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Minnesota Folks Still Believe Dan is the Man!!

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RonnyAtmosphere

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..told Minnesota that he will take the Minn. job if he is paid 1 million more a year than Saban?


I think Mullen is a coach on the rise, but Mullen is currently not even in Saban's ballpark.


Plus the one about Tubby Smith advocating Phil Fulmer was a good one.
 
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the delta dawg

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What a joke. I forgot Minnesota even had a football team. Hey gophers...try the WAC. They may have a coach who would take that job.
 
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ckDOG

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Not just Mullen. Regardless, that article is mostly BS.
 
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o_GuitarDawg

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Just saying that this is ludicrous. If Mullen is going to take a job just for money then I don't want him near our program. Minnesota is a terrible place to go. He would be taking a step down, no, he would be falling down a flight of stairs taking that job. He's got a great job. He can win here, he's in the SEC. What more is there?
 
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SLUdog

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him....not a fun place to live for much of the year because of the weather.
 
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jmbeck

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If you assume that we increase Mullen to ~2.2M to 2.5M, and that the staff gets an extra $150K, that puts our total package at $4.5M $4.75M from $3.3M this year.

I would like to think we could match a $5M compensation package for the football staff.

That being said, sounds a lot like "well, MN is talking $5M" to be used by an agent.
 
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bomanishus

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It happens in a state where there's only one major university - or at least only one with anyinfluence or alumni or athletics. The media outlets bow down to the program and the fans are incredibly delusional. The media prints and voices incredibly self-serving and wishful thinking things like this Minnesota writer does.

Exhibit A: Minnesota. Exhibit B: Arkansas.

The presence of an in-state rival keeps the journalists honest.

Exhibit C: Missouri</p>
 
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RyanB

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This thread isnt even worth reading. Minnesota is without a doubt a giant step down from Mississippi State...

Thats all I have to say about that.....
 
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SanfordRJones

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bomanishus said:
It happens in a state where there's only one major university - or at least only one with anyinfluence or alumni or athletics. The media outlets bow down to the program and the fans are incredibly delusional. The media prints and voices incredibly self-serving and wishful thinking things like this Minnesota writer does.

Exhibit A: Minnesota.</p>
Click to expand...
...but it doesn't apply to Minnesota. The Screaming Eagles are also in the land of 10,000 lakes..
 
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Todd4State

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Features include:

A. The only school in the state with a BCS team.

B. Refusal to play or acknowledge others in the state for example- Arkansas State, or referring to other schools in the state as "weak sisters"- ie LSU.

C. Fanbase that is incredibly delusional and has absolutely no clue how to act around other schools fans. Example- Arkansas fans that tried to run friend off the road for having a MSU sticker on their car in Little Rock.

D. Conference has to attempt to form "rivalries" with school even though no one gives a crap about them- Example- "The Golden Boot" and MSU's mythical rivalry with Arkansas per EA sports.
 
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615dawg

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In a state like Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina (Tennessee is a weird, in the middle place), you have 2 or more BCS programs for the media outlets to cover.

I know that this isn't exact, but lets assume the following in Mississippi.

40% MSU fans
35% Ole Miss fans
12.5% HBCU fans
12.4% Out of state/small college fans
0.1% Southern Miss fans

The media outlets have to cover two BCS schools, another Division I school with a huge inferiority complex, and three HBCU schools who cry racism if the coverage isn't good.

If the media outlets cover a school negatively, let's say that 20% (that's high) of a particular fanbase goes up in arms about it and starts complaining. If a media outlet covers MSU negatively, they may lose an 8 point share of their MSU fans, but they will pick up those points in new Ole Miss fans possibly.

In a state like Arkansas, if you cover the Razorbacks negatively, that 20% is not only higher numbers, there is no cushion of other fans to make up a loss. Plus Arkansas is the BSC champions year in and year out - Bat. ****. Crazy.

Its the same way in Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska (really bad there), West Virginia (I imagine that's the worse)

States like Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey have one BCS program but people just don't care enough to have those issues.

States like Utah, who now has one BCS program, don't fit the mold because the non-BCS program has such a large following.

Then you have states like Tennessee and Washington, who have two BCS programs but one gets such preferential treatment (Vandy is private and elite, Washington State is so far removed from most of the population in Washington) that the Razorback Syndrome has the same effect.
 
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Dawgpack

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According to Scout their are no recruits in that state. Only 3 3stars recruits and only 1 is committed to the Gophers. In comparison Mississippi has 9 4stars, 30 3 stars. Dan has said multiple times that the recruits located in MS is a big reason for him coming to State.
 
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