it's a complete joke.

Shaka did that. There is likely no one else they could have brought in that would have done that. I know I know "you don't know that for a fact... there are plenty of capable hires..." blah blah.

What the man did to the basketball program as a new hire in his first 4 seasons was way beyond what we could have dreamed of.

How in Gods green Earth could you turn on that so quickly?

then what was Shaka brought in to do? Just make us competitive? Be Wojo II? Hasn't every MU coach been brought in to win titles and make the tourney? We're Marquette, basketball is as important to our school as any, especially in this new era of college sports.

In MLB arbitration hearings, salaries are determined by predicted future performance, not past performance. Shaka, and every coach, should be judged more on where the program is going (as was correctly done with Mike Deane, despite averaging 20 wins a year, 1 CUSA tourney title, two NCAA appearances, and a NIT finals appearance). Sorry, 2025-26 likely being the worst season in MU history does not get ignored because of 2022-23 and 2023-24. NC State fired Kerry Keats the year after beating us and going to the Final Four!

Are MU's leaders really going to say, "Don't worry about the 20+ losses and multiple 20-point blowout losses, you won a Big East title three years ago." If they do maybe MU isn't as serious about basketball as we thought.