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Coach Bob isn’t going anywhere!!! It’s a down year. That happens-need to get top kids in our state and play here-next year gophers comeback with a vengeance!!?
 


Gophers4ever6842 said:
Coach Bob isn’t going anywhere!!! It’s a down year. That happens-need to get top kids in our state and play here-next year gophers comeback with a vengeance!!?
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I'm thinking that Bob does go away at the end of this year, but it will be positioned as a "mutual agreement". It will be well-vetted with any incoming recruits. Bob might stick around with another advisory job in the athletic department or something but my gut tells me that this is his last season behind the bench. I have absolutely zero to back that up though. Just instinct.
 

Crosby said:
I'm thinking that Bob does go away at the end of this year, but it will be positioned as a "mutual agreement". It will be well-vetted with any incoming recruits. Bob might stick around with another advisory job in the athletic department or something but my gut tells me that this is his last season behind the bench. I have absolutely zero to back that up though. Just instinct.
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He'll bail completely and go live up north rather than living in an apartment just to "advise". The program has no use for him so what's the point? If they lose the Cullens, bummer, but it's for the greater good and there was ZERO guarantee the best Cullen would commit here with how much money the big schools will throw at him plus being able to compete for a title for sure.
 

bonin21 said:
He'll bail completely and go live up north rather than living in an apartment just to "advise". The program has no use for him so what's the point? If they lose the Cullens, bummer, but it's for the greater good and there was ZERO guarantee the best Cullen would commit here with how much money the big schools will throw at him plus being able to compete for a title for sure.
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Based on your usual stance that Bob is a horrible recruiter, I'm surprised you wouldn't think it's WAY MORE LIKELY to get all the Cullens if Bob "bails."
 


Crosby said:
Based on your usual stance that Bob is a horrible recruiter, I'm surprised you wouldn't think it's WAY MORE LIKELY to get all the Cullens if Bob "bails."
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Or maybe I just know how things work in college hockey. Every other recruit is completely expendable by Gopher hockey former standards.
 

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bonin21 said:
Or maybe I just know how things work in college hockey. Every other recruit is completely expendable by Gopher hockey former standards.
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That has nothing to do with my point
 


bonin21 said:
Or maybe I just know how things work in college hockey. Every other recruit is completely expendable by Gopher hockey former standards.
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Speaking of standards, a few years ago I sat next to a guy during a Michigan/Gophers game. Didn't recognize who he was at first, just noticed he had a lineup sheet and a real eye for the game. After I made a comment about both teams 'daring the other to win' because they were playing so sloppy, we ended up shooting the shit the rest of the night.

Turns out it was Jed Ortmeyer. We talked Gophers, Michigan, the Wild, Spurgeon, and what it’s actually like in the NHL. He told me he appreciated that I wasn't ripping on the players like the half-drunk, peaked-in-high-school ass clowns in the rows below us. I understood the game at a high level, but I wasn't pretending I used to play on the ice below. Hell, I got some inside scoop about the Mike Yeo in Houston vs. the Mike Yeo in St. Paul. Let's just say, the scuttlebutt out there under-reported what was happening. Real locker room reality, not message board fantasy.

He shook my hand when he left. It was a great experience—one I’m surmising you’ve never had, and based on your attitude, never will.
 



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