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    Post Game Thread: Gophers Lose Disappointing Game at Rutgers

    North Carolina was already the game we dropped that we should win.
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    Shama: As of last week, the men’s program had sold 4,482 full season tickets including 242 to faculty and staff. That compared with 4,800 for 2023-24.

    If this years out of conference gauntlet and last years dramatic post season run haven't increased season ticket sales, this just proves that there is nothing any coach could do to succeed here. Am I doing this right Pilgrim?
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    First CFP Ranking Released Nov.5

    I read an interesting article at one point discussing whether the point of the playoff field should be to capture the 12 best teams, or set a field designed the identify the best 1 team. I think that applies to undefeated champs of soft conferences. Are they better than the last at large team...
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    First CFP Ranking Released Nov.5

    Id support all conference champs being in. If one of them is really uncooperative, then a home game against that seed is a pretty nice consolation prize to the 5th seed who missed out on a bye by one spot.
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    First CFP Ranking Released Nov.5

    I also like RPI. I think the hockey PWR is good. Agree with you on predictive measures. I think the model should bot be impacted by score differential or any in game stats, other than whether you won or lost, maybe home or away, and opponent.
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    First CFP Ranking Released Nov.5

    I always hated the argument that the smaller field (and even the two team BCS championship) made the games matter more. Florida State played 13 games that didn't matter last year.
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    First CFP Ranking Released Nov.5

    In my opinion, the "eye test" is antithetical to what's supposed to be good about sports. In pro football, it doesn't matter if people like the way you win, think you play the right way, or think that you got lucky and wouldn't win the same number of games if you played the season over. All...
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    Gophers 36th best team in the country per The Athletic.

    Where feels most inequitable about the ranking inertia is when ranked teams beat other ranked teams who end up being bad. I feel like, if we had been ranked when we played USC, we would have gotten a big bump for beating a ranked team, and that bump would not have been adjusted back out of our...
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    Gophers 36th best team in the country per The Athletic.

    I think our record results are consistent with a very middle of the pack big ten team. We are 4-2, but we lost our only game to a B1G team with a winning conference record, we are 1-1 against teams with an even conference record, and 3-0 against B1G teams with a losing conference record. Add in...
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    On the topic of going for 2

    Part of this is what makes football fun. Every strategy has risk and reward. I think going for two was a pretty obvious call given the score and game time, even though there were scenarios where we later wish we had had the one point if we miss it (though, has others have noted, us kicking the...
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    You want a "magic number" for Gophers to hear name called on Selection Sunday? Go with 22

    We've already got two quad 5 wins against hamline and bemidji.
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    ***OFFICIAL MINNESOTA AT ILLINOIS IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

    They aren't mutually exclusive. The people who criticize the conservative play calling aren't asking for reckless decisions at weird times.
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    ***OFFICIAL MINNESOTA AT ILLINOIS IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

    Agreed. That's the kind of thing you do with a lead when you're worried our defense can't stop them. Don't understand why you risk giving them the shortfield when they can't move the ball.
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    ***OFFICIAL MINNESOTA AT ILLINOIS IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

    So we ran the clock at the end of the half because potentially giving Illinois the ball with 45 seconds was too risky. But, when Illinois is down a touchdown and our defense is stopping them, we decide to chance it on a 4th and 12 fake punt?
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    ***OFFICIAL MINNESOTA AT ILLINOIS IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

    We got to 7-1 the following week beating Purdue. We were favored at home the following week against Northwestern, and in my opinion, the highwater mark of the Brewster era came after we erased a 10-0 lead in that game, got a stop to get the ball back in the fourth quarter, and it seemed like...
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    2024-25 Gopher Hockey Season

    To your number 4, Im quite alright with that. A hockey team doesn't need to throw their weight around to be successful, but you can't be successful if you have trouble handling other teams throwing theirs around.
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    Busting Brackets: Big Ten Basketball: Preseason power rankings for 2024-25 season (16. Minnesota)

    It's fun to see that Wisconsin lost to Northern Iowa, but i don't put much stock in secret scrimmage results. I don't know to what extent starters played or the coaches used the scrimmage to test out different combinations or plays.
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    You want a "magic number" for Gophers to hear name called on Selection Sunday? Go with 22

    I'm having a lot of trouble with how I'm going to evaluate the team this year. It feels like just making the tournament would be a big step forward for the coach. But, if we make the tournament and don't get past the first weekend, it still feels like it would be a very inadequate four years...
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    Illinois Point Spread

    But it would have had an amazing spiral! That's how you identify good quarterbacks, right?
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    2024-2025 Gopher Soccer

    This was a really fun regular season. Wish my schedule allowed me to try to go to the home playoff games. Anyone with more knowledge than I have know what we need to make the big tournament? I'm not saying I think we will win the conference tournament, but we've got enough quality wins to...



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