He put in a different offense and defense. He had a lot of young talent. Not sure that is defined as a foundation. He took over a good young class and complimented it with his own kids from W. Michigan. It was rebuilt.
No thanks. Look at Indiana. They didn't 'stay pat' with mediocrity or settle for being a 'tough out.' They made a bold hire in Curt Cignetti, went all-in on NIL, and spent the money to get elite assistants. The result? A 16-0 season, a Big Ten title, and a National Championship. If a 'basketball school' like Indiana can stop making excuses and climb the mountain in two years, why should we be content with 7-5 and a contract extension? I’d rather the Gophers swing and miss on 10 coaches trying to find our Cignetti than sit comfortably in the middle of the pack forever. Consistency is just another word for standing still while the rest of the Big Ten passes you by.
Probably. To be clear, the extension would be continually adding the 5th year to the end, so it would extend it to 2030 etc. not adjust the 2026 salary. Every few years it would still be re-negotiated.
May I ask why? I don't see any evidence of this. We don't pay our assistants well, we don't have big time donors, we are notoriously hard to recruit for. What PJ has done here is amazing.
PJ has done an OK job maybe on the top end of mediocre. We are in what is now probably the premier conference in the country, we have tons of money flowing in and while we have some challenges if PJ wasn’t such a shitty game day coach, we would have another 10 or 12 wins under our belt since he’s been here and would’ve gone to more than one good bowl game. The fact that we never won the West when it existed was criminal. Amazing?.Nah. Better than it could be – – sure.
It would take a seismic shift from the University of Minnesota administration to see something like that happen here... at least they're not outright hostile to the football program these days. There was a time, though (and not all that long ago...)
