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If Ben's high water mark was winning one NIT game, that only seemed like any kind of an accomplishment because of how historically bad his first two seasons were. When your best finish is worse than the season that got a coach fired in 2013, then things are not going well for the program.

Certainly tough to do so. That's why it behooves you to defend well enough to not let the opponent shoot 64%.

I was just about to ask if winning the national title is better than beating Michigan in Columbus.

Back to the never ending discussion of playing to win vs not to lose, playing to win is throwing it deep on 3rd and 11 to virtually end the game. Playing not to lose would have been running into the pile to make ND burn their last timeout before punting and giving them the ball with meaningful...

Two things can be true at the same time. (1) Johnson had been the worst coach of my time following the Gophers and deserves to be fired and (2) it is a lot of fun to beat a ranked Michigan team at home. That game didn't change number1 , which i have talked about plenty and don't need to pick the...

I don't like blaming refs for losses, and I'm not here, because the team made plenty of mistakes, but I think i counted 6 obvious Notre Dame penalties that weren't called in late 3rd/OT. Whether we "blame" them or not, they were awful.

They got exposed!

I don't hate the idea as much as some on here, but I'd prefer a proven winner as a head coach at the D1 level. He is an assistant at a winning NBA team, so hopefully he's getting a chance to see what right looks like at a high level in terms of in game coaching, but the recruiting aspect of...

I've always thought the "they wouldn't be this good if they had to run the power conference gauntlet" was cheap circular logic used by people who claimed a 12-0 midmajor wasn't very good to try to explain away them beating a top team in a bowl game. Easy to say and impossible to disprove. Sure...

All conference champs + at largest filled by PWR!

If we get a new coach, and they post a better B1G winning percentage than Johnson at the same University, will you admit that coaching has some bearing on performance?

If the narrative that Johnson was not Coyle's pick and he can't fire him, Coyle should have quit. Coaching decisions are the AD'S job, so you need to be able to say "either I'm the AD or I'm not." That would be the same thing I would expect Fleck to do if Coyle tried dictating to him who starts...

A little off topic, but the single worst call i ever saw in any level of football was an intramural flag football game I played in at the U. We were in defense, one of my players jumped the route, leapt in front of the receiver, and intercepted the football. The ref through a flag on him for...

I the out cream puff non conference point is well taken, though we also had a non-con loss against a top 10 TCU team. I think where our analyses probably differ is that I don't see "leaving wins on the table" as a plus factor. Assuming equal schedules (and obviously no two schedules are...

I feel like the extent to which he has elevated us to a new level is overstated. We had 8-4 regular seasons 3 of 4 years before he arrived, and that is basically the level we are still at (and now we have been below that level for back to back seasons). I still think he has been an upgrade for...

If only we were like the good teams, where players never need to try to make free throws while fans make noise. With hurdles like that, no wonder we are struggling.

If we would have played to those 4 or 5 win expectations, it would have been a pretty awful year (the fact that prognosticators expected us to be bad doesnt mean it is less bad if we are as bad as they expect). Also, the schedule is a lot less daunting if you look at postseason rankings than it...

The B1G would dominate it, and then the SEC apologists would say that you can't make judgments based on a bunch of one-off out of conference games, and you instead need to look at how the SEC teams do against the SEC schedule to prove how strong they are.

It's a new year, and I'm trying to have more empathy, so im not going to judge a coach too harshly for grasping at straws to try to spin the facts to make his second-tier conference appear relevant.

He would have explained that the SEC makes really tasty hypothetical mayo.