Recent content by tjgopher

Zero chance Brian Callahan was going to get fired. None.

In an 18-team Big Ten, only 11 players had more tackles than Koi Perich in Big Ten Conference games. Amazing for a guy who many apparently think can't tackle. He is usually around the ball and has great instincts and absolutely deserved recognition. He didn't make the splash plays he did as a...

Some bigger bowls and sponsors could turn to paying players directly to make sure star players don't opt out. College basketball just had a tournament where the winning team split up a $1 million bonus, which was in addition to getting paid just to show up and play.

The conference offers some guidelines and the bowls ultimately pick the teams based on those guidelines and contracts. Here are the likely conversations this week broken down to simplest terms (somewhat tongue in cheek): Big Ten to the Citrus: You can't pick Illinois. So, who do you want...

Curious, where was he out of position?

In the 18-team Big Ten Conference, only 11 players in the entire conference had more tackles than Koi Perich in Big Ten games. I wouldn't call it a slump. He was pretty good.

The same article has the Las Vegas bowl as Cal vs. Missouri. This is why it is important to find projections written by people who know what they are talking about. This Sporting News writer doesn't even know what conferences belong to what bowls. Some of these guys are just filling spaces to...

This is great. I always thought they should offer a chance for students at other metro schools to buy single game tickets if there were any available. Like a life-long Gopher fan student who is from Minnesota but is attending Hamline or Augsburg or Concordia, etc. If there are tickets...

Agree, Vegas on New Year's Eve would be tremendous and I think we'd have a lot of Gopher fans there. Everything says it should be Minnesota over Nebraska (better conference record, head to head win, healthy starting QB), but the bowls ultimately pick and Vegas will likely choose Nebraska...

Coming out of COVID also helped, as I think students were more than ready to do stuff outside their dorms and apartments. That's when I noticed the extra pick up. Saturday's student section was as good as its ever been, given the weather and Thanksgiving break. It was full and energetic. It...

He is a coach's kid. Quarterback had a clear angle. Exactly right. Dude had one of the best single game stat lines in recent FBS history, quite literally. He will 100% be Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week.

This is the likely scenario, in my opinion.

Indiana and Purdue played a non-conference basketball game in the old Hoosier Dome the year they were only scheduled for one Big Ten game. I think it was early 2000s.

Ah, got ya. That said, I don't get the joke.

Doesn't this picture show his left shoot clearly inbounds, though? The Maroon is IN bounds. His foot in on the Maroon in this picture.