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So, based on these stats, both teams should be going for it on every 4th down like that high school team in Texas, and then it may be a dogfight.

Whoa, I’d say it is wishful thinking and maybe a bit narcissistic to think that Wisconsin’s and Iowa’s coaching moves were primarily because of Fleck. They were both declining and not seeing themselves competitive in the expanding Big Ten. While it is nice to associate Fleck finally beating...

In the Big Ten, only Michigan could be mired in an obvious systematic cheating investigation and be portrayed as the overcomer, the persecuted, the world against them. Sherron Moore’s rant was kind of sickening to me. Maybe I’m being too hard on him as it’s personal, but it’s so sick for the...

Eugene, Oregon is as far or further geographically, demographically and culturally from recruiting hotbeds in FL, GA, TX, etc. than Minneapolis.

How about a universal NIL non compete clause? If you transfer you can still play but you may not sign an NIL deal for 1 year. How about, freshmen cannot be offered NIL deals until they are enrolled in school? That way schools cannot entice kids to verbal or flip based on crazy NIL numbers...

In my college days I could take on the “six pack and a pound” but I don’t think I usually got through much of the potato olés.

What do these numbers even mean? Are these potential NIL$ contracts? Are they guaranteed to be paid as long as they’re on the team and meeting some minimum legal standard that constitutes participating in NIL?

💯 this would happen. It would be justified though.

If the Gophers can’t beat Wisconsin this year then yikes. Wisconsin is terrible and regressing. If they do beat Wisconsin then it will be a pretty bittersweet year winning both Floyd and Axe but going 6-6.

That discussion must be a lot different now with NIL pouring gasoline on the portal “fire.” Kids may be less likely to sit around in a backup role when they could be getting paid as a starter somewhere else.

U Dub may look a bit different too without Pennix.

I am convinced that Fleck wanted to drive that 2017 “Year 0” team into the ground so he could have a lower expectation to rebuild from.

Beating Iowa and Wisconsin in the same year, - when they’re both on their backup QBs - when you also lose to Illinois (Bielema) and Northwestern - when you don’t win the West …beating both is just not that satisfying.

I’m thinking that if PJ can’t beat both Iowa and Wisconsin when they look this terrible, what future ceiling does he see when he not only still has to worry about those protected games every year, but no longer has a reprieve when he misses OSU/Michigan because those may just be replaced by...

What incredible luck for PJ to get a chance for the last West title in a division full of injuries, coaching turnover and scandals. Wonder if he would use it though, as a springboard to another job with more NIL and ability to compete in the superconference era.

Well, NDSU’s DC is now the interim HC at Northwestern. Looks like their D took a big step back.

Unfortunately this says as much about the poor quality of the B1G this year outside OSU PSU and Mich, than it does about the Gophers. You have to go back an entire generation to when ALL of the following were true: Wisconsin - an average non-factor, Iowa - below average with their current...

It’s just Fleck’s MO to consistently manage expectations of him. Program he inherited was a disaster that needed complete overhaul, opponents are either giants or sleeping giants, team is almost always super young and/or inexperienced, etc.

If the concern was staying healthy with little depth then why not rotate in the 3-4th stringers?

Is that their job? Does it bring a higher profile if they win 1 more game and scrape into a third rate bowl which does not make a profit for the U? I’m not suggesting to schedule 3/3 Power 5 heavyweights in nonconf. But scheduling just 1, one might look at it as prescheduling a sort of “bowl...