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The only reason he doesn’t recruit those players is because he can’t get them at Minnesota.

Agreed, the market is what people are willing to pay. Now if some schools and their fanbases are upset that they can’t afford the price, that’s a you problem that those schools and fanbases need to address with fundraising for their programs. It isn’t the responsibility of financial...

this is the year if any for PJ to leave and get an upgraded position. A ton of good job openings and not a ton of proven winners. Not a good year to have a job opening if not a blue blood, those schools will all be fighting over table scraps

I think it’s two things. 1. Like PJ says he isn’t for everyone, including coaches. 2. He doesn’t have the money to hire elite coaches. Most elite coaches have a dream of being a head coach but to do that they need elite talent to put up stats for the side of the ball they are coordinating...

Not a ton more than Minnesota but again, has Iowa’s success been that much different or substantially better than Minnesota’s during the PJ tenure? Neither program is a serious contender to win the Big Ten. Are you wanting to scrap it all to try and hope to get a Ferentz level production(I.e...

At some point you have to face reality. Little to no in-state talent, poor fan support and no big money donors. You have to fix those issues first otherwise you’re just shuffling the deck chairs on the titanic. There isn’t a Nick Saban walking into Huntington Bank stadium that could overcome...

Do you really want to fire him with the jobs already open or likely to be open by seasons end. How many of those open jobs are worse than the gophers from a financial/NIL and in-state talent standpoint. Not many are worse which means the gophers aren’t likely to get a proven winner as a...

Massive talent disparity especially related to speed

The point is that a tv contract for a “super league” would still include the MSP media market with or without the gophers as part of that league.

There are more than enough alums in MSP from schools that would for sure be in a super league that this market would still be available with or without the gophers. That and the fact that people in every market like watching blue blood teams play.

IU is getting some big money booster donations now for NIL, Mark Cuban being one of those boosters.

they ran out of almost all food there a while ago, oops

I wouldn’t be shocked to see Fitzgerald end up in the next few years at either Iowa or Wisconsin

Yep for all the undeserved accolades John Anderson got from the locals, he never took a team to Omaha. Most schools would not allow a coach to last for almost 40 years without achieving that of a major conference program. And as underwhelming as he was the program is trending even lower now...

Cut men’s baseball. They haven’t been seriously competitive for a long time, and winning the occasional big ten and never making it to Omaha isn’t being competitive on a national scale.

Gophers should take note

Part of being an elite coach is being able to get those players. Cooks recruiting is okay, not great because he isn’t getting those elite players.

The answer to your question is no. Cook is a good but wouldn’t say he’s an elite coach. Definitely not enough to overcome talent deficiencies

The AD at Creighton currently is also not well liked by many of his coaches. That factored in as well I would imagine.

I think she is just burned out and wants to watch her daughter play at Northern Iowa