We have 10 guys that for sure won’t be back next year and others that likely won’t. Seems like a good opportunity for a new coach to me.
That's a good point. I wonder what next year could look like with the new revenue sharing. Plus with everyone basically leaving next year, I would just hope we can keep Asuma around. With his brother coming to play baseball I would think he would stick around.
Steak knife. Some know it as chopped steak.How do you cut that?
Revenue sharing may explain why we were at least able to sign the 3 HS players. Smaller conferences will not be able to compete with that money.
Mike Carpenter, 7'2" from Knoxville, Tn....with the Gophers for a year (83-84) then transferred to Arkansas, back when they were still in the Southwest Conference.
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This is my philosophy for all Minnesota sports. It's very profitable.
Who held Ben accountable?
We are just one "vote of confidence comment from the AD" away from a new coach
This is what drives me crazy about the Ben Johnson "good guy" stuff. I won't pretend to know if he's a good guy or not, but I do know he's taken zero accountability for his terrible record through 3.5 seasons. Much more accomplished coaches have come out and publicly apologized to fanbases for a terrible performance, and Ben has never done that. Every time he talks it's as if he's had a couple conference titles and some deep NCAA runs and it's just the players that need to figure something out. Reality is he's never been successful at this level. Not at Nebraska, not at Minnesota, and not at Xavier. He'd deflected accountability at every turn. First, he claimed his last place team to start his career was "building something' despite him playing essentially all Seniors. Then he claimed after that first year that he now knew what type of players he needed to win in the Big Ten (despite having been an assistant coach in the league for 6 years previously). Then he claimed that we needed to "embrace the suck" when he put the worst team in Gopher history on the floor. That result was largely blamed on Cooper and Battle who then went on to play better elsewhere with Cooper starting for an NCAA team and Battle playing well for tOSU and now playing in the NBA.
I think this is interesting. Not necessarily pro Beilein, but I don't thing age should be a consideration at all in who we hire next. We know in this era of basketball, things change on a year to year basis so worrying about 5 years from now is pointless. Minnesota has to get out of the mentality of trying to check all these boxes of this mythical coach who can coach for 25 years and will never leave. The first criteria has to be "will this guy win?" if there's more than one guy on your list that is a definitive "yes" to that question, then you can move on to age, or style of play, or birthplace, or whatever else. If someone comes to Minnesota and makes the NCAA's in '25 and we can't keep him (has never happened in basketball in my lifetime, but whatever), they were a successful hire and made the job more attractive for the next guy.
Do you think the administration has even started to consider revenue sharing. My guess is that it is going to be an implementation disaster. Lots of hard decisions would have to be made. Massive cuts/elimination of non revenue sports. Not much confidence in them getting it right.
I don't disagree with the idea that the administration will screw up revenue sharing. However, I thought I heard that 21 million is being budgeted next year for it. That said we will probably have million dollar women's volleyball players and 50 cent men's basketball players.
I didn't say this but to follow up, I meant just for the rest of this year with Beilien. If anything just to make us look respectable on the floor and give us some credibility. I don't want him long term.
My understanding is that it is going to come from the guaranteed payout from tv contracts etc.. Currently 100% of that money goes to the athletic department to pay for all sports. If 20-25% of that money in the future is going directly to athletes the athletic department is going to have a huge deficit that has to be addressed.
If Coyle texting his wife and telling her that he wishes we were in the tournament isn't enough accountability for coach, I don't know what is.
The U is a 5 billion dollar operation (revenues per year from all sources). Last year had a 100 million surplus overall. The TV contract is getting bigger. I think that the overall organization just has to suck it up. A lot of the money goes to support non-revenue generating sports. If they can't handle it, then drop the ones that cost money versus generating it. That's how it works for classes- if nobody wants to pay for it, they drop the course.
This is the easiest team to defend at this level that I have seen. Pressure the guards high, they won't burn you for overplaying and they will burn the shot clock, dribbling. If the ball gets to Garcia, shade one or two other players to him- he very likely will shoot anyway if he can and is not looking to pass unless he has to. If he happens to pass the other guys can't hit open shots. The only player that cuts to the basket is Fox. So that has to be optional/ free lance.
