Recent content by Bad Gopher

I have to be honest. This current "system" of there essentially being no system/no rules, unrestricted free agency every year and even during the season now, and success based on whether you have a billionaire that's going to give you billions of dollars is probably unsustainable on several...

This is sort of cheating but... Stop Making Sense

I'll ask my friend, who has a second home right near its base. Maybe it's him!

Ihnen was like Thomas the apostle: happened to be out while the whole rest of the team was abducted by aliens.

Yassss!

Thank you to both of you. You both are right. As I said in another thread, there should be high expectations. Minnesota has great potential. (But as Clem would say, 85 percent of people die with potential. 💀) The expectations have to be grounded in realism, though. Some have said that, from the...

They don't seem able to impose their physical will and power to the basket like most major-conference teams would be able to do against a Chicago State. The Gophers are the kind of team that will have to beat you with skill and savvy. Savvy-wise, I like what I see. They ARE well coached, and the...

I'm starting to become concerned about this team. These players have been better and should be better. It stands to reason they can make layups or they wouldn't have made their high school teams. WTF is going on?! There's always a bright side, though. It was something like 18 assists on 19...

Good question! I'll have to go through my library, but the two that come to mind immediately are Star Wars and Toy Story.

Holy shit, this song!

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Don't come back.

Medved takes over a program that is arguably at its low point in its 130-year history. Or its second-low point. And with almost no interest in the general community and the main newspaper all but ignoring its existence. And we expect what? In the course of how many weeks? I get that we have the...

It occurred to me... I mean, heck, nobody even knew whether Bo Ryan could coach at this level. He knocked em dead at a lower division, but at Milwaukee he was 30-27 overall in his two years. Then he goes to Madison, is gifted with Devin Harris, and the rest is history. Niko has not been gifted...

Honest to god, that's why we watch college basketball and why it's so popular: it's competitive and unpredictable. Most games predict within one standard deviation, and the vast majority are within two.