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Brosmer was identical or better than Drake in almost every meaningful QB stat and isn't anywhere close to an NFL starting caliber QB. Drake looked great for a freshman but he needs to get a lot better to get drafted in the first few rounds and it seems more likely to take 2-3 years than 1. If...

Wasn't there a lot of talk from Arkansas fans about Drake Lindsey transferring early in the off-season before he shut it down? It sounds like his family also stopped donating to Arkansas within the past year or two, right when money became more important to college sports than ever before.

The fake ID is a bigger deal than the underage drinking. Neither are among the worst things college athletes have done but both are much worse than the Demry Croft door incident. It's also worse as the leader of the offense who is supposed to set an example for the team on and off the field...

Fleck's made a big deal about the culture and the expectations he holds the team to off the field. That makes it harder to brush it under the rug and give him a meaningless punishment. If you make him run a couple of extra laps and he starts the first game next season it's hard to keep selling...

I guess I'm lumping in other disruptions where they still played the game but it was closed to the public, had limited attendance, or moved it to a weekday. In 9 years, 2017 was the only Saturday traditional spring game fully open to the public. 2018 was fully open but held on a weeknight due...

What are the odds they actually play it? From what I remember it was canceled more often than not in years when they announced it.

If football is running at a $54 million profit and athletics in total is running at a $2 million profit, that means football is subsidizing over $50 million in losses from the other sports. Lack of money shouldn't be an excuse for not having a good enough coaching staff or roster to compete...

Chernoff's page says he "oversees all off-field aspects of the Minnesota football program" which implies he manages salaries and contracts. If he's paid $400k a year which is top 25 in CFB, I would hope he's managing more than facilities and support staff.

The Vikings OL has been poor and held back the Vikings for 5+ years across many different QBs. Max wouldn't look good in the NFL in any setting but he would certainly look better with time to throw, although if the OL was better maybe JJ doesn't get hurt and Max never plays.

Max can't catch a break, he's made more than his share of mistakes but he isn't getting any help from receivers or the line.

He looked really good some games but also had a bunch of games where he didn't do much - 6 of 13 games with 15 or fewer receiving yards. If he can become more consistent he could be a big contributor.

I would love to be worrying about if Drake is going to the draft or not a year from now.

Both are huge to have coming back next year. The challenge will be having enough depth at DB - all it takes is 1 guy out of 4-5 in the secondary to not be good enough and the offense will pick on him all day. In the Northwestern game and the 3 blowout losses, it felt like there were 1 or 2 DBs...

And if you hire someone who has more than a year of experience coaching a MAC team that was terrible at the position, you'll have a good idea of how good of a coach they are.

If he can coach RBs to play like him then it's a home run hire but there are a lot of good players who make bad coaches and bad players who make good coaches.

Mo coached elsewhere last year but if it wasn't for his playing career, I think a lot of people would be questioning why we hired someone with 1 year of experience coaching the second worst run offense in the MAC. The run game isn't all on the RBs and performance isn't all on the coaches but I...

If he can stay healthy, keeping Taylor, Drake, and Anthony Smith and only losing Koi out of the top tier of names is about the best we could have reasonably expected.

I don't love hiring alumni or guys with previous ties to Fleck or the program because it's easy to overlook their flaws when you're rooting for them. Fruechte seems to have solid experience though and seems like he'd be a decent hire even if he had no previous affiliation or any reason to like him.

We don't have visibility to contracts like in pro sports but this feels a bit like the Vikings letting Cousins go - good player you'd like to have around but expensive, there are other decent and more affordable options, and there are other positions where the money would do more good. He also...

Agreed, it's not a huge concern but it's also not a bright spot. Punting and punt returns were mediocre, kicking and kick coverage were bad.