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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.
 




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.
 




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
 


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?
 

CliffB said:
Consequently, the difference between the programs is simply coaching?
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Right now, the logical conclusion would be yes, how else would you square it. I thought Indy hit the jackpot with the transfer portal, not really a lot different than Minn., I was surprised actually.
 

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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It’s a huge talent issue
 

Tech Machine said:
Right now, the logical conclusion would be yes, how else would you square it. I thought Indy hit the jackpot with the transfer portal, not really a lot different than Minn., I was surprised actually.
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Evaluation and coaching.. Indiana identifies the same level of recruit but they choose guys they feel confident will fit their scheme.
At Minnesota the defensive scheme is the issue, not the players. I don't watch Kingsbury and Baranowski and say if only we had better linebackers. Our defensive line has talent and so does our secondary...it's scheme.
Offensively, it is play calling...we choose stupid plays for the situation and no matter what the call, we rarely execute. We have talent...we do not put the players in a position to succeed.
Not saying we have Ohio State talent but neither does Iowa. They execute a sound game plan...we do not.
 



LeftofThaDial said:
70-75 percent of the Rev share money goes to football.
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50% of the total athletics budget goes to football. 60% of the revenue comes from football, or about 75% if you exclude revenue not assigned to a particular sport.

If expenses were proportional to revenue, that would be an $15 to $37 million for football. That money would be huge for the program - even 10% of that towards assistant coaches would be enough to retain coordinators.
 

Ski U Mah Gopher said:
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.
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There are many spectator sports in the TCs to spend money on. In Iowa City there's one. Madison, one.
 

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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$1M to upgrade the DC would be a nice start. Then $1M on each corner, $1M on a stud linebacker and the final $1M on a DT and we are in business.
 

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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I agree on the amount of money spent on our coaching staffs at MN, especially for the football program, and here is the best way to illustrate it. This is some data put together by USA Today Sports on Big1G assistant coaching staff combined salaries pool by team for 2024:

2024 Big Ten football assistant coaches' total salaries​

  1. Ohio State $11,425,000
  2. Michigan $9,384,000
  3. Oregon $8,295,000
  4. Iowa $7,900,000
  5. Washington $7,200,000
  6. Michigan State $6,975,000
  7. Nebraska $6,775,000
  8. Indiana $5,935,000 after the 2024 season, and Cignetti's extension this moved to $11M
  9. Rutgers $5,750,000
  10. Maryland $5,475,000
  11. Wisconsin $5,375,000
  12. Illinois $5,325,000
  13. Purdue $4,965,000
  14. UCLA $4,670,000
  15. Minnesota $4,599,000 - Before the 2025 season and PJ's extension, this moved to $5.5M
So, with the updated salaries heading into 2025, you would have OSU at #1, then IU at #2, followed by Mich at #3, ORE at #4, and then Iowa sits at #5. Do we see any correlation with how this year's standings look (just push Mich down a spot) compared to the assistant coaches' total salaries? (Note: USC & NW are private, so they don't report amounts) More money and staff to focus not only on coaching the players (supposedly better coaches), but also on more resources to manage the recruiting process. The Iowa program drives me nuts, but they are putting their money where their mouth is in terms of supporting their program. It would be interesting to see if anything would change if we provided that level of support for 3-4 yrs.
 
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99Gopher said:
I agree on the amount of money spent on our coaching staffs at MN, especially for the football program, and here is the best way to illustrate it. This is some data put together by USA Today Sports on Big1G assistant coaching staff combined salaries pool by team for 2024:

2024 Big Ten football assistant coaches' total salaries​

  1. Ohio State $11,425,000
  2. Michigan $9,384,000
  3. Oregon $8,295,000
  4. Iowa $7,900,000
  5. Washington $7,200,000
  6. Michigan State $6,975,000
  7. Nebraska $6,775,000
  8. Indiana $5,935,000 after the 2024 season, and Cignetti's extension this moved to $11M
  9. Rutgers $5,750,000
  10. Maryland $5,475,000
  11. Wisconsin $5,375,000
  12. Illinois $5,325,000
  13. Purdue $4,965,000
  14. UCLA $4,670,000
  15. Minnesota $4,599,000 - Before the 2025 season and PJ's extension, this moved to $5.5M
So, with the updated salaries heading into 2025, you would have OSU at #1, then IU at #2, followed by Mich at #3, ORE at #4, and then Iowa sits at #5. Do we see any correlation with how this year's standings look (just push Mich down a spot) compared to the assistant coaches' total salaries? (Note: USC & NW are private, so they don't report amounts) More money and staff to focus not only on coaching the players (supposedly better coaches), but also on more resources to manage the recruiting process. The Iowa program drives me nuts, but they are putting their money where their mouth is in terms of supporting their program. It would be interesting to see if anything would change if we provided that level of support for 3-4 yrs.
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Penn St doesn’t have to report their salaries due to state law. We upped our DC’s salary to 1.2 million last January and he still left for Miami. Miami paid $600,000 in a buyout. I’m guessing Collins makes 600-700,000 this year as our DC, PJ has routinely spent under our assistant coaches salary pool.
 

LeftofThaDial said:
Penn St doesn’t have to report their salaries due to state law. We upped our DC’s salary to 1.2 million last January and he still left for Miami. Miami paid $600,000 in a buyout. I’m guessing Collins makes 600-700,000 this year as our DC, PJ has routinely spent under our assistant coaches salary pool.
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The way I understand it, Heatherman’s salary for 2025 was $1,000,000, with a $200,000 retention bonus if he stays for 2026. Even though it could ad up to $1.2 million, if he left, he wouldn’t get the last $200k.

I tried to find what Miami is paying Heatherman, but being a private school it seems to not have been reported. Although I read one article that said Miami has the highest assistant coaches salary in the ACC, which most likely means he’s getting at least $1.5 million.
 

WAGopher said:
The way I understand it, Heatherman’s salary for 2025 was $1,000,000, with a $200,000 retention bonus if he stays for 2026. Even though it could ad up to $1.2 million, if he left, he wouldn’t get the last $200k.

I tried to find what Miami is paying Heatherman, but being a private school it seems to not have been reported. Although I read one article that said Miami has the highest assistant coaches salary in the ACC, which most likely means he’s getting at least $1.5 million.
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I’m not disputing that Miami probably paid more. Only that PJ had the authority to pay more for his assistant coaches. Not that I think Collins was in line for that kind of bump.
 

LeftofThaDial said:
I’m not disputing that Miami probably paid more. Only that PJ had the authority to pay more for his assistant coaches. Not that I think Collins was in line for that kind of bump.
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Yes, he could have paid more. I think it was last year Fleck confirmed they didn’t use the entire coaching pool money. And he could have used that $600k buyout from Miami you mentioned to get an experienced DC.
 

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