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I'm far from a supporter of Ben Johnson (in fact, I'm one of his biggest haters), but to blame him for not recruiting Groves is not only dumb, but also stupid. He didn't have a high-major offer until a few days ago. You can't simultaneously say the Gophers are settling for low-major talent and...

It's unfortunate that every Gophers athlete since has been tainted by the scandal of the 1996-97 team.

Concession noted. This will be remembered when you chime in supportively to one of the endless and idiotic "hang the banners" discussions.

I am really trying to be positive and optimistic about the Niko Medved hire and era, I truly am. I am more enthusiastic now than I thought I would be when it became obvious he would be the hire. All of that being said - this looks to me like a roster full of guys who would be the 7th-8th guys...

So every UMN athlete since 1997 is tarnished?

Well duh, most walk-ons (especially in basketball) serve the sole purpose of raising the team GPA, particularly back when that actually mattered and not hitting benchmarks had consequences. Completely unsurprisingly, Olson played in 6 games over 2 years for a total of 8 minutes, and probably...

Oh, for sure, there is definitely a small minority, and they are the exception that proves the rule. I just laughed (literally laughed out loud) at the implication that our basketball players are taking "real classes" in leisure studies and history of video games and UNC's basketball players...

Katy Perry and I WERE thought to be pretty much a done deal 20 years ago until Hollywood started sniffing around and eventually offered well more than I was willing to pay.

It's cute that you think the athletes take the same classes as the rest of the student body. I'm sure the whole basketball team is taking organic chemistry and mechanical engineering.

So much wrong in a tweet of just a few words. There is no such thing as a zero-star recruit. They were never evaluated and thus don't have a rating. Clayton, for example, not only didn't have "zero stars," but also he had at least 3 Division I offers, including one from some nobody named Rick...

Considering that he's currently (as in, right at this moment) a highly compensated and highly skilled professional football player...yeah, I'd say he could still play.

You beat me to it! I was going to come here and offer my capitulation. I still can't believe he's transferring out, though I guess anything goes in the modern Wild West of major college athletics.

Yes, it would. He's a RS Soph who was always going to take a while to develop, and he was a rotation player on a deep and good Purdue team, not to mention that he contributed very positively in the Tournament, and had the announcers fawning all over him. I assure you he would have many, many...

Heide? WTF? Have you seen anywhere that he is even remotely interested in transferring? He already left home for a vastly superior program (which is also his father's alma mater, incidentally), and should he choose to transfer, he'd also have many other vastly superior programs lining up for his...

Nah, it really is just the coach. This is the first time since at least Haskins' hiring that we have a coach who we hired at the right time and meets the profile. Yet again, we could've done better, but this is a perfectly defensible hire in all respects. I look forward to your eating crow when...

What else is Pitino going to say? "They gave me everything I needed, I just suck at coaching, so I lost anyway." It's human nature to blame external factors for one's failure to succeed. This isn't to say that the U couldn't do more (they definitely could), but he needs to look in the mirror for...

People have tried to draw parallels between the Johnson and Whalen hires for years, but there's really no comparison. Neither had the resume to support them as a Big Ten head coach hire, but at least Whalen was legendary as a player and had a history of winning at all levels. Johnson was...

April Fool's Day is still more than a week away.

I figure because you get 2 steps between dribbles or between a dribble and shot, and he took 3. You can use the weasel word "gather" or whatever you want, it's still a travel. You're talking about how the game is officiated, and I'm talking about what the actual rule is. As I accurately...

It definitely was.