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There never was, never is a year zero for a coach who is receiving a pay check for a BT football coach who has accepted the awesome challenge, the incredible potential, the unending demands and the great honor of being THE University of Minnesota of Minnesota, BIG TEN head football coach. This...

We must recall that the chances of winning 9 games or more greatly increased in 2006 when a 12th game was added to the 11 game season schedule that allowed for a division 1AA game to count towards bowl elegibility. A 9 win season is still a big deal though!!!

Mason’s biggest fight was to get the program out of the damn dome and back on campus. He never got to recruit to the new on campus stadium, but every coach after mason has been able to recruit to and play in the stadium that had been approved to be built and had been given life as a result of...

Beat the stinking badger and the stinking hawkeye, Gopher!

Non-athletes in college often times get a great deal of experience developing communications skills, service abilities and make connections with others by working part-time jobs. College athletes really have no ability to enter part-time job markets because of the demands put on them and their...

I don’t think that there will be any nil agreements with players to coach or run press conferences. However, many coaches may rise or fall depending on how much nil activity is made available to key players in the major revenue sports to keep key players at the U of M, or if that is not...

With the college players gaining more local public exposure through nil events, the college players will be more readily recognizable around the university campus, the city is located in, and will allow the recruits, quarterbacks, running backs, receivers, star defenders, linemen, hoops...

Collegebfootball always has been the farm team system that provides the nfl billionaire owners the fact, arms and legs of pro football ever since the nfl was born, sold and won the lottery.

Remember: an undergraduate player is only allowed one transfer prior to having earned a college degree. Once the special “covid” free extra year has disappeared, there will be very few 6 or potentially even seven year college players. Welcome to the era where college athletes are placed on a...

Note of interest: the Vikings franchise was awarded at a nfl owners meeting held in Miami in January of 1960. The Vikings first season was in 1961. The rest is pretty much history… I have agreat barometer of how to rate and rank a Big Ten Football coach at Minnesota. If a coach has at least...

Last night I decided to just go ahead and make a one time contribution to this collective. I didn’t sign up for a membership at this time. I just made a $100.00 donation to help Gopher Student Athletes. I didn’t designate a specific sport as all Gopher Student Athletes are deserving to be...

Very well-stated!

l I just found out the game is an evening game, not starting until 6:30 pm. so make that a 01:30 kick off…