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    CBS: If Big Ten, SEC programs want to keep fans engaged, they should move to 10-game conference schedules

    If you lose fans in the stands, have no division titles to play for, you'll eventually sink in TV ratings, too, and the golden egg will break into pieces. The conferences, NCAA, presidents, ADs, coaches, all put greed ahead of common sense and rational administration of the game. West Coast...
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    Minnesota to Start Spring Practice on March 20

    No Spring game? Fans mean less and less.
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    Conference Realignment Updates

    Anarchy! The NCAA has to go back to the Supreme Court to restore order and sanity. The most important thing is when will the B18 re-establish divisions instead of letting 18 teams swing in the breeze?
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    What was your favorite Patrick Reusse moment?

    Rap is not music - it is bad poetry. If the word "monkey" was shouted multiple times in the "song" he has nothing to worry about.
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    Nebraska may cancel Spring game

    Despite drawing 75 to 90k fans who pay for tickets, Nebraska may cancel their popular spring game because of portal poaching by other coaches watching the game on TV!
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    Greder: The U’s total NIL fund is roughly $2.5 million, so an 8-5 season can be considered a quality return on investment.

    CBS Sports reports that Duke is paying QB Darian Mensah $4 million a year on a two-year contract! This is all insane. Gophers could buy a QB for half a season with all their NIL funding together. NCAA has to get back into the courts and go all the way back to SCOTUS to return sanity to college...
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    Minnesota’s Corey Hetherman new defensive coordinator at Miami

    The only way to stop NIL is to revisit the Supreme Court and show them what a disaster they have brought to school sports. They might reconsider or refigure.
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    Memorial Stadium

    An odd thing about the '77 season's Rose Bowl: Minnesota beat both of the teams, Washington and Michigan, leading one TV announcer to quip that it was the "Gopher Bowl."
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    Minnesota’s Corey Hetherman new defensive coordinator at Miami

    Oh, no! He should be paid as "assistant head coach" and get an impressive raise. It's all about money now and the U has to dish out and not just for coordinators.
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    Memorial Stadium

    My dad took me to see Bierman's final years at the U after I showed an interest in the warriors I saw in the Sunday peach sports section. I liked military history and football looked like it was military: offense, defense, helmets, physical struggle, casualties. The first teams I saw were the...
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    All four playoff winners were on home field

    Plus three of the four games were icebox games. Move these early games to bowls in warmer areas and have an even field of play for both teams. There are 50+ bowls - lots to choose from, doesn't matter if they are unknown.
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    Phillip Daniels already linked to Ohio State, tampering?

    NCAA should go back to the old rules on transfer - show some spine, tamp down the anarchy and bad faith.
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    Duke's Mayo Bowl Predictions

    I agree - VT is 6-6 but had close losses to very good opponents. I think the game will be competitive, and in a big downtown stadium, and if it's not raining the temp may be moderate (52 average daytime high, 32 night at this time of year), plus Charlotte has a lot to offer in restaurants...
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    Gophers in Mayo Bowl vs Va Tech!!

    Not only that, but Charlotte is more hospitable, weather-wise, than NYC, and the Gophers are playing an opponent they are on par with.
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    National early signing day

    Anarchy is not a system and NIL is unsustainable. Anarchy always leads to its opposite - regimentation. A restoration of order is inevitable. At present nothing matters but the Playoff. Fans will tire of that and demand regional divisions, recognizable loyalties, geographic limitations, local...
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    Where does Minnesota's 2025 recruiting class rank all-time under P.J. Fleck?

    We need regional divisions for '25 and ever after. 18 teams swingin' in the wind won't do it.
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    National early signing day

    Restore the old portal/transfer rules - that will go a long way toward ending anarchy and restoring loyalty and discipline. ADs and coaches should be able to get that done.



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