November 20Nov 20 the sideline reporter is talking about marquette’s “mental weight training”, aka the breathing exercises that they do before and after every game, as well as during media timeouts. i didn’t realize they still did this shit lol.
November 20Nov 20 40 minutes ago, Derka said: golden eagle (-5.5) down 39-34 at the half vs dayton. Yeah, Ive had this game on sort of halfway paying attention. This MU team doesnt have any shooters, so they are gonna struggle in the chuck-a-three offense Shaka favors. gonna switch over to the bama/ill game, which should be an order of magnitude more entertaining.
November 20Nov 20 lmao, marquette got the ball last, called TO, drew up a play with 14 seconds left, and then never got a shot off. overtime.
November 20Nov 20 Just now, Derka said: lmao, marquette got the ball last, called TO, drew up a play with 14 seconds left, and then never got a shot off. overtime. perfect opportunity to practice more mental weight training
November 20Nov 20 dayton keeps running the right plays/actions to score only to screw it up. sick block by the dayton guard. airball three from marquette lol. Edited November 20Nov 20 by Derka
November 20Nov 20 Delightful reading tonight boys. With a happy ending! Thanks for keeping me abreast 😂😂😂 Edited November 20Nov 20 by CurlyDumps
November 20Nov 20 y’all hear that? 99% of you fat losers believe that the last thing that happened to you defines you. but not shaka and his boys. they’re already mindfully meditating their future into existence. they are the 1%.
November 20Nov 20 10 hours ago, Derka said: lmao, marquette got the ball last, called TO, drew up a play with 14 seconds left, and then never got a shot off. overtime.
November 20Nov 20 It annoys me that this thread gets more action than our actual 25-26 Texas thread, and that our game threads have 15 posts.
November 20Nov 20 here we go. this is the shaka we all know and megaloathe. “practice resulting”; “approach goals”; “connectivity and flow.” there’s never been a more pompous or aggravating coach at Texas. he somehow carries this air of “i’m smarter than everyone else and that’s why you don’t understand what i’m doing” when in reality he’s got zero substance and is all about cool buzz words and empty catchphrases. absolute fraud.
November 20Nov 20 41 minutes ago, HookEm said: It annoys me that this thread gets more action than our actual 25-26 Texas thread, and that our game threads have 15 posts. The Duke game went 9 pages. Early season college basketball when teams are playing dogshit programs is one of the least interesting things in sports.
November 20Nov 20 49 minutes ago, Derka said: here we go. this is the shaka we all know and megaloathe. “practice resulting”; “approach goals”; “connectivity and flow.” there’s never been a more pompous or aggravating coach at Texas. he somehow carries this air of “i’m smarter than everyone else and that’s why you don’t understand what i’m doing” when in reality he’s got zero substance and is all about cool buzz words and empty catchphrases. absolute fraud. He is the basketball head coach version of a Bain consultant. nothing of substance will get done but it will sound cool and you get paid a shitload of money even when you fail.
November 20Nov 20 4 minutes ago, dcar00 said: He is the basketball head coach version of a Bain consultant. nothing of substance will get done but it will sound cool and you get paid a shitload of money even when you fail. Yup. That MBA psychobabble vacuousness wears thin when results aren’t there. Even for people who want to believe
November 20Nov 20 19 minutes ago, ztejas said: The Duke game went 9 pages. Early season college basketball when teams are playing dogshit programs is one of the least interesting things in sports. Or played on a Saturday morning during football season. Eyes were elsewhere
November 20Nov 20 Did any Texas fan go to the Marquette board 4 years ago and warn them what was coming. because that's what fans are supposed to do. Maybe they didn't have a board. I am just looking for a "Texas fans told us what was coming" post because I am a bad person.
November 20Nov 20 "practice resulting" lmfao. I want to adopt that into everyday usage as well. Shaka needs his own reality show. It would make an amazing workplace comedy. Ricky Gervais and Mike Schur are jealous they didn't think of "practice resulting" first.
November 21Nov 21 On 11/20/2025 at 7:51 AM, HookEm said: It annoys me that this thread gets more action than our actual 25-26 Texas thread, and that our game threads have 15 posts. It is still football season, and we are playing scrub teams. I imagine the thread on Monday for the ASU game will have 16 posts.
November 21Nov 21 All of that is fair, but it also seems like a lot of our fans are more interested in rooting against our former coach than learning about and watching our current team. This team has a shot to make some noise IMO and yet there is almost zero excitement around the new coach and team.
November 21Nov 21 15 minutes ago, HookEm said: but it also seems like a lot of our fans are more interested in rooting against our former coach than learning about and watching our current team. gee i wonder why that could be.
November 21Nov 21 40 minutes ago, HookEm said: All of that is fair, but it also seems like a lot of our fans are more interested in rooting against our former coach than learning about and watching our current team. This team has a shot to make some noise IMO and yet there is almost zero excitement around the new coach and team. Lol even funnier when you realize Shaka was 3 coaches ago. Not like its last year's coach and the wounds are still fresh.
November 21Nov 21 43 minutes ago, HookEm said: All of that is fair, but it also seems like a lot of our fans are more interested in rooting against our former coach than learning about and watching our current team. This team has a shot to make some noise IMO and yet there is almost zero excitement around the new coach and team. I think every Texas fan is eager to see how Miller and the new regime settle in. They seem to be on the right track already. But to me, our ongoing fan "interest" in Shaka is because of just how massive a fraud he continues to be. The guy failed at least as spectacularly as Terry but then was given a free pass by media still trying to paint him as a great coach who got a raw deal from us ignorant ingrates at Texas. If the media would instead start portraying the guy as the overrated charlatan he actually is, I'd feel far less inclined to keep celebrating his stumbles.
November 22Nov 22 On 11/20/2025 at 6:51 AM, HookEm said: It annoys me that this thread gets more action than our actual 25-26 Texas thread, and that our game threads have 15 posts. After more than a decade of mediocre basketball, I’d rather just watch a train wreck.
November 22Nov 22 1 hour ago, Rudiger said: After more than a decade of mediocre basketball, I’d rather just watch a train wreck. Anf that’s exactly what we watched on the court with Shaka and Terry and off the court with Beard. Train wreck describes it all perfectly.
November 22Nov 22 41 minutes ago, Newdoc said: Anf that’s exactly what we watched on the court with Shaka and Terry and off the court with Beard. Train wreck describes it all perfectly. I don’t want to see a train wreck of MY team!
November 22Nov 22 12 hours ago, Derka said: 😂😂😂 If he's trying to Ted Lasso them, he needs to take them into the sewers, duh.
November 22Nov 22 7 hours ago, HookEm said: All of that is fair, but it also seems like a lot of our fans are more interested in rooting against our former coach than learning about and watching our current team. This team has a shot to make some noise IMO and yet there is almost zero excitement around the new coach and team. What is there to learn about? They haven't played anybody since Duke. Marquette has played 3 real games already (and lost all of them). That's why this thread has more traction. You are on such a bizarre crusade with this shit. When the Texas/Arkansas game thread only has 27 posts then I'll admit that you had a point. Do you think we're all like - watching these Marquette games? I've watched one college game start to finish this season and Texas played in it. I don't care if Texas is good or bad Shaka can always go fuck himself. Edited November 22Nov 22 by ztejas
November 24Nov 24 On 11/21/2025 at 11:28 PM, ztejas said: You are on such a bizarre crusade with this shit. Lol. I made a single short post and then a follow-up. Relax.
November 25Nov 25 On 11/21/2025 at 4:04 PM, HookEm said: All of that is fair, but it also seems like a lot of our fans are more interested in rooting against our former coach than learning about and watching our current team. This team has a shot to make some noise IMO and yet there is almost zero excitement around the new coach and team. suggestion, you might want to avoid the "point and laugh at Shaka Smart" thread
November 26Nov 26 shaka gave six of his players “awards” for their play against central michigan. 😂😂😂 Edited November 26Nov 26 by Derka
November 28Nov 28 i really don't entirely know how to feel about this oh wait, I know exactly how to feel about this: God dammit Shaka, FUCK YOU
November 28Nov 28 46 minutes ago, Derka said: lol Good. We need to keep Porter Moser around. He doesn't know what he's doing.
November 30Nov 30 On 11/20/2025 at 9:03 AM, ClubWhatever said: Did any Texas fan go to the Marquette board 4 years ago and warn them what was coming. because that's what fans are supposed to do. Maybe they didn't have a board. I am just looking for a "Texas fans told us what was coming" post because I am a bad person. I had some interactions with Marquette fans. To a person they tried to tell me I'm a bad person and UT is a bad employer for forcing him out, and he's going to do great things at Marquette. Caught a lot of flack when they won the Big East tournament and made it into the second round in his first year. Caught more flack when Beard was arrested. I haven't gone back to revisit any of those conversations, but if I had kept better tabs on them I would. Basically I guaranteed they'd fire him within 5 years. So next year. He's right on schedule as far as I'm concerned.
November 30Nov 30 18 minutes ago, SL Xpress said: I had some interactions with Marquette fans. To a person they tried to tell me I'm a bad person and UT is a bad employer for forcing him out, and he's going to do great things at Marquette. Caught a lot of flack when they won the Big East tournament and made it into the second round in his first year. Caught more flack when Beard was arrested. I haven't gone back to revisit any of those conversations, but if I had kept better tabs on them I would. Basically I guaranteed they'd fire him within 5 years. So next year. He's right on schedule as far as I'm concerned. i’ve stayed interacting with them for years, and it wasn’t until the back to back losses to maryland and dayton a couple of weeks ago than any of them started questioning shaka. you try and help them out, like, “hey listen, here’s a bunch of statistical and empirical evidence showing shaka smart to be a fraud” and they get mad at you for it. they say all the stuff about Texas having unrealistic expectations and forcing shaka to recruit in a way that he didn’t want to (is that why he never won the league at vcu during his six years while his counterparts at vcu won the league 4/6 times they had the chance?) me they respond with chris beard’s mugshot. then you show them proof that the early tourney exits aren’t flukes, but certainties, and they just scream about how bad wojo was insist that shaka is one of the best in the country and a perfect fit at marquette. fuck em. sounds like they might be right.
November 30Nov 30 Know a lot of Marquette folks. Serious basketball fans. They wanna believe but pretty frustrated about Shakas unwillingness to even acknowledge the new era of building a roster through the portal. And his recruiting is trash. All their best players of late were recruited before he got there. Big East will be pretty stout so they have some blowouts coming. They’re gonna get tired of all his zen bullshit when UConn plunger rapes them by 30 a couple of times this year.
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