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Easy come, easy go, but yes, college basketball is a mess. The product is terrible and NIL and transfer rules have destabilized rosters to the point of absurdity. At some point you would think the viewing public would tune out and the billion dollar TV deals would dry up, but it has not...

Strongly disagree with this. Battle had a disastrous season (possibly due to injury and for other reasons I don't understand) and his productivity could be replaced, for instance, by a healthy Isaiah Ihnen. Payne and Garcia are absolutely one of the best returning front court tandems in the...

I hope to God he is not 270 lbs next year. Would seriously impact his quickness and likely predispose to injury (see Zion Williamson). He needs an elbow jumper and a jump hook. Lots of reps for him this summer I hope.

Just a little. Will be interesting to see where the respective programs are after Year 3.

He's now available. Craig Smith might also be re-available in the next couple years given current results and so-so returning talent. As I recall he's the guy everyone on this board wanted a couple years ago.

None of the above. No established coach would join a program that fired its head coach after only two seasons. The idea that CBJ could build a competitive roster completely from scratch in two years is ludicrous. If the AD who took a flyer on him were now to fire him, he too should be fired.

JOJ has plenty of athleticism and growth potential of defense. He will be a stud beginning next year if CBJ prioritizes him getting the ball.

Spot-on assessment. I like our (bad) team. They play hard; they willingly defend; they have good body language despite the losing, etc., but they struggle in the skill and quickness departments for sure, and they are the worst collection of shooters we've ever seen in MN. Unfortunately they...

Gophers need a lot of things.

Doing it right (mostly through recruiting talent and character) takes time. CBJ is a young guy and his inexperience is definitely contributing to some Ls, but five years is nothing if the end result is long-term success. They will be just fine if people are patient.

Who cares how bad they are in Year 2 of a total rebuild . All that matters is how good a BJ-coached team can be in 3-6 years. I think they will be good; maybe very good.

Encouraged by the game today despite running out of steam. Wish they could have taken the lead there late in the first half but they battled hard. Payne is an immovable force in the low post thats for sure. Really excited to see him develop. Ditto JOJ. Really hope they can get at least one...

Whalen, yes; CBJ, No. When you sign a new coach you need to show full commitment to his/her program less than four years (unless there are code of conduct violations or things of that nature). If, after four years, there is no clear trajectory, its reasonable to move on. A program that has...

Whalen inherited a strong program and proceeded to ruin it. By what benchmark is it moving in the right direction? Recruiting? LOL.

Wow; what a track record. Never mind all the players who've transferred out of the program; the failure to sniff .500 conference record after five years; and the obvious on-the-court hallmarks of a terribly coached team. Sure she will be extended though.

Lindsey Whalen disagrees.

Hard to argue that Souhan is not right.

Thought this team would be better, even with all the freshmen. Certainly did not anticipate that Battle would go from all B1G to one of the worst metrics players in the league. CBJ will need to recruit some serious shooting or next year wont be that much different regardless of whether Battle...

Has BJ already entered the MN b-ball coach death spiral ? It usually happens around Year 4 when the GopherHole trolls start complaining, the "hot seat" seat word appears in local press, recruiting necessarily suffers (because who wants to play for a soon-to-be canned coach?), the team...

UW Band was practicing The Rouser this afternoon. Just Sayin.