LOL.Well, everybody and I mean everybody picks us to finish bottom 4. The AD kept the coach after last season...so finishing above 500 in the Big Ten is significant progress. Pretty hard not to call it successful considering the starting point and amidst a pandemic after your best player from last year's team is drafted in the NBA.
Pitino is the only Gopher coach to have a winning conference record in the last 15 years. We are not dealing with a recent history of success without scandal.
"Picked to finish bottom 4" is not what I call an endorsement of the coach.
Nor a defense.