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ESPN has a unique ability to deliver ratings guarantees that the streamers currently do not. This allows them to be more aggressive than the streamers because if they fall short on delivering impressions, their core programming still delivers the demo of the original ad buy, so they can make...

There has long been a circular logic regarding the quality of teams in the SEC and the playoff is only going to make that more obvious. There are many seasons in which the media would view the top 3-4 SEC and top 3-4 B1G teams as equivalent, but teams 5-10 are where the media will tell you there...

There's a lot about this situation that we fans are unlikely to ever know. But it also seems possible that Daniels felt he should receive the same NIL compensation next year as Ersery did this year and was told that's not what he'd be receiving.

I realize most posters on this topic are just having fun, but I believe PJ's message and philosophy particularly resonates with spiritual people. Obviously most of those players are Christian given American demographics, but I sincerely think it's a non-denominational spiritual connection. For...

The staff recruited Calzada out of high school: Thread 'QB Recruiting Under Fleck' https://gopherhole.com/boards/threads/qb-recruiting-under-fleck.109677/

The running theme here seems to be 10-14 is pretty fluid for everyone. Not a simple task for the committee! But count me among the people who feels SMU should be in regardless of what happens in the conference championship game.

The staff has been incredible at identifying DBs in the portal. Aside from Ethan Robinson and Jack Henderson currently, they were also right about Tre'Von Jones and Beanie Bishop (though he wasn't a fit here, he clearly was a talent). I wonder if one of the current safeties will take the Jack...

There's something to what you're saying... Here's D-line raw stats: 18.5 TFL in 2024; 26.5 TFL in 2023 11 sacks in 2024; 20 sacks in 2023 28 QB hits in 2024; 21 in 2023 I think the raw numbers are going to end up similar to last year, with the exception of QB hits. Anyone know where you can...

I ran across this post today, which shows that the Gopher defense creates the highest percentage of "havoc" plays in the country out of their secondary. What's a havoc play? It's a TFL, FF, Int, deflected pass, or pass break up. Digging a bit deeper, here's some raw stats from the Gopher...

The original poster on X referenced that it was a "Game of the Year line" and that all the lines came from DraftKings. I'm not a bettor, so I'm not clear on what that means... Perhaps there are certain games that books post earlier than others? Certainly Oregon - Michigan was a game of...

The original Michigan / Oregon line was strange.

This is pretty much identical to my feelings. The only comment I want to add is about the teams fading in '17 and '23. PJ talks a lot about players leading, but it does appear that player leadership is very reliant on player ability, specifically at QB. Some of this is clearly connected to...

I'm a pretty big fan of Parker Fleming's work at collegefootballinsiders.com. Here's his preview of the game: https://www.collegefootballinsiders.com/matchup_preview/?team1=Minnesota&team2=Illinois Basically a coin flip, with home field providing an advantage in his model. It looks like...

I went to Cal for the last trip there and had a great time. Ended up talking with Marion Barber, Jr. for about half a quarter -- he was incredibly gracious, granted the game was over by that point. Berkeley has a great game day experience. You can get there via BART and there are plenty of bars...

There's been several references to various technologies that could be implemented for spotting the ball or determining whether it crosses the goal line. Just a few clarifying comments and addtional info: VAR in soccer is principally built on a 8-12 camera system, and a connected ball was also...

It was KC, but it was also the personnel. Morgan might have been capable of running a different system, but doing so would have negated some of tradecraft he'd developed. You can say the same about several of the offensive linemen we had through last season, and AK had been groomed in the same...

2019 was the best Gopher season of my life, and is likely to stay that way. How easily we seem to forget that season was filled with Great Escapes during the non-conference schedule; the team very easily could have been 0-3 at the start of B1G play. Rather than assume 2019 was going to be some...

Final big boards and mocks are getting posted. ESPN Insider (Jonathan Givony) has Cam as his #32 prospect. The Ringer (Kevin O'Connor) has Cam as his #43 prospect. So the range is late first to mid-second -- we'll know in a few days.

This is somewhat tangential, but I'd like to see the U of M show a dedication to sport science and biomechanics across the entire athletic department to the benefit of all sports and certain schools at the University. But a strategic initiative requiring that level of vision and dedication is...

Yup, Cam hasn't put in any work and is entirely a product of how poor everyone around him is. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: So many posts in this thread that show an incapability to be happy for or give credit to other people.