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Interesting write-up on the Johnson hire.... Would Johnson have been hired at Minnesota if he wasn't a Minneapolis native who played for the Gophers from 2002 to 2004? The bet here is no. While there is nothing wrong with hiring a coach who has ties to the program -- see favorable grades...

@Otis is also doing this in the Niko's Roster Construction thread. Updating the first post.

Meh. For my money, I like having a thread devoted to generic transfer portal news as the title of the thread suggests. We have enough Gopher specific threads including the Niko roster construction thread to deal with Gopher news. If we start opening threads specific to other teams, I'll agree...

It was a great basketball game.

Must Have Minnesota Connections! Or we are not interested.

In fairness, these threads never stay on topic so it would be hard to legislate what/when/how these threads are allowed to turn. This thread turned into a debate on how valuable Asuma is going forward. Clearly his usage impacted his performance and that ultimately is on Ben Johnson. So it...

Is there an option between..... (a) if he wasn't from Minnesota we would be looking to replace him and (b) he is one half of the best guard tandems at Minnesota of the last 35 years? If so, I would take that option.

Miles Tarver?

Thank you sir. You have a much better chance of keeping up with this than I do. 👍

I understand the sentiment, but it would be impossible to not draw parallels to the previous regime. When Tubby was let go for Pitino and even a whiff of negativity was voiced toward Tubby, it ended up being a bat signal for @dpodoll68 to defend him for years. Eventually the criticism faded...

Could we get a tally of the current roster on the front end of one of these threads, like @SelectionSunday and his road to the tournament thread?

For sure! @MaxyJR1 is a good poster on this site and his posts were separated by two plus months so it's a friendly jab. :)

This made me laugh. Back to back posts. But kudos to your for posting regardless.

We got him one job too early.

If there is so much fan apathy on the St. Thomas side then how is this so "great for Minnesota" as others have suggested? Which side of this discussion are you even on?

That's a fair question/observation. At one point part of the justification for not doing it would be from a recruiting perspective. Now that recruitment has changed in the NIL/free agency era, it probably isn't as big a consideration. Hopefully we are finally past the "lock down the border"...

I absolutely think their fanbase would get excited and that is kind of my point. I would fully expect the Barn to fill up more with St. Thomas fans than Gopher fans. As a cash rich B1G program you don't really gain anything by winning but it's embarrassing if you lose. Maybe I'm in the wrong...

Well they weren't that far apart this year. That's true. But Omaha was just edged by 30 points in their round one NCAA game. Hopefully Niko elevates the program to a level where this isn't a conversation.

That might be true. I'll be real interested to see how Niko schedules. It can't possibly be worse than the last guy.