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He was ranked 12th 8-4 and won national coach of the year in 1984. The next year he kicked the slush fund players off, and self reported the violations which crushed the team with probation for the next three years. Now we can debate whether he should have done that or was he just too honest a...

I can understand why they hired Wacker. He was successful everywhere he'd been except TCU. He was squeaky clean, coming off Holtz' recruiting violations a few years earlier, and the U generally being extremely risk averse.

More than a snobbish attitude towards sports, it's likely that the lower emphasis on football may well have been for financial reasons. They simply had more pressing needs on campus than to improve facilities and recruiting.

That's kind of implying that the higher ups at the U got together in a room and said "nobody will notice if we have a crappy football team now because the Twins and Vikings are here." (rubs hands and lets out an evil laugh.) That's a little tinfoil hat-like.

Not that blue collar anymore. SLP has a bunch of families in the Lakes development in Blaine. There are some pretty expensive houses there.

Nice word salad. The Twins and Vikings coming to town had no bearing whatsoever on decisions made as to how to run the University. They are completely different issues. You could say that it provided some competiton to the Gophers as far as sports fans choosing where to spend their dollars, but...

It should be a top job, yes. I'm particularly interested because my son starts high school football next year for Wayzata, and I want to know who will be leading the program for the next few years.

The best math teacher I ever had was my sophomore head coach. But yeah, this does ring true.

I can't see it working.

I know some parents who had kids on the team. It was teaching-related. Nothing scandalous, just poor performance.

He may be tired of the grind as well. I believe he has young kids. My experience meeting him a few times is that he's a really nice guy. I'm sorry to see him go - he's someone I'd be happy to have my kid play for.

Also, heard this morning that Lambert Brown is stepping down as head coach at Wayzata. I wondered if there would be a change after two bad years.

Methinks you vastly over estimate the interest in high school football in this state.

Bunch of morons. The bowl in Detroit a few years ago was super fun.

I wish we could play in the Sun Bowl again. Id love to go to that game.

"Lowly" Indiana has Mark Cuban donating now. We better hope Shad Khan doesn't decide to start becoming a whale for Illinois...

Should it though? Or should it literally be the best teams in the tournament, regardless of geographical location in the state? And to address something Ranger692 wrote, why is having close, entertaining games important?

And that might be the single biggest way that moving to the Dome hurt this program. You have a lot of people who never had a great game day experience.

One more win maybe gets you the Music City Bowl over the Pinstripe Bowl or some such thing. Being 8-4 over 7-5 isn't going to matter that much. And I agreed with you that U leadership neglected the revenue sports programs for a long time. I never said they didn't - I just disagree that hiring...

Thank you. Fortune 500 companies aren't buying players. Individual multi-millionaires are. Phil Knight has money because of Nike, and he gives it to Oregon, rather than Nike just giving it.