Scrambled Eggs - Marquette Basketball

Breaks over, lets talk buy games and your questions

Quick summary for this podcast, we focused on 3 key topics:

-What do we want to get out of the buy games?

-Initial NET rankings are out, what are our take-aways and thoughts?

-We polled the #mubb twitterverse for questions you want answered and boy did you deliver

We're hoping to be back with a pod before Christmas, enjoy!

We interupt your scheduled Sports Movie Bracket with this Breaking News

We are shocked to say the least. As reported all over the interwebs on Monday, April 15th, the Hauser brothers have announced their intention to transfer from Marquette. Instead of the general odds and ends plus the first rounds of the Sports Movie Bracket, we get together to talk about this program altering and unexpected news.

As off seasons go, we're off to a great start

The masses have spoken (if like a dozen people on twitter can be considered "the masses") you wanted a pod to talk about the off season so far and we're here for it. We spend the beginning of the pod talking about the two recruits that Wojo landed and how they may impact the team as well as projecting forward to next season and 2019. We both love the signings but will it have enough of an impact on the roster to make up for glaring defensive issues. Below are the stats that Joe cited on the pod:

                          Offense            Off eFG%                        Defense            Def eFG%

2015                  105.4 (154)       49.8 (130)                      98.5 (69)           49.2 (173)

2016                  108 (116)          52 (76)                          100.1 (88)         48.7 (107)

2017                  120.8 (8)           57.4 (4)                         104.2 (165)       52.2 (241)

2018                  119.4 (12)         56.8 (14)                       106 (186)          53.8 (292)

We then turn to long term recruiting news and start talking about 2019/2020 in earnest. Once we get back from our trip into the future, we spend time talking about the non-conference schedule as we know it for 2018 and what the means for the team and their mindset. We close out the pod talking about the possible end of Dwyane Wade's NBA career and how desperately we want him to play one more season as a farewell tour. As always, enjoy!

 

Good thing we didn't podcast on Sunday

Well, as we were all trying to get back into the swing of things after a long weekend of giving thanks and shopping, #mubb decided to jolt us all awake. Given the events of Monday we decided to move all the positive talk to the back end of the podcast and start with the more concerning. First, we talk about the almost disaster that was the Eastern Illinois game. Lots of excuses can be made but at the end the day, it was a really bad performance. One of those excuses is the unexpected announcement that Haanif Cheatham is leaving the program effectiv immediately. To say we were surprised is a mild understatement and we reflect on what this means for the team and the short/long term implications. We then turn to more positive thoughts and discuss the successful Maui Invitational appreance over Feastweek. We close out the podcast by prognosticating on the Chicago State and Georgia games, and what we think we will get out of the Haanif-less MU team. Buckle up, it'll be an interesting week. Enjoy!

Quick off-season check-in with #mubb

It's been a couple of months so we thought it'd be good to pull together a pod to make sure we don't get too rusty. Plus there has been some roster news in the past couple of weeks so we should probably talk about that. We talk about Greg Elliot first and his potential impact on the upcoming season. We then discuss Ed Morrow at length(pardon the pun), what his transfer to MU means for the roster in 2018 anf does that mean good or bad things for the Joey Hauser recruitment. We also talk about the recruits that MU is looking at for 2018 and what THAT means for the roster. We also talk about the concerns about the point guard position in 2018 given the roster make-up. After we get done wildly speculating about a whole bunch of stuff, we then move on to the really fun stuff TBT (The Basketball Tournament). We walk through the roster as we currently understand it and talk about alumni we'd love to see play on the team this summer. We've included a link below for you to get out and vote for MU's alumni team to be able to be in the tournament. As always, enjoy the pod and the off-season

https://www.thetournament.com/teams/golden-eagles-marquette-alumni?type=fan&f=570594e91a926927767547

 

The season has ended and winter seems to be on the way out....so there's that

The season has been a grind to say the least, but the first in the Wojo era is now over and we need to talk about.  We spend a little time talking about the Big East tournament, but not too much because there wasn't a lot new there.  We then talk relatively surprising news, the transfer of Steve Taylor Jr to parts unknown.  Since the season is over we have to talk about how this news impacts next year's team and vent a little disappointment.  Speaking of disappointment, we talk about the Big East performance in March Madness.  We try to put it in perspective for Marquette short and long term and why we should all be Musketeer fans.  Lastly, we close out with a few odds and ends like Marquette in Italy this summer.  Cleanse yourself of the season and give a listen while we are hopefully celebrating a Badger loss.

Marquette got a shiny, new toy for Christmas...Luke Fischer

Well to say the Luke Fischer era at Marquette got off to a fast start would be the least earth shattering news of this week.  We jump right into the Luke story line and discuss our first impressions, what we liked, and what this might mean for this Marquette team.  Be warned, we are pretty enthusiastic for Luke's future.  We talk about the ASU game overall and then transition into a brief conversation on last weeks less than awesome transfer news.  With the transfers, that leaves 3 open scholarships.  As anonymous internet podcasters, we had to tell Wojo what he should do with those scholarships.  Lastly we talk a little bit of future for this team.  Unless something catastrophic happens, this will be the last pod until right before BE opening.  Merry Christmas to all the Marquette fans and enjoy your presents, especially Luke Fischer.

The Wojo era begins

To borrow from a favorite cartoon show of ours....yeah, MU fans, that month sure sucked last month. March just plain sucked. I've seen months suck before but March was the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked.  So we quickly pivot from that to the dawning Wojo era.  Side note, I can't spell words let alone Wojciechowski, so Wojo will be the nom de guerre for Scrambled Eggs.  Anyway, we talk Wojo, what we think his impact on MU will be and what are our expectations.  We walk through some of the reasons to like the hire despite Phil's and some fan's initial reluctance.  We also talk about the current players, if they stay, and some very interesting quotes that came out.  Lastly we talk incoming recruits and the new university president.  So we welcome our new basketball overlord in Coach Wojo and wish him the best of luck!

First Scrambled Questions went well.....I think

We asked you for your questions and you guys delivered...a lot of different stuff.  Good questions, interesting questions, soliloquies disguised as questions, and some I just don't know what.  So in return we delivered rambling, occasionally incoherent and definitely wandering answers to those questions.  We covered a lot of ground and definitely enjoyed it.  It's hard to detail everything we talked about so you'll just have to listen.  Assuming you guys enjoy it we will definitely need to do Scrambled Questions again.  So sit back, enjoy and remember, you asked us you have no one to blame but yourself

First week of the new Big East is in the books, and we've got a lot to talk about

Luke Fischer, according to his twitter, is Marquette's newest post player which will make next season interesting.  There were two games this week, a complete dumpster fire at Creighton and a near dumpster fire at home against DePaul.  We discuss the games, if it's a good thing that Buzz has shortened up the bench, what hold Jake Thomas has on Buzz, and what Jajaun Johnson has done to not be getting minutes.  It's not all bad as Cracked Sidewalk's contributor Rob Lowe has put together stats that say the offense may improve.  We discuss if we think the stats are on to something or if Rob has last his last grip on reality.  We also spent some time talking about next year and why it's important to get some freshmen some minutes.  Wrapping up the pod is an review of the Xavier and Seton Hall games.  Giving you the bottom line, the Xavier game is extremely important but we aren't overwhelmed with optimism. Who knows, next week we might be talking about what a great week it was, lets hope.