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I will increase my disrespect for Iowa to cover you. You're welcome.

I don’t “cheer” for anyone but the Gophers. But I absolutely pull for any and every B1G team playing out of conference. This topic comes up a lot. Someone always says “I’ve never understood the conference pride thing.” Each time, I post a long reply explaining exactly why I enjoy college sports...

Well said. It isn't just his delivery, which makes the games he is calling feel BIG and also can be downright memorable (like when he called the mixed up punt in the historic MSU/Michigan game), but also his knowledge and prep work. He just seems to know everything about everyone and works in...

yeah, mostly thinking college football but I did mention McDonough's work on college hockey and women's basketball so pretty much anything is fair game. And I also mentioned Dave Lee (I think he just does HS stuff now) and that was just pretty much to rage bait.

I have been around here for so long, and I am just boring enough - That I can't remember if I have called this out before. Oh well, if so... apologies and perhaps a new discussion on announcers this off season will be fun anyway. I have my favorites and quite frankly it is easier for me to...

If this happens, I would rather see the focus be the creation of space for playoff games starting around Thanksgiving instead of inserting a second bye week in a 12 game season for teams that have rosters numbering over 100 players. Two bye weeks for college football has always seemed excessive...

I think the worst thing when the Gophers have someone notable transfer out, or a highly rated recruit chooses a different team - is the never ending threads that cover how they are doing at rival schools. I know it is my choice to even open threads like this (and to be fair to myself, I didn't...

I always sigh when I see Nebraska on someone’s blue blood list. Anywhere on any blue blood list. The closest they come now is their argument related to a big loyal fanbase. But the sellout streak is a hoax (corps buying out unsold tickets) and if that is enough to be a blue blood then Iowa is...

Every year, rinse and repeat. “Experts” predict 5-6 wins in the offseason, followed by 7-8 actual wins. Nearly always better, but not so much better it registers with anyone enough to alter their new rounds of predictions.

Gustavus (currently ranked 7th nationally) with a record of 26-2 is hosting the first two rounds of their NCAA regional this upcoming Friday/Saturday. They are the only MIAC team to make the tourney this year (WIAC has FOUR) and they open with Bethany Lutheran out of Mankato. Bethany is only...

I think a lot about the 2018 season. The Gophers were coming off a shaky 2017 as Fleck's year 0 and had faded, followed by some rough outings in 2018 where I said to myself it might be time to admit Fleck isn't going to work out. But, Along came an upset of Purdue on a very cold semi-snowy day...

It is 3 hours, 55 minutes from Minneapolis to Lutsen - as sort of an interesting comparison. With Duluth somewhat in the middle.

This is the only reason I opened this thread. I simply need an “ol’ Jer’ is a ball coach” injection every few months to keep my corpuscles jumpin’

Imagine the last description of you highlighting the fact you were completely ignorant of something you had so much passion about.

excellent suggestion. I hadn't thought about that option.

We'll be staying at my Brother's house outside of Tacoma. Looking forward to the trip to the pacific northwest but at this point I am not sure if it is going to be a flight and a four day weekend, or a leisurely drive including some national parks and a week off to accomplish it.

Other than hoping he doesn't get hurt, which I wish for every football player on every team - He is dead to me now and I am already annoyed at every thread that will start up here every time he intercepts a pass, gets mentioned in an article, etc. Just seeing this thread and then making it...

We may lose Fleck someday but if so it will be to a program that he see’s as a better opportunity to win, not one that has already been surpassed.

So fair enough. You are predicting the future. But, you have mentioned a couple times that it is a rabid fan base. What am I missing if they typically fall 3K or more short of selling out their 19K stadium now? By percentage, that seems pretty similar to Gopher football ticket sales in a 51K...

The math ain’t mathing to me if it is “a biggish school with a rabid fan base” but play in a 19,000 seat stadium that averages around 16k attendance through times of great success at their level. That doesn’t seem very big-12-like to me.