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I'm not panicking at all. Instead, I am packing up. There is no joy in college athletics. There are many other things to spend money on so I will go do that.

I am ready to dump college sports rather than any coach. What is happening is an absolute joke. If no one has loyalty, then why should I care. Let college sports burn to the ground at this point. Just start up Euro league levels of pro teams and universities can rent out their facilities.

They are the equivalent of a Jr College. The coaches will get paid to develop young talent and work to move up like they've always done. The thing is that teams like Minnesota could easily fall in that category if $$$ isn't available in NIL.

So when we beat Missouri, it will be a great quad 1 victory. Excellent!

I wish him all the best.

Yawn! Your whining is going to cause others to ignore you.

This isn't the thread for your question. Stay on topic with Christie or go to a different thread. My question in regards to Christie is whether he can still go to another University after he gets input from the NBA. If so, then there are no guarantees he chooses UMN.

I think the Gophers have to take a similar approach to how mid-level college hockey teams are built. Wait for kids to develop in the NAHL (or whatever it's called) and then bring them in as 20 and 21 year olds to go against Minnesota's 18 year old phenoms. Quinnipiac has won a championship with...

I remember the vision of the Metrodome... 😱

USC will be on probation by 2025. 😏

Betts has had a good opportunity to show his talents in every single practice over the last two years. If he had showed an ability to help the Gophers, Ben would have played him. Presently, I put zero hope in Betts giving us a boost next season. I hope he proves me wrong.

It's interesting to see college basketball become more like college hockey where winning programs are getting older players to come and win with experience. This NIL is making kids from high school basically irrelevant unless they are 5* recruits. The 3* and 2* recruit will be playing for the...

There is, if you have balls. The Commissioners of the Power divisions get together and set president, like the oligarchy they are, and they tell the NCAA to go f&ck itself while they set the rules of play.

It's coming. This whole middle management where kids are paid by some shady dealer and then go to play at a school is a worthless model to the schools. They will need to tell the NCAA that it's either going to set the standard or the schools will do it without them. The game of peek-a-boo is...

I agree, but why keep your organization in a past model when you know the model is a pro model? The U needs to be innovative and create GMs whose responsibility is finding, purchasing, and setting up the roster while the coaches coach. What's going on now is the U being reactionary and not...

Yep. D1 is now a semi-pro league. You have to treat your roster like pro team. That's why I think there needs to be a GM who gets the players and negotiates contracts. The coach is there to coach whoever the GM signs. No more fiddling around with coaches trying to do everything in recruiting and...

Honestly, I think the athletic department needs to be reorganized. Both the Football team and the Basketball team need a GM who evaluates, recruits and negotiates contracts. Work with the coach and build the programs like a professional sports team would build. Let the players know that they are...

College sports is done. Minor league professional sports is now the actor.

The U can't match the money being required to purchase a team. At this point the whole model of college sports has to change. The major teams (football and basketball) need a designated manager under the AD that works on contract negotiations and roster building. In essence it's got to become a...

It makes a person sad to see a healthy horse put down and an inferior horse saddled up for use.