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Great post but you got one thing wrong. Coyle is not staking his job on this hire. If Ben Johnson doesn't work out Coyle will be around to hire the next BB coach. You said it yourself - "Hiring a head coach is rarely a sure thing. And at Minnesota it's never a sure thing."

Plenty of posters in this thread have been saying Xavier had terrible recruiting classes since Ben Johnson went there. . We now know they don't know what the hell the were talking about. Ben Johnson's basketball addiction helped land him a coaching job at Xavier University It’s a Thursday...

That doesn't say much about the loyal Gopher fanbase does it? Countless Chicago Cub fans loved them all their lives and never lived long enough to watch them win the World Serious. That's what a loyal fanbase is and does.

I am been a huge fan of the Gopher football team since 1960 and they have been breaking my heart pretty much ever since. I have been waiting for another Big 10 football Championship since 1967. I don't think it's ever going to happen for me. That's ok - I'll still be going to all the...

There is nothing mythical or magical about it. Ben will sell hope by recruiting his ass off and starting to win basketball games at a rate we haven't seen since Tubby and Clem where here. Like everything else in sports it's going to take time and very hard work. It's not going to happen if...

RIP Elgin. You were my first "Favorite Basketball Player".

NCAA college basketball: Xavier Musketeers' Recruiting Tracker 2019 (Top 25) Since Travis Steele took over as the men's basketball head coach at Xavier University in the spring of 2018, he hired a young staff of assistants in Jonas Hayes, Ben Johnson and Dante Jackson, and together, they've...

Coyle sold the the Gopher football job to one the greatest "salesman" in college football.

Maybe you should consider the possibility that the MN kids may have liked Ben Johnson but didn't want to play for Pitino.

You're welcome. I have watched it about a half dozen times and can't stop laughing. Randy can tell a good story.

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