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I’m 100% convinced Dutcher wanted the job and it would’ve been his for the taking had other forces not intervened. The man had specific language written into his contract allowing only Minnesota to have a significantly lower buyout. He would’ve immediately upgraded the program, and he wouldn’t...

Does it ever stop?

Richard clearly coaches better at altitude.

When you find the guy you know will pick Favre up from the airport, you don’t let him get away.

Groce was not well-liked in his last couple years, and was continually roasted by Chicago sports radio, with the talking heads demanding he be fired. Illini basketball has to be either especially good or especially bad to get attention in Chicago, despite all the alums who live here. The latter...

Wisconsin’s not the team you want to see coming off taking a shot to the nuts. They’ll be going for the knockout blow.

Just like Tubby? That landing was Charmin-soft for him, but we didn’t get quite as much in return.

Nah, calling Ben Johnson elite as a result of that buzzer beater goes well beyond just commenting on a last second finish between two lower division Big Ten teams. That was purposeful.

The weird part here is Davis’ national profile. I can understand a few of the local chuckleheads banding together to try and save the job of someone they perceive as a good guy, but why Seth Davis? He’s spent a total of 1.3 seconds thinking about Ben Johnson and the transcendent job he’s doing...

Between fawning tributes to Ben’s coaching acumen, nearly all at the same time, by Reusse, LEN, Marcus and now Seth Davis, I’m getting a sneaking suspicion that this is a coordinated PR effort, either by Ben and his agent or Gophers media relations. There’s way too much coincidence to all these...

Oops, I forgot about that unfortunate fact.

I like the Heismam House spots. Not all of them hit the mark but the concept is strong. I want them to put together at least one commercial with the most (relatively) obscure/forgotten living Heisman winners. Ty Detmer, Jason White, Troy Smith, Eric Crouch, Danny Wuerffel, Gino Toretta and...

He’s done a lot of dying over the last decade.

He didn’t burn out he just faded away.

With Kash Patel moving FBI agents out of Washington to field offices across the country, he might want to send special agents with financial crimes backgrounds to Minneapolis if Wade is hired.

I think the fact that Bennett spent his entire career climbing the coaching ladder within the state of Wisconsin (high schools, UW-Stevens Point, UW-Green Bay) prior to landing the UW-Madison job worked in his favor to minimize the risk somewhat, because everybody knew who he was, how often he...

Why are you a D1 coach or athlete or administrator if you can’t bother to travel to your scheduled games, even if they are makeups? USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington have a significantly heavier travel burden to bear than the Midwest teams, and while there’s been some bitching about it, they’ve...

There was a similar list of 10 in The Athletic and Ben wasn’t even mentioned. Not, I suppose, because his seat isn’t hot (it’s molten), but rather because the Minnesota men’s basketball program has become totally irrelevant as to no longer even register with national writers.

Has Johnson been fired yet, and if not, why not?