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Dick Ames has been a loyal Gophers supporter for decades, spending “millions of dollars” with the school. Last week he was questioning whether he wants to spend $100,000 now for a TCF Bank Stadium suite, and renew his men’s basketball season tickets.
Ames, like so many fans, is frustrated with the high profile sports at the University of Minnesota. He has been supporting the Gophers since the 1960s and when he looks back at the last “50 years” he isn’t all that happy with what U teams have done on the field and court.
The Gophers haven’t won a Big Ten football championship since 1967. They have played in one New Year’s Day Bowl Game since 1962. The men’s basketball program was stripped of its 1997 Big Ten title and Final Four appearance because of NCAA rules violations. Since the beginning of this century only four times has the U seen its basketball and football teams (twice each) win more than half of their conference games. Add up the combined performances of the football and basketball teams in the conference for the last 16 years and the Gophers rank at or near the bottom.
Al Nuness is a former Gophers basketball captain and assistant coach. His loyalty to the program runs deep but he isn’t renewing his membership in the Golden Dunkers, the booster group that for decades has assisted U basketball coaches including Tubby Smith who was fired in March of 2013.
“I am very disappointed (with the program) because expectations have not been met,” Nuness said. “We released a coach who had won the first round of the NCAA Tournament because he hadn’t reached our expectations. Well, I feel the same way, that Richard Pitino has not reached our expectations. So I am disappointed at this point.”
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Go Gophers!!
Dick Ames has been a loyal Gophers supporter for decades, spending “millions of dollars” with the school. Last week he was questioning whether he wants to spend $100,000 now for a TCF Bank Stadium suite, and renew his men’s basketball season tickets.
Ames, like so many fans, is frustrated with the high profile sports at the University of Minnesota. He has been supporting the Gophers since the 1960s and when he looks back at the last “50 years” he isn’t all that happy with what U teams have done on the field and court.
The Gophers haven’t won a Big Ten football championship since 1967. They have played in one New Year’s Day Bowl Game since 1962. The men’s basketball program was stripped of its 1997 Big Ten title and Final Four appearance because of NCAA rules violations. Since the beginning of this century only four times has the U seen its basketball and football teams (twice each) win more than half of their conference games. Add up the combined performances of the football and basketball teams in the conference for the last 16 years and the Gophers rank at or near the bottom.
Al Nuness is a former Gophers basketball captain and assistant coach. His loyalty to the program runs deep but he isn’t renewing his membership in the Golden Dunkers, the booster group that for decades has assisted U basketball coaches including Tubby Smith who was fired in March of 2013.
“I am very disappointed (with the program) because expectations have not been met,” Nuness said. “We released a coach who had won the first round of the NCAA Tournament because he hadn’t reached our expectations. Well, I feel the same way, that Richard Pitino has not reached our expectations. So I am disappointed at this point.”
http://shamasportsheadliners.com/
Go Gophers!!
