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  1. HopHead

    2024 Record prediction

    I avoid these types of threads and I’m pretty sure I did so back in February with this one. Now I remember why. We sure are a pessimistic bunch, aren’t we. :p And I will admit it’s usually for a good reason. Personally, I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.
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    Alabama AD to reevaluate nonconference slate after CFP picks

    As long as SEC only plays 8 conference games, I hope they get excluded as often as possible. If you removed Wisconsin from this year's schedule for Alabama and replaced them with even a middling SEC team, they may have ended up with a record of 8-4.
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    Bowl eligible!

    I just wish for the Gophers to play their bowl game on an actual football field and outdoors. And if I can get greedy with my wishes, if Nebraska does get bowl eligible, I want them to end up in Detroit. :p
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    fake punt call in the illinois game

    If I was the coach with a punt that had a fake option to be determined strictly by the punter mid-play, I would put some hard limit on when to try it based on the distance to the first down. For example, anything over 4th and 7+ would be a red light on the fake regardless of what you see from...
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    Flyover for tomorrow

    Nice. I grew up on air force bases. The sound of military jets still gives me goose bumps.
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    2024 MN High School Football thread

    My experience is dated (40 years ago) and from a small town in ND but I suspect it still holds true today for a lot of kids. My senior year, our football team only won 2 games. We had a tough season of some close losses, some blowouts losses and a number of season-ending injuries to some pretty...
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    Oregon 12 Players on the Field

    It was my impression that what Oregon did was to gain the benefit of the extra defender being on the field and participating in the play to help prevent a long gain. Now that benefit is gone if the player has to be running off the field.
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    Oregon 12 Players on the Field

    There are a few situations that have a mandatory or optional 10 second run-off. Maybe there should also be situations, like this one, where the there is a mandatory or optional 10 second addition.
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    The Band Pit

    As a former band member with a wife that was a member, a daughter that was a member and even a father-in-law and sister-in-law that were members, the size of the pit has bothered me from day one also. I've said if I ever won the lottery, I would donate money to expand the band pit so it goes...
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    Play of the game from my seat. ;-)

    Apologies if the link doesn’t work https://youtube.com/shorts/GzsAu8ialJo?si=FUgBsN9Ta-_g3Aro
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    Tailgating Policy

    This is why I like to tailgate on the West Bank in Lot 86. Space is never an issue. Plus, Thursday we will probably set up under the solar panels to get some protection from any rain that may come.
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    2024 MN High School Football thread

    I believe they actually put their football field on the outfield of the baseball stadium located at Island Park. It's not right next to the school. You can see the setup in this YouTube video of one of their games.
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    Scott Frost 'dying' for chance to coach after growing older, wiser from disappointing Nebraska tenure

    I saw a car the other day in the grocery store parking lot with a license plate frame that said "Nebraska...The Frost Effect". Do they not own a screwdriver? It's been 1 1/2 years. :LOL:
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    Spring Game Set For April 20th! (UPDATED: No Spring Game)

    From an article on Wisconsin's spring schedule: Sure, it's for construction at Camp Randall. But to say that Minnesota is "only P5 team in the country with no spring game" is not totally true. I suspect they could hold a spring game at a different location if they really wanted to.
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    Jay Bilas: Detain them and cite them. (Video)

    That may be the most practical solution. You only have 5 players on the court from the visiting team when the buzzer sounds. You assign your 5 or 10 biggest, toughest security people to be "bodyguards" for those players immediately when the game is over to get them safely off the court.
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    Out of Country

    Can they can set up a game in Winnipeg? Northwestern claims to the "Chicago's Big Ten Team". Maybe the Gophers can be "Canada's Big Ten Team". :LOL:
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    Is this the end of court storming?

    It’s storming the court resulted in forfeiture of a win, it would end really, really fast.
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    2023-2024 College Basketball Other Games Thread

    I learned something last night in the Kentucky/LSU game. Kentucky got a shot clock violation 23 seconds into the game. That confused me so I did some digging and discovered that if a team takes possession of the ball with a throw-in in the frontcourt, the shot clock only resets to 20. LSU won...
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    Annies Parlor

    Yes. I realized after the fact that I should have added some adjectives like "a ridiculously, comical amount" before "shredded lettuce".
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    Annies Parlor

    I often make Big10 Subs inspired sandwiches at home for dinner. Spread a little garlic butter on the buns, add the meat and cheese and put under the broiler to toast before adding shredded lettuce, tomatoes, onions, oil, white balsamic vinegar and Italian seasoning. Yummy.



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