The departure of Don Lucia as head coach of Minnesota solicits another pro-coach column from yours truly. News at 11.
But this is not going to be a paean to Lucia specifically.
Well, it will be a little, at first.
Lucia will be missed. He was great to deal with, even when I disagreed with him, such as the ill-fated Big Ten age limit change. He gets big kudos from me for knowing what the Pairwise was and how it worked long before most other coaches, back at a time when I beat my head against the wall daily on that topic.