BleedGopher
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per Pat:
Continued success in baseball and softball would assist in allowing the Gophers to maintain a lofty position (they are fourth after fall and winter sports) in the Director’s Cup, which measures the overall success of all NCAA Division I athletic programs.
These teams are more representative of what has happened with University of Minnesota athletics in this school year than what occurred with the large moneymakers, Gophers football and men’s basketball, when those two programs were a combined 4-23 against Big Ten competition.
It has been opined regularly that the Gophers are an athletic department in chaos, based on three factors:
One, the cumbersome and ongoing search for a new athletic director that has followed the firing of Norwood Teague for conduct unbecoming a person of the male gender.
Two, the worst season in the 120-year history of men’s basketball, culminated with the suspension of three players after the posting of a sex video on social media.
Three, a popular belief with the sporting public that university President Eric Kaler has to be some type of stooge, both for signing off on a new contract that gave basketball coach Richard Pitino a $7 million buyout at this point in his failed tenure, and Kaler’s inability to make a deal with resigned football coach Jerry Kill to stay active in Gophers athletics.
http://www.startribune.com/most-of-...ng-despite-trauma-with-moneymakers/376646971/
Go Gophers!!
Continued success in baseball and softball would assist in allowing the Gophers to maintain a lofty position (they are fourth after fall and winter sports) in the Director’s Cup, which measures the overall success of all NCAA Division I athletic programs.
These teams are more representative of what has happened with University of Minnesota athletics in this school year than what occurred with the large moneymakers, Gophers football and men’s basketball, when those two programs were a combined 4-23 against Big Ten competition.
It has been opined regularly that the Gophers are an athletic department in chaos, based on three factors:
One, the cumbersome and ongoing search for a new athletic director that has followed the firing of Norwood Teague for conduct unbecoming a person of the male gender.
Two, the worst season in the 120-year history of men’s basketball, culminated with the suspension of three players after the posting of a sex video on social media.
Three, a popular belief with the sporting public that university President Eric Kaler has to be some type of stooge, both for signing off on a new contract that gave basketball coach Richard Pitino a $7 million buyout at this point in his failed tenure, and Kaler’s inability to make a deal with resigned football coach Jerry Kill to stay active in Gophers athletics.
http://www.startribune.com/most-of-...ng-despite-trauma-with-moneymakers/376646971/
Go Gophers!!