Recent content by Hates Monikers

One thing I noticed this year, in particular, is that it seemed like every week the Big Ten games I clicked on were boring matchups. Good team vs. mediocre team or bad vs. bad. Too few high-level matchups spread out among too many places. Whereas the SEC had their best game on one network (CBS)...

No reciprocity, but they have a fairly easy bar for Minnesota students to hit to have tuition reduced $6,000-$8,000 to make it similar (I don't remember the specific dollars or process). Both my daughters toured it 8-10 years ago and one really liked it but didn't attend for other reasons. Easy...

If I remember correctly, Mullen wanted $5 million per year total for him and his staff at that time. (I'm not sure if it was reported in the paper or only here.) Back then, that seemed crazy -- at least in these parts. Mason was making $1.65 million per year. Would've loved to see Mullen could...

I actually was thinking about this during the game last night. No, Koi Perich isn't going to join the team, nor is any other current Gopher football player. But with injuries and foul trouble, we sure could use another big body in the middle just bang people around, block out a little and use up...

I agree with this, and that's what makes me doubly depressed about this season. I can live with ups and downs for a program like ours, although it's still difficult to live through. I'm glad our "down" is still a bowl season. However, when we have a chance to make some hay, we need to take...

I'm not pooh-poohing a six- or seven-win season, and I'm enjoying Wisconsin's agony as much as anyone. But with this defense and offensive line, if we played Wisconsin's schedule we could be 3-8 or 2-9 right now.

Second year in a row we've lost to a team disappointed enough to fire their coach.

Same with our group of seven. The past few times we've gone to Evanston we've paid about $7 per ticket. Sellers on the secondary market are playing a game of chicken with buyers for Wrigley. We're in no hurry to buy, because we feel like the tickets and prices available now will still be there...

Augsburg (#2 in the country) also advanced to the Sweet 16. Gustavus lost in the first round.

How many blown coverages on one drive would make it a coaching issue? Not saying its a coaching issue rather than talent. But at some point, bad execution all game long and all season long at is a coaching issue.

He fired Robb Smith mid-season, so ... no.

No question about that. But at age 62, he had about as many Power 4 schools interested in him as Brewster did. It was an out of the box hire; Brewster was for different reasons, obviously.

We tried a Cignetti once. His name was Brewster. Didn't work that time, as I recall.

Here are the yearly averages at the new stadium, according to the U. (Announced, not scanned tickets.) 2015 was the year after the Citrus Bowl, with the extra seats for the Vikings. The first scholarship seating requirement came after that year and the second came in 2017. That killed us...

Well, the rant wasn't necessarily about observers. It was about NIL and people here always assuming immediately that someone like Drake Lindsey will leave for more money after the season. He says that doesn't happen anywhere else. He said anywhere he goes -- Cub, hockey practice, etc. -- that's...