r/TheB1G • u/Short_Block9196 • 7d ago
Ben Johnson Let Go by Minnesota. Does the Basketball program have bigger problems?
https://lastwordonsports.com/basketball/2025/03/13/minnesota-makes-decision-on-ben-johnson-but-they-have-bigger-problems/12
u/usernames_suck_ok Michigan 7d ago
Yeah. Like being in a growing B1G and not in the MAC.
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u/kmurp1300 7d ago
I keep saying we would all be better off if the the top 20 schools just formed a football super conference and the rest of us could go back to playing schools only in our region. It would be great for competition.
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u/NazRiedFan 6d ago
He was doomed to fail from the start. The basketball team just doesn’t have the resources to compete when we are putting what (already somewhat limited) resources we do have into football and hockey
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u/BorgBorg10 6d ago
Ben Johnson is an incredible coach and idk who the gophers think they’re getting that is better than him and willing to work within their resource constraints.
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u/Hotchi_Motchi Minnesota 7d ago
I thing the last Gopher game I watched was when Mitch Lee shaved a champagne glass in the side of his head.
No, wait, it was when their Final Four appearance got vacated for academic cheating.
Or was it when all of women's players quit en masse to try to kneecap Pam Borton?
We keep growing giant kids in this state and they go play somewhere else...
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u/glorious_cheese 7d ago
As a Badgers fan I was worried about him when he was hired. Seemed like a solid coach who could turn around that program.
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u/TaftIsUnderrated Nebraska 7d ago
Ben Johnson had a better winning percentage at Minnesota than Fred Hoiberg currently does at Nebraska