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  1. Great Plains Gopher

    Let's have a Gopherhole prediction thread

    NC - win RI - win NV- win Iowa - loss @Mich - loss USC - loss @UCLA - loss MD - win @ ILL - win @Rutgers - loss Penn State - loss @Wisconsin - win 6-6 and a bowl
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    Conference Realignment Updates

    More insanity. This is what social anarchy looks like, driven by greed, and with no local government to keep order (the NCAA is now fatally neutered).
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    Conf. title game needed anymore?

    It's all terrible - every part of it, from poaching the best teams from other conferences, to having a fan-killing 18 team conference with no divisions, to the 12 team playoff debacle, to the NIL outrages, to the easy transfer rules. It's all anarchy. The only hope is a strong effective...
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    ANNUAL GOPHERHOLE PICTORIAL COUNTDOWN TO GOPHERS SEASON OPENER!!

    This happens so often that it shows an indifference to the Spring Game and to the fans.
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    Which college football teams are most helped — and hurt — by conference realignment?

    B10 better form some kind of regional divisions again because no one is going to care about team #11 or lower. The old rules have to be brought back about transferring to end the chaos, and the NCAA has to go back into federal court to get a measure of sane governance back in its hands - all the...
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    Ohio State football Buck'Eyeing' the Big Ten: Minnesota Golden Gophers

    Adding the PCC to our schedule is lunacy - only the wealthy will flourish (Ohio St., Michigan, Penn St.) It's a disaster for us. Money is all that counts now. An 18-team league with no divisions, stuffed with powerful teams from the West Coast. Lunacy. Chip is probably right as to a bowl under...
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    3 most overrated Big Ten football coaches ahead of 2024 (3. PJ Fleck, Minnesota)

    I remember when he was at Vanderbilt - I was living in Atlanta and watched every Vandy game I could because I was certain he was a coach of the future, though I thought he's stay in the SEC.
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    Shama: Expanded Playoff Breath of Fresh Air for Gopher Football

    The 12-team playoff is a jerry-bult mess - 4 teams can skip the first round, conference champions get in ahead of higher rated teams, it creates a second season, and the Gophers, with PAC heavyweights now wrongly in the conference are unlikely to get near the playoffs. NIL is not on our side...
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    Vote expected this week to settle NCAA class-action lawsuit

    More craziness - will jack up costs into more $billions and lead to labor unions among players. This is what happens when federal judges mess up local governing bodies. The NCAA had it right for decades: full ride scholarships were pay enough.
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    How Good is New Gophers QB Max Brosmer?

    What if AK is a big success at Rutgers? That will make the Gopher coaches look bad.
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    Doogie says Payne got “north of $500K, more than entire Gophers” payroll

    It's an unsustainable system - back to the Stone Age. The NCAA should sue for its previous authority and take it all the way to the Supreme Court, where they might get a better hearing considering the confusion and harm now from not having some overall authority with teeth.
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    Big Ten football power rankings after spring portal closes (16. Minnesota)

    Psychological counseling needed for Goopher fans to bring excitement to the issue of whether we beat out someone for 15th place or 16th of 18. having no divisions in the swollen conference remains a terrible idea. It can't last.
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    Nebraska Spring Game

    60,000 turned out to watch wunderbar QB Dylan Raiola complete 16 of 22 passes for 240 yards and two TDs. He's living up to the hype - definitely can throw the long ball accurately. The back-up QBs looked good, too. With an easier schedule, Huskers could win eight games this year. They benefited...
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    Spring Game Future?

    Nebraska will draw 80,000 for its spring game - and they have to buy tickets. We will draw zero and apparently not be on BTN. In the crazy situation college football is in today, you need every bit of exposure and publicity you can get (revolving door portal, poaching players with cash, etc.)...
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    Are changes to portal possible?

    Federal court decisions are further mucking up the NIL situation as far as the NCAA is concerned, but could the NCAA return to the one year sit-out for transfers? That would go a long way toward reducing the anarchy we see in college football today.
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    New Gophers QB Max Brosmer hitting 'sweet spot' in transition to Big Ten play

    Atkinson's books are terrific. Take a look at the trilogy on the Pacific War by Ian Toll - amazing.
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    Kris K in the portal

    As PJ said re football: "It's like the pros, but with every player a free agent and no salary caps."
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    NO SPRING GAME! Gophers start spring practice March 21; open practice for the public is April 11

    Nebraska draws 85,000 to its Spring Game, while we don't have one. The Spring Game was always a tonic for the most dedicated fans, but fans are becoming less important as revenues from TV contracts grow faster than ticket sales. Only Lou Holtz made a big deal out of Spring Games, pulling 40,000...
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    247 predicts Gophers will go 1-8 and finish 17th in Big Ten

    Will be a tough season - being in a conference with 18 teams and no divisions is a poor incentive for fans, maybe even for the team. None of the West Coast teams should be in the B10 - they should have worked out a separate conference relationship in which the Pac-12 was B10#2 and each team...



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