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Burns said recently on a podcast that Iowa & WI pull in about 70 million per year in football from ticket sales and NIL vs. MN at round 45 million. That is a huge hill to climb and probably never will because of all the pro sports competition the Gophers have.

By the way, I liked this article and it shows how good our defense actually was last year. It didn't feel like they were that good, right? For us to be even remotely close to Ohio State, Alabama and Notre Dame with their recruiting advantages is impressive...

I agree that our receivers generally don't get separation. Let's face it, we still mostly need to go south for speed and we're not getting the top guys because they still mostly prefer to stay close to home. NIL will help, but not erase this problem. We've got a lot of big, tall guys here up...

It is out of control and this is a minor part of it, but I guess you need to start somewhere. It's likely not going away so may as well figure out a way to live with it. I like the idea of another poster where students get free season tickets, but I think that's unrealistic because you could...

Maybe they should call this a marketing fee? It enhances the national visibility of the university so it's a POTENTIAL benefit to all students. I've pursued and gotten MULTIPLE jobs out of this state including on Wall Street and feel like going to the U of M made a difference. People doing...

NIL will be a real weakness for the Gophers anyway vs. their peers. The last episode of Gopher Gridiron Radio podcast was very interesting. They had an expert on that said even though Fleck is still bottom half of B1G in salary he's top half in regards to percentage based on how much money the...

I agree. I don't trust the committee. The 4-4-2-2-(1?) is based more on revenue the conferences bring in and at least that is fairly easily quantitative. How big is your TV contract because that's the biggest driver of revenue. If the ACC or Big 12 figure out a way to bring more money to the...

I agree. He had a great run at UCF and thought it was more him than it was. That's easy to do for any of us. Sometimes you don't really know how great you are until you try it someplace else. Well, as it turns out, Nebraska didn't have as much potential as he thought it did and neither did...

I agree. It just shows you how lazy these writers are. They base their projections on there thirty years of history following football rather than having a little helpful recency bias. This do actually change over time...

I already solved this problem in another thread. Make Oregon's Phil Knight an honorary graduate so he'll start funding his "other" alma mater. You're welcome! ;)

Was it in the sports section or front pagish? If it was front page, they are just using the headline to grab readers that aren't well informed about the program like us. The average reader is going to get angry because he's just another overpaid CEO while the masses suffer. Worse yet, he's an...

How long does Mike Locksley hang on at Maryland. They have well above average recruiting base for our conference and yet are a consistently a below average team. Can't believe he's still there. Of course, he did get the #2 player nationally for 2026 to stay home. Dang!

Can we agree to make Phil an honorary Gopher alum in exchange for a little, um, financial support? ;)

I don't think billionaires are going to stop wasting their money anymore than the rest of us. Their seemingly irrational decisions just have more zeros after them. How about Phil Knight propping up Oregon for years now? John Ruiz and Miami? This doesn't seem any different. "One man's junk...

I agree except I think buying into a franchise might be more expensive. Great to get all that institutional knowledge and then go off on your own later if you make it and want to do more of your own thing. That's what I did in a different field that required more education, but lower capital...

I stole this information and link from GopherGrit from the "Scoggins: Mark Coyle" thread. I just thought it was great information many of you would be interested in seeing too. I did not view the whole report and just jumped to the revenue summary page on 29. If we assume "Not Allocated by...

I didn't think he was that great a prospect. Too tall and too fast. Good riddance!

I can't believe Voss scared him away, but the timing seems to make it likely. There are 22+ positions on a football field and guys with that kind of height and athleticism can play a lot of them. Not sure why we couldn't get creative getting two of them on the field as tight ends or hybrids...

I'll admit, a part of me is going to miss the overweight Bret jokes. Some were pretty funny and I didn't feel too bad about it because I figured he was laughing at us peons all the way to the bank. On the other hand, very happy to see he is losing the weight.

Notice Ohio State didn't even offer because they knew they had no chance! We taught them on Perich. Stay out of our backyard!