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If not them, it's the SEC's South Carolina so I'll take Illinois!

How people can say being the state of hockey doesn’t impact football is beyond me. How many current pro football players are from this state? If you’re a kid and a really good athlete, aren’t your chances of going pro much better in hockey? I lot of athletic kids and middle class or better...

You had me at "I have watched the replay dozens of times".:D Although I also think that might mean you...and I should pick up some additional hobbies.

Thank you. I'm unsure which one is most important. We can't do a lot about #2. The best way to IMPROVE #2 is by not doing stupid things like #1 again and doing #3 more consistently.

I agree and have several friends from SDSU that live in the cities and are fans of all our pro sports teams. They root for the Gophers a little, but are much bigger fans of SDSU. The Twins have a game each year that are SDSU alumni games so they are smart enough to notice that niche market...

PROBLEM #1: You beat me to this point GopherGrit. This is a huge part of it. I graduated in 1995. I remember going to a couple games with my friends at the Metrodome and the environment was terrible. Getting there was terrible too. Tailgating was basically non-existent. That is why we...

I've now been convinced of the 4-4-2-2-1-1 model. I didn't like it initially because I thought it didn't allow for enough annual variance, but the argument that convinced me is it significantly limits the power of the "playoff committee". I don't trust those people to be fair. Win on the...

Burns said recently on a podcast that Iowa & WI pull in about 70 million per year in football from ticket sales and NIL vs. MN at round 45 million. That is a huge hill to climb and probably never will because of all the pro sports competition the Gophers have.

By the way, I liked this article and it shows how good our defense actually was last year. It didn't feel like they were that good, right? For us to be even remotely close to Ohio State, Alabama and Notre Dame with their recruiting advantages is impressive...

I agree that our receivers generally don't get separation. Let's face it, we still mostly need to go south for speed and we're not getting the top guys because they still mostly prefer to stay close to home. NIL will help, but not erase this problem. We've got a lot of big, tall guys here up...

It is out of control and this is a minor part of it, but I guess you need to start somewhere. It's likely not going away so may as well figure out a way to live with it. I like the idea of another poster where students get free season tickets, but I think that's unrealistic because you could...

Maybe they should call this a marketing fee? It enhances the national visibility of the university so it's a POTENTIAL benefit to all students. I've pursued and gotten MULTIPLE jobs out of this state including on Wall Street and feel like going to the U of M made a difference. People doing...

NIL will be a real weakness for the Gophers anyway vs. their peers. The last episode of Gopher Gridiron Radio podcast was very interesting. They had an expert on that said even though Fleck is still bottom half of B1G in salary he's top half in regards to percentage based on how much money the...

I agree. I don't trust the committee. The 4-4-2-2-(1?) is based more on revenue the conferences bring in and at least that is fairly easily quantitative. How big is your TV contract because that's the biggest driver of revenue. If the ACC or Big 12 figure out a way to bring more money to the...

I agree. He had a great run at UCF and thought it was more him than it was. That's easy to do for any of us. Sometimes you don't really know how great you are until you try it someplace else. Well, as it turns out, Nebraska didn't have as much potential as he thought it did and neither did...

I agree. It just shows you how lazy these writers are. They base their projections on there thirty years of history following football rather than having a little helpful recency bias. This do actually change over time...

I already solved this problem in another thread. Make Oregon's Phil Knight an honorary graduate so he'll start funding his "other" alma mater. You're welcome! ;)

Was it in the sports section or front pagish? If it was front page, they are just using the headline to grab readers that aren't well informed about the program like us. The average reader is going to get angry because he's just another overpaid CEO while the masses suffer. Worse yet, he's an...

How long does Mike Locksley hang on at Maryland. They have well above average recruiting base for our conference and yet are a consistently a below average team. Can't believe he's still there. Of course, he did get the #2 player nationally for 2026 to stay home. Dang!

Can we agree to make Phil an honorary Gopher alum in exchange for a little, um, financial support? ;)