Recent content by EG#9

An end to an era that should have never happened.

I hope he already has a coach lined up to avoid whatever happened 4 years ago that lead to Ben Johnson. I really think we need someone from the unrealistic list (or someone who we'd put on the unrealistic list if their name got out) to inject some real life in to this program. I haven't put...

I think this shows this was always the plan meaning that Coyle always had the NCAA as the bar for this season. I do wonder if Ben's media blitz played a part in the timing of this announcement. Get something out there before Ben/his agent/local media can spin things any further. If (big IF) the...

I was interested in seeing this as well and haven't seen anyone mention the candidates discussed in the article.

Mike Woodson was 5-0 against Ben Johnson (Woodson missed a game against the Gophers due to illness that Indiana also won) and his team is likely headed to the NCAA tournament for the 3rd time in 4 years. "Badge of Honor" for Ben Johnson.

Uninspiring is almost too kind. I am sure he's a nice guy like people say but the excuses (both stated and implied) are just brutal to listen to. Ben "thinks" they've won "5 of their last 8 or 9".? Who says that? Especially when you've lost 4 of your last 5? This absolutely cannot continue.

Fran has a winning conference record over 15 seasons at Iowa and has won 2 conference tournaments while playing a really fun style of basketball. The one (significant) blemish is that he's not made a Sweet 16. Reading their premium board is informative. Their mods think Fran is gone for...

I can see both sides to this. One extra conference game means one additional loss for half the conference teams. The author makes a good point about Nebraska fans preferring to see Tennessee than Bowling Green, but what happens later in the season when teams are 4-3 instead of 5-2 and...

Sean Sweeney from the Mavericks and Dave Joerger from the Bucks would also be native Minnesotans (thought not former Gophers) that might be interesting. I was big on Joerger the last time the job opened as he has a lot of similarities to Muss in that both were head NBA coaches and successful...

I thought the difference in coaching was quite noticeable last night. The Badgers scored on the same out of bounds action 3 times in the 2nd half. They had a number of dunks in their half court offense as well. Wisconsin was an uncharacteristic 5-22 from 3, had Tonje miss a big chunk of the 2nd...

Read through the whole thread, and I feel like I must have been guilty of wishful thinking when reading Chip's article? My thought was that IF Coyle is really going to give a significant portion of the revenue sharing pie to Men's Basketball, he certainly isn't doing that for Ben Johnson who...

Again where do people get this? We lost 5 of 6 Big Ten games to end last year. The one win was a pretty pathetic home showing against PSU that went down to the wire. Who the hell was "juiced"?

I was shocked to see all 3 of the top assistant coaches for the Gophers retweeted this Seth Davis tweet. That seems to be in incredibly poor taste to retweet saying the job that is paying your salary is one of the toughest in the country. Minnesota/Mark Coyle gave these guys the biggest checks...

Awesome shuttle and 3 cone for Daniel Jackson. That was a very pleasant surprise for me.

Opinions are mixed on this. They won't have the same level of revenue to split as B1G/SEC teams do that have huge football TV contracts and bigger basketball TV contracts too. Pitino wants the Big East to merge with the ACC which I don't think he'd advocate for if the Big East was going to have...