What is Niko building?

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Bayfield Gopher said:
Niko already has a system in place. He needs to step up his recruitment next season. At this point, I struggle to believe the talent level is better than what Ben brought to MN. And issues are starting to show.

Niko's honeymoon period could be short lived unless some things change; mainly FT and FG shooting, find a way to beat zones, better depth with the main hope being Omot's return. And bring in better talent than what could return next season.
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If Gopher Fans turn on Medved quickly then they deserve the horror they will get when he is gone. In what world do we have the right to demand anything but a slow build? The only time anyone cares about us is when we fire someone.
 

Dave H said:
If Gopher Fans turn on Medved quickly then they deserve the horror they will get when he is gone. In what world do we have the right to demand anything but a slow build? The only time anyone cares about us is when we fire someone.
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In what world do fans not have the right to challenge decades of garbage?
 

Dave H said:
If Gopher Fans turn on Medved quickly then they deserve the horror they will get when he is gone. In what world do we have the right to demand anything but a slow build? The only time anyone cares about us is when we fire someone.
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It's a lot of the usual suspects but sad there is already grumbling 4 games into his first season. I get that the turnaround window has gotten insanely short in college athletics but after 4 games is ridiculous.
 

Dave H said:
If Gopher Fans turn on Medved quickly then they deserve the horror they will get when he is gone. In what world do we have the right to demand anything but a slow build? The only time anyone cares about us is when we fire someone.
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With Niko's arrival came high expectations. Go back and read the volumes of posts confirming it. Compare that to Ben when he was hired as once fans got over the initial shock the majority realized it would be a slow build, at best.

Unlike Ben, Niko is a proven commodity and along with it comes higher expectations. The issue thus far seems to be the lack of quality players, not Niko. And its starting to show. But this is his squad.

We will know more after the next few weeks as the level of competition rises.
 




MNVCGUY said:
It's a lot of the usual suspects but sad there is already grumbling 4 games into his first season. I get that the turnaround window has gotten insanely short in college athletics but after 4 games is ridiculous.
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Coming within 1 point of losing at home to one of the worst teams in the nation may play a role.
 

In this present era of D1 basketball you don't build, you just out bid for the best players. Everyone under that is picking up scraps from the table. The Gophers are scrap pickers, not out bidders.
 

FinnGopher said:
In this present era of D1 basketball you don't build, you just out bid for the best players. Everyone under that is picking up scraps from the table. The Gophers are scrap pickers, not out bidders.
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I think we can both build and bid. We are going to have to use players that are not bigger than the program and augment them with a few rentals who are exceptional. The key is to maintain a good core roster of kids that know the program and love the coach and culture. We can afford those guys and if we do keep them, we can afford a couple higher end guys as well. I think you can go out and tell the money guys that we need these two guys and it will cost a couple million and they might give you the money. If you say, we need a new roster, forget it, nobody is going to fund that.

Coach is going to have to get one good group across goal line with a nice run in conference/NCAAs and we are off and running.
 



I may have missed it - is there a basketball GM for the Gophers? Lots of schools have'em these days. Take the money part of the equation of roster construction off the sole responsibility of the coach. A GM must know the market value of their own players (which will fluctuate based on performance), target players on other teams that would be a fit both skill-wise and budget-wise (in close consultation with the coach), and I assume have some responsibility for finding sources of revenue that would allow maintaining or increasing the payroll.

It's so much different than it was...
 


Bayfield Gopher said:
With Niko's arrival came high expectations. Go back and read the volumes of posts confirming it. Compare that to Ben when he was hired as once fans got over the initial shock the majority realized it would be a slow build, at best.

Unlike Ben, Niko is a proven commodity and along with it comes higher expectations. The issue thus far seems to be the lack of quality players, not Niko. And its starting to show. But this is his squad.

We will know more after the next few weeks as the level of competition rises.
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I see so now if Niko has a bad first season it is justifiable to turn on him? Jesus we have maybe the most fickle and dumb fanbase around...

On the football board we mock Nebraska fans for their unreal expectations...but at least they have a history with which to have such arrogance. This crap is 100x worse.
 




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