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The best institutions groom and hire from within. This should be viewed as a positive.

He lost 26 conference games in his first 3 seasons! 38 since..

If the Gophers lose out and the UConn women win out (both very plausible scenarios) then Ben Johnson and Geno Auriemma will have the same number of conference losses in their careers. You may be onto something about experience with losing.

The U and Da U.

Maybe he can set up a low-tax entity in Dubai and have the University of Miami contract his services via a consultancy. But then he has to worry about permanent establishment if his only "customer" is Miami and he's tax resident in Florida.

I know you guys like to make literally everything about politics these days but there is a 0% chance that Corey Hetherman sat down and thought about his effective tax rate when taking the Miami job. He sees a program throwing TONS of money at talent, he can insert himself in there and have 1...

It should not be hard for a Big Ten school to hire a coach who has made the NCAA Tournament with a roster he put together. After that you start discussing NIL, recruiting experience and strategy, thoughts on an aging arena and rekindling the brand around the program. I don't see Ryan Saunders...

We're in the era of musical chairs for players and coaches. Don't get attached and don't expect somebody to stick around too long. The question is, without attachment and committment, will the fans still care as much a few years down the line?

I would say, probably yes, for one of these two. Stella Swenson will be better at getting the middle going offensively and both players have the athleticism to be great blockers. One of the two could easily put it together for an All-Conference season. The success of the team will hinge on...

Where did the rumor come from that he was a highly rated recruit? 247 has him rated 52nd at Small Forward coming out of high school and many of the players around him in the rankings are at low and mid majors.

If we had the "A" team they would have spent the whole game arguing about the play off teams.

I'm sure Bret B has already bathed in mayonnaise.

(not so) Fun Fact: Ben Johnson was the leading scorer on the last team to go winless in the Big Ten: 1999-00 Northwestern.

Ah the tobacco use in the older days. I grew up in Lincoln (different Memorial Stadium) and one of my earliest football memories was in the mid/late 80s and somebody spat out their chewing tobacco from the top row as we were entering the stadium and it landed on my dad's hat lol.

Look to Ross Ade at Purdue if you want to see how Memorial Stadium would look in the big-money era. It's a very similar design and age.

The key marketing terms in the post-Covid world are "authenticity" and "imperfection." All this shit is designed for you in board rooms. The production "errors," the sticky fingers from bbq sauce, the gagging on live air.

I know you can't MAKE them. But a good AD can get these things going...but that would require a commitment to both their job and to Gopher Basketball.

If we're worried about losing a bunch of recruits to Marquette and Iowa State because they get one home game every two years in Minneapolis we should just drop down to D3 or the Summit League. I don't think the random Howard and Canisius transfers that we're getting these days really give a shit.

Gophers should be playing Iowa State, Marquette and St Thomas every year. Home and homes with the first two. One game at Williams and one at Xcel or something with St Thomas. None of this is very difficult. Give fans something to watch. If you're losing all these games, get better.

Not legal. But also, I'm sure it's something stupid like Margie in Compliance who is tasked with entering players into the portal has been enjoying too many brandys on an extended Christmas break.