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I’ve resisted putting MPLS on ignore so I can check in on the one in ten posts he makes that contributes something rational and helpful to the board. Pilgrim has been in the auto delete pile for quite some time. It’s easy to scroll through mpls pissing matches without reading or participating.

Vintage falling on a styrofoam sword.

Tampering isn't good, but to survive this game, all programs need to have their eyes open to possibilities long before the portal window opens. No coach with any common sense is going to starting at zero at the end of the season. They need to know who they can target and be ready to recruit as...

He’s serviceable but playing the point doesn’t maximize his strengths as an effective catch and shoot guy. The more he handles the ball the less effective he was shooting. Hopefully, Asuma can run the point right away. No other options yet.

I don’t know much but I do know the Gillis situation at Purdue was a matter of roster space. He was going into 5th year and with incoming players, no room in the inn. Wasn’t a rush for money by him.

I think a majority of people believe that the NCAA is an entity unto itself. Thus the bureaucracy is blamed for the mess because it’s easier to grasp if all the blame is in one place. The greater problem is no leadership among the member institutions to bring some semblance of education back...

Al, Herb Carneal, and Ray Christensen define my youth and probably collectively kept me out of a lot trouble. Way worse things could be done staying up after bed time than listening to the North Stars play the Kings. Few people have no enemies. All I heard about Al is he was one of them. RIP.

Time a modern version of Kennesaw Mountain Landis!

Of course not, but smart administrators figured out thirty years ago that giving sport’s importance grows affinity for the school and raises money for things other than sports too. Wisconsin is a good example. Lots of universities in the south have upgraded on the back of sports programs giving...

The situation smells of getting chased out of a scholarship because the team didn’t want to invest in rehabilitation. They might with a better player. Good example of the dark side of zero commitment environment. Some guy from the Twin Cities suburbs gets life changing cash while a kid from...

If that happens, set up a preseason game with the Aggies just to give them Battle x 2. Great promotion opportunity too. Benedict Arnold three corner hats. Tee shirts with a growling Goldy chasing down the dodgers. I’m sure creative people could figure out something better.

Real data. That's refreshing.

For them to do what they need to do will require the kind of courage that few bureaucrats and systems people have. I hope some leadership emerges from all this. I may not have the right sources, but it is shocking that more people involved in the education mission of universities have not spoken...

Paid losers like professional wrestling.

Death to non revenue sports.

Probably not Akron though.

And those member school presidents have been led by the nose for fifty years by the NCAA bureaucracy that churned out money. The current consolidation of money and power into the hands of too few might just be the impetus for the rest to stand up and try to be heard as they demand a reasonable...

I’m sure the courts will extend it if there is a commission to be collected by a grifter.

And this is what causes universities who take education seriously to ditch the enterprise completely.