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To win a conference, you need to recruit players and play a style that allows you to beat half the teams all the time and split with the other half. Easiest to do if you copy cat what the others are doing. Then, players fitting your style of play becomes a premium recruiting consideration. To...

We needed a hire to reinvigorate the program and Whalen was it. Cheryl Reeves convinced Coyle that Wahlan had the talent to coach just needed experience. Super easy decision. Wish this one was as easy.

While not to dismiss coaching and player development, the biggest issue is getting players. In today's world, kids have been told they are "special" almost from the day they are born. The high profile sports stars (football, basketball) are going to go to a school that continues to make them...

No exactly true. Back in the day, the Augsburg Summer league in Si Melby Hall was THE place for the top college and high school players. They had a winner take all tournament at the end - every team got in. One year, we seriously out performed our talent level and found ourselves in the...

I want to temper this a bit. PJ has a great talent in creating culture. Culture is becoming a bigger and bigger part of the NFL locker room. Makes sense that NFL GM might want to pick his brain - especially on that topic. The NFL has a well earned reputation for being leeches on every aspect...

I just don't want Alabama - not because of football reasons - but I think we get screwed in the media coverage / narrative. I want the media to be all about us as the feel good story. Not about how many Alabama players are going pro. And not about Suban whining. Football wise - I am thrilled...

I think Auburn is a more talented team than us, but the narrative is far different win or lose. I think we could give them a reasonably competitive game. So I'm all in for the try.

Personally, I want nothing to do with Alabama. For a reason different than what you might think. It is very likely that several Alabama potential NFL draft picks will sit out the game. First time these kids aren't playing for the National Championship - and they aren't going to risk injury in...

Lots of comments on Fleck here - but nothing really on the one issue that concerns me the most. HC need to be a lot of things - recruiters, motivators, administrators, PR masters, fundraisers, tacticians, game mangers, etc. It is very rare to find a college football coach who is successful at...

Just got a FaceBook posting. Because BigTen2Go remains down. Follow the link http://video.btn.com/allaccess/?media=404113 Go Gophers!

cuts away from your game on ALL 4 of their feeds, to give you Iowa and Indiana, you know you have hit bottom. I want to cry.

per Star Tribune. Press conference at 1 PM

That's enough. The sound goes off at 18:12 of the 1st.

ever again after watching the Lady Gophers. With less than 4 minutes remaining in the 1st half, our Lady Gophers have put up 6(!!!) points against Purdue. 3 of which were a "prayer" 3 pointer. They are perfectly running the "pass it around the zone until the shot clocks runs down so that you...

With all due respect to Schnoodler, his scoop will simply not make it into print. But I have one: ================= A secret MN Forum is closely monitoring an increased level of activity surrounding rival gangs from Madison and Minneapolis. Indications are there is some bad blood boiling over...

The Good Tulsa, Auburn, Maryland and Baylor lose, Temple wins Utah wins The Bad Mississippi State still alive The Ugly USC wins - gets auto bid No more upsets PLEASE!! (Come on Utah!!)

I was thinking about the BCS mess again this year trying to come up with a solution. What if football adopted the basketball "Bracket Buster" concept? For those that don't follow basketball, the Bracket Buster are late season games scheduled for high ranking mid majors and major conference...