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It's a darn Tough job: No money, no national appeal, crummy home court, disjointed facilities for players, has become known as place where coaches come to die, Poindexter athletic director, afraid to play the other Division 1 school in town. That's a pretty good recipe for a pretty darn tough...

Good analysis. I’d be fine with this.Although I’m not sure how different than BJ. Agree—keep Thorson. Coyle has to deliver a “Project Gopher” plan of how the U of M is going to support Gopher basketball financially and make it the top Division 1 program in the Upper Midwest.

I am estimating him. I'm estimating that he's an empty suit.

Actually, it is. Because if there's no change in how this is approached, the same thing happens over and over. A poor basketball team, in an empty barn, that never makes it to the NCAA Tournament, that gets pummeled by Wisconsin and Iowa, and is overtaken by the University of Saint Thomas as the...

Mark Coyle: The Gophers’ Michael Scott The Office had Michael Scott. The University of Minnesota has Mark Coyle—a corporate buzzword machine (“we want to move efficiently”) with a side part and no semblance of a plan to make Gopher basketball relevant in Division I. Today, he’s classically...

Yes. I also want Mark Coyle to explain how U of M basketball is going to compete financially in today's new world of buying players.

A few: This is a great large city, compared to Bloomington and Iowa City. NBA is in town, which should be a selling point for recruits. Minnesota has awesome high school hoops. A lot of prospects within driving distance of campus. Gopher job is so latent. It's just waiting for someone who can...

McCollum makes so much sense. Coyle is a Drake alum from Iowa. Can speak/sell the opportunities of moving to Gopher job -- compared to McCollum being at Iowa or Indiana. McCollum knows Midwest/Minnesota recruiting. Move up for McCollum, great payday, and he gets a pretty long runway because...

Richard Pitino or Randy Bennett

Kudos to the Gophers!

Proud of Gophers!

If people value Gopher basketball, the money is there. There is soooooo much money in this state. If people don't value U of M basketball, it doesn't happen. Marquette, Creighton, Ohio State, LaSalle, Saint Thomas, Illinois, Arizona, Texas, Houston, Maryland are just a few of the schools that...

I hate NIL. I hate the state of college athletics. Yet, I've probably watched more college football and basketball this year than any time of my life. The stories/drama of college athletics gets me every time.

Two things stick in my mind. I was at a booster event that Richard Pitino spoke at early in his Minnesota stint. I remember him saying that Minnesota is challenged by the facilities and that you need good facilities to recruit players today. He also said he was confident that the U of M would...

I really like the idea of building it on campus and, ideally, part of the athletic complex. It's a pain to have students take a train to downtown for a basketball game. We learned from the Metrodome experience. If Gophers basketball is an important part of the U of M experience, there is...

You are right that the U of M is a sleeping giant in basketball. There is so much potential here. To realize it, it is going to take substantial investment and modernization, from the facility to NIL to overall athletic department strategy . I do wonder what it would be like for Richard Pitino...

Reusse is right. The Barn is a dump.

Tauer is a perfect fit for Saint Thomas . . . a former player, a professor, grew up within blocks of the school. He has a safe gig at a program on the way up. He wins. And Saint Thomas will be ecstatic if it makes March Madness every 6 years. If the U of M parts ways with Johnson, they need...

Minnesota is going to have to pay a lot of money to attract a coach here to take this program to the top half of the Big Ten. The school also needs a new arena. My guess is most top recruits look at Williams Arena and think it's a dump with a weird floor.