Reusse: Last laughing not done yet for Pitino and his combative, talented Gophers

[BleedGopher]

per long-time GopherHole lurker, Pat:

The only true Big Ten overachievers have been the Gophers. And now with Murphy playing great, and Lynch staying on the court, and Eric Curry getting better, they are as tough up front as deep on the outside with Mason, freshman Amir Coffey, Dupree McBrayer and senior transfer Akeem Springs.

Before becoming a team no one wants to play in the NCAA tournament, it’s not hard to imagine them as the team no one can beat – including Purdue – next week in the Big Ten tournament in Washington, D.C.

Two decades of Big Ten tournaments and the only final for the Gophers came in 2010, a surprising push for a Tubby Smith team that then was whipped 90-61 in the final by Ohio State. That team was a 6-seed and had to win three games in three days to reach the title game.

Pitino’s Gophers are looking at a double-bye that puts a team in the quarterfinals. And carrying home a trophy from a Big Ten tournament would be much more noteworthy than the NIT hardware he brought home with a veteran team at the end of his first Gophers season in 2014.

Richard would be able to hold it high at a welcome home and laugh knowingly, at Kaler, and us critics of lesser significance.

http://www.startribune.com/last-lau...and-his-combative-talented-gophers/415315474/

Go Gophers!!

 

[brucekaupa]

Typical a-hole journalism

 

[Otis]

per long-time GopherHole lurker, Pat:

The only true Big Ten overachievers have been the Gophers. And now with Murphy playing great, and Lynch staying on the court, and Eric Curry getting better, they are as tough up front as deep on the outside with Mason, freshman Amir Coffey, Dupree McBrayer and senior transfer Akeem Springs.

Before becoming a team no one wants to play in the NCAA tournament, it’s not hard to imagine them as the team no one can beat – including Purdue – next week in the Big Ten tournament in Washington, D.C.

Two decades of Big Ten tournaments and the only final for the Gophers came in 2010, a surprising push for a Tubby Smith team that then was whipped 90-61 in the final by Ohio State. That team was a 6-seed and had to win three games in three days to reach the title game.

Pitino’s Gophers are looking at a double-bye that puts a team in the quarterfinals. And carrying home a trophy from a Big Ten tournament would be much more noteworthy than the NIT hardware he brought home with a veteran team at the end of his first Gophers season in 2014.

Richard would be able to hold it high at a welcome home and laugh knowingly, at Kaler, and us critics of lesser significance.

http://www.startribune.com/last-lau...and-his-combative-talented-gophers/415315474/

Go Gophers!!

At least he knows his standing!

 

[MaroonGold1]

So Patrick DOES remember there's a College Basketball season going on, he had gotten awful quiet since the end of January

 

[dtrain19]

If you read entire column Patrick actually admits he was wrong about Pitino. I nearly choked on my breakfast sandwich.


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[mnsportsgeek]

As mentioned in the comments: Is that the most crow Pat can eat? I think he owes us like 4 or 5 more puff pieces.

 

[Winnipegopher]

I tell you what. If I was Pitino, I would constantly reference "filling the gas tank." It could be his row the boat. I still have a hard time believing that was brought up in an expense audit of a multi-millionaire executive.

"Fill the tank" has a nice ring you have to admit.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

I tell you what. If I was Pitino, I would constantly reference "filling the gas tank." It could be his row the boat. I still have a hard time believing that was brought up in an expense audit of a multi-millionaire executive.

"Fill the tank" has a nice ring you have to admit.

Or the moving expenses moving from Florida to here.

Only in the Minnesota media.

 

[ruppertflywheel]

Pat already has his shorts in a bundle over the Twins What did they lose by the other day, was it 19-0? They may break the the record for the most losses in the Majors this year.

 

[goldybobblehead]

If you read entire column Patrick actually admits he was wrong about Pitino. I nearly choked on my breakfast sandwich.


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Free breakfast sandwich after a gophers win? Dozens of them since this fall.

 

[howeda7]

Pat already has his shorts in a bundle over the Twins What did they lose by the other day, was it 19-0? They may break the the record for the most losses in the Majors this year.

No. Nice try tough.

 

[howeda7]

Free breakfast sandwich after a gophers win? Dozens of them since this fall.

Are they ones they've kept in back from last year?

 

[WhyNotNow?]

Spot on- give him credit

 

[ruppertflywheel]

No. Nice try tough.

Even though it is Spring Training, you loss 19-0 . That is not exactly a rally point when looking at the season. They've no pitching howeda. Until they get an "Ace" it will be 90 plus losses.

 

[Iceland12]

Richard Pitino has gone from a coach called out by his university president to begin the announcement of a new athletic director to the co-favorite to win the Big Ten’s Coach of the Year award.

Chris Collins has the whole “first-ever NCAA bid’’ going for him at Northwestern, but usually these Coach of Year and Manager of Year honors are decided by the level of surprise over a team’s success, and that advantage goes to Pitino.

I’d vote for Pitino if on a panel making such a selection, and there’s a considerable level of personal surprise in that, too...

The conference tournament started in 1998, one year after the Gophers won the now-vacated conference title with a 16-2 record that included a 12-game winning streak in the Big Ten.

These Gophers can make it 12 in a row vs. Big Ten teams, by winning in Madison against the reeling Badgers, and then sweeping three games for a first-ever tournament title.

 

[GophersInIowa]

Pat already has his shorts in a bundle over the Twins What did they lose by the other day, was it 19-0? They may break the the record for the most losses in the Majors this year.

I bet you a million dollars they don't go 27-135.

 

[60's Guy]

And

I bet you a million dollars they don't go 27-135.

I will raise your bet to two million dollars the Twins don't go 135 and 27. lol It seems like they are trying to lose...why I have not figured out but none of their decisions make any sense and mostly they made no decisions but some how evidently preferring to think the pieces are already in place to contend or improve?

 

[jmag21]

So far we've established that the Minnesota twins will neither be the worst nor the best team in baseball history.


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[GophersInIowa]

So far we've established that the Minnesota twins will neither be the worst nor the best team in baseball history.


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At least we all finally agree on something.

 

[ruppertflywheel]

At least we all finally agree on something.

The bottom line is Reusse is even a bigger A-hole when the Twins are tanking it . Consumate baseball guy.

 

[GoodasGold]

The bottom line is Reusse is even a bigger A-hole when the Twins are tanking it . Consumate baseball guy.

Haven't seen anything from Reusse on the bunting game. Will the team be able to execute the bunt this season Stay tuned.

 

[Halsey Hall]

We've had a coach named Tubby, a coach who was really tubby and a sportswriter whose body fills up a bathtub. That said, this was a well written piece I think

 

[GopherHomer]

I've been known to hate Reusse as much an the next Gopher fan, but this was a good article. He's still probably the most talented writer in town, and at least he admitted he was wrong and didn't set any achievement traps (his favorite thing to do to the U). I feel like he would embrace a Gopher basketball renaissance, whereas he has palpable hatred for the football and hockey teams.