Is there any excuse for Sha’s coaching malpractice at this point? He hasn’t even played Yalden or Okorafor for a second in this disaster of a game against Marquette who has played poorly themselves. For a game where we look slow and not into it, the one player you know who will give super energy (Yalden) sits on the bench all game. Unbelievable.

Instead you’ve got players who let rebounds bounce off of them out of bounds without following and throwing passes off their leg or just dribbling it to the opponent. I’m honestly at the point where I don’t even want to watch the dumpster fire of this season anymore. It’s painfully bad. It’s one thing to deal with the hand you’re given but Sha is squandering what he has on the bench it appears.

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Why has nobody called this guy out as being someone who should be on the hot seat?

Even dating back to St Peter’s, he has consistently had pretty poor offensive teams from an efficiency standpoint.

This guy is supposed to be on staff to be an offensive guru and X’s and O’s specialist.

What exactly is he good for besides being the only person on staff willing to show up to alumni events and be a normal human being/decent communicator?

The air was sucked out of the building with a hot start by St. John’s on Saturday, but tonight it felt like there was never any air or life in the Rock at all. Free Chick-fil-A sandwiches were not enough to entice the students to board the buses to brave single digit temperatures during a week night game, in which the Pirates came no where close to making more than single digit field goals in the first half.

A 6/20 effort from the floor buried the Hall in another double digit halftime deficit and a quick start by Marquette to start second stanza, kept the Hall at bay by 20 plus for much of the remaining action.

Not sure if the presence of a healthy Wusu or Jenkins would have changed the outcome, but one can only hope. Because right now hope is fleeting as the Pirates reach the midpoint of the BE season.

BLUE TINTED GLASSES

• Coleman goes off for a career high 27 points and added 9 rebounds on 9/14 from the floor and a perfect 8/8 from the line.
• Aligbe has another respectable 12 points (6/8 FG) and 6 rebounds. But outside of the first bucket of the game, it felt like most of that production came in garbage time.
• 16/20 from the line for 80%. Seems like this area of performance has improved greatly in BE play.

SOUR GRAPES AND GRIPES

• 23 turnovers. Just ugly basketball. Lazy passes, poor ball handling, and way too much one on one basketball. It didn’t feel like Marquette was creating that kind of ball pressure. What it did feel like was a lot of indifference to what was going on and players going through the motions. Not a very good sign with 12 more Big East games to go.
• Our situation in the middle gets bleaker by the moment. Or maybe tonight it was just more confusing. Marquette doesn’t play a traditional five man as Ben Gold is going to stretch the floor (3-5 from distance), so Sha decides to go with a heavy dose of Godswill and Toumi. Neither were effective and only collected a combined 5 rebounds in 38 minutes of play. More importantly, on a night when the Pirates needed a shot of energy, Gus Yalden did not see the floor. Okoforo was also a DNP. Interesting to hear Sha’s comments if asked about the PT in the postgame.
• Not looking to pick on Felton, because the night was an overall disaster. However, he got some extended run tonight (23 minutes) against a very athletic MU backcourt. 1-6 from the floor to go along with 4 turnovers. My point is, besides Isiah Coleman, every young player on this roster is a major developmental project and is not going to immediately help Sha get into the win column.
• The final margin of 17 was no where close to a representation of how lopsided this was. Marquette led 63-36 with 9 minutes to play. They essentially called off the dogs and coasted to the finish line.

The bigger question at this point is how much worse can it get. Reports from those in the stands tonight said that the majority of the fans headed for the exits not too long after halftime. At a time when Seton Hall needs a high level of engagement to figure out the direction it needs to go, their fans might be responding with the most apathy this program has seen in quite some time.

For the first time this year we had more TO's (24) than field goals (21). Against St. Peter's we had an equal number of TO's and field goals (14).

A dubious achievement for sure.

tied up with 20 sec to go

It was brought to my attention by a St. John’s fan that our team is running out of the locker room to a song by diddy, before switching to the band.

The song is called victory. This is incredibly embarrassing given the allegations. Another huge mishap by the department if true. I will not be in attendance tonight but curious if someone can confirm

Only limitation is that they can't negatively impact our chances to win

I'll start:

Raffle to get to start a game

Apologies if this has been covered. Frequent reader, not frequent poster. Our NIL seems like it could use some changes/upgrades to small-donor outreach.

1. The NIL and website and how to donate is just not circulated or advertised enough. Most of us who have been fans and followers and looking to keep this program strong would probably agree and not mind--- How to donate to NIL should be in our faces all the time. I don't know what the regulations are on this, but when we go to games people should be handing something out with the info (the cheerleaders used ot hand out programs at the top of escalators)....or members of the NIL should do this. As a season ticket holder for years, at this point and considering the importance of a strong NIL... I WANT to be bothered every game with someone asking me for NIL money.

2. Alumni emails or mailers.

3. Students.... Not sure what kind of outreach is on campus.

4. SHU Law school alumni. Coming from a lawyer.... Im not sure if the NIL has anything going with the law school alumns. There are a lot that practice in NJ, that are casual fans, that would probably give a few dollars annually.

Obviously the big donors are vital and I assume the wheels are always in motion there. But just my oberservations ( politics is a good example).... big money can be raised from small donors.

Be competitive🏴‍☠️

https://nypost.com/2024/10/04/busin...scrapping-dei-policies-after-facing-backlash/

Toyota joins the list of companies scrapping DEI and LGBTQ programs.

Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg and Joe Rogan in the house.

SHU Sports Department & Administration-

For 30 years, I have watched every SHU game I could, and if I couldnt attend or watch on TV, I followed the game with a refresh on ESPN Play by Play. After every game, I would immediately go to PirateCrew to see the game analysis. Every game from 1976 - 2025, since I was 8 years old. My parents and siblings are alumni.

This week I was looking for something to watch, and I was shocked to notice that we were playing St. John's. I skipped past the game.

Am I a bad fan? No, you have ruined a great program, and taken away one of my true pleasures. The reason for this situation? There are too many to count, and you are to blame for most. Its not NIL, its you.

Time to re-do your resume, and chose a new profession. This is a new job. It is no longer the cushy, big office, shaking down the same 10 donors and shaking hands at games job. You won the lottery by getting your job, and it is time for something else for you, and a job for someone else.

Another disaster? Hope not but??????

Marquette 75
Seton Hall 62

Such a shame we still have this guy representing our school. The Seton Hall magazine just published him on the cover with the headline "A Man for Others". I think it will be hard to get donors bigger that are already reluctant, especially after this. And I don't care if the story about him is not completely true, It's bad business and a horrible example for young people.

GAME INFORMATION
Date/Time: Tuesday, Jan. 21 • 8 p.m. Eastern
Site: Newark, N.J. • Prudential Center (10,481)
TV: : Peacock • John Fanta & Donny Marshall
Online: Peacocktv.com/
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App • Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin SHUPirates.com • Varsity Network App
Satellite: SiriusXM 388 | SXM App 978
Seton Hall All-Time vs. Marquette: 14-24

NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Marquette arrives in Newark as a top 10 team for the second consecutive season as the Seton Hall men's basketball team hosts the Golden Eagles on Tuesday at 8 p.m.
• Prior to Saturday's loss against St. John's, the Pirates suffered their sixth single-digit loss of the season last Wednesday at Butler.
• The Hall's offense had been clicking as of late averaging 82.3 points per game, shooting 49 percent from the floor, 45 percent from three and 75 percent from the free throw line the last three games before Saturday's defeat.
• Seton Hall has been without its second-leading scorer in BIG EAST play (13.6 ppg) in veteran Dylan Addae-Wusu, who has missed the last two games with a foot injury.
• Prior to missing the two games, Dylan Addae-Wusu scored 24 points and dished out seven assists, both personal bests in his Seton Hall career, against DePaul.
• The Pirates are 14-24 all-time against Marquette and they're 12-13 against the Golden Eagles since the BIG EAST's reconfiguration in 2013-14.
• The Pirates have won seven of the last 12 meetings against Marquette dating back to the final regular season meeting of the 2018-19 season.
• Marquette had won four consecutive games in the series before Seton Hall's 78-75 victory last season at Prudential Center on Jan. 6.
• The Golden Eagles were ranked seventh in the AP poll heading into last year's meeting in Newark and they enter Tuesday's contests ranked 10th in the country.
• Shaheen Holloway and Marquette head coach Shaka Smart both took double-digit seeded teams to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament with Holloway guiding 15th seeded Saint Peter's to the Elite Eight in 2021-22 and Smart leading 11th seeded VCU to the Final Four in 2011.
• Seton Hall is 2-0 in overtime games this season and Holloway's career record in overtime games is 9-3, including a 3-1 mark as head coach of the Pirates.
• Sophomore Isaiah Coleman is off to a scorching start in conference play where he trails only Villanova's Eric Dixon averaging 19.7 points per game against BIG EAST foes.
• Coleman also ranks 13th in the conference averaging 5.8 rebounds per game and second averaging 3.0 offensive boards per contest..
• Coleman is one of only four Pirates since 1988 to score at least 15 points in the first five BIG EAST games of the season joining Mark Bryant (1987-88), Terry Dehere (1992-93) and Myles Powell (2019-20).
• Coleman has scored in double-figures in 10 of his last 11 games and four of those outputs were 20-point performances against BIG EAST teams.
• Addae-Wusu is two assists away from 400 career assists and went over 200 career steals at Providence.
• Addae-Wusu trails only Creighton's Ryan Kalkbrenner for the most career BIG EAST games played among active players with 83.
• After struggling from the free throw line through the first month of the season, Seton Hall has bounced back since the start of conference play shooting 73 percent (117-of-161) from the stripe, good enough for fifth in the BIG EAST.
• Seton Hall ranks second in the BIG EAST in bench scoring averaging 23.1 points per game.
• The Pirates are 4-2 on the season when Chaunce Jenkins is their leading scorer.

Lmaooo

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https://www.axios.com/2025/01/20/biden-pardon-fauci-cheney-jan-6-committee-trump

Another dumb move by Biden. Has the complete opposite effect of his stated intention.

Trumps victory marginalized all of them and with the expansive agenda he has and essentially two years to get it passed, there was no way there would be any investigations.

Now Biden has handed him the talking points to reinforce that they were guilty with no chance for them to disprove.

Where do we go--
Wusu, Jenkins, Toumi --done, no eligibility left
Okorafor--show him the door
Dual, Tubek--not fitting in, most likely gone
Felton, Coleman--like to keep but probably gone
Mbaye--who knows what he can do if anything-- big ???
Which leaves us with Aligbe, Yeldon,Middleton,& Erherien and two walk ons
Not a lot to work with. We're in some deep shit trouble

Let's see how high this gets