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On the flip side, I wonder how dwindling guarantees will affect the low major side of football. How important are these to keeping the lights on at these schools?

That's about where I am as well. Really excited for Hawkins' speed and playmaking. And his ballhandling along with Mitchell and to a lesser extent Carrington, we should have 3 competent guards. Last year all we had was Cooper and he had some glaring flaws that were exacerbated by being the only...

Thanks for the context. I was a casual fan back then and was not aware! As a father of a 2 year old, that makes sense with Mathieu. Different priorities/stressors.

There are myriad ways to look at next year. I am always optimistic things will be better. Nobody needs to apologize for optimism, but claiming that two players with zero college experience will be markedly better than Jamison Battle doesn't add to the discussion. It comes off as crazy unless you...

Serious question, will you stick around next winter and own up to it if Betts/Cam are not 100x better? I think there is some truth to the "addition via subtraction" by not playing a one-dimensional player out of position...but you claiming this sounds like ridiculous hyperbole. Especially when...

Jamison Battle's 4 year progression of PER (player efficiency rating): 13.0 -> 17.4 -> transfer to Minnesota: 18.3 -> 9.4 Comparison with Gabe Kalscheur: 11.9 -> 11.5 -> 9.3 transfer to Iowa State -> 6.0 -> 12.9 Battle was a more important player to our team in his first year here than...

Do you have an idea how coveted Grier was as a JUCO recruit? And what expectations were for him coming in? I was in college then and paid no attention to recruiting so all I remember was him showing up on the team and being way better than I thought a JUCO transfer would be. I found an article...

This was how Parker responded today to Tony Liebert's tweet with his stats. Obviously cryptic, but I'm guessing he wouldn't be doing that unless he wasn't confident he would be able to contribute.

I'm kinda surprised there is not much Gopher basketball podcast content out there. Ryan James and Luke Buer record a couple podcasts per season but it feels like they could probably 4x their content output. I enjoy them when they come out. I don't mind listening to James but without trying to...

Fair enough -- I didn't realize you had copied the same numbers as Tony's tweet, I had clicked through to the 2nd page. Him comparing Mitchell/Hawkins' numbers at low/mid majors to B10 numbers doesn't make any sense. My mistake. So let's not compound the mistake by using Tony's framing. Do you...

Man, you don't need to cherry pick in this way to make Ben sound bad. Why'd you give us FG% and turnovers, but not include 3P or assists?? His tenure has been a disaster, but you come off as disingenuous when you make omissions like this. ParticuIarly when Hawkins/Mitchell ran point for their...

I don't see it on the ESPN website, either under the Cameron Christie page or the Minnesota page. Was it just a blurb in a bigger story? Do you have a link? That would be great if true.

Where have you seen that Christie is 6'7"? I think you are way exuberantly overconfident about having 4 or 5 on the all conference teams. But yes I hope we play faster and are fun to watch. I know Ola-Joseph and Payne have that in their games. Not sure about Garcia/Betts/Ihnen. I am excited to...

Very interested to see how much Ben lets Hawkins play like this. I for one am very excited for some lob dunks and alley-oops to Ola-Joseph and Payne.

Another nice assist on a backdoor cut: Turnover #5?: Gets penetration on the drive, but then just tosses the ball without much of a chance, this one is his fault, but he immediately steals the ball and gets it to Odom for a layup: Turnover #6, slipped and fell: Turnover #7? No idea how...

Another FT opportunity, I originally thought this was a turnover: Howard gets the ball back with 7 seconds, he is trying to get a last second shot up and steps out of bounds after some forcing contact with the defender, but they call the foul Hero ball long missed 3PT early in possession...

An example of his aggression leading to a defensive lapse, he lunges for the ball which leads to easy penetration for Harris who kicks it out for a 3: Another alley-oop pass that lead to a shooting foul. I think this is the 4th pass like this that has led to a basket or FT opportunity, really...

continued because I can only post 5 YT links at a time: Knocks down a 3 on a kickout after an offensive board: He sat for a while. Came back in the game and made a nice floating pass off the drive that led to a shooting foul: Made a high degree of difficulty drive in traffic, also looked...

I watched the Kansas game to see how Hawkins looked against Harris, the B12 Defensive POY. My biggest takeaway was his quickness and aggression. He took lots of chances on offense and defense, which led to points but also turnovers and allowing his man to get penetration. Thought he was a little...