Damn you Iowa

[Ewert86PC]

If MN could put together 3-4 good seasons, the border could really be closed down. Until they do that, Iowa and Wisconsin will keep getting players. The on campus stadium will help, but the game day atmosphere is a lot better in Madison then in Minny.

That's cause Molly Nation still patrols TCF Bank and is run out of Camp Randall by students for being a wet blanket.

 

[Schnauzer]

so you are happy when instate stars go to Bucky and Iowa? Because when they have strong programs kids from our state go there.

I see rivalries a bit differently. I see it as the Gopher program's job to make sure it can hold its own in the rivalries with Iowa and Wisconsin. This isn't new ground. Did the Michigan/OSU rivalry create BETTER teams? I think so. Keeping up with the Jones' has a way of raising BOTH programs. The better Michigan got, the more pressure it put in OSU, and vice versa. One day everyone noticed people were referring to the conference as the big 2 and the little 8. Are those instate recruits going to Iowa and Wisconsin because they are GOOD, or because the Gophers are NOT good? Probably a bit of each.

Using your logic, we should be placing our hopes on Iowa and Wisconsin sucking so the Gophers can compete with them. I see it the other way around.

Does it create more urgency, and desire in your program if your closest rivals are bad? Now, IN CONFERENCE games... that is another story.

If Iowa and Wisconsin suck, and by extension the rest of the conference... we will just be losing those recruits to other schools. I think it is very short sighted to think that top talent will choose the Gophers because their rivals suck as bad as they do. The better the national image is for the Big 10, the better it will be for all its member institutions.

Again, sorry to hear that you hate me... but cheering for our conference brothers when they are playing non-con or bowl games is in my DNA. Always will be.

 

[Brew_recruit]

I see rivalries a bit differently. I see it as the Gopher program's job to make sure it can hold its own in the rivalries with Iowa and Wisconsin. This isn't new ground. Did the Michigan/OSU rivalry create BETTER teams? I think so. Keeping up with the Jones' has a way of raising BOTH programs. The better Michigan got, the more pressure it put in OSU, and vice versa. One day everyone noticed people were referring to the conference as the big 2 and the little 8. Are those instate recruits going to Iowa and Wisconsin because they are GOOD, or because the Gophers are NOT good? Probably a bit of each.

Using your logic, we should be placing our hopes on Iowa and Wisconsin sucking so the Gophers can compete with them. I see it the other way around.

Does it create more urgency, and desire in your program if your closest rivals are bad? Now, IN CONFERENCE games... that is another story.

If Iowa and Wisconsin suck, and by extension the rest of the conference... we will just be losing those recruits to other schools. I think it is very short sighted to think that top talent will choose the Gophers because their rivals suck as bad as they do. The better the national image is for the Big 10, the better it will be for all its member institutions.

Again, sorry to hear that you hate me... but cheering for our conference brothers when they are playing non-con or bowl games is in my DNA. Always will be.

Man you are right. Because Bucky and Minn are huge rivals and Wisc has been terrible this last decade because the gopher program wasn't any goo. Oh wait they were good because in part they got some of the best recruits from the state of MN. No one cheers for the gophers from Bucky land when we are even competitive. Some cheer for us now, but its like when the parents of a high school team cheer for the career bench warmers. They do it because they know that those kids won't come up and take their kids spots.

 

[GoAUpher]

Man you are right. Because Bucky and Minn are huge rivals and Wisc has been terrible this last decade because the gopher program wasn't any goo. Oh wait they were good because in part they got some of the best recruits from the state of MN. No one cheers for the gophers from Bucky land when we are even competitive. Some cheer for us now, but its like when the parents of a high school team cheer for the career bench warmers. They do it because they know that those kids won't come up and take their kids spots.

You're resurrecting this now?

 

[Unregistered User]

Man you are right. Because Bucky and Minn are huge rivals and Wisc has been terrible this last decade because the gopher program wasn't any goo. Oh wait they were good because in part they got some of the best recruits from the state of MN. No one cheers for the gophers from Bucky land when we are even competitive. Some cheer for us now, but its like when the parents of a high school team cheer for the career bench warmers. They do it because they know that those kids won't come up and take their kids spots.

How *&^!#*&^!#*&^!#*&^!#ing drunk are you? Go to bed.