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Are you spinning something negative into a positive? Are you feeling OK? (JK)

I've been yelling "We Hate Iowa" since I was a rosy-cheeked cherub rocking a Willie Burton jersey, but I have to admit, I wanted them to beat Florida.

Could probably apply this to "what is a catch" in the NFL as well? It feels like a bunch of kids just going from their gut instinct would bring us closer to reality.

How were these two hires similar?

I don't follow college hockey as closely as some of you, but I see a lot of people prefer Larson to Potulny. Why? Is it just because Larson has coached in the NIL era? Neither of them have the resumes that would get me excited at all, but it feels like bringing Northern Michigan to mediocrity...

It's hard to really compare them because they went so heavy in the portal but yeah, you're probably right. 8/11 starters on defense were transfers. Heisman winning QB was a transfer Both RBs 3 OL TE 2 WR That's not taking anything away from Cignetti. Maybe it's something we should consider...

It doesn't matter for you. Everyone likes what they like. However, perception absolutely matters when you are trying to recruit talent. There are people who love Bentonville, Arkansas but Walmart has to drastically overpay people to move there (and still have trouble recruiting) because of the...

That could certainly be. I will be interested to see if everything holds true a couple days after Augustana's season ends and he can exhale. A normal human being will get swept up in this moment with Augustana (see NOT Lane Kiffin), so I'm not sure I trust a whole lot of what is said until their...

I have absolutely no idea if Raboin has any interest and I have no idea if the search is a dumpster fire or not. That said, right not, Augustana absolutely needs to stay the course and appear like a united front with stability. Lets assume that there is mutual interest between Raboin and the...

Oh I agree. I'm not defending Lucia or advocating for anything with him. I'm just saying that our "mess" was the mess of a world class program that had 6/7 conference Big 10 championships and missing the tournament was still an anomaly. It was a "mess" in the context of a great Gopher hockey...

Yeah, the Gopher hockey program is one of the best in the country, I am not the one comparing them to Gopher football.

I'm not defending Lucia, I believe it was time for him to go. That said, your defense of Motzko (he wasn't far removed from really good team), is 100% true for Lucia. The year before Lucia's final year was almost identical to Motzko's. We had a share of the title and went to the tournament as...

You can't make it up. The previous 3 seasons before Bob took over: Conference Winning Percentage: .623 Average Finish: 2/3rd Bob's last three seasons: Conference Winning Percentage: .555 Average Finish: 3/4th You literally cannot argue that Bob inherited a mess and that he should not be...

He doesn't need excuses, he's the most successful coach we've had in 70 years. What's Bob's excuse for being the least successful hockey coach in 55 years?

You don't pay him anything and that's the going rate for coaches who are as good as him. Do you really compare Gopher football to Gopher hockey? You're pretending. You're formulating coherent sentences so you're not as dumb as you're pretending to be on this point. Why don't you compare...

The powers that be clearly forced him to make that hire. There has been nothing I've seen in any of his other hires that would lead me to believe that he would have even considered Ben Johnson. There is no way someone whose livelihood is decided by basketball program would hire someone not only...

As far as the top number, maybe I'm wrong. The numbers I've seen are that the putrid 2025 basketball team had an operating profit between $5-$10 million and the hockey team had a profit of $2.75 million. Now, this doesn't really matter to me. I like the basketball, football, and hockey teams...

Gopher hockey has different expectations than football. In football we have to play Ohio State and Oregon. In hockey, we should be Ohio State or Oregon. Everything in life should be considered in context. If you find a townhome for $2000 rent in Brooklyn it's a great deal, that same town home...

They are both exponentially more popular and lucrative than any hockey program.

He didn't hire him.