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It seems like they might have put every scholarship transfer in the "others to watch" category that Athlon didn't put on their All Portal team. I think the Gophers will likely need one of the transfer CB's in the "others to watch" to end up on the post season All Portal team if we're going to...

So I thought Ijeboi took the scholarship that could have gone to Riggs. We might have seen the writing on the wall with Riggs when he didn't commit on his visit or we simply liked Ijeboi as much and took his commitment during that next big visit weekend. Well, maybe it's possible we still...

A lot of them were Minnesota's decision, but in fairness to Ryan he has to be careful how he words that. I am sure he depends on the staff for a lot of his recruiting information and it just doesn't benefit them at all to have "Minnesota pulled the offer" out there in print (or video/audio)...

The playoff part seems wildly optomistic, but I am not sure why the default expectation is not that the Gophers should at least be in the same tier with Iowa and Wisconsin. They were arguably better than both teams last year and Iowa lost two 1st round picks and an early 2nd rounder to the NFL...

Just catching up and read the Muss thread and now this one. The biggest frustration is that Muss was a clear choice over Pitino a decade ago and Dutcher was a clear choice over Johnson 2 years ago. Whether either is willing to be the next coach or not, we've made back to back wild hires of...

For what it is worth, Barreiro had "Muss was interested" at least as far back as the day the Johnson hire was announced. It was very much in line with the idea that it wouldn't have take a huge raise to get him to Minnesota. If you know the people that Barrerio is associated with that have...

This reads much more like the Tubby era than the Pitino era. I believe we were ranked for like a total of 8 weeks or something ridiculous like that during Pitino's entire tenure. Half of that time was at the start of his 5th season which started going off the rails before Lynch was removed...

The disaster scenario is a number under whatever it takes to make the NCAA tournament that gets cited as "impovement" so there is a fourth year that almost certainly won't result in an NCAA tourament and end Ben's tenure. Then we've wasted 2 years when Ben easily could have been fired after this...

This is a very tough question to assign all/most of the blame to one person. I want to give a few thoughts (going from the theoretical most powerful position on down). The administration: This is the 2nd hire in a row that came in to the Big Ten as the youngest coach in the conference, with...

I want to see the "U" show that these rivalry games are actually important to them beyond lip service. We are currently on a school record 8 game losing streak to Iowa. Wisconsin just fired Paul Chryst who finished his career at 43-18 in the Big Ten. The expectation should be to beat those...

Not sure what the plan is here as many of these games can only hurt a teams resume. I am sure some people remember, but the Gophers were actually lucky to escape their non-conference last year without at least one really bad loss.

Personally, I don't think they need CrAB. I think there is a world where between Daniel Jackson, the two transfers, Brockington, and Hoskins we're still very good at WR in the unfortunate even that CrAB does not return to form. I'd add in another lineman here in place of CrAB. I think we...

Possibly still the stadium? The Athletic Department debt comes up fairly regularly and, if I remember correctly, it's not an apples to apples comparison with other Universities. Schools differ with what they consider Athletic Department debt and the U is (*shockingly) very strict on what it...

It was us and Oklahoma on Grier at the end with BYU and some others also involved. None of us on the board at that time had any idea Grier could/would have the type of impact he had. Unfortunately Grier (and DeAndre Mathieu years later) kind of turned in to pumpkins after strong first years...

This is the 3rd or 4th way too early power ranking I've seen, and each one has had Minnesota last.

Tyler Burton would significantly improve Ben Johnson's chances of keeping his job. Hopefully the connection to Coach Jenkins is enough for Coach Johnson to get a chance to make his pitch. Obviously we need to prioritize talent over position, but Nelson being a 4/5 makes him far less of a need...

You shouldn't expect anything after 2 major knee injuries. Anything either player can contribute should be looked at as found money.

I am not understanding how you come to this conclusion. 9 "pretty good" recruits? The majority of these recruits had little to no other high major offers. Ben has won a grand total of 1 recruiting battle in 3 years which was to land Cam Christie and even that one is a bit of a mystery. I...

Man I wouldn't have guessed we were that low...below Purdue? Yikes. We must have had like a 10 player lead ahead of Iowa (and maybe Wisconsin) before like the mid 80's given how many first rounders each of them have had in more recent years.

Kind of in between your line of thought and some of the rosier comments in this thread. The kid is 6'4 and is a verified good athlete with his track results from high school. I also don't think it should be discounted that he played as a true Freshman for Miami including starting a game. Kids...