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If you aren't a Blue Blood, you need a billionaire to write that big check for NIL. Or at least a consortium of 3 or 4 9 digit millionaires.

Our NIL or coaching budget won't reach the Helmet School level without some juicing from the Ultra-wealthy.
 


how much $$$ won't matter if the guy making the decisions screws up.
we are paying 2 OL who are terrible, along with other transfers that can't/don't play.
 


Even if I was a billionaire, I don't think I'd give the Gophers a ton of money unless I had a lot of control over how they used it and had trust in the leaders.

The defensive performance last game was not primarily due to a lack of talent or NIL money. You could spend $5 million more on the defense and I don't think they would have played that much better.

Money helps but it seems that the U also has issues with how they spend the money. Not enough money goes to coaching and not enough money goes to the revenue sports.
 




Taji34 said:
I still think our OL troubles are more to do with the OL coach than the actual players.
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Our OL has been terrible but let's not act like OL under Brian Callahan hasn't been a strength for a majority of his time here. It's definitely more player execution (and play calling) this year.
 




FARMERS - Donations from our farming community could be big. Every landowner is worth millions of dollars. Its not the billionaire bucks but they are well to do people and lots of them. Go Gophers
 


GoGophersUMN said:
Even if I was a billionaire, I don't think I'd give the Gophers a ton of money unless I had a lot of control over how they used it and had trust in the leaders.

The defensive performance last game was not primarily due to a lack of talent or NIL money. You could spend $5 million more on the defense and I don't think they would have played that much better.

Money helps but it seems that the U also has issues with how they spend the money. Not enough money goes to coaching and not enough money goes to the revenue sports.
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70-75 percent of the Rev share money goes to football.
 

DinkytownDelight said:
Our OL has been terrible but let's not act like OL under Brian Callahan hasn't been a strength for a majority of his time here. It's definitely more player execution (and play calling) this year.
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It's been a strength, but it's been trending downward over the past few years. If players are struggling to perform, it still falls on the OL coach. He's the one identifying and recruiting the players, right? So if we aren't recruiting good players, it's on him. If the players are good players, but are struggling to perform consistently on the field, it's his job to either coach then up or find a way to have them maximize their potential.

And when the same playcall results in radically different performance from the OL, I don't think you can blame the play calling.
 



Deusen said:
FARMERS - Donations from our farming community could be big. Every landowner is worth millions of dollars. Its not the billionaire bucks but they are well to do people and lots of them. Go Gophers
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It's like the old question. Would you rather have a friend with one million dollars, or a million friends with one dollar to spare?
 

Indiana and Minnesota have very similar recruiting ratings in transfers and high schoolers. NIL difference between the 2 programs not really a factor in this years results.
 

Tech Machine said:
Indiana and Minnesota have very similar recruiting ratings in transfers and high schoolers. NIL difference between the 2 programs not really a factor in this years results.
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Consequently, the difference between the programs is simply coaching?
 

CliffB said:
Consequently, the difference between the programs is simply coaching?
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Right now, the logical conclusion would be yes, how else would you square it. I thought Indy hit the jackpot with the transfer portal, not really a lot different than Minn., I was surprised actually.
 

GoGophersUMN said:
Even if I was a billionaire, I don't think I'd give the Gophers a ton of money unless I had a lot of control over how they used it and had trust in the leaders.

The defensive performance last game was not primarily due to a lack of talent or NIL money. You could spend $5 million more on the defense and I don't think they would have played that much better.

Money helps but it seems that the U also has issues with how they spend the money. Not enough money goes to coaching and not enough money goes to the revenue sports.
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It’s a huge talent issue
 

Tech Machine said:
Right now, the logical conclusion would be yes, how else would you square it. I thought Indy hit the jackpot with the transfer portal, not really a lot different than Minn., I was surprised actually.
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Evaluation and coaching.. Indiana identifies the same level of recruit but they choose guys they feel confident will fit their scheme.
At Minnesota the defensive scheme is the issue, not the players. I don't watch Kingsbury and Baranowski and say if only we had better linebackers. Our defensive line has talent and so does our secondary...it's scheme.
Offensively, it is play calling...we choose stupid plays for the situation and no matter what the call, we rarely execute. We have talent...we do not put the players in a position to succeed.
Not saying we have Ohio State talent but neither does Iowa. They execute a sound game plan...we do not.
 


Gopher_In_NYC said:
Would you really want to have a million people in their life?

One is much easier to manage,
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I thought there were 12 million stories in a naked city. I'll need that many friends to get through all of the stories... 🤡
 

LeftofThaDial said:
70-75 percent of the Rev share money goes to football.
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50% of the total athletics budget goes to football. 60% of the revenue comes from football, or about 75% if you exclude revenue not assigned to a particular sport.

If expenses were proportional to revenue, that would be an $15 to $37 million for football. That money would be huge for the program - even 10% of that towards assistant coaches would be enough to retain coordinators.
 

Ski U Mah Gopher said:
If you aren't a Blue Blood, you need a billionaire to write that big check for NIL. Or at least a consortium of 3 or 4 9 digit millionaires.

Our NIL or coaching budget won't reach the Helmet School level without some juicing from the Ultra-wealthy.
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There are many spectator sports in the TCs to spend money on. In Iowa City there's one. Madison, one.
 

GoGophersUMN said:
Even if I was a billionaire, I don't think I'd give the Gophers a ton of money unless I had a lot of control over how they used it and had trust in the leaders.

The defensive performance last game was not primarily due to a lack of talent or NIL money. You could spend $5 million more on the defense and I don't think they would have played that much better.

Money helps but it seems that the U also has issues with how they spend the money. Not enough money goes to coaching and not enough money goes to the revenue sports.
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$1M to upgrade the DC would be a nice start. Then $1M on each corner, $1M on a stud linebacker and the final $1M on a DT and we are in business.
 

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