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I would strongly disagree that 2019 was a soft schedule. In the final AP rankings, Penn State was #9, we were #10, Wisconsin #11, Auburn #14, and Iowa #15. Alabama who Auburn beat in the Iron Bowl was #8. That was a strong schedule and a very good Gopher football team. That said, my nightmare...

I had the same question, especially with some of the confusion on the field on the play prior. There was very little reward and potentially catastrophic risk to running that play.

Incredibly disappointed in what I saw on the field tonight. The Gophers were pretty awful in all phases when you consider the back breaking penalties by the defense and the inability to stop a very limited backup QB late (the offense and special teams were obviously worse than the defense)...

The Fleck era is going to end badly, it's just a question of when. It won't be this year, but you can't rationally look at what he has coming back for '25 and think that that were headed in a positive direction here.

Mark is describing two different roles here. "Missing" on someone would be the Kwesi Adofo Mensah or Tim Connelly role where you are making an evaluation on a player and assigning what you are willing to pay him/her. The second part is the allocating of that ~20 million cap...

It's an F like the whole Ben Johnson tenure has been. My view of last years ridiculous schedule was that it was designed to give Ben Johnson a misleadingly "good" record so that Coyle didn't have to fire him after year 3. The reality is the Gophers were something like 10-15 outside Quad 4 and...

I am sitting in seat #4 if I have the chance. If I am sitting in seat #9, I am going to be tempted to do the old professional wrestling double noggin knocker.

Interesting take. I think it depends a lot on what type of production they get out of the RT spot. If one of the options there can give us average B1G tackle play we could be very good with Carroll and Cooper inside and Ersery at LT.

I really hate how all the articles written about Gopher sports seem to be with a victim mentality. Why can't Minnesota be a school that adapts quickly to this "shifting landscape"? It should be looked at as an opportunity. Coyle's teams in the revenue sports have not been very good (football...

I haven't been a fan at all of the roster construction this offseason. I'd want as many 6'5-6'8 guys on the roster who can defend on the perimeter as possible and Ben brought in one such player in Odukale. This was a significant issue last season as our one player in this size range who could...

This was a really big get for Fleck and Harbaugh. We were in on Kollack early, lost him to Washington, but got back in when their coach left for Alabama. We ended up with one of our plan A guys after missing out on some guys we didn't like as much while he was committed to Washington. Pretty...

This post show just how wild the Ben Johnson hire was. As I said before Ben Johnson wasn't even the most qualified former Richard Pitino assistant for a potential head coaching position. Kimani has been rumored to be a candidate at places like Fordham and Iona over that past year or two while...

Couple thoughts on points made in this thread. We have 3 guys leaving (though Carrington might be returning?) from Ben's 4 commit class from 2 seasons ago. Henley already left. All 4 have been reported to be upset with their playing time/how they were used at Minnesota and at least Payne (and...

I knew it existed and actually was rooting some for former Gopher Royce White (this was years ago before it was clear he went off the deep end). It started out with more well known former players (Allen Iverson played one of the years, "White Chocolate" Jason Williams played a year or two...

Who you blame here is dependent on your perspective. I lean towards JOJ just not being willing to be the type of player this staff thinks he should be. If they see your role as an energy/rebounder guy who hopefully can be a versatile defender and you don't rebound (and at least occasionally...

This would be the concern as our backup big IMHO. His advanced stats suggest he's not very good defensively (this year he had a career worst Defensive Box Score Plus Minus at -2.4) and the biggest red flag is he's not a rim protector at all. Morgan had a total of 8 blocks in 32 games this...

Normally don't engage in stuff like this, but they've had a number of QB visitors in, including one that finished a visit tonight. I clearly said SOME other position coaches, not ALL. This is no longer true two weeks later BTW. It is true that Winston is killing it terms of getting nice...

I am not able to watch as many Wolves games as I would like (largely due to blackout rules) but I feel like I make a complete 180 on this team 2-3 times a month. They do something completely awful like collapse against the Bulls and then have a dominating win in LA against the Clippers. With...

I didn't want to start a new thread but Nubin said he had meniscectomy after the season which is why he didn't work out at the combine and still wasn't back to 100% at pro day. For his sake, I hope they only needed to remove torn pieces and not the total meniscus as that could affect his draft...

Go Illini! Having Iowa and Wisconsin come in to Minneapolis and win both the Women's and Men's Tournaments would be quite the kick in the nuts. Apparently the "U" invests in a titanium cup though as stuff like this doesn't seem to bother them. There will be two teams from Iowa in the NCAA...