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I was witness to an exchange between a reporter and Payne at the Big Ten Media Day where the reporter asked something along the lines of who’s your favorite Gopher of all time (or who’s the best - in that vein). He couldn’t come up with anyone. He explained he wasn’t into the history...

There are rumors that he may stay with Omaha - and some of the powers that be (money-wise) in that town may be footing the NIL bill.

Georgia Tech, Cal, Houston, Cincy, & Utah are all public schools in metros. You can make the case that Michigan and Colorado are in the outskirts of major metros (esp. if you're counting Rutgers). UCF is in the B12, so that counts.

The poster did say he wasn't a transfer at the bottom of the embedded tweet...

Washington had a coaching change - this was predictable. I would guess most kids choose coaches rather than schools, and most/all new coaches have their own ideas about the type of player they want, too. With the portal, I gotta think it's harder for an incoming frosh to attract a P5 offer at...

For ADs in today's world, I think it's gotten really difficult to identify a coach in either basketball or football who a) has head coaching experience, b) has been involved in and had success in portal recruiting at a P5, ideally with average-ish NIL resources, c) has a winning track record...

I got it PDQ...

Middleton is completely delusional about the NBA. He played 12 mpg and was really inefficient for a mediocre OSU team.

Just so people understand the Storr situation, he put his name in for the NBA draft, and that's his preferred destination. Storr might get a "stay-in-college" grade from the combine (which I think is likely), but that's not until next month. Wisconsin has to proceed as if he's not coming back...

Asuma is (optimistically) currently either the 4th or 5th best player on the roster, but there's 3 players at his position among those 5. They really, really need non-PGs.

More based on faith than evidence at this point. It ain’t happening here in the real world.

That was my point, or at least part of it. With Battle playing a first or second option role, they were last place. He is/was a good college player, but for whatever reason, the team performance wasn't great. Try a different puzzle piece(s). I disagree that there were redundant pieces to Battle...

Counterpoint: the Gophers were a better team without Battle and they really didn’t replace him with a similar player. Battle was probably a more coveted transfer than Payne, too. That’s arguable, but the point is that maybe removing Payne doesn’t have to be the end of the world.

Yes, it is my spin. You have almost no chance to upgrade the team if people don't leave. The status quo wasn't that great. There are guys in the lower levels (that the rich schools bypass) that may come for less to prove themselves at this level. I have no idea who they are, I'm not in the...