All Marquette had to do was beat DePaul at home. That’s all that needed to happen for the Golden Eagles to keep themselves hanging around the bubble. From the looks of the last two weeks with DePaul, that seemed to be easy. Marquette was an eight-point favorite and all signs pointed to a very successful afternoon. Except for the fact that Marquette always seems to play down to DePaul. There is no excuse for the way Marquette played yesterday besides the fact they are continually woefully underprepared against one of the worst teams in high-major college basketball. Heads should roll, but they will not for something like this.

What went wrong for Marquette
The Fire Wojo movement is back and better than ever – Maybe it’s a Wisconsin thing, but we always seem to want to oust the head coach when things are going wrong. For Marquette, they should not be a mediocre program in the Big East. They have enough money to afford a good head coach, and yet, they seem perfectly content with the situation at hand. No one has raised an eyebrow or put Steve Wojciechowski on the hot seat beside the fans. Marquette’s program went from a perennial top four Big East to hoping you’re good enough to make the tournament. That’s not acceptable.

When you lose at home to DePaul in the fashion that Marquette did, there should be phone calls made this morning. Wojo can recruit better than most guys out there. But he can’t coach for shit. The same mistakes over and over again plague Marquette. The in-game coaching hasn’t improved. While young coaches deserve a bit of a break, they should be smarter than this. Take Juwan Howard for example. Howard is a second-year coach at Michigan. He can recruit like Wojo but his teams are so much better prepared. It’s disappointing to have to consistently deal with this.

What’s also wrong with Marquette: They have no money.. at all. – I said on Twitter that Marquette’s boosters need to go SEC football style for their coaching program. Burn the ships and start figuring out who can rebuild this organization. But here’s the thing, can they afford it? Marquette has been bleeding money. They laid off 39 people last week. Michael Lowell doesn’t seem to be athletics-first, and that’s also going to impact what the Golden Eagles are going to do as a basketball team.

Next up: I realize we didn’t talk about the game, and I’m sorry for that. DJ Carton was the only one that seemed to come to the party on Saturday. They head to Providence on Wednesday night. Providence is one of the best three-point shooting teams in the Big East, and Marquette can’t stop teams from shooting the three. They took control against the Friars early then held on the rest of the way. Let’s hope for more of the same.

Charlie.