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Polski said:
He has the chance to make more money and win more on a bigger stage at a more successful school.

Take a step back and think it over from all sides... If Koi was your kid, what would you tell him to do??
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I have actually thought of this a few times.

It is important to note, he isn't playing for free at the U. What is the difference between $500k and $1 million... $500k and that is a lot of money!

With that being said, what can only the U give him that no other school can? It has been well known he wasn't as good his sophomore year as his freshman year, but he still remains by far and away the most popular player on the Gophers. He stays one (maybe 2) more years and his name is easily next to Laurence Maroney, MB3, Eric Decker, and Antoine Winfield Jr... not saying they are the best Gophers of the last 25 years but easily the most popular. His name would be right in that circle. What is the price tag on that? To some it is priceless, to others it doesn't mean as much.

Koi could easily say "I don't care as much about being a legendary Gopher, I would rather be in the long line of Buckeyes, but I'll be playing in the CFP." He isn't right or wrong...

I would love to play for my home state team and become legendary...
 

DRJ said:
A lot of times, your position coach is more important than the DC. You spend much more time with your position coach than any of the other coaches.
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He's his position Coach as well, so now what?
 

DCinOK said:
Idiot 'adults' created this nonsense. Binding contracts NOW. I'm a right-wing capitalist and similar-identifying idiots claim I am a commie for opposing this NIL and easy transfer nonsense. You are morons and you have destroyed college football. Congrats, you numbnutted short-sighted fools.
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So basically you’re a capitalist when it suits your interests but not when it interferes with your favorite football team.
 

jovs said:
As an aside, Rasheed Hageman came up on my people you may know list in Facebook, my nephew grew up playing on youth teams with him is the reason he appeared I assumed. Out of curiosity I clicked on his profile, one thing that struck me was he had a post that stated if you knew what football does to your body and your mind would you still play the sport. After two years I can't help but wonder if Perich isn't thinking he might as well get as much out of the sport as he can and if the money elsewhere is good enough he might as well jump at it.
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Rasheed was maybe the most talented and dominant Gopher since the Mason years. I hope he has found some peace. Koi does play hard and there re were a few times this year I thought he had been hurt.
 

WayOfTheGopher said:
Blame Ed O'Bannon, he's the asshole who started this whole mess.
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Sparlimb said:
Hate what he did. Always and forever.
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You guys can't be that naive and misguided to think this wasn't going to happen at some point whether it was Ed O'Bannon spurred by Sonny Vaccaro or someone else every bit as justified.

The 1980s. CBS starts throwing hundreds of millions for March Madness. ESPN & company start throwing comparable dough to conferences for football & basketball rights.

That begats turf wars for mega conferences and now billion dollar TV rights deals.

The member NCAA institutions should have gotten ahead giving the talent their fair share. If not when Bird & Magic were done, definitely by the end of MJs tenure for certain.

They wanted to keep as much as they could as long as they could. Here we are.
 




mngg11 said:
Same dude who's put multiple safeties into the nfl
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Four Gophers starting at safety in the NFL.
Losing Koi hurts and it’s red meat for gopher trolls here and elsewhere to be negative about the program. Until we can increase our NIL pot this will happen. Like someone else mentioned I think Kerry Brown is more valuable.
 






Best of Luck to him, glad we got him for 2 years. He will be a pro one day.

We weren't exactly the best team with him, lets spread the wealth around.
 

RememberMurray said:
This (see link below) is a good listen.

Some points:

1) Perich is an amazing athlete, and because of that he chases the football. He freelances. That's how big plays happen, but when you're the 'center fielder' on defense you sometimes need to play 'boring' football — keep the play in front of you. When you gamble and miss as a safety, bad things can happen.

2) Perich was one of the top-paid players. That money can now go elsewhere. Burns specifically mentioned defensive tackle. With the Perich money, combined with the fact that Logan-Redding and Eastern are off the books, they will have some capital to shore up the tackle position.

3) Safety is a position of strength, even without Perich. Kerry Brown is coming back. Gousby likely returning. Burns also mentioned some young talent at the position, already on the roster.

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I listened to the same podcast. We lost a kid with a lot of potential at a position of strength. Get someone that is 90% of Koi that doesn’t freelance because he knows he can’t get away with it, shore up some weaker areas of the defense, and maybe it’s actually better next year.

Another interesting thing Burns mentioned is Koi isn’t really a fame kinda guy. Maybe he’s looking to go someplace where he isn’t the face of the program. And he can earn some more money to boot! Maybe both sides win with this move.
 




Polski said:
He has the chance to make more money and win more on a bigger stage at a more successful school.

Take a step back and think it over from all sides... If Koi was your kid, what would you tell him to do??
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I would tell him to stay at UMN. His long term prospects are greater here. He has the opportunity to be Gopher legend.
 


MNfootballfan said:
I have actually thought of this a few times.

It is important to note, he isn't playing for free at the U. What is the difference between $500k and $1 million... $500k and that is a lot of money!

With that being said, what can only the U give him that no other school can? It has been well known he wasn't as good his sophomore year as his freshman year, but he still remains by far and away the most popular player on the Gophers. He stays one (maybe 2) more years and his name is easily next to Laurence Maroney, MB3, Eric Decker, and Antoine Winfield Jr... not saying they are the best Gophers of the last 25 years but easily the most popular. His name would be right in that circle. What is the price tag on that? To some it is priceless, to others it doesn't mean as much.

Koi could easily say "I don't care as much about being a legendary Gopher, I would rather be in the long line of Buckeyes, but I'll be playing in the CFP." He isn't right or wrong...

I would love to play for my home state team and become legendary...
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I think you're onto something. He's showing us being a legendary Gopher was not that important to him. It was just important to us. A lot of people worshiped him and are burning him at the stake now. Maybe he never wanted to be worshiped in the first place? Burns on the GGR podcast said he would have gone straight pro from high school if he could have. He grew up a football fan, NOT a Gopher football fan. His main goal is to be a pro football player. It's up to him whether he thinks he can accomplish that goal better here or somewhere else. I think some of us are projecting our fandom onto him.

I love the fact a lot of our best players are coming back and appear to really love being Gophers. Should it be surprising that it's not for everyone?
 

Allshade said:
I had the opportunity to play golf with Koi the summer before his Freshman year at Les Bolsted Golf Course at the UofM. Koi was an idiot and an ass hat. Good riddance. And frankly, he's overrated. I'd be surpised if he has any success in the NFL.
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Did he cheat as blatantly as Donald Trump? 🤔
 

Allshade said:
I had the opportunity to play golf with Koi the summer before his Freshman year at Les Bolsted Golf Course at the UofM. Koi was an idiot and an ass hat. Good riddance. And frankly, he's overrated. I'd be surpised if he has any success in the NFL.
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TBF all of us as young men

We saw glimpses of some great talent but he was operating in a pretty bad defense, overall. Focus and effort were lacking at times. Hard to say the hows or whys of this. Maybe he’s motivated by money, maybe he wants to play for championships, maybe he doesn’t like the coaches or his teammates. I think the right situation could unlock him. It’ll be interesting to watch his career.
 

I can't believe some of these replies....he may not have dominated this year (hard thing to do as a safety) but the kid made multiple different all B10 teams (including from the coaches). Those players don't fall out of trees. This is bad. Bad from an optics look and bad from a football standpoint. I for one continue to hope he stays.
 

DarthGopher said:
He isn't wrong.

Never attach your happiness to a team or individuals who could give two shits less about you. He had a 'meh' season imho. Some highs, some lows. Didn't think his coverage was particularly great. They gave him everything he could have asked for, and it still wasn't enough for his ego.
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He made one impactful play the entire season that ended up winning a game so it was a tremendous play, but he also gave the game against Cal away all by himself with multiple poor choices and horrendous coverage throughout the game. To me he was pretty non-existent the whole year in coverage other than that one play he made. Decent in the run game but surprised at how it seemed like his coverage skills didn't increase and IMO declined.

Yes, it's a home grown player that looked to be a star post Freshman year. Yes it's a bad look for the team to lose a guy like this, but looking at his play this year, he just might not be what we thought he was.. to me the juries still out on this guy.

Pretty small guy and frankly not too fast either. Will be very interesting to see where he ends up (he's not coming back here!) and then to see how his future ends up!

Good Luck Koi!
 

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