The NCAA, and possibly the rest of the nation, simply HATES US. And if they tell you that they don't, that they just don't even pay us any attention, its because they don't have to, BECAUSE THEY HATE US, and the NCAA does most of the work for them, in all my life, I've only heard of them going after one single hockey program in all of history, and it was ours. Wasn't a huge thing, but it was one of the reasons Woog was let go??? Name me one other hockey program they've ever investigated???
They HATE US because we are from the Frozen Tundra, and if we ever win anything significant, well, that would be a huge slap in the rest of the country's face. A bunch of bumpkins from the Frozen Tundra were able to beat them???
Then the big "brawl" that happened between us and OSU? It's simple, we were one of those Fing schools that pushed the Race issue, we kept bringing in the "negroes", and most did not like this, INCLUDING ALL OF THE OTHER Big Ten schools. We were suppose to "allow" only one token black onto our team. But Muss dared bring in a whole bunch of them, including one particular player the league coaches had agreed to not recruit, of course this happened before Muss was hired. So he recruited that player and several other "negroes" before anyone could tell him that wasn't "accepted" practices in the Big Ten. And the rest of the conference and nation hated us for this. And when OSU's racist coach fired up his players enough that one of them spat in one of our players faces when our player was trying to help him up off the flour, our guy lost it and retaliated by kneeing the guy in the balls as he helping him to his feet. The OSU player, years later became a born again Christian and admitted that he did in fact spit in our players face and called him a "nigger" after spitting in his face.
But who got painted as the bad guys in that whole incident??? Our Gophers did. And it was not long after this that Musselman and the program came under NCAA investigation and got nailed, all while UCLA got away with murder without even a slap on the wrist.
And our 1977 season was completely erased because of one player selling 2 of his complementary tickets.
The NCAA wouldn't give a program more than a slap on the wrist for the same thing today, but we lost an entire season, arguably our best ever!!!
Our Softball teams wins more games than any other program in the nation last year, finishes the season with BOTH the B1G Conf Reg Season Title AND the Conf Tourney Title, the #1 ranking in the Coaches poll, the #4 in the other poll, and the #11 in the RPI, yet doesn't get a Top 16 seed and the home field advantage that goes with it.
The NCAA and the rest of he nation HATES US.
How many Gopher Men's bb teams seemed IN, and then got left OUT of the NCAA bb tourney???
We are the Rodney Dangerfield character in Caddyshack, doesn't matter what we do, they don't want us in their club.