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    2024 Gopher Football is a watershed moment.

    So did every other BiG school. What changed here that didn't change in every other conference school?
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    Article: Why Did Athan Kaliakmanis Enter the Transfer Portal?

    Painless transfers drove big boy pants out of fashion.
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    Article: Why Did Athan Kaliakmanis Enter the Transfer Portal?

    "...Coach knows they need to win more games next season." That's going to be a difficult thing to do.
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    AP: Send money! The NIL era has some football coaches telling fans to put up or shut up for top recruits

    The NCAA could slow this with a couple of simple rule changes including one that would return to a year of ineligibility upon transferring.
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    Quick Lane Bowl Predict the Score Thread: Minnesota vs Bowling Green

    Would love to see LeCaptain in that role. I've wondered also how well he'd do as a TE. He can obviously run after a catch. If he's being slotted as a LB, you'd think he could block. I hope he's healthy and gets some playing time.
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    QB Max Brosmer of New Hampshire commits to the Gophers

    If by "fundamentally different" you mean an offense that scores TDs when in the red zone, one that can get first downs to run out the clock when ahead, and one that can succeed on third and one 96% of the time, I'm all with you.
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    College Football is Dead

    You make a good point. So what does Washington do differently from UM?
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    College Football is Dead

    I agree but I think your view is sunnier than mine.
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    Darius Taylor is back next season!

    Agree. I watched North Central v UW la Crosse. Good game played well.
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    How would you fix NIL/Portal if you ran the NCAA

    1. Outlaw the use of the word "committed" since it has no meaning. 2. Eliminate eligibility rules, both seasons and academic. 3. Put portal players who wish to play again the following year into a pool from which a draft patterned after the NFL draft is conducted. If they don't wish to be...
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    Current 2024 scholarship outlook

    Yes, I understand. That's a distinction without a difference. The players are being paid to play football. That's de facto pro football. The effect will be that the best talent will be attracted to the winning schools even more than now. Like so many things in today's society, this old...
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    Current 2024 scholarship outlook

    Ok. They are paid to play football.
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    Current 2024 scholarship outlook

    Given that D1 football is de facto professional ball, why are there any eligibility requirements? Let the pros compete for positions as long as they are able. And why retain any academic requirements since they are employees?
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    The dichotomy in a pro sports town

    60 thousand fans paid an average of about 300 bucks (plus concession spending) to sit in the world's ugliest sports arena and watch the mediocre Vikings play the lowly Bears on a Monday night. I'm betting that a survey of Minnesota sports fans would show that a high percentage of them follow...
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    Hire a coach from FCS and pay him ~$2MM & use savings for NIL?

    An interesting proposal. We've tried more than a handful of coaches since Warmath and none have been able to attract the level of talent needed to be in the top third of the BiG -- why not see if money will get top players to come to Minneapolis? I think the idea has merit, but has no chance...
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    RandBall: The 5-7 Gophers are going to a bowl game. What should we call it?

    Why don't we call it by the name it will already have.
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    Hawaii just sent Minnesota to a bowl game in crazy fashion

    I don't know about the losing prediction, but I expect there to be absences.



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