Per Yahoo Sports:
Private equity has officially arrived in college athletics.
The University of Utah is on the cusp of striking the industry’s first partnership with an equity firm in a marriage that features a nine-figure capital infusion and the creation and shared ownership of a for-profit...
Per Yahoo Sports:
Private equity has officially arrived in college athletics.
The University of Utah is on the cusp of striking the industry’s first partnership with an equity firm in a marriage that features a nine-figure capital infusion and the creation and shared ownership of a for-profit...
Per Shooter:
It looks like it’ll be a challenge for the University of St. Thomas to retain basketball sophomore star Nolan Minessale, who’s expected to receive several NIL offers.
https://www.twincities.com/2025/12/06/charley-walters-who-will-absorb-blame-for-vikings-nose-dive/
Go Gophers!!
Per Shooter:
>> It still looks as if former Gophers men’s basketball coach Ben Johnson, 44, who is taking the year off since his firing last year, will end up as an NBA assistant next year.
https://www.twincities.com/2025/12/06/charley-walters-who-will-absorb-blame-for-vikings-nose-dive/
Go...
Per Shooter:
>> A Gophers’ 6-6, 320-pound fifth-year senior offensive tackle this season is playing for a $450,000 NIL stipend.
>> It is expected to cost the Gophers at least $1 million to retain redshirt QB Drake Lindsey for his sophomore season next year. That would make him and 2016 junior...
Per Shooter:
>> The Gophers men’s basketball team has a couple of starters with $750,000 deals. Minnesota, which upset No. 22 Indiana last week, has an NIL coffer in the $3.5 million range. Indiana’s NIL budget is nearly $11 million, which is among the Big Ten’s top three for men’s basketball...
Per Shooter:
People who know say several of the Gophers women’s basketball team’s five starters are playing with at least $500,000 from revenue sharing and name, image and likeness (NIL) deals.
https://www.twincities.com/2025/12/06/charley-walters-who-will-absorb-blame-for-vikings-nose-dive/...
Per Shooter:
>> Gophers football coach P.J. Fleck told a Dunkers club gathering before the season that this would be his best team in his nine seasons at Minnesota. The Gophers finished the regular season 7-5.
Meanwhile, Gophers football attendance has decreased for a second straight season...
Per Chip:
A night like this provides hope. It provides belief that maybe better days are around the corner.
The Gophers men’s basketball program has wandered through the wilderness for a long time. Way too long, which is why a moment like what unfolded Wednesday night feels like sunrays poking...
Most of the time a play of the game is late in the game or for sure the second half, but I really think this was a big time play that saved us from being down 9 late in the first half, and to see hustle like this from a freshman fires up the entire team and crowd. And I love that he had the...