Yet the administration now is more favorable towards major sports than anytime in the past few decades. Something you fail to understand.
Yeah, they are slowly coming around.
I just think that some people are SO INCREDIBLY TICKED OFF that the high ups at the U p1ssed away 7 decades of hard work building the program up to be one of the ABSOLUTE best football programs EVER, and did such a good job of ruining all of that hard work, that as of right now, UMn has so few former players in the NFL, that NDSU could pass us as soon as next year, Miami of Ohio and WMU combined have more than we do. Of the Top 40 programs EVER, at putting players into the NFL, only Syracuse has fewer in the NFL right now than us, 9 to our 10. Oregon has 32 and is behind us, Clemson has 39 and is behind us? How long are those programs going to remain behind us?
We got 7 into the Pro Fb HOF, great, now we are 8th in that regard. But when will we EVER put another into the Pro HOF???
For the next 20 years, we'll have to watch other programs get their guys into the Hall, while we fall, first to 9th, then 10th, then down to 15th, then 20th.
Right now, it is a source of some pride. But our day is done. Now the Miami's, PSU's, UCLA's and Oregon's of the world will all pass us on by.
During the 70's and even in the 80's, former Gophers were all over the NFL, kicking tail and taking names, making Pro Bowls, and All-Pro teams, being named to the NFL All-Decade teams, getting named as Hall of Famers.
THATS ALL ancient history now.
The people in power at the U just flushed our glorious history down the toilet. Gopher football is a joke now and has been for a very long time.
And their efforts to show that has changed, have been so SLOW, so half ashed, and has drug on for so long, that another 2-3 decades have gone by and NOW, finally, we are back on campus in an outdoor stadium, with upgraded facilities. FINALLY!!!!
And so now, we've fallen down, not being the fastest runner in the race anymore even, and are in the very back of the pack and we've picked ourselves up off the grounds, shook off the dirt, and finally are up on our feet moving towards the finish line, the ever moving forward finish line, and able to make full strides. GREAT. But we're still way back near last place in the race. And the guys in the lead are much faster than us.
And you wonder why people still b1tch about the arseholes who tripped us up and put our faces in the dirt in the first place? And then took forever to put out a hand to help us up out of the dirt??? Those arseholes are all still around, and are all still trying to bring down football and bb at the U. They may not be as vocal or as powerful now, because the lure of big money that comes with big time sports has finally, FINALLY, gotten the powers that be at the U to see the light. And the Powers that be in the B1G Conf, might have had something to do with that as well? But they are still there, lurking in the shadows, just waiting for the U to screw up, so that they can pounce.
Sad bunch of individuals, if you ask me.