Johnson: We tried everything...We set up the locker room like it was a visiting locker room at UCLA just to mentally take them to a different place.

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BleedGopher said:

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He literally has nothing left at this point. Coyle would be doing him a favor to just end it now as opposed to letting it go another week and a half.

Trying to create a road environment at home.....wtf is that? This has to be rock bottom, whatever positivity there was from the 6-3 stretch with some good wins mixed in has been obliterated over these past couple of games.
 



Remembering during the height of the Twins’ road struggles in 1987, Mark Davidson taping pictures of the Metrodome on the walls of the Tiger Stadium visiting dugout.
 

I think the boys got a taste of the weather out west and now are in the post vacation hangover stage. Only cold weather states allowed in conference!
 

If Steve Lavin is out at San Diego, perhaps Ben would like a soft landing in California.

 





MNVCGUY said:
He literally has nothing left at this point. Coyle would be doing him a favor to just end it now as opposed to letting it go another week and a half.

Trying to create a road environment at home.....wtf is that? This has to be rock bottom, whatever positivity there was from the 6-3 stretch with some good wins mixed in has been obliterated over these past couple of games.
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This has got to be the lowest point EVER in Gopher basketball. Your coach is trying to fool his players (what do you think is going through their minds with this foolishness and then Ben giving a pregame talk as if they're on the road - what does that even sound like?) into a mindset they are on the road?? These aren't 4th graders... I think they understand they're not on the road wtf?? This is off the rails crazy and yes, this ALONE should be enough to get him fired!

This is truly a skit for SNL... I mean, if he really did this, does he think this is something he should share publicly? Does he not understand the ridicule he'd be getting? This truly is shocking and he must be fired immediately!
 


The body language of the players showed that they have nothing left to give. Look for another o-fer end to the season.
Ben should also know that the few fans that are left also feel stuck.

Mr. Coyle, please unstuck the drain and move on with a new coach.
 

howeda7 said:
If Steve Lavin is out at San Diego, perhaps Ben would like a soft landing in California.

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I had no idea Lavin was coaching. However, I'd kinda be surprised if he got fired. I know nothing about the program or school and their athletics.
But, I did look and Lavin is playing 12 guys 17 or more minutes per game. That is not common. He has one guy averaging double figures at 14. Five of their top top eight players transferred from last years team which was better. But those transfers are not doing much for their new teams...definitely diminished stats. My conclusion talent is an issue and they likely have very little NIL money.
Maybe he gets one year of revenue sharing to make progress?

Side note of the San Diego sun streaming into their gym: Blake had a gym back in the day with big windows on one end. Because they didn't want to distract from studies they played home games at 3:00 in the afternoon. The sun was blinding!!! Optimally timed for our half at that basket. Literally could not see the rim on one end of the court. Naturally, Blake was used to it and had all the secrets to score on the sun end. I don't remember...maybe the sun was a non issue for them, their half at that end.
Lousy coaching, lousy scouting...no clue what we were walking into. We lost to a really lousy Blake team with refs in white tennis shoes in front of four spectators.
No problem...not bitter...it only happened over 50 years ago.
 

Maybe he should propose to just move the team to LA.

The LA Lakers and the LA Gophers!
 


60's Guy said:
I had no idea Lavin was coaching. However, I'd kinda be surprised if he got fired. I know nothing about the program or school and their athletics.
But, I did look and Lavin is playing 12 guys 17 or more minutes per game. That is not common. He has one guy averaging double figures at 14. Five of their top top eight players transferred from last years team which was better. But those transfers are not doing much for their new teams...definitely diminished stats. My conclusion talent is an issue and they likely have very little NIL money.
Maybe he gets one year of revenue sharing to make progress?

Side note of the San Diego sun streaming into their gym: Blake had a gym back in the day with big windows on one end. Because they didn't want to distract from studies they played home games at 3:00 in the afternoon. The sun was blinding!!! Optimally timed for our half at that basket. Literally could not see the rim on one end of the court. Naturally, Blake was used to it and had all the secrets to score on the sun end. I don't remember...maybe the sun was a non issue for them, their half at that end.
Lousy coaching, lousy scouting...no clue what we were walking into. We lost to a really lousy Blake team with refs in white tennis shoes in front of four spectators.
No problem...not bitter...it only happened over 50 years ago.
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Iowa has this, too. The game on Saturday had Washington shooting into the sun in the second half.
 









Gophers1992 said:
Brew actually had a far more successful tenure at the U than Ben has.
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People forget Brewster went to bowls in 2/3 seasons as HC

Year 4 he was fired when the team was 1-6 and rightfully so. They may have gone 1-11 but those 6 losses were by 3 to FCS (ouch)
11 to an 8 win P5 team
11 to an 11 win team
1 to a 7 win team
18 to an 11 win P5 team
11 to a 4 win P5 team (this is when he was fired)


obviously two of those are really bad losses. But that might be the “best 1-6 team in the country” -PJ Fleck
 

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