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Opinions are mixed on this. They won't have the same level of revenue to split as B1G/SEC teams do that have huge football TV contracts and bigger basketball TV contracts too. Pitino wants the Big East to merge with the ACC which I don't think he'd advocate for if the Big East was going to have...

Agree with what has already been said. The missing piece here is Ben sucking in year 1 (no NIL anywhere) and year 2 (by his own admission NIL wasn't nearly the thing it was in the year 2 offseason that it was in year 3). We finished last for the first time in 30 years in Ben's first year and...

Really, really ugly performance by Texas today in their bubble matchup with Georgia. It will be interesting if that job opens how it compares to Indiana. It seems like we say the bubble is weak every year, but this year it feels especially weak (and I probably say that most years to be fair)...

This is just comical. It's hilarious how this stuff has come up after two absolute fluke wins over UCLA and Nebraska. Then these people are quiet when Ben gets beat convincingly at home by the likes of Penn State and Northwestern. All we needed to win today was for Nebraska to go 11-20 from...

Dutcher was coming last time. Hoiberg and Musselman have sent out feelers for this job in the past. This was a self-inflicted wound hiring Johnson (and before that Pitino). Is Dutcher too old now? Is the buyout too much? Are you willing to do something Minnesota has never done and bring in...

I'd have Smith higher. Hot take, but I am not sure Kerry Brown wasn't better on a snap by snap basis than Koi Perich. Koi has the higher ceiling as he's bigger, but Kerry was a really pleasant surprise last year. I think we need a few more "Kerry Brown's" to emerge next Fall at CB and DE...

Preaching to the choir here, but I am not sure anyone outside of the diehards know what an absolute disaster this has become. This is one of the oldest teams in all of Division1 basketball and it's incredibly lucky to be 6-12 in conference play. The Northwestern team they lost to at home...

Marcus Fuller is an absolute joke. The way he has covered this disaster the last 4 seasons has been an embarrassment. Said in a nicer way Marcus Fuller is the Ben Johnson of college basketball beat writers.

I was really happy about the invites, but also share some of the concerns others have noted. We were 7-5 and the schedule didn't turn out to be anywhere close to the gauntlet some anticipated last Fall. If we can maintain this level of talent, we should be able to breakthrough again soon...

Utah is like 20 spots ahead of us in the NET and has been better than us the last two years. Their coach actually had a track record of success when he was hired and wasn't gifted Dawson Garcia. Johnson could win out and not match Smith's conference winning % over the last 4 years. The local...

Literally identical teams. Growing up in Iowa, I remember watching Georgetown vs Minnesota for the NIT title. I *thought*, I liked both teams and would be happy with whoever won and then found myself open cheering for the Gophers as hard as I did against anyone else. Biggest non-Gopher college...

Tough to pick one. I guess I would go with the M/W/M as that seemed like a very good throw back look. My overall impression of the 4 photos though is that the new uniforms have grown on me. I didn't hate them or anything when they were revealed, I just felt like they were really plain...

Some Iowa stuff for perspective. Iowa is tied with us at 6-10 in the conference. They've played the entire Big Ten season without their top recruit who was ranked higher than Asuma. They've played the second half of the season or so without arguably their best player (Owen Freeman) and their...

Not my info and it's 3rd hand at best. Someone who has a subscription to his discord says "insider" Trilly Donovan reported on his site that it's "50/50" on Ben today. I had no idea if that means it's literally 50/50 or Trilly doesn't have a good gauge of where things are. I would hope a...

One of the best posts on this site. The question of "how did Ben Johnson get this job?" comes up in my mind every week and it happened four years ago! He's failed in every way possible since he's gotten the job and some people still try to come up with bizarre hypothetical situations where he...

Not sure what to do with Fickell, he seems to be recruiting well but the on field product hasn't been great. Do you fire him and go back to a Wisconsin guy? I think there will be a lot of pressure from that fanbase to go in that direction if they make a change. I believe Wisconsin has had to go...

I hope he does. Crazy that he went to the draft camp after his Freshman year and is still in college all these years later. Odukale didn't score, but we relied on him heavily to handle the ball. Call in show highlights: Old guy calls in and says this was the worst free throw shooting he's...

Pretty depressing that we can't be considered in the same tier as Wisconsin, Iowa, Pittsburgh, Kansas State, Utah, Oklahoma State, Cincinnati, BYU, North Carolina. I am not including the Boise State/Washington State type teams because their path is so different. I feel like the team we are...

Cronin went on that rant earlier in the year, but only had himself to blame for this one. His team was cruising and he decided to go to that 2 big lineup in the first half and the offense got stagnant which lead the Gophers to cutting the lead all the way to 8. UCLA never really made a run from...

That Garcia half was fantastic. Every time the Gophers got it down to a one possession game, UCLA would score immediately. Never felt like a win was possible, but a much more competitive game than expected...then UCLA absolutely couldn't make a free throw. They said they finished 9-19, but that...