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Schedule him in for next year, but don't talk about him on this message board!

There are certainly many things about Ben that aren't defensible, but he certainly can identify talent early in the process. Pharrell Payne and Cam Christie are guys that came here. Danny Wolf, Ryan Dunn, and Milan Momcilovic, are among the guys who visited. Ben didn't go after a kid was...

From what I can gather, he's a prospect that didn't get much high-major interest, but is right on the boundary. On a podcast, Ryan James wondered a few weeks ago if Niko would have interest in him. It seems like he would be a developmental project.

If I remember from reading about our new signees, Durkin and Vaihola signed before visiting and were wanting to visit. So I wonder if they are two of the four.

We need a backup point guard, right? ;)

Niko was probably able to get some good background info from Tim Miles, his former boss at CSU.

We don't have enough NIL.

In the past it seems like Gopher Crew's sources are other media sources. So I'm guessing their "confirmation" is Travis Banham's crystal ball on 247. Think of Gopher Crew as an aggregator and educated guesser. They've never really seemed to have any inside sources; they just throw stuff out...

"Gates graduated from Kent State in 2005 with a degree in leisure studies" What a degree! Sounds like time spent hanging out on the quad throwing around a frisbee, enjoying a few beverages.

Williams Arena: the place has ghosts. Washburn-McReavy: your ghost management headquarters.

For the first few seconds today when I go to ESPN.com, I think Kadyn Betts portal decision has made headlines...

Much the same way everyone latched onto Jayden Moore's comment that Ben Johnson didn't talk to him enough. Maybe that was intentional? We went after Asuma and passed on Freitag. Maybe we're going hard after Eaglestaff and passing on Brown. Not every player fits a system or has a...

McCollum to Minnesota was an interesting thought for awhile to me. So, like many, I've followed him from afar, so much so, that I even watched his introductory press conference too. What was clear (like Niko's), is that Iowa was the place that he's always wanted to be (and I don't think that's...

I’m excited for this rivalry and I think it should be a good one. It seems like DI coaches have three areas they have to excel in: coaching, recruiting, and fundraising. I think Niko is going to do well in all three. As for McCollum: Clearly McCollum can coach. The twitter scouting report...

While there certainly was talent, let's also remember that Payne was dealing with a bad back much of last year. We didn't see this player last year.

Back when he was coaching in MN, I got a tour of Williams, including the locker room. In the hallway leading to the locker room there was a huge in-game overhead photo of the whole arena (everyone was teeny) and was told from our host (someone in the know) that Richard had the original photo...

In the recent Talk Gopher Buckets podcast Ryan James says that Asuma will be key to retain of course, but that players love playing with him. And that in his AAU program DI were a number of players that he would practice with that he may be helpful in luring to Minnesota. He threw out names...

While we all wait for a new coach to be announced, expecting it to be Niko Medved, here’s a choice middle chunk from a January, 2024 profile of him in The Athletic. Read the whole thing if you’re a subscriber. Inside the CSU walls, they speak another language. “If we go dodger,” Medved says...

A few choice quotes from The Athletic post mortem on Fran McCaffery: “Big Ten basketball is about more than wins and losses. It’s big business, and that’s where McCaffery failed. McCaffery had the backing of Iowa’s die-hard basketball community of longtime supporters, but there was little...