Scrambled Eggs - Marquette Basketball

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.

Finally, the season is almost here

We are less than two weeks away from the start of the season, if you count an exhibition game as the start of the season(we all know the selection committee counts them).  Since we are so close, and neither of us will be around for the month of November, we decided it was time to review the schedule and predict every result.  Neither of us are particularly optimistic but we aren't paid to predict anything so our opinions probably don't count for much.  After we go through the schedule top to bottom, we transition to discussing the starting line-up and some of the distribution of minutes that will need to happen for MU to be successful.  Lastly, we turn to a podcast gimmick in which we create fake pre-season awards and then arbitrarily give them to players....trust me it's podcast gold Jerry!

Embrace the Madness (and tall gentlemen from Rice Lake)

We start out with the obvious, welcoming MU's newest recruit(and most important in the last 20 years), Henry Ellenson.  We try to temper expectations but can't help ourselves.  We then transition to some interesting observations from Jon Rothstein who was at practice on the 8th.  We discuss what his observations mean and if they make sense.  Lastly, we turn to Marquette Madness and discuss whether it tells us almost nothing or absolutely nothing.

Unexpectedly busy Tuesday

The pod signal went up, so here we are.  Once of sounds like he's calling on a Campbell soup can, but hopefully you'll survive because we have a lot to talk about.  It was a hectic Tuesday, with the new AD announced and then the complete schedule rolled out.  We are barely qualified to talk about basketball so we certainly aren't qualified to vet an AD hire....doesn't mean we don't try.  While not a complete, in-depth analysis of the schedule, we spend a little time talking about our overall impressions.  We also decided to put our "optimism" hats" on(surprised we could find them) to discuss what things could happen that would result in a positive experience this season.  Lastly, we turn to recruiting, welcoming Haanif Cheathnam, the latest MU player that will have his name misspelled and mispronounced for the next four years,  That leads into a general recruiting discussion which includes the 900 pound gorilla in the MU recruiting room.  #bringDraketoMadness

Hold the Mayo and Pass the Scrambled Questions

Once again some late breaking news has sent us to the podmobile to get a podcast fired up and out to you.  This time it is the unexpected but not totally surprising news that Todd Mayo is no longer with the Marquette basketball team.  It is unexpected from a timing standpoint, but not unsurprising given Todd's history at MU.  We choose not to spend too much time on this development and instead pivot to your questions to us in our favorite segment #scrambledquestions.  We did get a lot of Mayo questions of course, but thankfully a lot of them were forward looking so we tackled the game of "what does MU do now".  Ultimately we plowed through at least a half dozen of your questions and we can only hope we answered them sufficiently.  Enjoy the episode and here's to hoping the emergency podsignal will stay switched off for the next couple of months.

Let's just admit we're all rusty at this and we'll get through it

It's been a couple of months since your ears have been blessed with the Scrambled Eggs podcast, so it's time to rectify that.  We may have been on vacation but we're hoping it's not too noticeable.  So where to start?  A lot has happened in the last couple of weeks, but we start with the non-conference schedule and what that looks like within the scope of the team at present.  We then transition into a roster discussion, including some of the additions and lack of transfers that will shape the team this season.  That leads to a discussion of expectations for the season....spoiler alert, we're not sure what to think.  The season will be shaped by the new staff Wojo has put together so we talk about that as well.  Lastly, we talk about recruiting and just a hint of Buzz hating.  Shake the rust off with us.