Nick Saban quote on Florida football applies to Minnesota basketball too

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Minnesota has been bad at basketball for a lot longer than football has been rough at Florida
 
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Pitino and Johnson had done literally nothing to suggest they should be Big Ten basketball coaches. Muschamp and Mullen were pick of the litter type hires. McElwain was pretty well regarded too. Off the top of my head I didn't think Napier was an impressive hire but I looked it up and he was 40-12 at Louisiana and finished 15th and 16th in the country his final two seasons.

I certainly think there are other problems at Minnesota, but it's also tough to judge when you are this overmatched in the coaching department for going on a dozen years now.
 




BleedGopher said:
4 coaches: Monson, Tubby, Pitino, Johnson.

Go Gophers!!
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Tubby was at least a middle-of-the pack coach for the most part during his tenure but it's going to be harder to do even that in the new league. Likely even harder in football. I agree with what a poster wrote in the football forum. We're going to get $20 million a year to be a fodder program to boost the win totals for the top teams and that's probably acceptable to the athletic department.
 

TwistingMyMelon said:
Tubby was at least a middle-of-the pack coach for the most part during his tenure but it's going to be harder to do even that in the new league. Likely even harder in football. I agree with what a poster wrote in the football forum. We're going to get $20 million a year to be a fodder program to boost the win totals for the top teams and that's probably acceptable to the athletic department.
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Tubby at about 9-9, 8-10, 6-12...is considered good for Minnesota.

We're simply a feeder program. This has become a clear fact. It's not opinion anymore.
 
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It wouldn't surprise me if the gophers are not part of the B1G in five years. In the new world of college athletics the big revenue producers are not going to want to share the media revenue with the cash laggards.

The smartest thing the new extremely low profile president of the U should do is get rid of Mark Coyle and hire an ethical (or reasonably ethical) version of Norwood Teague. The athletic dept needs to raise an unfathomable amount of money to have any chance of sticking around. Coyle is an earnest guy who doesn't belong in the new reality.
 

jamiche said:
It wouldn't surprise me if the gophers are not part of the B1G in five years. In the new world of college athletics the big revenue producers are not going to want to share the media revenue with the cash laggards.

The smartest thing the new extremely low profile president of the U should do is get rid of Mark Coyle and hire an ethical (or reasonably ethical) version of Norwood Teague. The athletic dept needs to raise an unfathomable amount of money to have any chance of sticking around. Coyle is an earnest guy who doesn't belong in the new reality.
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No chance. These mega conferences need patsies whose admin and fan base don't care all that much getting beat up on. Somebody's got to finish way below .500 in these leagues. Welcome to Gopher basketball and football the past 50 years
 

LesBolstad said:
No chance. These mega conferences need patsies whose admin and fan base don't care all that much getting beat up on. Somebody's got to finish way below .500 in these leagues. Welcome to Gopher basketball and football the past 50 years
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It has nothing to do with patsies on the field. It's about money. As the players become more expensive the big revenue generators aren't going to want to subsidize the schools that can't raise any money.
 

jamiche said:
It has nothing to do with patsies on the field. It's about money. As the players become more expensive the big revenue generators aren't going to want to subsidize the schools that can't raise any money.
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Yes, but to get that "big revenue" they have to have winning programs and to do that you need patsies. You may consider it subsidizing but it's just the cost of doing business
 



jamiche said:
It wouldn't surprise me if the gophers are not part of the B1G in five years. In the new world of college athletics the big revenue producers are not going to want to share the media revenue with the cash laggards.

The smartest thing the new extremely low profile president of the U should do is get rid of Mark Coyle and hire an ethical (or reasonably ethical) version of Norwood Teague. The athletic dept needs to raise an unfathomable amount of money to have any chance of sticking around. Coyle is an earnest guy who doesn't belong in the new reality.
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Who's the former U football player who became an investment tv personality? He indicated interest the last time it was open. Someone like that is what they need.
 

There is a Big Ten world independent of athletics. For all iof its many challenges, the University of Minnesota is a globally respected research institution whose discoveries and innovations have changed millions of lives for the better. The Council of Presidents is not casting Minnesota and its 15 Fortune 500 companies aside because of the second tier status of football & men’s basketball. That said, the AD needs to address the serious slippage across the board in men’s athletics.
 

There has been huge slippage across the board in the athletic department, not just in men's sports. The U currently fields a ton of mediocre/bad teams. They are simply cannon fodder for schools with serious athletic departments at the moment. But the U is perfectly comfortable with it and have been for a very long time. They like to pretend they're a bigtime athletic department without any results to actually support such views. Just the way it is.
 

jamiche said:
It wouldn't surprise me if the gophers are not part of the B1G in five years. In the new world of college athletics the big revenue producers are not going to want to share the media revenue with the cash laggards.

The smartest thing the new extremely low profile president of the U should do is get rid of Mark Coyle and hire an ethical (or reasonably ethical) version of Norwood Teague. The athletic dept needs to raise an unfathomable amount of money to have any chance of sticking around. Coyle is an earnest guy who doesn't belong in the new reality.
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I hope we leave or get kicked out of the Big Ten. We will never ever be successful there.
 

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