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To be successful, NIL has to be grown exponentially not 5% this year and 5% the next. Little donations from Ma and Pa Kettle in Mora aren't going to get the job done. Numerous players have talked about the great culture that Johnson has established here. Coyle hired Johnson with the idea that...

The whole landscape has changed since the advent of NIL. We care about the team but we need mega-fans to REALLY care about the team to move forward. We can't build an NIL package for a whole team of legit players using a bake sale. We need 6, 7, and 8 figure donations to compete. Minnesotans...

None of the coaches you mention move the NIL needle. You could resurrect Wooden and we still aren't in the same stratosphere as other teams with mega-fans willing to throw millions of NIL at the wall to poach players.

Sorry... Neither of these 2 are bringing any NIL bobos with them. Papa Muss coached here at the 'U' 50 years ago and Eric joined him with the T-wolves in year 2 (1990-91). Any serious local excitement in the Muss name has long since passed.

I'm being a little unfair as they did get the NIT title in 98. I was just disappointed in the quality of the recruits brought in following the success of 97. They went from several Mr. Basketballs to some fairly pedestrian talent other Przybilla. A friend and I had season tickets those years...

NIL isn't tax deductible. The institution isn't supposed to be part of NIL. Name, Image, and Likeness is not supposed to be 'pay for play' but this has been overlooked. I'm counting the days until I see the first Pharrel Payne television ad for Jim Bob's Toyota in Lawrence, Kansas.

The universities aren't/weren't supposed to be part of the NIL negotiations. That seems/seemed to be the only real 'rule' out there regarding NIL.

Sadly, this is just not true. Minnesotans are just wired to get into bidding wars to pay amateur college athletes to play for their home university. The U could hire your dream coach and the NIL will increase slightly but not enough to prevent poaching from rabid fan billionaires supporting...

For what its worth, Clem didn't exactly capitalize on the Final Four run before the Ganglehoff scandal. The team the next year was a shell of the 96-97 team. I think that Clem would have had modest success but not likely caught lightning in the bottle again.

The lack of guidance and sideboards surrounding NIL has ruined college sports for me. My interest in NCAA D-1 athletics is near zero under this 'system.' There are no major donors here in MN who will step up to the plate under this sort of wild west scenario to donate to NIL. Most Minnesotans...

Why would any ANY AD risk paying a coach big time money without solid NIL backing? It would be illogical to waste legit department dollars to hire a coach when all it takes is for the sleazy money to come in and lure players away.

They could get Wooden and it wouldn't make a difference in this new world of NIL. Let's face it- we had a long list of challenges to competing before the NIL era- how are we going to overcome this? Minnesotans are not sleazy and our sensibilities are NOT going to suddenly change. We are not...

I think that you need to look in the mirror when talking about delusion. You have harbored what appears to be borderline hate for the Wilson pick up from day 1 and have gone to great lengths to share your opinion. No one has ever said that Wilson was the second coming of Shaq. The fact of the...

Don't ascribe quotes to a person with such stunning regularity without having the ability to back it up. Or are you just being diffident?

I take it that you don't know then? I would have assumed it was with the media in year one as we neared B1G play. He wouldn't have said it at Media Day with other coaches present. I'm guessing that I have either misremembered or its just been repeated so often that its become 'reality.' All I...

I listened to Ben from the moment he was introduced at the 18 minute mark until he left around 41 minute. This was not when he mentioned anything about not coming in last. Any other ideas? Intro News Conference

Do you happen to have that exact quote? I vaguely remember him saying something along those line but I'm trying to remember the circumstances and context and just can't find the quote to confirm. Was this before or after the Fox and Ihnen injuries?

It's an exhibition. The game doesn't count so this is not Williams' career high. I wouldn't read too much into this game. The goal is to work up a lather against someone other than your teammates and not get injured.

Neil Reed might have tried bad-mouthing Knight had Bobby not been choking him.

It's all coach speak. Nearly every coach in the country downplays their team before the beginning of the season. There is little to be gained by inflating expectations. Coaches often use negative comments to the media to motivate their teams or individual players. “No, we’re not ready,” X said...