Just saw an article that said Payne was asking for 500K just to talk to him and Texas A&M gave him that. That article then said that is more than the entire Gophers NIL budget. If that is even close to true, we are absolutely toast. If our entire budget cant match what other teams can spend on...
Big in size and academics, small in prestige with basketball. We are the little guys on the big stage of the college ball world and chumps compared with the major players in Division 1 who have massive supporters and boosters funding them.
Cost us a buck seventy-five of our NIL money, a sizeable amount, hope he's worth busting the bank over because the team is going to have to sacrifice our yearly pack of gum. Those boys will miss the luxury of getting a whole stick each to themselves but we do need a PG.
However you slice it, Minnesota is just a pathetic state of affairs when it comes to national sports, pro or collegic, this is just another example among myriad.
Our new goal needs to be to make the bubble and then make some kind of statement in the tournament, That will take recruiting to the next level. Not only will it get the hometown kids to start believing, those portal beings will start to want to get in on the good stuff too.
THE Ohio State University ran into one of THE biggest buzzsaws of the Big Ten when they encountered THE Gilded Gophers of Minnesota. Poor Battle see's the grass isn't always greener on the other side and he should have known that a Gopher would be much better at picking out proper grassland than...