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Then you have the case of the proposed basketball practice facility that Tubby Smith was promised six years ago when he left Kentucky to take the Gophers job.
Something in the area of less than $10 million needed to be raised to put the shovel in the ground to get a building on the way, a building that certainly would help recruiting. But it didn’t happen under Joel Maturi as athletic director, although his replacement, Norwood Teague, is confident it will help now that the university has found a spot to build it on, a spot that would be near the Bierman Building.
Teague, now in his second year on the job, has a plan where he hopes to raise $190 million for Gophers facilities, one that would make the school’s athletic facilities go from among the worst in the Big Ten to the best.
Not surprisingly, one of the first things Teague heard from boosters is that they want to see some winners before they contribute.
Teague is confident Gophers men’s basketball can win under new coach Richard Pitino. “We’ve won in basketball in spots in the last 30 years,” said the AD. “The situation with the NCAA rule violations back in the late ’90s and early 2000s, that definitely put us behind in many ways. But we won then, and besides some of the academic issues, it doesn’t seem like we were doing anything wrong, besides what coach [Clem] Haskins got in trouble for on the academic side. I think basketball is very winnable on a national level.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/215466221.html
Go Gophers!!
Then you have the case of the proposed basketball practice facility that Tubby Smith was promised six years ago when he left Kentucky to take the Gophers job.
Something in the area of less than $10 million needed to be raised to put the shovel in the ground to get a building on the way, a building that certainly would help recruiting. But it didn’t happen under Joel Maturi as athletic director, although his replacement, Norwood Teague, is confident it will help now that the university has found a spot to build it on, a spot that would be near the Bierman Building.
Teague, now in his second year on the job, has a plan where he hopes to raise $190 million for Gophers facilities, one that would make the school’s athletic facilities go from among the worst in the Big Ten to the best.
Not surprisingly, one of the first things Teague heard from boosters is that they want to see some winners before they contribute.
Teague is confident Gophers men’s basketball can win under new coach Richard Pitino. “We’ve won in basketball in spots in the last 30 years,” said the AD. “The situation with the NCAA rule violations back in the late ’90s and early 2000s, that definitely put us behind in many ways. But we won then, and besides some of the academic issues, it doesn’t seem like we were doing anything wrong, besides what coach [Clem] Haskins got in trouble for on the academic side. I think basketball is very winnable on a national level.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/215466221.html
Go Gophers!!