Gopher football

[BilldGopher]

That raises an interesting point. What percent of Gopher fans are alums? Non alums have lots of choices to spend money on. Twins. Vikings. Wild. Timberwolves. To name a few. What other BiG teams have that much competition in their town?

The multiple decades of neglect at the top to nurture revenue sports did long-lasting damage to the potential fan base for the Gophers. Couple this with the arrival of the Vikings, and then the greater professional sports teams all eating into the disposable income pie, combined to probably make the potential Gophers fan base smaller than it should be.

Now of course the program is going the right direction again, but now big $$$ and generational change (in terms of viewing habits in particular) place new pressures getting butts in the seats and outsized booster contributions.

Obviously Columbus, Athens, Lincoln, and so on show there are programs that still are king in those locales. Although wish that were here fact is that CFB would be in real trouble if those dedicated fans found something better to do on Saturdays in the fall

The patient is alive and mostly well. Beating Purdue will certainly feel good on Saturday night. Winning is better.

 

[disco]

So what’s interesting about that whole Supreme Court rulling, I hate what it has done to college football, yet I like the rulling.

I tend to agree. We don't like how it's changed the traditional workings of a game we love, but legally, it was the right thing to do.

 

[caliGopher]

I literally gave you examples of what you could have said that would have had no response from me, but go ahead - you do you.

And I am not here to impress people. If I was, I'd change my Gopherhole avatar to my tinder photo, where I am holding a 14" walleye.

is that what the kids are calling it these days?

 

[caliGopher]

Fayetteville AR, e.g.

Beautiful campus. My youngest is a student at Arkansas.

 

[Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0]

Since the Luke Fickell debacle that was 2011 - Ohio State is 102-9 in Big Ten games. You could make a case that very few to any teams in the Big Ten belong in the same conference as them.

That would be a list that only includes a cheating Michigan team and Oregon right now. Penn St hasn't won since 2016 and since joining the conference has won a total of eight games against the Buckeyes. Not sure they belong in the same conference as the Buckeyes.