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High fives and butt slaps!

After the way they fell flat on their face last year, it seems like the SEC shouldn't be taken seriously when they try to lobby for a format that gives them more favorable seeding.

+1 Similar to the drum I've been beating, even if it is a tough job, how is Seth getting around the fact that Ben is doing that job worse than anyone who has ever held it?

Yep. Even if we buy the argument that the U is a uniquely difficult place to succeed at in basketball (i dont buy that it is inherently more difficult than at neighboring Wisconsin), that doesn't change the fact that Ben is doing significantly worse than his two predecessors at this challenging...

I don't think the Nebraska comparison is quite on point. Nebraska had their glory years of national championships, followed by the Pelini years of good but not great (clearly second tier), and then alternating between mediocrity and legitimately bad. The Gophers have gone longer than I would...

If he pulled that off, id be in the camp to bring him back. Think that's the only way I wouldn't feel that firing is the only reasonable option

What his record actually is is bad enough. I don't see much value in holding close wins against him. If the trend were reversed, I also wouldn't give him credit for close losses. The team and the coach earned all of those wins.

Has he tried having Fleck read Everybody Poops to the team?

Last years dramatic Cinderella postseason run to the second round of the NIT. Actually, probably the Michigan win his first year. There was genuine excitement, but that may have been the high water mark.

Very true, but it would still be an upgrade. Tubby and Pitino were both fired for performance, so we should not lose sight of the fact that performance that matches or is worse than Tubby's six year tenure should be a fireable offense.

I am not a fan of using him taking a roster that was picked to finish last and bring somewhat competitive as an argument for keeping him. This is year four, so the roster is on him. Whether he assembles rosters picked to finish awful and then finishes just poorly, the result is the same as if he...

One on one with a goalie in a live game is different than having all the time in the world for some gimmicky approach (swinging really wide, slowing down, etc) in a shootout. Id like to see us better at shootouts so we could earn the points, but scoring on a penalty shot or shootout is a...

If Ben's high water mark was winning one NIT game, that only seemed like any kind of an accomplishment because of how historically bad his first two seasons were. When your best finish is worse than the season that got a coach fired in 2013, then things are not going well for the program.

Certainly tough to do so. That's why it behooves you to defend well enough to not let the opponent shoot 64%.

I was just about to ask if winning the national title is better than beating Michigan in Columbus.

Back to the never ending discussion of playing to win vs not to lose, playing to win is throwing it deep on 3rd and 11 to virtually end the game. Playing not to lose would have been running into the pile to make ND burn their last timeout before punting and giving them the ball with meaningful...

Two things can be true at the same time. (1) Johnson had been the worst coach of my time following the Gophers and deserves to be fired and (2) it is a lot of fun to beat a ranked Michigan team at home. That game didn't change number1 , which i have talked about plenty and don't need to pick the...

I don't like blaming refs for losses, and I'm not here, because the team made plenty of mistakes, but I think i counted 6 obvious Notre Dame penalties that weren't called in late 3rd/OT. Whether we "blame" them or not, they were awful.

They got exposed!

I don't hate the idea as much as some on here, but I'd prefer a proven winner as a head coach at the D1 level. He is an assistant at a winning NBA team, so hopefully he's getting a chance to see what right looks like at a high level in terms of in game coaching, but the recruiting aspect of...