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Builtbadgers is another guy who was a prolific poster, but hasn't been here for more than a year and a half now. He said he was in his 70s, so maybe time got him, like it did a Dick Bennett offense.

There's some strong Minnesota pragmatism right there!

Or Pitino vs Calipari in round 2.

Fair enough, I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and hope that somehow she’s the second coming of Donna Shalala, or even half a Shalala.

The academics running the University care, that’s who. For as long as I’ve been a student and alum, every president, from Ken Keller to Rebecca Cunningham, and the Board of Regents have viewed athletics as a necessary evil that was fine when it’s quiet, but a complete pain in the ass to them...

Could not agree more.

Ok, but it was a Sinatra signature song, not Tony Bennett (either the crooner or basketball coach).

That was a Sinatra song, and he's currently coaching St. John's.

Bennett's out of the game. The man was clear why he stepped away from one of the best gigs in college basketball, and that's because the industry has changed so much that he no longer wants to be part of it. He's not coming back just 5 months later to coach Minnesota. "The game and college...

Clem (who lived for 9 years outside the South when he was in the NBA) and Tubby had interest in Minnesota. Wade obviously didn’t, otherwise he’d be the Gophers head coach.

Again, a coaching hire is a two-way proposition, meaning the coach has to want the school as much as the school wants the coach. Why would a guy like Wade, who has spent his ENTIRE life in the South, suddenly make Minnesota his home, a place that’s completely foreign to him culturally...

“Do the right thing” isn’t in ol’ Will’s DNA.

Wade was never coming here so I hope he enjoys his tenure in Raleigh.

When asked if he had been contacted for permission to talk with Medved, Weber responded, “I had a lovely chocolate soufflé for lunch.”

Is it too sentimental to say I miss Pitino? The person, not necessarily the coach, although he really seems to have found himself in Albuquerque.

And that got them a one-year rental, so who knows, maybe they'll listen to him this time around.

I was being sarcastically dramatic. Or dramatically sarcastic, I don't know.

I’m officially off Brian Dutcher as our next coach.

That would get you FRANCON 1. Definitely not worth the collateral damage it would inflict.

I think the IU job is a tough one. The expectations are sky high, even though they haven't really been INDIANA FREAKING BASKETBALL for about 20 years, and their fans are delusional, clutching to the old days like grim death. In so many ways it does feel like the basketball version of Nebraska...