Minny sports writers

[Herky T Hawk]

How about a Minnesota post on here that isn't complaining about the result of our game?

Minny sports writers, gotta love them...
“We’re proud of that achievement,” said junior Nate Mason about the program’s highest league finish since winning the Big Ten title in 1996-97.

I'm pretty sure that our beat writers wouldn't gloss over a season forfeited by academic scandal.


http://www.startribune.com/postgame...ig-ten-tourney-to-open-play-friday/415441734/

 

[HoustonREDHawk]

Minnesota is clearly the most corrupt B1G basketball program over the past few decades. With the off-court crap that has been reported, it seems like Little Dick Pitino has been following that tradition.

 

[Franisdaman]

How about a Minnesota post on here that isn't complaining about the result of our game?

Minny sports writers, gotta love them...
“We’re proud of that achievement,” said junior Nate Mason about the program’s highest league finish since winning the Big Ten title in 1996-97.

I'm pretty sure that our beat writers wouldn't gloss over a season forfeited by academic scandal.


http://www.startribune.com/postgame...ig-ten-tourney-to-open-play-friday/415441734/

Minny cheating and not going to class and writing their own term papers cost Iowa 2 things:
* The 1997 B1G Championship
* The 1997 Player of the Year (Andre Woolridge should have won over the cheater, Bobby Jackson)

 

[Rustys Dad]

Unfortunately, winning in sports usually equates to recruiting kids who may have questionable character ... As the article also stated: "None of this matters if the team wins. The more successful a team’s performance, the less culpable a coach seems in the event of wrongdoing." Sadly, that is the world we live in ... Win and everything is just fine ...

This from a 2016 article:

"In late February, Pitino suspended three players, including leading scorer Nate Mason, for their involvement in a sex tape posted by freshman Kevin Dorsey on his Twitter account. All three players were guards, a position already undermanned. Ten days earlier, Pitino kicked guard and senior captain Carlos Morris off the squad for unspecified “conduct detrimental to the team.” A walk-on from Hopkins, Stephon Sharp, logged heavy minutes in the backcourt the rest of the season.

If Pitino was thinking this barrage of bad news would end with the cessation of the season, he was mistaken.

On May 8, junior forward Reggie Lynch, an Edina native, was arrested on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct and suspended from the team. (No charges were ever filed and Lynch was reinstated in September.)

Three days later, the U released an audit of the Athletic Department. The big news was that Pitino had blown out his annual $50,000 travel budget three years running. He’d spent $113,000 in 2014, then $156,000 in 2015.

Layered atop all this was a casual arrogance. Yes, there were private jets, apparently an occasional necessity in the high-powered world of major college recruiting. But Pitino would rent cars and drive to the airport when the U had buses available for that purpose. His rental car bills were repeatedly socked because he didn’t bring the cars back with full tanks of gas.

The U even spent $2,298 just to have Pitino’s dog driven up from Florida, paid for as a moving expense."