Coach Kill is a Fan's Coach

No,  Urban Meyer did something way more awesome and intense and SEC-like.

Minnesota does have a small fanbase, at least if you look at how many people go to the games.  TCF Bank Stadium seats 50,000, and they did not sell out every game last year.  

I think most coaches dislike open practices, for the simple fact that they don't want to reveal too much.  But at a school like Minnesota, where they're trying to build fan support, it may be necessary.  If Kill were at Michigan, I bet he wouldn't bother.

That is the most in depth analysis I have ever heard on Minnesota football

Yes the B1G competition was good for the bball team but I truly believe that the biggest factor in them making it all the way (outside of the team itself) was the fact they were no longer playing by B1G rules. Teams weren't allowed to be as physical as Wisconsin and Indiana were.

Obligatory:

"students dont show up for games, why would they show up for practice? We should just shrink the student section. Get off my lawn"

students have their own life to exist in and watching another student practice a sport is somewhat comical. 

When we go to a nine-game schedule in 2016, we'll then play three of the seven teams in the West every year.  That works out to playing Minnesota about 43% of the time, but it will be slightly more than that because we won't face Purdue that often (due to its protected game with Indiana). Hopefully they'll find a way for every school to play everyone else at least once in a four-year span.

If we just would have stayed as a 12-team league and gone with geography, it would have been simple: with an eight-game schedule, you'd play your five divisional opponents and three of the six in the other division each year.  With a nine-game schedule you'd play four of the six in the other division each year.  But no, we had to have non-geographic divisions and protected cross-division games.  

Climate Change.