So fair enough. You are predicting the future. But, you have mentioned a couple times that it is a rabid fan base. What am I missing if they typically fall 3K or more short of selling out their 19K stadium now? By percentage, that seems pretty similar to Gopher football ticket sales in a 51K...
The math ain’t mathing to me if it is “a biggish school with a rabid fan base” but play in a 19,000 seat stadium that averages around 16k attendance through times of great success at their level.
That doesn’t seem very big-12-like to me.
not lost on me is seeing the various rankings listed next to "Minnesota" in the score graphics of these highlights. I would love to combine some of the strengths of the Mason teams with what came later under Kill and Fleck.
I hope I’m wrong. In this climate, saying we are going to suddenly recruit and develop without losing players in great numbers to the portal… well, it sort of feels like the beginning of the end.
The more I think of it, the logic is so bad with this Reusse take that any counter point should also be ridiculous, just to point out how wacky the football = hockey opinion is.
For example, Gopher hockey needs to take a long hard look at itself and maybe consider a coaching change because it...
leave the most prestigious college football conference to step down the the Big 12 to join the assembly of other purchased players in a dusty cow-town.
Minnesota produces more NHL hockey talent than any other state, and it isn't close. And the Gophers have the most entrenched hockey program right in the middle of all this talent. To compare hockey to ANY other sport at the U (especially football) is not only apples and oranges, it is apples and...