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And the similarly situated guys (no experience or meaningful experience) who actually garnered 4 stars fare little better in this article. Its hard to argue with the author's ranking based on his stated preferred methodology (experience) and then recruiting ranking. But, looking at the retreads...

I have no idea what Iowa has for pass catchers. In 2023, Gronowski had 2 skill position players and 2 offensive linemen who were on NFL rosters in 2024, and 2 more WRs on practice squads. Those receivers in particular covered up a few flaws in 2023 and prior. Last year with inexperienced pass...

As kid, the bedtime signature was the syndicated reruns of Cheers on Channel 11 after the news.

I don't keep a ledger but mostly it would have been saved. I certainly didn't spend the kind of money I would have spent on the season tickets, fuel to Mpls and game day indulgences. Mostly spend a little more time hunting and watching the games on TV.

The new QB is also very mobile. He didn't have a ton of designed carries at SDSU, primarily because it wasn't necessary and when it was, the backup QB was an absolute truck. But when designed runs were called for him or if he was flushed out of the pocket, he was a very effective runner.

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?