RIP Marquette 2025-2026 Men's Basketball Season

[WhiteTrash]

Bubble team

I'll be watching and hoping next Sunday. The advanced stats are in our favor. I have a good feeling.

[Mu8891]

U guys can mock or dis my predictions all you want.  Man up and make your own...

I don't think SS adds more than two guys.
Period.

U all want to believe he will boot Tre and Caedin and maybe Clark.  He won't.
Just watch ...

[Jay Bee]

U guys can mock or dis my predictions all you want.  Man up and make your own...

I don't think SS adds more than two guys.
Period.

U all want to believe he will boot Tre and Caedin and maybe Clark.  He won't.
Just watch ...

Bigger fear is he uses the wrong guys again like he did this year. Pure insanity

[WhiteTrash]

U guys can mock or dis my predictions all you want.  Man up and make your own...

I don't think SS adds more than two guys.
Period.

U all want to believe he will boot Tre and Caedin and maybe Clark.  He won't.
Just watch ...

It is a fact that you are the only one to make a prediction for MU's portal activity all season on Scoop. People need to 'man up'.   

[mileskishnish72]

U guys can mock or dis my predictions all you want.  Man up and make your own...

I don't think SS adds more than two guys.
Period.

U all want to believe he will boot Tre and Caedin and maybe Clark.  He won't.
Just watch ...

I think you may be right but it depresses me.

[muwarrior69]

Which is why Shaka is changing his approach. Yet we have multiple posters claiming that beating UConn means he will just stick with what's he's been doing.

That's not happening. No one, especially those who write the checks, thinks a UConn win erases a 20 loss season.

Who are these guys who write the checks anyway? They certainly are not getting the bang for the buck.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

The season is on Shaka and his poor recruiting. Time to correct those mistakes by clearing space and bringing in some guys who can shoot and know how to play. Jones, Norman, Hamilton should all be gone. They aren't BE players. DO might fall in that group too. Give Clark one more season to prove he belongs.

DO might fall into the group that should be gone, but Clark deserves one more season? What team have you been watching?

[Galway Eagle]

Who are these guys who write the checks anyway? They certainly are not getting the bang for the buck.

I know with 100% certainty Shaka has turned down a bag drop from a high rolling donor to go into the portal. Assuming it's happened on more than one occasion then it becomes more about the opportune cost of what those who write checks could be writing.

[Pakuni]

DO might fall into the group that should be gone, but Clark deserves one more season? What team have you been watching?

If I had to choose, I'd keep Clark over Hamilton because he has more runway, but the fact he basically hasn't seen the court for two months isn't terribly promising.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

If I had to choose, I'd keep Clark over Hamilton because he has more runway, but the fact he basically hasn't seen the court for two months isn't terribly promising.

Agree. But yes, it boggles the mind that somehow Clark showed so little as to be nailed to the bench by Hamilton.

(Or, in one of the rare instances the I agree with Bee Jay, Shaka's choice of rotations was abysmal for too much of the year.)

[Rimrocker]

Lost a game by two and Hamilton missed two layups, one of which was uncontested.  Tre comes in and turns it over, misses a 4 footer and then an FT.  I cannot for the life of me understand why those minutes dont go to the starters or Phillips or DO.
MU played hard and fought but it cannot be missed by the Administration or Shaka that we are a 20 loss team and lost to a bad team.  Many of our losses were to bad teams.
MU is a very very bad team. We are close to beating bad teams, but very very far from beating good teams. Tre, Jones, and Hamilton need to go.  Shaka needs to bring in 3-4 good players.

[Zog from Margo]

DO might fall into the group that should be gone, but Clark deserves one more season? What team have you been watching?

DO might fall into the group that should be gone, but Clark deserves one more season? What team have you been watching?

Clark doesn't deserve anything. He's 7'. I'd give him one more year to see what he has.

DO is a great athlete who is not much of a basketball player. If he's back, it's fine with me. He'll have to improve a lot to be an effective BE starter.

[Vander Blue Man Group]

Lost a game by two and Hamilton missed two layups, one of which was uncontested.  Tre comes in and turns it over, misses a 4 footer and then an FT.  I cannot for the life of me understand why those minutes dont go to the starters or Phillips or DO.
MU played hard and fought but it cannot be missed by the Administration or Shaka that we are a 20 loss team and lost to a bad team.  Many of our losses were to bad teams.
MU is a very very bad team. We are close to beating bad teams, but very very far from beating good teams. Tre, Jones, and Hamilton need to go.  Shaka needs to bring in 3-4 good players.

Yes, we definitely came very, very far from beating UConn last Saturday.

[Shaka Shart]

Just like the Red Sox had the Curse of the Bambino, and the Cubs had the curse of the Billy Goat, Marquette had the curse of the Dentists. Banning the dentists caused this season to go tits up.

Bring back the dentists.

I was just thinking this place was too devoid of slurs and dog whistles

[willie warrior]

Now now, this is pretty much what's going to happen every off-season now. Teams that were great last year might be awful, and teams that were awful might be great.

It's the wild west, and Marquette sat out. Then we got Ben as our center.

And we got bent as a high major team. GoollllddBrick was never a BEast center

[willie warrior]

Ya gotta give owens another year as well. Ended up being one of the better players.

WTF?

[willie warrior]

Golden - don't hold your breath

He's won't make any staff changes, and at best he's going to add two guys from the
Portal.

He LUVS Caedin, he's not going to bounce
Tre.  He won't.

Unfortunately, the UCONN game will bolster his hubris, and he will convince himself that if he yells RGV just a bit louder all will be fine.

This

[willie warrior]

Which is why Shaka is changing his approach. Yet we have multiple posters claiming that beating UConn means he will just stick with what's he's been doing.

That's not happening. No one, especially those who write the checks, thinks a UConn win erases a 20 loss season.

What many are missing here is the poor performance is coupled with a horrible big east this season. We could barely keep the pace against other bad teams. If this was a season with typically competent providence, creighton etc. We would've looked much worse. Need a ton of help to get back to where we need to be.

This

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Lost a game by two and Hamilton missed two layups, one of which was uncontested.

Let us not forget also being completely lost on defense, losing track of his man and guarding absolutely no one as his guy cut behind him for a layup. There was a 6-point swing as soon as he came into the game.

[The Sultan]

Lost a game by two and Hamilton missed two layups, one of which was uncontested. 

Stevens: 2/12, 1/10 from 3.
James: 6/17, 2/9 from 3.
Gold: 2/8, 1/5 from 3.

But yeah...let's blame the two guys who played four minutes each.

Look, I understand they are sources of frustration, but let's keep things in perspective OK?

[Galway Eagle]

Stevens: 2/12, 1/10 from 3.
James: 6/17, 2/9 from 3.
Gold: 2/8, 1/5 from 3.

But yeah...let's blame the two guys who played four minutes each.

Look, I understand they are sources of frustration, but let's keep things in perspective OK?

Nigel did have 7 assists to offset that but yes at the end of the day 6/17 plus missed both a game tying FT and had a crunch time TO after and unreal steal

[Zog from Margo]

Stevens: 2/12, 1/10 from 3.
James: 6/17, 2/9 from 3.
Gold: 2/8, 1/5 from 3.

But yeah...let's blame the two guys who played four minutes each.

Look, I understand they are sources of frustration, but let's keep things in perspective OK?

When guys weren't shooting well or they got tired, what were MU's options? You might need some guys who can play more than 4 minutes without things falling apart.

[The Sultan]

When guys weren't shooting well or they got tired, what were MU's options? You might need some guys who can play more than 4 minutes without things falling apart.

Right. Which is why Shaka needed to build a better roster.

[brewcity77]

U guys can mock or dis my predictions all you want.  Man up and make your own...

I don't think SS adds more than two guys.
Period.

U all want to believe he will boot Tre and Caedin and maybe Clark.  He won't.
Just watch ...

I won't mock or diss. This is where I was a couple months ago. But I fully believe you are wrong.

The Big 3 (NJ, Royce, Stevens) will be back. The redshirts (Nash, Sheek, Miletic) will be back. I think they'll try to retain Owens & Phillips. And Egbuonu and Johnston will be here.

That leaves Tre, Sean, Caedin, and Josh. If you put the over under at 1.5 returning, I'm definitely taking the under and I imagine some of these guys are already working back channels to find new homes because they've been told they won't be here.

I expect 4-5 new players we aren't aware of. Might end up with a Sheek type redshirt reclass, but 3-4 transfers incoming for sure.

[brewcity77]

Also, Anonymous Eagle is spot on here. Shaka gets grace because of the work he did, but this season was so bad that it is strikes one and two. He can't miss the tourney next year.

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