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YES! Big get! Literally. Love this find. Stealth Niko operating!!

The players actually do have a common interest with the NCAA and the Universities: Sustainability of the business model. Two three more years of this and the TV contracts will start to shrink and so will the NIL dollars. Putting together a system with a logical, even lucrative cap, is a winning...

I know this much- I saw the clips of last year's squad in the spring and thought we were in trouble. The video on these guys is far better and I believe they rate higher. Niko isn't done and I have to believe that one guy who is perhaps higher on the pay scale than any we have so far.

Aaron Rodgers is looking for a one year gig….

Right. My point is that the team which crossed that low bar had 7 Big Ten wins. Can better talent and coaching get us to 10 or so? There is at least hope! For me, I don't need Garcia, but I think we need a 6-9 or 6-10 kid that can defend and provide a little offense. It is great to have a...

The reality, and it stinks, is that there is wild money being spent to buy teams. The exact amounts, we don't know. But the evidence is there that the sums are very large. If they were not, these kids would not be running to the portal, with agents in hand, like it was the gold rush of 1849. You...

The secret for most mid major teams has been to develop kids and get better as a group. That's done for in this era.

Not to me. Are you Egyptian?

They left the major reason out of the article: $$$$$$$$$$

That may be true but I think at this point the preponderance of evidence points to the probability that a guy like Garcia would go for a million plus. Payne is said to have gotten 1.5 million to go to Maryland. Maybe he did and maybe he didn't but there is a TON of money flowing right now in...

You are probably right. Perhaps in this landscape coaches look at guys that are a little raw on the skill side and say- they need to play in games and I don't have playing time for guys that aren't ready. If they are good at a lower level, I'll deal with trying to recruit them then and steal...

Outside of Garcia- I firmly believe we will have a better roster than last year, a better system and a better coach.

It feels like he is going to get another year. There certainly is a current hole in the roster that fits him well and I kind of feel like he could still be a Gopher. He has sacrificed a lot in the past to be here and it is likely we have enough money to make him happy to do it again here. This...

Right now, big donors are drunk on the idea that they can buy hometown U a title with their cash. It's a new toy. I wonder how long they will continue to do this at this level. I hope at some point some sort of cap goes into place or the goose that laid the golden egg will get destroyed.

Remember the APR era? Wow, gone are those days.

Exactly right.

I think he had to in order to protect his value. It is likely that he wants to stay with the Gophers but he understands that Niko has to fill out his squad and can't wait for the ruling on Dawson. What if the Gophers don't have a 1 million + slot available by that time?

Garcia has not put his name in the portal, if I recall- so if that were the case- perhaps we already have struck deal with him assuming he can get the added year. Did he put his name in for the NBA draft? I would assume so... This adds another question- if a guy enters the NBA draft but doesn't...

As of last week, there were still about 40-50 of the top 150 players left and more were coming into the portal. Some of the big time schools will have filled out their core and spent a lot of money doing so. We are going to be a logical stop for a good shooter and a good big. I hope we have...

I don't think it is going to be rough. Outside of Garcia - unless we keep him- I think this talent incoming appears to be better across the board than what we had last year. Niko will have a better system and we will shoot better. There is some speed here, which Ben just didn't get much of...