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Can you edit the thread title to Ben Johnson WAS a disaster?

Collins is a wizard. Losing Barnhizer and Leach's 31 points is the equivalent of the Gophers losing Garcia and Patterson. Can you imagine THAT team?

No. I said that an individual situation like MN gets to choose the best candidate for the job regardless of skin color. You're missing the point. It's not about the situation at one school, it's about the bigger picture. Why do you think there aren't many black head coaches relative to the %...

I'm reading that black assistant coaches feel they're viewed more as recruiters than coaches - that rings probably true to me. If you've got mostly white head coaches and mostly black players, you rely on black assistants to bridge the gap on the recruiting trail.

I did a google search and an article from Spril of 24 said 59% of assistants are black in the P5. 23% of head coaches in all of D1 are black. Seems like it’s not a pipeline problem.

There will be other threads to turn to for discussing the news that Johnson will be retained (and I told you so over a month ago, btw), but I wanted to take a broader look at "the race thing". I think it's right that individual schools should get the best candidate without even considering...

First team: Smith (PU) Tonje (UW) Williams (Neb) Kaufman-Renn (PU) Queen (MD - coaches only) Goldin (Mich - media only) Second team were the 4 shared plus Queen and Goldin with the coaches and media votes switched.

No disagreement that the times have changed, but that hire is not currently a head coach - a criterion that this board has deemed a requirement. Utah and Fla St. did similar things. Their calculus is that it's more important to have a coach in place when the portal opens than it is to have a...

Honest question here - how can you have the next guy lined up when the ones everyone wants are coaching their teams into the postseason for the next couple of weeks? Yeah, you talk to their reps, but if someone is saying yes to you before they're done at their current job, that's not a great...

I was going to post something similar - this is a year zero for them. They have 3 top 100 frosh coming in, will be active in the transfer portal, and have a coach with a good reputation and track record. I'd rather be them.

Media Preseason Final 5 1 Michigan State 10 2 Maryland 9 3 Michigan 3 4 UCLA 12.5 5 Wisconsin 1 6 Purdue 4 7 Illinois 6 8 Oregon 2 9 Indiana 8 10 Ohio State 7 11 Rutgers 18 12 Minnesota 16 13 Northwestern 14 14 USC 11 15 Iowa 12.5 16 Nebraska 17 17 Penn State...

The question is whether MARK COYLE should give him the 5th year, not whether anyone on this board would do it, and so I reluctantly voted yes. That's where I think he's going, with the narrative being that he hasn't been given a fair shot up to this point resources-wise, but now they're going to...

Add in the absence of Klesmit, who plays 30 min per game. You started with the difference in coaching. Wisconsin has fully embraced analytics, wanting to limit shots to 3s or layups on offense and force tough twos on defense. Wisconsin had only 10 of their 33 2pt FGAs from the midrange (they...

I think you get this, but there have been a myriad of Badger players from MN who aren't really viewed as "misses". Yet they end up as multi-year starters on really successful teams. Nolan Winter is the next in line of these guys - is he a star/difference maker? Not really yet, but he's at least...