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    NO SPRING GAME! Gophers start spring practice March 21; open practice for the public is April 11

    Nebraska draws 85,000 to its Spring Game, while we don't have one. The Spring Game was always a tonic for the most dedicated fans, but fans are becoming less important as revenues from TV contracts grow faster than ticket sales. Only Lou Holtz made a big deal out of Spring Games, pulling 40,000...
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    247 predicts Gophers will go 1-8 and finish 17th in Big Ten

    Will be a tough season - being in a conference with 18 teams and no divisions is a poor incentive for fans, maybe even for the team. None of the West Coast teams should be in the B10 - they should have worked out a separate conference relationship in which the Pac-12 was B10#2 and each team...
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    College Football is Dead

    Paying students to pay will inevitably give birth to a union movement - and it has, at Dartmouth in basketball. This will make the situation even worse, if that is possible. In the '60s every B10 team except one won a football championship. That will never happen again.
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    Drop Your Way-Too-Early B1G Standings Predictions HERE

    Georgia and Alabama 1, 2. They will both be in the Big 24 by that time.
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    People Magazine: College Football Player Cole Kramer Marries Fiancée Katie Miller: 'More Dreamy Than I Could Have Ever Imagined'

    Cole finally gets to play, scores three touchdowns leading his team to a bowl win - that's the real story.
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    Fleck is staying!!!

    Still work to do - challenges to be met. This isn't Michigan.
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    2024 Record prediction

    Brutal schedule. QB is a question mark, but the Gophers may have to struggle to win six. Could even be a 3 or 4 win season, but QB will tell the tale.
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    New Salaries for Coaches

    Gophers lose a DC with an excellent overall record because they don't pay enough; then they hire another DC at much lower pay. Go figure..
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    Court hearing scheduled on 2-time Transfer rule

    Typical of the federal courts: destroy community discipline because an aggrieved individual or group of aggrieved individuals don't like a rule or practice. Goes all the way back to Madalyn Murray O'Hair 60 years ago.
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    6 years later, are we still pleased with the uniform redesign?

    They wear a different uniform every week and have played at home with charcoal!
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    Logan Fife de-commits

    Sitting out a year is the minimum task to help stop anarchy in college football.
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    Which Decade

    Well, Doc Williams had some great teams going before 1920, sort of the stone age of college football (mostly before the forward pass was a regular thing). He ran up incredible scores against the good, the bad (beating Grinnell of Iowa 146-0), and the ugly (high school teams), but he played very...
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    State of the offense

    Speed and quickness, too.
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    Which Decade

    Bierman's many best teams, of course - you'd figure maybe 1936 when the Gophers finished 7-1 (losing only to Northwestern in the mud), but number one in the first AP poll, which was universally accepted as the one and only championship authority. But I'd say 1940, when also 8-0, but finishing a...
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    The Final Straw

    The 4 team playoff uses only 3 bowls, but squeezes out some teams at the same level (GA this year); an 8-team playoff would use 7 bowls and would have worked better this year, allowing in Oregon, GA, FL State, Ohio St; the 12-team playoff is the worst of all, as it is almost a second season -...
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    The way the NIL/Transfer Portal is administered has ruined bowl games

    Very true. QBs missing all over the place. Maybe (but probably not) coaches and ADs will have the common sense and decency to reinstate the one year sit-off rule, which was good for college football and prevented the anarchy we see now as greed dominates every aspect of the game, from coaches'...
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    Can the Gophers find success in the new Big Ten?

    Be competent in passing about 40% of the time, though each game will have its own strategy. PJ will run it 70 times if it will win THAT game. The B18 will have to restore some kind of divisions or lose fan interest. An 18-team league is absurd.
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    So happy for Cole and Darius!

    Kramer hit only 50%, but threw for two TDs and ran for one. Darius had 208 yards at six per carry, which is gold standard territory. Nubin looked good in relief and the defense kept the Gophers in the kind of game they don't like, a wild passing attack. Kramer's 50% included some unwise Hail...
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    ***OFFICIAL MINNESOTA VS BOWLING GREEN QUICK LANE BOWL IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

    PJ reverting to his over-cautious mode. Won't win with that. he really needs an independent-minded OC.



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