I live in a college town and help students with college choices. Tons of them do not want to our flagship school, University of Colorado, because they grew up here. They just want a change. Boulder is a great town, CU is a fun school....but the majority of the students with whom I work do not...
Having Minnesota kids in the program builds a fan base. If a guy from your high school is on the team, don't you cheer for him just a little bit louder? If a small town sends a guy to Minnesota, I can promise you that entire town will watch the games (and subsequently become fans). I agree...
It's because they rank them in a model that rewards the number of recruits. PJ gets a lot of recruits in June. Look at the average rating for now and compare that. Our recruiting has improved tons under Fleck and we are on track to do that again. I wouldn't worry until the end of July....
We had no depth. Our starters were fine until they got worn down and injuries started popping up, covid hit etc. It would have been a different team if we had more than one guy who could contribute off the bench.
We are #22 in population so if we are #17 in basketball players we do well for our size. And yes, with only one high major, we can do better but once again, we are in rebuilding mode.
To balance the classes, I doubt you'd want more than 4 recruits from most classes unless you can get a really good one. We were so unbalanced last year. Next year we'll probably be unbalanced again but not as much. I also think as Minnesota improves they'll be able to get better recruits. I...
You have to think we are playing without 4 starters as Fox and Ihnen would have likely been starters too...probably only Willis would have started if all of our 12 scholarship players were able to play.
I just love this team. What heart! What skill! What teamwork! What coaching! And Ben did it without three assistants and Fox, Ihnen, Curry, Battle, Ramberg and Stephens. And we only have 12 scholarship players to begin with....just WOW!
Schools are ranked on the difficulty getting accepted and the size of their endowments. They are not ranked out outcomes. I think you would find that talented people that go to other good schools education-wise, received a comparable education. I saw one study out of Princeton that said as...
They aren't DIII they are FCS which allows 63 scholarships but the Ivy League doesn't allow any. That being said, Harvard does, like most Ivy League schools, offer very generous financial aid rewards to all economically eligible students.
Wow! These guys are the best. They came within 3 in the last 5 minutes of a game where we have 6 players out (Fox and Ihnen too). So much heart but also talent. They play as a team. Extremely well-coached and never give up. This is the easiest Gopher basketball team to support in a long...
Considering Harvard doesn't have merit scholarships (neither academic nor athletic) and he had to pay to go there, I would assume he went there to get a Harvard degree before he transferred out.