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So interesting to see how a couple of locals are trying to frame Monson and Pitino making the tournament as some black eye against the Minnesota job. Monson went from the Big Ten to coaching in a one bid league for 17 years where he just made his 2nd NCAA tournament tonight. I was rooting for...

These results are shocking to me. Hopefully it's some Badger and Hawkeye fans coming over and "Izzoing" the poll results. In Selection Sunday's final field of 68, I count THIRTEEN coaches who started at their new job at the same time or after Ben Johnson. If you go through the next 8 teams...

Really happy the Vikings signed Cashman. It's great to have a Gopher on the roster after not having one last year after Esezi's release. On the field he seems like a great fit for Flores defense with his blitzing ability. I think the Vikings have a really nice free agency with their 3...

I really hope the lack of a Spring game is because of roster depth issues and not some sort of paranoia on PJ's part. I have heard speculation elswhere that PJ is either concerned with other teams being able to see what we run OR other teams being able to see our players and poach them after...

Winston seems to be killing it on the recruiting trail with a lot of Dline visits set up for this Spring/Summer. I cannot say the same for some of the other position coaches where we still don't even have a single (at least publicly known) visit set up.

This is a choice. Just like it's a choice to allow past poor results to excuse current poor performance. It was a very bad omen when Coyle did that interview with Andy Greder and the topic of " Minnesota only being in X number of tournaments in X number of years" was brought up in relation to...

I agree with Spottedmuskie in that I was surprised to see the Coaches have Dawson on the 3rd team while the Media had him on the 2nd team. I would have guessed it would be the other way around with the coaches recognizing how big a part of Minnesota's season Dawson was and the media maybe not...

First of all, Ben's answers come off as so entitled to me. You cannot miss the NCAA tournament 4 years in a row and stay employed, "a step" isn't optional for you no matter what your roster looks like at any point next year. Transfers, injuries, whatever, you are completely out of excuses...

Remember when Ben talked about "culture" during his awful first season? That we were supposedly building it? This was an awful "culture" loss. Indiana didn't even play particularly well, we just were completely lethargic from the opening tip. There have been a lot of home games where the...

I haven't been on the board since the Fleck/UCLA thing, but I am pleasantly surprised the majority of posters wouldn't have supported a raise/extension to keep Fleck. 2019 was a long time ago. This last year was absolutely horrific and every year since 2019 has featured some truly terrible...

I went with 10%. There is so much of this season to still play out that there are a lot of unknowns. My working assumption is that Ben will get another year and it will finally be "no bs" time- either make the tournament or you are gone. Garcia- Have to have him back. One of the best...

I have a rough count of 18 coaches currently in the field that are in their first through third year in their current jobs. That's only coaches in leagues getting more than one bid so that's 18 of the 43 bids from non 1 bid leagues. Take out Arizona, UNC, Duke, and Texas and you are still at...

Payne's back to back blocks were the play of the game. The recovery to get back up to get the second was incredibly impressive. As discouraging as the last 30 seconds of regulation was, the response to win in OT was encouraging and incredibly surprising. The Gophers were lucky that Boo Buie...

I don't have a strong opinion on our uniforms. Not sure I have a favorite era of Gopher football uniforms, though I really like addition of Goldy on the helmet and the frequent different uniform combos that have become common under Fleck. I found WAGopher's post above very informative about...

I try to talk myself in to other guys, but we really NEED Muss. He checks the 3 biggest boxes for me in a way nobody else does. 1. He's won at both Nevada and Arkansas 2. He's experienced and successful in both getting talent out of the portal and getting that talent to gel together in to...

Coaching once again was poor. Up 2 with the ball, we try to drain clock with more than 2 minutes left. You could see the Hawkins turnover coming a mile away very reminiscent of JOJ against Michigan State last game from the perspective of it being very easy to see. Drain clock again in a tied...

First Iowa road win of the season and they did it fairly easily. Otzelberger punked this Iowa team 90-65 at home. Iowa State was 0-18 in the Big 12 the year before Otzelberger and 2-22 overall. It's absolutely ridiculous that we're in year 3 and some are still pointing to hopefully making...

Still an absolute f$#%^$ disaster

There is no way 7-13 in your 3rd year in a high major conference should get you a 4th season. He would be 13-46 in conference play in your hypothetical scenario. Being horrible beyond belief through your first two seasons doesn't make 7-13 some sort of accomplishment, especially when you are...

I don't know if my anger/disappointment about this hire should be directed at the University, at Mark Coyle or at PJ Fleck. We lose our defensive coordinator, not to a promotion, but to the same position at Michigan State. We then go to a former position coach here in Joe Harasymiak who was...