Scrambled Eggs - Marquette Basketball

The podcast suffered a concussion and had to sit out, but we're back now

We haven't podded in a couple of weeks, but we're back to raise your spirits.  The team has struggled the last couple of weeks, especially with Matt Carlino out with a concussion, but we have to talk through it.  We talk about what's been going wrong and what, if anything, has been going right.  We also have a difference of opinion as to what the team should do for the last 5 games of the regular season.  As we talk about the rest of the season, we transition to recruiting news.  We briefly tap dance around the Nick Noskowiak news before moving on what needs to be done with the 4 scholarships now available to Wojo.  Last we talk about National Marquette day and why it's actually a cool day.  Enjoy the podcast, hopefully its a positive moment from the season.

*Note, we know one of the mikes has echo, its an environmental issue we'll try to fix.

Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and global thermonuclear weapons

Another week and another couple of tough, well fought loses.  The Georgetown loss was especially tough to take given some pretty questionable calls.  We spend time talking about the officiating and the team's performance in the game.  We analyze this weeks performance in total and talk about what's good and what's bad.  We spend some time talking about JaJaun Johnson and where his game is.  We also carry on for a while about Derrick Wilson's best play as a Marquette Warrior....posterizing Paul White.  We wrap up the pod talking about the next couple of games and determine if Marquette will actually get over the hump and record a win or two.

A mediocre week and big? changes for the NCAA

Another week and another couple of games with late game fades, one a win another a tough road loss.  We discuss the Creighton and Xavier results, what’s the deal with Luke Fischer as well as Matt Carlino – “villain” to hero.  We also spend some time talking about JaJuan Johnson’s DNP-CD, impact on the team, and #8strong AKA great marketing/difficult basketball strategy.  We then transition to an overview of the upcoming games and what our mediocre opinion of Marquette basketball is.  Spoiler alert – wins are going to be tough to come by for the next two weeks.  So we don’t fade late in the podcast, we finish by discussing the substantial changes in NCAA policy that were voted on last weekend.  We speculate about what the changes mean, how it impacts the Big East and Marquette as well as what the long term consequences might be.

Tough loss and a quiet week

It feels like 3 weeks since the Georgetown loss but it was only 6 days.  We breakdown the game and what we felt about that game.  It turned out to be both better and worse than we anticipated, we're confused too.  We also spent time discussing Matt Carlino and what he means to this team, both good and bad.  We also talked broadly about the Big East and the next couple of games for MU....spoiler alert, the next 3 are critical.  Lastly we talk specifically about the Creighton game and what we're anticipating will happen there.  It's a shorter pod, calm before the schedule story so to speak.

Terrible way to end 2014 and a great way to start 2015

There is no sugar coating it, that was a dumpster fire in Rosemont against DePaul to end 2014.  As painful as it is we reviewed the game and try and figure out what went wrong.  Then we transition to the more positive result in the Providence win.  We talk back court for Marquette and whether Duane Wilson is in a slump or ran into a wall.  We then heap some well earned praise on Juan Anderson.  Lastly we talk the up coming road game against Georgetown and what it's going to take to win.  Enjoy and Happy New Year!

The Big East season is upon us

Most of the holiday feasting is over for you, and it is for Marquette basketball.  The heart of the basketball season, conference play, starts up on New Year's Eve.  In this Scrambled Eggs episode, we start by looking back at non-conference season and each finding a reason for optimism in the conference season and a reason for concern.  We then transition to the conference season and what it looks like.  We don't go game by game but we look at some critical match-ups and what a possible record looks like.  We also can't help ourselves and have to have a little tournament discussion.  Lastly, we give a huge shout out to Jimmy Butler who is absolutely doing work in the NBA.  Happy New Year and Happy Conference Season.

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.

Breaking: Wisconsin still sucks, Marquette may not be terrible, and Fischer is on his way

Nobody likes to lose, especially to a rival as filthy and despicable as the rodents from the west.  However, that's what happened Saturday with a scrappy Marquette team taking on the #2 team in the country hanging in until late in the game.  On this podcast we discuss the game, what we liked and didn't like and if anything can be taken away from a positive perspective.  One of the definite positives is that Luke Fischer is now eligible and we will see this team with someone taller than 6'7" in 9 days when they play Arizona State.  We discuss the anticipated impact Fischer will on the team both positively and negatively.  We also discuss the implications of his availability to the rest of the players on the team, who will get more or less minutes and who's performance will improve.  We then transition to the next game on the schedule, Arizona State at home after a week and a half off.  What kind of performance can we anticipate from the team.  We've got a lot of time between now and the next Marquette game, go ahead and listen a couple of times, if you don't enjoy it...we'll give you your money back.

A week can change a lot of things, including the level of Badger Hate

Well, the tone of this podcast has certainly changed in the last number of hours we're too lazy to calculate, lets just call it a week.  Legitimately concerned about a 1-2 finish in the Orlando Classic, the previous podcast was filled with doom and gloom.  However after seeing, ya know, the team actually play the games, we are decidedly more upbeat.  We discuss the results of the Orlando Classic and how impressed we were by the coaching staff making changes to the plan based on previous results.  That's a slight change from the previous regime.  We then discuss the players themselves and who's impressed and what has made the biggest impact on the performance in Orlando.  Lastly, we turn to the big angry elephant in the room, the showdown with Bucky in the Bradley Center.  We kick off #badgerhateweek with our general overview of how the game is going to go, and then what has to happen in an ideal world for Marquette to get the win.  Lastly, we go on a mini-rant, because we are filled with hate, about some evil maniacs twitter idea, #sconniepact.  Sit back, listen, and let us fill you with BadgerHate

Now where did I put that darn panic button?

We tried to tell you this team would struggle against even bad teams at times, we are going to say the recent loss to Nebraska Omaha counts as a bad team and a very bad loss.  Is it a disaster?  There seems to be some debate about that and the core to some of our discussion.  We do want to remind those on the ledges across the global that this isn't the worst loss MU has had and that it's early, the team can and should improve.  So we talk generically about the last couple of games, the little bit that went right(offense generally, Derrick Wilson, and Juan Anderson) and what definitely went wrong and needs to change.  Also, we were in the same room together for a podcast for once and the sound quality turned out just slightly better than the Omaha game.  Here's to hoping we see significant improvement Monday night against NJIT and in the Orlando Classic or it could be a VERY rough November.