In this mn daily article he's quoted as saying "We said from day one we’re always going to be a high school developmental program". I don't think it's an isolated code either. I think I recall him saying it as recently as a press conference in the last couple weeks.
The article from FB schedules says that they got the information from a public records request with Bowling Green that the gophs paid them 475K. So one of the sources is wrong.
Per this article, the gophers paid them 475K to reschedule the game
Minnesota was previously scheduled to host Bowling Green at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minn., on Sept. 6, 2025. According to a copy of an amendment obtained from Bowling Green State University via a public records...
Bowling Green:
19/36 for 170 yds & 1 picks
25 rushes for 22 yds
12 first downs
2 turnovers
Gophers:
5/13 for 58 yds & 2 picks
45 rushes for 182 yds
12 first downs
3 turnovers
I'd say that both teams were terrible. Bowling Green was just able to make it in the end zone twice.
I was more tongue in cheek. But I just looked and the coach of Western Illinois that year went 0-22 over two seasons and was fired. I don't recall another coach going winless in back to back years