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I agree with Spottedmuskie in that I was surprised to see the Coaches have Dawson on the 3rd team while the Media had him on the 2nd team. I would have guessed it would be the other way around with the coaches recognizing how big a part of Minnesota's season Dawson was and the media maybe not...

First of all, Ben's answers come off as so entitled to me. You cannot miss the NCAA tournament 4 years in a row and stay employed, "a step" isn't optional for you no matter what your roster looks like at any point next year. Transfers, injuries, whatever, you are completely out of excuses...

Remember when Ben talked about "culture" during his awful first season? That we were supposedly building it? This was an awful "culture" loss. Indiana didn't even play particularly well, we just were completely lethargic from the opening tip. There have been a lot of home games where the...

I haven't been on the board since the Fleck/UCLA thing, but I am pleasantly surprised the majority of posters wouldn't have supported a raise/extension to keep Fleck. 2019 was a long time ago. This last year was absolutely horrific and every year since 2019 has featured some truly terrible...

I went with 10%. There is so much of this season to still play out that there are a lot of unknowns. My working assumption is that Ben will get another year and it will finally be "no bs" time- either make the tournament or you are gone. Garcia- Have to have him back. One of the best...

I have a rough count of 18 coaches currently in the field that are in their first through third year in their current jobs. That's only coaches in leagues getting more than one bid so that's 18 of the 43 bids from non 1 bid leagues. Take out Arizona, UNC, Duke, and Texas and you are still at...

Payne's back to back blocks were the play of the game. The recovery to get back up to get the second was incredibly impressive. As discouraging as the last 30 seconds of regulation was, the response to win in OT was encouraging and incredibly surprising. The Gophers were lucky that Boo Buie...

I don't have a strong opinion on our uniforms. Not sure I have a favorite era of Gopher football uniforms, though I really like addition of Goldy on the helmet and the frequent different uniform combos that have become common under Fleck. I found WAGopher's post above very informative about...

I try to talk myself in to other guys, but we really NEED Muss. He checks the 3 biggest boxes for me in a way nobody else does. 1. He's won at both Nevada and Arkansas 2. He's experienced and successful in both getting talent out of the portal and getting that talent to gel together in to...

Coaching once again was poor. Up 2 with the ball, we try to drain clock with more than 2 minutes left. You could see the Hawkins turnover coming a mile away very reminiscent of JOJ against Michigan State last game from the perspective of it being very easy to see. Drain clock again in a tied...

First Iowa road win of the season and they did it fairly easily. Otzelberger punked this Iowa team 90-65 at home. Iowa State was 0-18 in the Big 12 the year before Otzelberger and 2-22 overall. It's absolutely ridiculous that we're in year 3 and some are still pointing to hopefully making...

Still an absolute f$#%^$ disaster

There is no way 7-13 in your 3rd year in a high major conference should get you a 4th season. He would be 13-46 in conference play in your hypothetical scenario. Being horrible beyond belief through your first two seasons doesn't make 7-13 some sort of accomplishment, especially when you are...

I don't know if my anger/disappointment about this hire should be directed at the University, at Mark Coyle or at PJ Fleck. We lose our defensive coordinator, not to a promotion, but to the same position at Michigan State. We then go to a former position coach here in Joe Harasymiak who was...

The Hawkins drive and dish to JOJ for the dunk that was our last bucket felt like something we haven't seen from a PG at Minnesota in a long, long time. We've had guys make plays off the bounce for themselves in late game situations, but not somebody who made plays for someone else. Payne also...

I had a chance to watch parts of a number of bowl games over the past couple of weeks and it really had me thinking about the Gophers offense. Most of us are aware that the stats show that are passing offense is anemic, but watching a wide variety of teams play really hammered home how behind...

At least it seems like a bottom 4 spot in the B1G will definitely be a termination. How much further up the standings Ben needs to get than that certainly seems up for interpretation which seems like par for the course for anything Coyle ever says publicly.

I'd say they are a mystery to me. I would be somewhere between better than expected and about what I expected. I don't think we can talk about one bad half against Missouri without acknowledging that one good half against Nebraska is what got us our only win against credible opposition. For...

Had not had a chance to get on the board in awhile, and just wanted to comment on Koi sticking with his Gopher commitment. With the way this season played out followed by Jide decommitting and our transfer portal class (to date) being filled with more question marks than proven commoditites...

I have a lot of negative opinions on that bowl game, the season, and the state of the program, but PJ deserves credit for getting his group to give an effort in this bowl game. The last 3 bowl games have all come in situations where a lot of teams would have checked out because they didn't...