Recent content by csom_1991

Their stadium will be half empty within the next 3 years if this current state of play continues. For these people, did they like Wisconsin before their kids attended? I am curious as half the people I know (I am from Green Bay) actually still cheer for the Badgers after their kids got...

Here is the real deal on WI football. When they are winning, they get a lot of in-state support from people in the surrounding area that will cheer for anything associated with the state. This is critical because a huge percentage of the WI students are not from the area and immediately leave...

In the past, I would have agreed. But, this guy has the chance to leave college with a net worth of $8M+ if he plays well next year. He is a gamer that I hope we can have stick here for his whole college career.

Next year we will be much better - QB is the most critical position and I think we are set there for next year. Our bigger issue is if Lindsey plays lights out, he will jump for NIL dollars the year after. Yeah, I know this is looking way in advance but I think he is as good of a QB as we will...

You play the teams on the schedule and they smoked Illinois - which is a very good team. Also, they get ranked #7 because the SEC and B12 don't really have elite teams this year.

Indiana is not winning with a roster stocked with 5-stars, neither is ILL. We have under-performed because PJ hit his ceiling early.

After 5 years, you know what you have and what you don't. We have been at this way longer than that. So, either the program has to make a change or the fans have to change their expectations because as long as PJ is here, this is what Gopher football is.

A super league without a draft and some form of control over player contracts to stop the portal will create permanent bottom dwellers. In that type of set up, I would prefer the Gophers not participate at all. If the B1G blows up over that, I would prefer the Gophers and other like teams for...

But at least in the past, they pretended to care. It was all about selective enforcement before - like with our own tutor scandal destroying basketball at Minnesota. But now, the schools will no longer pretend. This applies to attending classes as well as 'athlete health' concerns as they...

No, just school administrators pretending to care about them. This is no different from the players no longer pretending it is about attending classes and getting a degree. A lot of players will be millionaires by the time they step foot on campus. Remember when people feigned outrage when...

Hard to rank it any other way given the results of the actual games played - we lost, the teams ranked ahead of us didn't. Until the middling teams (MSU, Maryland, Washington, Rutgers, etc) start to play competitive teams and lose, we are right where we deserve to be. That said, the ACC is hot...

The long-game by the college administrators is having a 16 week regular season. Having large conferences makes scheduling 16 games much easier. With players getting paid now, all the excuses about 'need time to study' and 'too hard on their bodies' is out the window.

The big problem is that we know PJ's game plan going into the game - play ultra-conservative and try not to get blown out. I highly doubt we will be playing for an actual win - we just want to lose this with dignity. The danger in getting blown out is that this season could start to spiral...

Fielding a punt inside your 10 yard line is a mental error - the muff was a kid trying too hard to do something to spark the team. The coaches are putting too much on this guy. I think we can guess the way the rest of this season will play out - BUT - I think if Koi and Lindsey can stick...

I know there are guys that have been fans way longer than me - I didn't follow the Gophers until I went here for undergrad. But this is what I have learned in my 30 years of fandom: I think the key to happiness is accepting the fact that PJ is not God's gift to coaching BUT things could be way...