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Minnesota Gophers Off Season thread - 2016

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What's stupid? The fact a team with a UND president would do it whatever he wants?
 
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They've also honored Augustana's basketball team for winning the D2 title and will honor NDSU for the football title June 4th.
Let's not act like this is just Dave St. Peter exercising power as a UND alum.
Fun to see Gopher fans in social media freaking out about it though.
 
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Bonin21 said:
What's stupid? The fact a team with a UND president would do it whatever he wants?
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How would folks feel about the Wild if Craig Leipold had the team celebrate a Packer superbowl win? Its pretty much stupid anytime someone puts the organization they lead second to their personal allegences.
 
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Bonin21 said:
They are boycott worthy already... I had no plans to give them money anytime soon.
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Yeah. I had no plans to give that team money this year, but now I'm calling it a 'boycott". (Not that theTwins would notice a real boycott, with the turn out they are already getting.)

And I do agree that it is poor judgement to honor UND if they are not also honoring the Gopher Women.
 
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5mn_Major said:
How would folks feel about the Wild if Craig Leipold had the team celebrate a Packer superbowl win? Its pretty much stupid anytime someone puts the organization they lead second to their personal allegences.
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I guess I don't understand all the angst. Is there some belief that the Minnesota Twins target market consists only of gopher fans, or even just Minnesota fans in general?

North Dakota has always been Minnesota Twins territory. I grew up in the central part of the state, and during the 1960's and 1970's it was pretty hard in the summer to walk into any gas station or hardware store in North Dakota and not hear the Twins game playing on a radio.

Personally, I think it's just a marketing ploy by the Twins to try to enhance the overall appearance of the crowd Sunday.
 
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The Twins are a small market team and recognizing local successes throughout the market area makes sense to me. But you don't recognize UND's success without honoring the Gopher women's team. In fact, they should probably make a bigger event out of the women's championship.
 
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This whole saga reminds me of a two year old who thinks everything is his. The Twins belong to Gopher fans! No one else can have them!
 
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burd said:
The Twins are a small market team and recognizing local successes throughout the market area makes sense to me. But you don't recognize UND's success without honoring the Gopher women's team. In fact, they should probably make a bigger event out of the women's championship.
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I know they honored the MN women's championship team before, so maybe they are planning to do it again. It could also be that they plan to honor each program only once, or a limited number of times. For instance, I think the NDSU football team is also going to be honored this summer, but I doubt they've been honored each time they won the championship. After all, there are just only so many times you can invite NDSU fans into your home.
 
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First Time said:
Fun to see Gopher fans in social media freaking out about it though.
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Yeah, I'm sure all hell broke loose all over interwebs.


That said I agree with most here - it's no big deal at all and only sucks because it wasn't the Gophers being celebrated not because they chose to honer the Fawks. :(
 
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First Time said:
They've also honored Augustana's basketball team for winning the D2 title and will honor NDSU for the football title June 4th.
Let's not act like this is just Dave St. Peter exercising power as a UND alum.
Fun to see Gopher fans in social media freaking out about it though.
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That answers part of my question. Do they honor every national hockey champion? Or just ones from around the region?

What the answer is affects my feelings on the subject.
 
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Brenthoven said:
That answers part of my question. Do they honor every national hockey champion? Or just ones from around the region?

What the answer is affects my feelings on the subject.
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North and South Dakota are strong Twins territory.
This has nothing to do with management allegiances, and everything to do with marketing.

But I still think it's gross.
 
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Stauber1 said:
North and South Dakota are strong Twins territory.
This has nothing to do with management allegiances, and everything to do with marketing.

But I still think it's gross.
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That's what I'm getting at. If it's just random, I don't like it more than I don't now. If it's regional, I dislike it less. If it's all national champions, I dislike it less.
 
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