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Nice win. Did not see that coming. Reconciling last week to this week? Not even going to try.

Best ever Minnesota sports writer? Not exactly a peak of greatness (at least from my familiarity starting in 1987). I always saw him as a poor man's Scott Ostler. Ostler was a bit cranky, but he was direct, honest, fair, and not afraid to ruffle feathers when it was warranted. I grew up...

Recognized? No. And Fleck doesn't need to worry about being recognized, he makes sure he's recognized as often as he can with every June press release about the outstanding top 25 recruiting class than ends up in the upper 30 to mid 40s on signing day. Or the Boast of his 11 win season being...

The program has come so far...... This is the same argument for not firing Mason. It was time to fire Mason. It is not time to fire Fleck - Mason had reached his ceiling here and it wasn't changing. Fleck has consistently dribbled chances down his leg, so there is still potential upside. But...

The spending cuts hinted at in the spending problem is what's behind all of the non-revenue sports running political ads to save the olympic sports at the collegiate level. I think it's fair to assume the football and basketball players who have forced the issue to get a cut of the money...

I was there in 2003 as well.

The Rose, Orange, Sugar, Cotton, and Fiesta bowls still matter. Some of the lesser bowls that have long history - Citrus, Gator, Peach, Sun, and Holiday are all decent and well run. I remain curious to see how many of the others last in this new era.

more depressing than playing a VaTech team that was basically a Frosh/Soph squad that had no business being in a bowl? Hopefully with the portal shift to January, we'll avoid some of this, but I doubt it. The Bowls aren't what they used to be.

we're not going back to this......

I went to the Music City Bowl when we beat #25 Arkansas in 2002. A good time if you get the chance. Nashivlle isn't the same city today (alot bigger) but still a good time. I wouldn't book the trip just yet. Not sure we'll avoid Detroit this year.

NEW as in we swapped out the original ingredients for cheaper substitutes, AND IMPROVED our bottom line.

How about you try this? https://google.com/ or this? https://chatgpt.com/

C/C- seems fair so far.

Our offensive identiy is that we don't have an Oline so we've taken a throw sh!t against the wall and see what sticks approach to offense this year. Danny Collins has brought back the Robb Smith Matador defense, we don't do much well, we miss a lot of tackles, and hope wehn we get squeezed into...

from bigten.org (https://bigten.org/fb/stats/?category=team§ion=all&teamValue=all&split=conf&season=2025) Bad? We won't know yet, but the numbers suggest we're not a great defense. We appear to be better against the run so far in conference, but I think that may be because we're worse against...

Sometimes, win you play not to lose, it works.

If we were, we'd win more games. They came out without the same level of talent, and without hope. But they played their asses off, and ultimately created their own loss. If we played wtih similar effort and commitment to winning football games, we'd have a lot more wins under Fleck.

They've done the try not to lose approach with Franklin. I can't see them hiring James Franklin-Lite to replace James Franklin.

Professional sports took over in Minnesota and the University took the bold step to say that college sports were growing too big and needed to be walked back (it's only leadership if others follow). Neither one of those things have benefitted the U.

Both wins. In very different fashion. Against Rutgers we buckled up, strapped in and played to win. It was ugly, but we got it done. Against Purdue, we played to not lose against a team that is completely rebuilding after a disasterous hire and almost biblical exodus off the roster after last...