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You really thought that is what I was trying to do? lol You really are a dupe, aren't you?
No you didn't. Stop trying to imitate Wamu by making sh1t up. All I ever did was give praise to the new coaching hire for his coaching abilities and winning more games than anyone predicted they would and for playing hard in losses in conference.
All I did was post the rankings? LOL
I continued posting the facts about Gopher sports teams and athletes who kicked arse. I've never been a cfb only or cbb only guy, I enjoy all kinds of sports and so focused more of my time and energy on the sport of hockey last winter. As for basketball, I was also distracted with the Gophers getting two more former bb players into the Naismith HOF, and my eyes were looking forward to the future with Whalen bringing in a Top Ten ranked recruiting class in this season, so the women's bb team will get my attention, and as for the men's bb team, NO ONE expected the Men's bb team to win any games last year, but they beat Princeton & W Kentucky in a tourney, Miss St in Mississippi and Pitt in Pennsylvania and Michigan in Michigan and 4th in the B1G Rutgers and had 2 moral victories in a 2 pt loss vs MSU in Michigan and a 1 pt loss vs Wisc in Wisconsin. This was all far more than anyone expected, and Johnson seems to be bringing in some interesting players going forward, will be interesting to see how they do. May need another year before the expectations realistically can rise, but you never know? And with both hockey teams starting out the year ranked #2 in the nation, again I may focus more on that sport, at least for this coming winter.
I understand people feeling this because much is made about OOC scheduling. There is this "assumption" that the In-conference schedules are ON AVERAGE pretty much the same. Well they aren't. They aren't even ON AVERAGE pretty much the same among teams in the same conference let alone among DIFFERENT conferences. Take the B1G, the two best teams (historically) in the B1G play every year (Michigan and Ohio State). That skews the scheduling. Years ago, in the SEC when teams played TWO "traditional rivals" from the other division, Alabama played Tennessee and Vanderbilt every years while Auburn played Florida and Georgia. Florida used to play LSU and Auburn in the west. Some teams seem to play the in-conference "high school" teams more often than others do and every conference has "high school" teams. Auburn plays Alabama, LSU, Texas A&M and Georgia every year. This year Auburn played Penn State as an OOC game. So IF Auburn elected to play TWO FCS schools in OOC I would have NO problem with that! My point is that one needs to look at a teams ENTIRE schedule before throwing stones for playing "as many high school teams as possible." It just might surprise you.
The Notre Dame crap, dumbass. That's the main one. I NEVER claimed UMn was on par with Notre Dame for ALL of cfb history, but you are too overcome by your Fred Derangement Syndrome to think reasonably and use common sense.
Just for the record, I've had Minnesota in my Top 25 since the pre-season. But, as for how a team can be unranked (by the major polls) while leading the nation in all those categories? It's a matter of not playing a team with a pulse so far this season.
