Recent content by NateDawgUM

It seems like the better strategy is to decide say, 2027, is going to be the year we're good. Raise a bunch of money and spend none of it, then deploy it all in the transfer portal for the 2027 season. Win the Big Ten and go to the Final Four. Then do it all over again. Pro GMs use this...

I'm not making any predictions or saying it's a bad hire. I'm just thinking of how Minnesota fans typically would react to hiring a coach without any NCAA wins...and then thinking about Kentucky as a program. I think Hurley plus Kentucky would've been too much A-hole factor combined for one...

I'm not saying he wouldn't be an upgrade, but our fanbase would be disappointed if we hired a coach lacking any NCAA wins or conference titles.

I think even Minnesota fans would be severely disappointed if we were doing a coaching search this season and ended up with Mark Pope.

The Stanford degree gives you access to a very valuable brand so they're generally shielded from portal nonsense. That said, they're also stuck with recruiting the "old way" while many teams are churning, so it might be a detriment. I thought Stanford would hire Lindy La Rocque, but if Stanford...

South Carolina being undefeated or near-undefeated isn't really news, it's standard. The new UConn.

I literally say it in my post? Major conference state schools in major cities with professional sports competition without a storied basketball history... If you don't agree with that, that's fine. I don't argue on the internet anymore.

I don't think any of those 3 schools are really comps outside of geography. But who are our comps? Major conference state schools in major cities with professional sports competition without a storied basketball history (i.e. UCLA): I get Arizona State, Washington, Georgia Tech, Pittsburgh...

I don't know what this means.

Yes, but did you read the article? The OU president said if the Norman City Council doesn't approve the TIF measure then they'll threaten to move the teams to another city.

We're at the point in college sports where greedy parties are trying to squeeze every penny out of it before they leave the corpse on the side of the road.

Oh so you're clamoring for a return to the days where half the top 10 recruits go to UConn, they go 41-0, win the title, claim best ever, rinse and repeat? That wasn't a good era for women's college basketball.

Lawson has won 58% of her conference games at Duke and made one Sweet Sixteen in 4 years. Harper won 69% of her conference games at Tennessee and made two Sweet Sixteens in 5 years. Both were starting PGs at Tennessee under Summitt. I don't really see why you'd fire one coach to get to another...

Tennessee is going to throw the world at Dawn Staley and see if she accepts, aren't they?

I'm just going to rig up an AI where the Gophers win every game by 500 points and I don't have to pay a penny.