amateurdwarftosser
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A week or so ago when Reusee and Souhan were stirring the pot to get Brewster fired, i asked a question in the middle of the long string of posts.
Who are our boosters? How much money do you have to donate to be considered a 'big' donor?
Below is cut and pasted from my post to the thread. Someone made the point that college sports are driven by boosters. Boosters can write a check to fire a coach. While I dont disagree with them at other schools, I think that here at Minnesota, its a crock.
I have heard this "big donor" thing with college sports for awhile. I guess i could see it for hockey here, but not for football or even basketball for that matter. Lets call this what it is: this program has been everything from wretched to mediocre for 40 years. At no point have they been good or outstanding. Who, in their right mind donates that sort of money to the Gopher football program? We had problems getting the money together to fire Mason. Those funds came from the U itself. It didnt come from some "deep throat" donor. This is not Notre Dame, Michigan, tOSU or any SEC school.
Our tradition was from 40 years ago. We have no big time donors. If we had this gleaming football program, we'd have a full house every week at home. We'd play in good bowl games. We would actually bring people to bowl games. We wouldnt have to bus to Iowa. We would have ponied up the cash for a big time coach, even as we paid off the last guy.
What we have is a mediocre program. Whether we are on the way up, down or sideways is debateable, but until we succeed to the point where we are going to good bowls on a semi consistent basis we wont be considered anything other than a mid level B10 program. Will we ever be Michigan or tOSU? I dont know, and i dont know if that's possible. But what i do know is that we fired Mason because we were stuck here. If we wanted to go to the toilet bowl yearly and breathe a collective sigh of relief every time we avoided Detriot for our bowl game every year we would have kept Mason.
My point is who in the hell do we think we are? This is not a big time program. I hope that it will be someday, but it sure isn't now. If we really do have these people, then who the hell are they?
Who are our boosters? How much money do you have to donate to be considered a 'big' donor?
Below is cut and pasted from my post to the thread. Someone made the point that college sports are driven by boosters. Boosters can write a check to fire a coach. While I dont disagree with them at other schools, I think that here at Minnesota, its a crock.
I have heard this "big donor" thing with college sports for awhile. I guess i could see it for hockey here, but not for football or even basketball for that matter. Lets call this what it is: this program has been everything from wretched to mediocre for 40 years. At no point have they been good or outstanding. Who, in their right mind donates that sort of money to the Gopher football program? We had problems getting the money together to fire Mason. Those funds came from the U itself. It didnt come from some "deep throat" donor. This is not Notre Dame, Michigan, tOSU or any SEC school.
Our tradition was from 40 years ago. We have no big time donors. If we had this gleaming football program, we'd have a full house every week at home. We'd play in good bowl games. We would actually bring people to bowl games. We wouldnt have to bus to Iowa. We would have ponied up the cash for a big time coach, even as we paid off the last guy.
What we have is a mediocre program. Whether we are on the way up, down or sideways is debateable, but until we succeed to the point where we are going to good bowls on a semi consistent basis we wont be considered anything other than a mid level B10 program. Will we ever be Michigan or tOSU? I dont know, and i dont know if that's possible. But what i do know is that we fired Mason because we were stuck here. If we wanted to go to the toilet bowl yearly and breathe a collective sigh of relief every time we avoided Detriot for our bowl game every year we would have kept Mason.
My point is who in the hell do we think we are? This is not a big time program. I hope that it will be someday, but it sure isn't now. If we really do have these people, then who the hell are they?