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If you aren't a Blue Blood, you need a billionaire to write that big check for NIL. Or at least a consortium of 3 or 4 9 digit millionaires.

Our NIL or coaching budget won't reach the Helmet School level without some juicing from the Ultra-wealthy.
 


how much $$$ won't matter if the guy making the decisions screws up.
we are paying 2 OL who are terrible, along with other transfers that can't/don't play.
 


Even if I was a billionaire, I don't think I'd give the Gophers a ton of money unless I had a lot of control over how they used it and had trust in the leaders.

The defensive performance last game was not primarily due to a lack of talent or NIL money. You could spend $5 million more on the defense and I don't think they would have played that much better.

Money helps but it seems that the U also has issues with how they spend the money. Not enough money goes to coaching and not enough money goes to the revenue sports.
 



WHB Brewer said:
how much $$$ won't matter if the guy making the decisions screws up.
we are paying 2 OL who are terrible, along with other transfers that can't/don't play.
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I still think our OL troubles are more to do with the OL coach than the actual players.
 

Taji34 said:
I still think our OL troubles are more to do with the OL coach than the actual players.
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Our OL has been terrible but let's not act like OL under Brian Callahan hasn't been a strength for a majority of his time here. It's definitely more player execution (and play calling) this year.
 




FARMERS - Donations from our farming community could be big. Every landowner is worth millions of dollars. Its not the billionaire bucks but they are well to do people and lots of them. Go Gophers
 

Deusen said:
FARMERS - Donations from our farming community could be big. Every landowner is worth millions of dollars. Its not the billionaire bucks but they are well to do people and lots of them. Go Gophers
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Illiquid wealth.
 

GoGophersUMN said:
Even if I was a billionaire, I don't think I'd give the Gophers a ton of money unless I had a lot of control over how they used it and had trust in the leaders.

The defensive performance last game was not primarily due to a lack of talent or NIL money. You could spend $5 million more on the defense and I don't think they would have played that much better.

Money helps but it seems that the U also has issues with how they spend the money. Not enough money goes to coaching and not enough money goes to the revenue sports.
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70-75 percent of the Rev share money goes to football.
 

DinkytownDelight said:
Our OL has been terrible but let's not act like OL under Brian Callahan hasn't been a strength for a majority of his time here. It's definitely more player execution (and play calling) this year.
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It's been a strength, but it's been trending downward over the past few years. If players are struggling to perform, it still falls on the OL coach. He's the one identifying and recruiting the players, right? So if we aren't recruiting good players, it's on him. If the players are good players, but are struggling to perform consistently on the field, it's his job to either coach then up or find a way to have them maximize their potential.

And when the same playcall results in radically different performance from the OL, I don't think you can blame the play calling.
 



Deusen said:
FARMERS - Donations from our farming community could be big. Every landowner is worth millions of dollars. Its not the billionaire bucks but they are well to do people and lots of them. Go Gophers
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It's like the old question. Would you rather have a friend with one million dollars, or a million friends with one dollar to spare?
 

Indiana and Minnesota have very similar recruiting ratings in transfers and high schoolers. NIL difference between the 2 programs not really a factor in this years results.
 

Tech Machine said:
Indiana and Minnesota have very similar recruiting ratings in transfers and high schoolers. NIL difference between the 2 programs not really a factor in this years results.
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Consequently, the difference between the programs is simply coaching?
 

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