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Always take the over with this club, I guess.

What does "he knows we've done it the right way" even mean anymore? If 75% of your team transfers every year, are we still "building it brick by brick", "locking down the border", and "doing it the right way"? Not trying to bash Ben Johnson again, but he sure knows how to lower...

If college basketball success is now solely the result of NIL and coaching no longer matters (results are directly correlated to NIL spend).....it would seem like a complete waste of time to watch any games or follow the sport. It would seem like even a bigger waste of time to continue to post...

Good for him. He's not an NBA caliber player yet. It will be interesting to see where he gets drafted. A "potential" pick for sure. The other comment that struck me. "He will now look to become the 2nd UMN player drafted since 2004." You probably don't need to look any further than that...

I'm as frustrated with the current environment as anybody, but I think that sentiment is almost universal and will ultimately lead to change. Players getting paid by the schools is probably inevitable at this point and will hopefully replace this NIL collective nonsense. College basketball...

This is 100% true. It's why Anthony Edwards was a #1 overall pick and Luka Garza was not.

Good summary here. Who really knows how good or bad this team will be? At this time of year, most fan bases like the shiny, new pieces that have been added to the team. In general, we talk about finally having more depth and how it seems to fit together. But does production at Canisius, New...

......and #9 is Ihnen who never plays and #8 is JOJ who they stopped playing. Truthfully, the team was pretty healthy last year too. Depth really gets exposed when you have injuries.

He'll catch up to the clues you've given eventually.

College basketball from five or ten years ago (pre portal and pre-NIL) always had 30 programs that for whatever reason were going to attract the most talented kids. Whether it was paying kids under the table or any combination of established coaching, tradition, facilities, arena, weather, or...

If Carrington asked to come back but was told to go pound sand, how would Johnson differentiate Carrington's situation from Payne's? If the three Minnesota kids were all in a similar boat and all three were unhappy at best or malcontents at worst, I would think/hope that Johnson would handle...

Does this mean we are in the preseason top 25?

Hopefully the defections of Payne/JOJ/Carrington wake up the fan base and administration to this reality. It hasn't been that way for a long time. These kids don't all have Goldy Gopher posters in their bedrooms growing up. If only we had the right coach that could "get" all these players...

It's probably about right, but it speaks as much to the depth and accomplishment of the coaches in the B1G as it does about Ben Johnson.

I might be in the minority here, but I don't think Coyle's words have hidden messages in them. I think he just speaks off the cuff in an "aw shucks" sort of way. His "preseason top 25" and "you should see my texts to my wife" declarations aren't expectation setting but speaking like anybody on...

He is an easy guy to root for.

I'm not sure that returning 5, maybe 6, guys out of 13 is "stabilizing the roster." Kind of an odd comment. The rest of the tweet is true.

Nobody was arguing that Johnson should have made the NCAA tournament in year one. But you know that. For me it's an acknowledgement that building a program isn't what it was 10/20 years ago in college basketball. We need to stop worrying about "locking down the border" and "brick by brick"...

The rumor that was floating around a couple days ago was an expectation we might see another defection. Was that announcement feared to be Garcia or do we think that Christie is still a flight risk at this point?

Serious question here.... Could Garcia still shop his services to other schools to see what kind of NIL deals he could get even though he didn't officially go into the portal? Or his agent can do the due diligence required? If yes to either question, why bother entering the portal? If this...