RIP Marquette 2025-2026 Men's Basketball Season

[panda]

It's dark, we're drunk... look, this is MU86NC's fantasy, not mine!

Whatever happens happens. I'm along for the ride. Make up make out is the best kind of make out

[Jay Bee]

This is quickly turning into a Dayton chat board...er, transitioning to

[panda]

This is quickly turning into a Dayton chat board...er, transitioning to

Love is love beejay

[brewcity77]

I don't disagree with this, but I do think it's interesting that we had a lot of people comparing Wojo's trajectory with Jay Wright, insisting it takes time to build a program. I was actually onboard with some of these arguments even though it never materialized.

Shaka's first five years here mirror Nova from 06-12, minus the one final four. 13-19 season with a young but talented core in 2012, improved to 20-14 the following year, then the elite run started after that.

If Shaka misses the tournament next year but it's a 19-13 kind of year and it's pretty clear we'll be better the following year, he should be retained. As long as we see a willingness to change his strategy from what got us to this year, there's no reason to move on. He's a good coach that's brought us to regular season heights that I hadn't seen in my lifetime.

It's funny because I was looking for historical comparisons of how a good rebound for our program might look and Jay Wright's 2012 was the first that came to mind. Others worth taking a look at, Bob Huggins 2013/14 at WVU and his 2019 at WVU, then Coach K's health-shortened 1995 season at Duke.