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I saw something online the other day where Doogie was mentioning that his son and his friends got to play at the Barn for his son's "golden birthday" (I had to look up what that was, it's when you turn the age of your birthdate day... if others were unfamiliar ex born on the 14th your golden...

I think the Gophers beat a number of teams ahead of them in those rankings, but also can't disagree with them given the overall body of work. I am not sure it matters with how teams approach bowl games now, but I really wish we would have played someone better than Virginia Tech this year. A...

This was the most "real" of the 3 wins to me in terms of quality of play and not being fluky. The "theory" of this team of Dawson Garcia being consistently very good and then getting a really good performance from one other guy out of a group of 4-5 players has started to actually come to...

Souhan is so, so bad. The same group of guys have been around covering Minnesota sports (pro and college) since I've had access to reading them in the 1990's. When Pitino was fired Judd Zulgad had one of the long time Strib guys on to discuss and they both didn't thought Pitino had been to 3...

Howeda7 has pretty much articulated everything I would say and I know you are trying to play devil's advocate here, and don't actually believe all this stuff. - Last years team lost 5 of 6 to end the year and finished in the bottom 4 of the conference by Net/KenPom. If they had to play...

A collectively bargained revenue sharing/salary cap would be the best thing that could happen for all but 10 or so high major programs (tOSU, Oregon, Georgia, etc). That can't happen without a players union. I don't know how you unionize "college athletes" though. Seems like you have to...

I went with a C, though I think a B is certainly defensible position too. What I find interesting is that if you did this poll when Fleck was hired and just stated a hypothetical record of a couple games below .500 in the Big Ten, 4-4 against Wisconsin, 1-7 against Iowa, a Top 10 season but...

I looked in to Crean a bit and he was arguably as bad at Georgia as Ben Johnson has been here. Georgia, as a program, has actually been as bad (or worse) than Minnesota since 2000 or so when you consider the SEC has been a weaker conference for much of that time. From '03 to the end of last...

From up 15-5 to down 30 in the same game...As much as I despise this whole era of Gopher Basketball, I wanted that win against Ohio State for the simple fact that I don't want Minnesota to have the worst season in Big Ten history. I'd want the game against Wisconsin no matter the circumstances...

Really encouraging news on Martino. We don't have a sure thing in the receiving corp like a returning Jackson, Bateman, or Johnson, but there are more guys with either production elsewhere or the recruiting pedigree to get excited about on this depth chart than we've had...

If the list is accurate, it's interesting. Obviously you want to win the games, but this seems to just point out what a missed opportunity the last 5 years have been. We've only been ranked for 11 weeks and I am guessing the vast majority of those were in 2019. I think this shows just how...

Yeah I posted last year about one of the regents suggesting the buyout was "skillfully negotiated" or something to that effect too which seemed to imply the public interpretation of the buyout was not correct. I also don't think it was ever confirmed anywhere that the ridiculous one year...

Mentioned his staff too. I saw this last night and was wondering what place there is for comments like this in 2025. There is probably a lot of truth to what he said, but I don't think young people are motivated by tactics like this in this generation. That was true for a decade or so before...

I wasn't sure where to post this and didn't want to start a new thread to give it too much attention but it is being reported on the other site that regardless of whether Ben Johnson or someone else is the coach next year, that coach will still be 18th out 18 in salary in the Big Ten. I am very...

Fleck beating out Belichick for Turner was great (Chapel Hill to see the hoodie was supposed to be Turner's next visit, but Fleck closed the deal). I really like adding Turner (and to a lesser degree because he hasn't proven it Cabana) due to the element of speed they will bring to the offense...

How do we get players? Two potential Gopher candidates matched up recently when VCU defeated Colorado State. Both Ryan Odom and Niko Medved have teams that are very Senior heavy in terms of production. Odom has a shot at making the NCAA's, while Medved appears to have a team that will finish...

There are so many jobs that are worse than Minnesota and many more that are not demonstrably better. People have very short memories. When Tubby was the coach, most of us laughed at the idea of him leaving for Auburn as was rumored at the end of his 2nd or 3rd year. When Tubby was fired here...

Losing Lindenberg is going to hurt. I hope we can find a Gibbens type transfer LB in the portal.

Happy we were able to keep Hetherman, this seems like the bare minimum that administration/bor can do after losing multiple coordinators to other Big Ten schools in recent years. It's one thing to lose a guy to be the DC at Texas or Georgia and its a whole other thing to lose guys to Michigan...

There was a cool moment where Amir appeared to congratulate Cam on his first NBA bucket when a timeout was called shortly after his dunk. Amir has been having a nice season for the surprising Clippers. At times its felt like his NBA career was hanging on by a thread and now he might get a...