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Yea, that makes sense. I suppose he hasn’t actually used his free transfer yet in that he had to sit out last time he transferred here.

Can a guy grad transfer multiple times? He graduated from the U his last time here and then grad transferred to Charleston.

Va Tech went 26-9 and made the Sweet Sixteen the year before Mike Young got there. Even if there was turnover among players he certainly didn’t turn the program around. Oregon State was 8-10 in conference the year before Tinkle got there. His conference records the first two years there were...

Not so sure about some of those. Mike Young definitely not. Tinkle is a bit of a stretch. Beard took TT to the next level, but the turnaround for Tech was started before he got there. Generally I agree with the premise that turnarounds in basketball can happen fairly quickly though.

Just curious...where are you seeing this? Took a look through his Twitter and don’t see anything about it from the last couple of days. I don’t listen to his podcast often. Is it in there?

So we could go 7-13 in conference next season and barely miss the NIT?

Not really sure what Coyle could have said differently. He said he hired Ben because Ben is the best guy to build relationships with local players/families/coaches, and believes that is the best path for a successful and sustainable basketball program. Also said Ben impressed him with a plan to...

Yep. I was a few years ahead of him at Sibley. We knew about him when he was an 8th grader, and he was getting heavy D1 interest as a freshman.

I don’t disagree with your premise that coaches talk in coachspeak during press conferences, and people shouldn’t read into it too much. Almost no coach will actually be specific. That’s normal. I also think it’s normal to parse words and read into everything when the new head coach has never...

My cousin went to Grinnell, and I attended a couple games while he was there. He didn’t play on the team, but went to many basketball games. It’s certainly an entertaining style to watch. Grinnell is a very small and very selective liberal arts school in small town Iowa, so there is no way they...

To me the issue is not with the 5 stars. Competing for recruits with Kentucky, Duke, UNC, etc. is a whole different ball game. Let's just look outside the top 50. Those MN high school players should be gettable for the home state school, right? Starting with the 2012 class through the 2021...

Parents had season tickets to basketball and football growing up, and I went to most of the games with my dad. Was a huge Ryan Wolf and Ron Johnson fan. Mom got her MBA at the U. Dad is from a really small town and taking the bus to games at Williams Arena was his favorite thing to do as a kid...

My error does not make his point any less ridiculous

Correction: “made the national championship”

They hired an assistant who just won a national championship. Also, it’s more than likely that the program is going to be facing some pretty serious NCAA sanctions.

What happened to “the local AAU community loves Ben”? That narrative goes out the window if he can’t get at least a couple in a local class that is pretty loaded. I’m excited. I think he gets at least a couple. Not like he’s been living under a rock for the last few years. I’m sure he already...

I’d say one or fewer of the local guys plus not making up for it with out-of-state recruits. I’m not at all someone who has ever expected we get all or even most of the local recruits, but the 2022 class has 7 MN players in the top 125 nationally according to 247 composite. 9 in the top 200. One...

Coyle has every reason to give him as much time as possible, but it is true that he’ll have “his guys” much quicker than usual with all the transfers. I think the local Class of 2022 is huge, and that we’ll be able to tell pretty quickly where the Ben Johnson era is headed. If we can show...

Look, fans keeping a positive attitude sounds great in theory, but it is like leaving a kindergarten class alone for an hour with candy and breakable objects, and then being surprised when the candy is gone, the kids are fighting, and some things are broken. And it’s going to be true whether...