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I seem to recall last year that Iowa jumped out to a big lead rather early. I don't recall the other. But likely the game plan was the typical conservative game plan but falling behind fast necessitated a switch to a pass heavy effort. Edit: My memory is faulty.

Having actually read the article it's obvious (by the writer's own admission) that he favors experience. He ranked Raiola 15th last year for that reason. He doesn't give much higher rated and heavily recruited inexperienced QBs much higher ratings. There are, frankly, quite a few dogs in...

How often do the aforementioned schools plan to start a lightly recruited 3 star QB with only a handful of meaningless snaps under his belt? Is there a bigger question mark at QB in the B1G right now?

My Iowa cousins are all Vikings fans and many of them live just as close to MSP as Iowa City. City and state boarders don't inhibit pro sports affinity. Some would have you think that KC only draws fans from KC. None from Overland Park KS or Columbus MO. Wierd that Wisconsin gets dropped from...

This. When I dropped my season tickets I didn't go buy Lynx season tickets. I think you  might see some Vikings fans taking a greater interest in Gopher football but NFL Fandom seems to be another beast altogether.

And its your choice to go spend your dollars on something other than Gopher football or basketball. But I doubt that the 25,000 more fans Iowa or Wisconsin or Nebraska get would do likewise. Those folks are Hawkeye, Badger or Nebraska fans, not some casual dolt simply there to spend...

This assumes that entertainment dollars must be spent, burning a hole in one's pocket. Someone like me? If I'm not going to a football game, I'm not going to find some other venue to blow that $500 or $600, whether it be another sporting event, arts, theme park, etc.

I've spent plenty of time in MSP and enough time in both Des Moines and Omaha and would dispute that. Des Moines is a metro of over 700,000 and Omaha nearly a million. Its really a matter of scale. For instance, MSP has 2 or 3 theatres that routinely host touring broadway shows while DM and O...

I know people that barely leave the county that make it a point to attend the international games.

In the 80s and 90s, a sellout for a Vikings game at the Metrodome was not a guarantee and GM and other businesses in town would buy up tickets at a steep discount to prevent local TV blackouts, although a few did occur. When I went to Vikings games as a kid, it was an older, button up under a...

I don't mean to imply that having big league sports in town doesn't have some effect on the interest in Gopher sports but I think the bigger issue is that our teams are largely irrelevant. The reality, though, is that even where there isn't in town competition, irrelevancy begets empty stadiums...

That's a loser's mentality. There are more people in the metro than the entire state of Iowa and nearly twice as many than the entire state of Nebraska, and Iowa City and Lincoln are in cities a mere fraction of the size of the metro. Big league sports competition had no effect on MBB...

And those games are late in the season with worn down kids.

I doubt that our "peer" competitors mentioned above give away too many tickets with Red Baron pizzas, either.

Who should pay for it? How many sports ate enough to not be an embarrassment?

This is really the only thing that makes sense these days.

I can't see the B1G taking the Big 12 teams above they could have taken them very recently. I don't see the SEC teams leaving the SEC, especially where the scenario where the B1G gets to 20 or 24 team also sees the SEC make a similar expansion, with the top 2 leagues taking the most valuable...

I'm no Tommy but I will say those are impressive figures for a school with an undergraduate enrollment of less than 6,000 when compared to a school with an undergraduate enrollment of 40,000.

From whose pocket cometh loan payments? And I don't disagree that there is horrific bloat in higher ed. I've seen statistics that show that while academic faculty suites have remained relatively static, administration growth has been almost exponential, similar to to health care, where patient...

From whose pocket cometh out of?