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Minnesota isn't the only P5 school that won't hold a traditional spring game.

I don't believe that there is any sanctioned tailgating for baseball (or any sport other than football). That said, I have never heard a peep when I have done low key tailgating before baseball games in Lot 37. Don't set up a canopy, blast music or break out the beer bong and you will probably...

Sure there is and volunteering for a Friday slot MEA weekend might make sense for the reasons you stated. The post I was responding to phrased it like a demand. The image of Coyle marching into the Big Ten offices and saying "we will host on MEA Friday and that’s it" made me laugh.

I don't object to the sentiment, but the idea of Minnesota trying to make any scheduling demands to the conference made me laugh. At this point, I am afraid that our position in the conference is to keep our heads down and try to survive in the Big Ten until the new order is established and...

I also can't tell you who is in and who is out, but EA is saying that the opt in rate nationally is about 90%.

Wait, so most of the money goes to the team with 100+ members vs. the team with 15? Shocking. Next let's see if Pat can tell us which team spends more on equipment!

It does seem possible, however, to overestimate it. :)

You aren't wrong.

Two of my favorites: Dr. Bombay on Bewitched and Colonel Crittendon on Hogan's Heroes, both portrayed by prolific Welsh actor Bernard Fox.

If either one of those guys knew how to throw a punch someone could have been seriously injured.

It's their team and they can obviously run it as they see fit. But comparing it to "regular business" isn't really persuasive in my opinion. In a "regular business" if you were losing money every year the value of that business would typically be declining, not increasing exponentially. Carl...

He makes me smile, too! One of my favorite memories at the Met was watching Landreaux triple three times in a game against the Rangers.

Can't argue with that. My hope is that the NCAA (or whatever takes its place as the overseer of college sports) levels the playing field because I am afraid that the open marketplace isn't going to be one where Minnesota competes successfully. I don't know how it came to be, but the soccer...

Appreciate the thorough response. I agree that the focus seems to clearly be on football and basketball, but I suspect that is because that is where the donor dollars are, both locally and nationally, and that creates a greater urgency to participate. I'd be surprised and disappointed to learn...

Are you suggesting that DA has the money for softball and isn't allocating it correctly? Or that there are donors out there ready, willing and able to fund NIL for softball and DA isn't willing to work with them? My understanding (and my knowledge is limited so I could certainly be mistaken)...

Wouldn't solve all the issues, but perhaps it should be required that the student section be located opposite of where the visiting team needs to go after the game. In a lot of these instances, including this one and the Clark knockdown, it seems that the conflict is the players trying to get...

You may be right and the advantages that their emphasis on football gives them will never go away. My vision is largely premised on the idea that, eventually, the Mississippi States and Kentuckys of the south will see that they aren't ever going to get any closer to the playoffs than the...

I don't know your life expectancy, but I tend to disagree. I may be overly optimistic, but I think that the playoff is going to go from 12 to 16 and then probably 24 or more. As overall revenues increase some form of compensation agreement will be reached with the players and NIL (or booster...

Had a buddy back in the day who would order his subs with extra lettuce and extra oil. It was a mess.

Cannon Man definitely made it to TCF Bank Stadium. Can't say how long he lasted there, but there was at least one premature cannon blast that led to some discussion about whether the tradition should continue.