[Paint Touches] Inside look at Marquette’s transfer portal strategy

[tower912]

Shaka has referenced this before.  Caedin has a really good practice motor, but it hasn't translated to games.  Clark does not have a high practice motor.  Which, combined with absences of Gold and Parham last summer, helps explain why CH got so much time early.  He probably WAS the best practice player for a lot of the offseason.

[rocky_warrior]

See, your statement labels both Fru and Sheek as good. Except Fru is proven, will be 23 years old, and is 250 lbs.

I like Sheek and wish he was still here but he's just theoretical upside at this point.

This is kinda shocking.  As I've mentioned, I wasn't all that thrilled that Sheek wasn't good enough to get his redshirt ripped off last year.  However, you, Rico, and SLU saw it differently...

And now that Fru and Sheek are on the roster you expect that to continue why?

[Uncle Rico]

This is kinda shocking.  As I've mentioned, I wasn't all that thrilled that Sheek wasn't good enough to get his redshirt ripped off last year.  However, you, Rico, and SLU saw it differently...

I think the staff miscalculated the landscape keeping him redshirted versus him not being good enough to get on the floor.

[tower912]

Sheek was a high schooler. 

[Jay Bee]

Sheek was a high schooler. 

So was Markus.

SS saw no need for Sheek last year. He had HIS GUY.

[#UnleashThePortal]

I guess I am dumb because I have no idea what your no politics ban warning actually means in the Superbar.

[#UnleashThePortal]

I think the staff miscalculated the landscape keeping him redshirted versus him not being good enough to get on the floor.

100%. Marquettes basketball staff tried being a traditional program and it back fired immensely.

[Nukem2]

Sheek was a high schooler. 

Yup. More like a grey shirt in college football.

[brewcity77]

I think the staff miscalculated the landscape keeping him redshirted versus him not being good enough to get on the floor.

The staff got caught between eras. Sheek was too skinny & not ready for the Big East even he arrived on campus. By January, he was probably the better option than CH or Josh, but the season was lost, so why burn a year?

But now a few months later, the redshirt that bought him a year under the old rules cost him a year under the new ones. And because we never saw the on court production, it was pretty much impossible to justify giving him something closer to the SLU offer.

Really just bad timing and bad luck. I don't blame Sheek or the staff for how that played out. But I do think not adding a more proven option after he left was a mistake.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Money was 99%.

Maybe. I doubt it personally though I do think money was the most important factor.   And in the end it doesn't matter. Hes gone, who cares what the most important reason was? I'm just amused that so many people are claiming definitive knowledge about something that can only be known by Sheek.

[Nukem2]

The staff got caught between eras. Sheek was too skinny & not ready for the Big East even he arrived on campus. By January, he was probably the better option than CH or Josh, but the season was lost, so why burn a year?

But now a few months later, the redshirt that bought him a year under the old rules cost him a year under the new ones. And because we never saw the on court production, it was pretty much impossible to justify giving him something closer to the SLU offer.

Really just bad timing and bad luck. I don't blame Sheek or the staff for how that played out. But I do think not adding a more proven option after he left was a mistake.

And being 25 miles from his home in st. charles is kinda nice too.

[MU82]

I agree Sheek's departure is multi-faceted, but it reveals that Marquette's financial resources are limited more than it reveals why Sheek left.

Nvidia, Microsoft and Google are multi-trillion-dollar companies with pretty much unlimited resources, yet they make decisions all the time to NOT spend money. Hell, they're actually doing layoffs.

I know wealthy people who could easily afford to buy just about anything - jets, yachts, bazillion-dollar houses, whatever. But they choose not to for a variety of reasons.

[Small Orange Soda]

I thought the article covered the replacement part pretty well.  Cost for these guys was a lot higher than they were willing to go and given the dearth of big men that were available, I get it.

I'm not convinced the off-season is done but it's getting late early

I think there's a valid concern that the position that is the most expensive and has much more demand than supply has been the position Shaka has recruited very poorly during his tenure here, outside of the guy that left (which admittedly does remain to be seen).

[muwarrior69]

Nvidia, Microsoft and Google are multi-trillion-dollar companies with pretty much unlimited resources, yet they make decisions all the time to NOT spend money. Hell, they're actually doing layoffs.

I know wealthy people who could easily afford to buy just about anything - jets, yachts, bazillion-dollar houses, whatever. But they choose not to for a variety of reasons.

So Sheek isn't as good as Shaka thought and wasn't worth spending all that money from our unlimited resources?

[tower912]

He wasn't going to start and therefore was not worth starter money. 

[Uncle Rico]

So Sheek isn't as good as Shaka thought and wasn't worth spending all that money from our unlimited resources?

Marquette doesn't have unlimited resources.  Very few teams do.