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Sounds great! Why don't you place the calls to John Calipari and Kelvin Sampson and see what they say?

Claeys was an assistant who was elevated to the head coaching position in the middle of the season due to the head coach's health condition. The terms of his contract made him incredibly cheap to fire so I don't think he was considered a long-term solution. His one full season (2016) produced...

Charles Pride committed to St. Bonaventure after his hometown friend, Mika Adams-Woods, committed there. Pride said that his visit here was good. His roster space was filled by Hawkins afterwards so we came out all right.

You probably should read your crap before hitting the reply button because that is the least truthful and most asinine thing I've read here in at least 24 hours (I can't go longer than that because, after all, there is a constant stream of crap posted here).

Well, it's like this. Are you more comfortable with the familiar or are you like Mae West ("When given the choice between two evils, I always pick the one I haven't tried before")? I'm usually in the latter category but I think most people fall within the first one.

I think that was part of the impetus for hiring Ben: the U doing its part to increase the pool of first-time black coaches. I don't think there would have been much opposition at all to hiring Dennis Gates out of Cleveland State but that wouldn't have advanced that goal.

It would be different for rock stars - worked just fine for Johnny and Edgar Winter.

He could have written it before March 1st. In any event, they could have recovered somewhat by winning at Rutgers and at least winning the first game in the Big Ten Tournament but they failed.

Makes some sense to see if there is any interest while there is no coach in place here. If the new coach wants him, he could still return. I wouldn't be too surprised if Frank Mitchell did something similar.

I agree that calling him "elite" was foolish. I doubt this guy was closely following the Gophers throughout the season and I seriously doubt he watched much of them. If he did, he would know that they folded like a cheap suit at the end of the year. I realize that the "massive PR campaign"...

Here's one who just dropped in: Cooper Schwieger He's a 6'9" soph forward from Valparaiso. 15.8 points per game, 7.8 rebounds per game, 85% free throw shooter (that would be nice!). Scored in double figures in 30 of 34 games this season including all of the last 25 games. 21.8 Player...

So, he's sticking with his opinion. That doesn't mean there was a "massive PR campaign."

He was doing so well this year. I guess it had to happen sooner or later.

Are you talking about trying to hire away McCasland? He's only in his second year so he likely would have a buyout to be released from his contract. You think Minnesota would pay that?

He's up to 9 assists with 1:17 left in the first half.

I don't think there was any massive PR campaign. A few writers said that he did pretty good with what he had. Here's their logic if you don't understand this by now: the sports media views Minnesota as a perennial bottom feeder program so when the program does anything good enough for them to...

Don't you think that should be handled on a centralized basis within the athletic department?

There's nothing in that article that breaks down NIL funding by sport. Also, unlike the majority of schools in the Big Ten, we field a hockey team and that directly competes with basketball for fans, donations, funding, etc.

Fair enough but, after this era, it would be nice to assemble a group of players who could compete more on the level of the rest of the conference instead of playing a slow-down game because they're afraid of getting blown out in a faster paced game. Traditionally the Big Ten has been a...

Correct. I had a more lenient standard for a fifth year than most here: He needed to do noticeably better than last season. What I meant by that was winning more games than last season - at least 20 or 21 which could include post-season. He didn't come close to that. After the LA trip it...