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I'd have Smith higher. Hot take, but I am not sure Kerry Brown wasn't better on a snap by snap basis than Koi Perich. Koi has the higher ceiling as he's bigger, but Kerry was a really pleasant surprise last year. I think we need a few more "Kerry Brown's" to emerge next Fall at CB and DE...

Preaching to the choir here, but I am not sure anyone outside of the diehards know what an absolute disaster this has become. This is one of the oldest teams in all of Division1 basketball and it's incredibly lucky to be 6-12 in conference play. The Northwestern team they lost to at home...

Marcus Fuller is an absolute joke. The way he has covered this disaster the last 4 seasons has been an embarrassment. Said in a nicer way Marcus Fuller is the Ben Johnson of college basketball beat writers.

I was really happy about the invites, but also share some of the concerns others have noted. We were 7-5 and the schedule didn't turn out to be anywhere close to the gauntlet some anticipated last Fall. If we can maintain this level of talent, we should be able to breakthrough again soon...

Utah is like 20 spots ahead of us in the NET and has been better than us the last two years. Their coach actually had a track record of success when he was hired and wasn't gifted Dawson Garcia. Johnson could win out and not match Smith's conference winning % over the last 4 years. The local...

Literally identical teams. Growing up in Iowa, I remember watching Georgetown vs Minnesota for the NIT title. I *thought*, I liked both teams and would be happy with whoever won and then found myself open cheering for the Gophers as hard as I did against anyone else. Biggest non-Gopher college...

Tough to pick one. I guess I would go with the M/W/M as that seemed like a very good throw back look. My overall impression of the 4 photos though is that the new uniforms have grown on me. I didn't hate them or anything when they were revealed, I just felt like they were really plain...

Some Iowa stuff for perspective. Iowa is tied with us at 6-10 in the conference. They've played the entire Big Ten season without their top recruit who was ranked higher than Asuma. They've played the second half of the season or so without arguably their best player (Owen Freeman) and their...

Not my info and it's 3rd hand at best. Someone who has a subscription to his discord says "insider" Trilly Donovan reported on his site that it's "50/50" on Ben today. I had no idea if that means it's literally 50/50 or Trilly doesn't have a good gauge of where things are. I would hope a...

One of the best posts on this site. The question of "how did Ben Johnson get this job?" comes up in my mind every week and it happened four years ago! He's failed in every way possible since he's gotten the job and some people still try to come up with bizarre hypothetical situations where he...

Not sure what to do with Fickell, he seems to be recruiting well but the on field product hasn't been great. Do you fire him and go back to a Wisconsin guy? I think there will be a lot of pressure from that fanbase to go in that direction if they make a change. I believe Wisconsin has had to go...

I hope he does. Crazy that he went to the draft camp after his Freshman year and is still in college all these years later. Odukale didn't score, but we relied on him heavily to handle the ball. Call in show highlights: Old guy calls in and says this was the worst free throw shooting he's...

Pretty depressing that we can't be considered in the same tier as Wisconsin, Iowa, Pittsburgh, Kansas State, Utah, Oklahoma State, Cincinnati, BYU, North Carolina. I am not including the Boise State/Washington State type teams because their path is so different. I feel like the team we are...

Cronin went on that rant earlier in the year, but only had himself to blame for this one. His team was cruising and he decided to go to that 2 big lineup in the first half and the offense got stagnant which lead the Gophers to cutting the lead all the way to 8. UCLA never really made a run from...

That Garcia half was fantastic. Every time the Gophers got it down to a one possession game, UCLA would score immediately. Never felt like a win was possible, but a much more competitive game than expected...then UCLA absolutely couldn't make a free throw. They said they finished 9-19, but that...

Interesting points csom-1991. My belief has always been that the current NIL budgets won't be sustainable. There can only be so many winners and there are only so many whales out there willing to be the primary donors. Schools like Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin (or similar schools in the SEC)...

We've spent the last 12 years on a (when hired) 31 year old coach with one mediocre season at FIU under his belt and his former assistant who has been a part of exactly one NCAA tournament in 15 plus seasons as a player/assistant coach/head coach at the high major level. Did anyone see the...

DeVries situation might be impacted by his son getting injured and applying for a waiver. I would guess it that would make him more likely to stay at WVU and keep some sense of stability for his son. Given what I've read about others buyouts, it's possible he's cost prohibitive going in to...

Seems like a fair placement of Fleck to me. It seems odd that Rhule appears to get more credit for past success than Riley and Fickell do, even though their success was more recent. Seems unfair to put the UCLA coach behind the brand new Purdue coach when I think UCLA at least met expectations...

This seems like a strange interpretation from Winter. I believe the Ivy League is using the word "legitimate" in relation to NIL payments. As in student athletes can secure payments from NIL where there is actually some sore of value to their NIL. Meaning that the sham NIL we see at the high...