That Hurt. A lot.

[Viper]

You don't think Marquette would be able to offer them $1 million?

can? Sure. Would they? Maybe. I assume a 20 loss season puts some warmth on the coaches seat and doesn't necessarily offer leverage for big $ to players either. James might be that exception.

[The Sultan]

I'll ask again...what are you arguing?

That it's a great example of how free throw shooting isn't all that important to the eventual outcome.

[brewcity77]

100% agree.  Yet we have dense Scoopers like Pakuni, Sultan, Brewcity, Onepost, who think Shaka should be fired if he has another bad season next year.

This team has improved in season. If we go to the portal, there's reason for optimism next season and Shaka can salvage this. But regardless, no one can have two seasons like this at Marquette and keep the job. No one.

[BM1090]

100% agree.  Yet we have dense Scoopers like Pakuni, Sultan, Brewcity, Onepost, who think Shaka should be fired if he has another bad season next year.

He should be. I'm a huge Shaka defender and would love him to be here a long time. But if he has another season like THIS? He has to be gone.

If we improve to a bubble team and miss the tournament and it's clear we're going to continue to get better? Then of course he should stay.

[WhiteTrash]

100% agree.  Yet we have dense Scoopers like Pakuni, Sultan, Brewcity, Onepost, who think Shaka should be fired if he has another bad season next year.

Who cares if some Scoopers think he will be gone with another 20+ loss season?

The people who will make that decision are the ones that matter. IMO, I'd give him less than a 10% chance of surviving back to back 20+ loss seasons. I think the dollars are to big for MU to "let it eventually work itself out".

I'm not saying it would be the right choice to let him go, but consecutive historically bad seasons will cancel out the good he has done. I don't think I'd have a valid argument against his dismissal.

That said, I'd give it about a 5% chance of happening again, so nothing to worry about.

[The Sultan]

100% agree.  Yet we have dense Scoopers like Pakuni, Sultan, Brewcity, Onepost, who think Shaka should be fired if he has another bad season next year.

Why do you do this? Is this lying intentional or do you seriously not have the ability to understand what I said? I never said I wanted him fired.

I said he likely would be.

[Pakuni]

He should be. I'm a huge Shaka defender and would love him to be here a long time. But if he has another season like THIS? He has to be gone.

If we improve to a bubble team and miss the tournament and it's clear we're going to continue to get better? Then of course he should stay.

Yep.
I have a hard time imagining any school that's serious about basketball retaining a coach after consecutive 20-loss seasons. Believing that coach wouldn't even be on the hot seat, as a certain someone seems to, is wild. Marquette hasn't had a coach survive back-to-back 15-loss seasons, much less 20.

[#UnleashJosh]

100% agree.  Yet we have dense Scoopers like Pakuni, Sultan, Brewcity, Onepost, who think Shaka should be fired if he has another bad season next year.

A coach with 20 losses two seasons in a row should be fired.

What's strange, is all the guys you mentioned were big into NOT firing wojo for waaaaay to long.

[The Sultan]

A coach with 20 losses two seasons in a row should be fired.

What's strange, is all the guys you mentioned were big into NOT firing wojo for waaaaay to long.

When would you have fired him? At best you could make the argument that he could have been fired a season earlier, but Marquette was going to make the tournament that season had COVID not been a thing.

But they weren't going to fire him coming off a tournament birth, nor after the NIT run in 2017-18.

[Pakuni]

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