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Very likely correct and, if the NCAA doesn't start providing some rules with teeth, they might as well shut their doors. He isn't a major celebrity.

The article mentioned the Gophers having a recent video meeting with Tylor Perry of North Texas. He has not been mentioned on this board before (I believe he just dropped into the portal within the last couple of days). He definitely isn't an off-the-bench type! He's another sophomore of...

Yes, the problem with getting only 1 more (even if that person is good) is that, if any of them are injured, you're then down to three guards and that is a very precarious position.

I'd certainly prefer Claudell Harris Jr. (who put us on his visit list) over Ortiz but Harris is visiting some other P6 programs and won't be easy to get. Ortiz isn't rat meat. He was All Freshman Atlantic Sun two years ago and second team as a sophomore last year. He took 7.8 three point...

I agree with your characterization, of course. I actually feel a bit sorry for the new Penn State coach. He inherited a roster with about five players out of eligibility and has had another five enter the transfers portal. He's in the position we were in two years ago and he hasn't picked up...

I'm not sure of the meaning of that reaction but everything he wrote was correct.

Yes, all of us who are paying close attention and have a brain know what we need. The only questions are: 1) will Johnson & Company have the perseverance and determination to get us the depth we should have and 2) assuming the coaches fulfill the first point, how will our set of new players...

Here's a piece of advice: Do not search for prospects using 247 Sports and their star ratings. Caleb Love was very highly rated coming out of high school (#13 RSCI) but his college career has fallen far short of what you would expect from someone of that ranking (Career 13.3 Player Efficiency...

Or the year before (only that time with the front court)

I agree and I think you're probably right about assurances made to those players. In each of his first two offseason, Johnson fell one player short in his offseason portal recruiting. The first year, he failed to get another transfer forward of decent ability so we had to rely on a physically...

I guess people will ridicule Ben Johnson for the Taurus Samuels recruitment for the indefinite future but I think it's fair to take a closer look at the likely decision making that went into that. It appears that Johnson was recruiting two things with that choice: 1) a backup point guard who...

Actually, it was a Supreme Court decision that started the ball rolling and states enacted their own laws to conform with that decision. If you look at the Minnesota NIL law, it mainly requires state institutions to allow athletes to participate in NIL and is silent about most other issues...

The only freshman that Ben Johnson should even consider recruiting at this time of year would be one of stature who has de-committed. The focus of spring recruiting is experienced transfers who have shown something in college already. Ben Johnson has to have the George Allen philosophy: "The...

Of course there are ways! Determining reasonable compensation for services is something that is done in business all of the time and even the tax law has established guidelines for that issue. This sort of thing appears to have been done already for the smaller stuff (personal appearances...

I don't remember what the national publications were saying about the Gophers heading into the 2019 season but a number of Big Ten fan pages were saying that the Gophers could be contenders in the West. Prognosticators on one of the biggest Nebraska sites were particularly high on the Gophers...

UCONN is a 7.5 favorite against SDSU. That's doesn't seem like enough. Miami's 13 point loss is the closest any opponent has come to them in this tournament. This tournament seemed to be special because it featured 3 final four teams who had never gone this far with two of them being...

From 1989-90 through 2016-17, the Spurs had one losing season (1996-97) but that 20-62 season was enough to get them top pick Tim Duncan who certainly was one of the best #1 picks in history. Boy, timing is everything!!

Very good free throw shooter and gets to the line a fair amount (5.7 free throw attempts per 40 minutes this year). Had 21 free throw attempts against Boston College and hit 17 of them.

I meant start a new thread about whatever off-track subject is being discussed. People are kind of lazy about starting new threads here so you end up with ridiculously long threads that have long since departed from their original focus.

Good guy. Apparently good coach. It's been a tough job lately. Doesn't seem like it should be though particularly with USC and UCLA leaving the conference.