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We supposedly tried to hire Seth Wallace the Iowa lb's coach and he stayed at Iowa (has assistant head coach title, don't know if he got that before or after our contact). We also tried to hire Harasymiak (sp?) back, but he remained at Rutgers as their DC. We've also struggled to attract...

I think this is an astute observation. Part of it is probably the results haven't matched his pledges for a long time, so we're all looking at him more suspiciously.

Pitino and Johnson had done literally nothing to suggest they should be Big Ten basketball coaches. Muschamp and Mullen were pick of the litter type hires. McElwain was pretty well regarded too. Off the top of my head I didn't think Napier was an impressive hire but I looked it up and he was...

Poorly coached program quickly reaching Ben Johnson level of disaster stage.

James Madison putting up 70 on UNC proved to be the bad sign I thought it was. Things only get worse from here. Fleck is 2-9 in his last 11 against teams with a pulse. The raise Fleck got last offseason that resulted in his buyout being something like $22 million dollars after this season is...

Offense would score. I think Brosmer is savvy enough to make the Gophers defense pay on one (or more) of their blitz attempts that don't get home.

I was shocked to see Iowa open as a favorite in this game. I expected the line to open Minnesota -2.5 or -3 instead it is Iowa -2.5 and it hasn't moved. Iowa closed a -2.5 point favorite over Iowa State at home. So the oddsmakers think Minnesota is a significantly worse team than Iowa State...

At least the thread isn't titled a star is born (Joe Coleman jinx). Fun to see someone both catch a punt and move forward on Saturday!

I didn't expect Allen to commit to Ben Johnson. I don't think you get guys who have options like Oats/Alabama when you're on the hot seat. Maybe the Dakota kid who just moved to Minnesota will be the exception. It was refreshing to see the other site (sort of) admit that this was Oats coming...

Kai Shinholster took an official visit during the UNC game. Also has official visits scheduled with James Madison and Florida Atlantic. Might be a name to keep an eye on.

This is good info. At Minnesota, almost every coach post Wacker has had a period of time where they could claim they were our best coach since the 60's or whatever. Brewster is the exception, but when he started 7-1 and was recruiting at a level we had not seen in my lifetime in his second...

I'd be interested in knowing how much of the blame for the lack of explosive passing plays goes in the following buckets : 1. lack of talent (specifically speed) at the WR position 2. A poorly constructed offense that either doesn't stress defenses with its route combinations or confuses them...

Uncharacteristic mistakes combined with very characteristic conservatism.

We haven't had good QB play since 2019. Fleck and staff refused to bring in real competition for Tanner and promised the world to Athan. Our QB depth chart is now Max, a true Freshman in Lindsay who was an averageish P5 QB recruit, and a VTech transfer in Wittke who lost out on the backup job...

I would strongly disagree that 2019 was a soft schedule. In the final AP rankings, Penn State was #9, we were #10, Wisconsin #11, Auburn #14, and Iowa #15. Alabama who Auburn beat in the Iron Bowl was #8. That was a strong schedule and a very good Gopher football team. That said, my nightmare...

I had the same question, especially with some of the confusion on the field on the play prior. There was very little reward and potentially catastrophic risk to running that play.

Incredibly disappointed in what I saw on the field tonight. The Gophers were pretty awful in all phases when you consider the back breaking penalties by the defense and the inability to stop a very limited backup QB late (the offense and special teams were obviously worse than the defense)...

The Fleck era is going to end badly, it's just a question of when. It won't be this year, but you can't rationally look at what he has coming back for '25 and think that that were headed in a positive direction here.

Mark is describing two different roles here. "Missing" on someone would be the Kwesi Adofo Mensah or Tim Connelly role where you are making an evaluation on a player and assigning what you are willing to pay him/her. The second part is the allocating of that ~20 million cap...

It's an F like the whole Ben Johnson tenure has been. My view of last years ridiculous schedule was that it was designed to give Ben Johnson a misleadingly "good" record so that Coyle didn't have to fire him after year 3. The reality is the Gophers were something like 10-15 outside Quad 4 and...