Golden Nugz 07.28.10
by GopherNation on Jul 28, 2010 6:00 AM CDT
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Unfortunately the future series that was planned with Texas has been canceled due to the two side's inability to come to an agreement on the video rights.
"We are extremely disappointed that the series with Texas will not take place," said Minnesota Director of Athletics Joel Maturi. "Our institution, student-athletes and fans were very excited about having a nationally respected program like Texas on our schedule. However there are complex rights issues in play that are beyond our control. It's unfortunate that a mutually acceptable resolution could not be found that would have allowed the games to be played."
With two future openings now on its schedule, Maturi said Minnesota will look to immediately fill those slots with another quality non-conference opponent, preferably from a BCS conference.
Maturi also says they'll try to fill the open spots in the 2015 and 2016 schedule with another "quality opponent."
- Gopher Hockey lost Nick Leddy to the Chicago Blackhawks. Leddy was supposed to be a sophomore defenseman for the Gophers this winter but instead he is going to the NHL.
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- GopherSports.com has a Q & A with Eric Decker.
- Another Q&A, this one with former Ms Hockey, Renee Curtin. She was never actually a Gopher as she was injured in high school. But it is an interesting Q&A anyway.
- Roman takes an early look a the Gopher lines for this year.
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And this is why...
…its probably a very good thing Texas isn’t in the Big Ten. When I read dispute over video rights, it seems pretty clear to me that Texas got stubborn and wanted the upper hand on rights for the Longhorn Sports Network they’re trying to start. Don’t mess with Texas on video rights I guess.
Funny comment from Washington Nationals GM
Not Gopher-related, but Iowa-bashing is always fun…
On fans booing when hearing pitcher Stephen Strasburg was scratched with shoulder inflammation:
“Imagine if you go there to see Miss Universe and you end up having Miss Iowa, you might get those kind of boos. But it’s OK,” he said. “They had to understand that as an organization we have to make sure the kid is fine.”
Losing Leddy is a hammer blow to the Gophers. They just can’t keep their talented kids at school for more than a year anymore. This is a significant issue.
As for Texas, this is a bunch of garbage. Canceling a series FIVE years in the future over an issue regarding video rights? Right.
I expect to see that Texas’s future series currently planned with Ole Miss and Cal-Berkeley are cancelled over the same “impasse” over video rights. Otherwise, I’m going to just go with this assumption: Texas has a home and home scheduled with Cal-Berkeley in 2015-16, and had to clear one of its non-conference games because of the conference realignment and because the ‘Big Twelve’ is going to play a true round-robin.
This is probably...
…the true reason. Either way, Texas is moving up the list of schools I dislike.
At least
it was far in advance so we have plenty of time to come up with a good quality team.
Didn’t a team cancel on us AFTER we played the first part of “home and home” at their place?
"they're calling insane hogs???"
Gopher hockey
I’m not a hockey mind, but is it a huge understatement to say that the hockey program is kind of in free-fall mode right now?
what you say here can, and will, be used against you The Daily Gopher
we need to do something
I do not know what the Don is doing over there at Mariucci, but he is chasing everybody away as fast as possible. He must just suck the fun right out of playing college hockey. I think it is time for a change. We have to start the grassroots campaign to bring this to light. Maturi probably thinks everything is hunky dory, being the naive simpleton that he is.
Yeah he won 2 Championships
but I don’t remember EVER being this pessimistic about an upcoming Gopher Hockey season.
I’ve been watching faithfully since the 80’s and I always felt confident we would be in the top 5 every year and assumed we’d be number 1 or 2 in the conference. Now we just plain suck.
"they're calling insane hogs???"
Texas
I hope the cancellation is a foreshadowing of Texas coming to the Big 10. I still think the Big 10 conference holds all the chips in expansion talks. I don’t think the conference is done expanding yet.
Yes, this is wishful thinking on my part.
Yes
It is wishful thinking. Texas is under the impression that Bevo Vision will be worth more to them than the Big Ten Network is to Big Ten teams. I doubt if they are going anywhere any time soon. Unless, A&M jumps to the SEC suddenly, which still could happen.
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