Is Emmett Johnson biggest miss ever

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JJ Watt was dying to come here at one point but had to start off at Central Michigan before going to wisconsin. He took an OV here and he was ours with a simple offer. The badgers then got TJ Watt by extension.

Missing out on two future NFL Hall of Famers starting a family line here probably counts as the biggest miss of the recent era.
 

Nebraska also took a tightend from Lakeville the same year as Johnson that we didn’t offer and not sure he ever played a snap before leaving the team.
 

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Right but how do you determine that in recruiting when there are no previous issues.
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Offer more positions of need or high attrition a local RB MR Football candidates should be automatically offered, no matter how many you think you have
 

Gopher Mac said:
Is Emmett Johnson biggest local star that was not offered a scholarship? I know I must be forgetting some. Watching him run against Iowa today. I know we lost a few who we offered but went elsewhere but to not have offered him big miss.
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Biggest miss ever? 🤔
I doubt it. However, I saw him single handedly destroy another team in high school. I believe he had over 500 yards rushing in the game. He was a man among boys. I told my wife that the kid was a D1 player the Gophers should try to get. I was very disappointed to see we didn't work to get him. He certainly is a kid we missed on.
 





He wouldn’t have translated into another win for us either last year or this year, IMO. Happy for the kid but not worried about him not being here.
 

I believe Jay Foreman was viewed by Wacker-era coaching staff as not good enough to play in Big Ten before he went on to start on a national champion at Nebraska.
 



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I believe Jay Foreman was viewed by Wacker-era coaching staff as not good enough to play in Big Ten before he went on to start on a national champion at Nebraska.
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I don't remember it that way with Jay Forman. I believe he was top player that year and we were trying hard to sign him.
 

fmlizard said:
JJ Watt was dying to come here at one point but had to start off at Central Michigan before going to wisconsin. He took an OV here and he was ours with a simple offer. The badgers then got TJ Watt by extension.

Missing out on two future NFL Hall of Famers starting a family line here probably counts as the biggest miss of the recent era.
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I could be wrong but I believe JJ watt was committed to play for the Gophers on the last Glen Mason class and we fired Glen. He than changed his commitment to Central Michgan. I believe he committed to us as a TE. Just going off top of my head I could be wrong.
 


fmlizard said:
JJ Watt was dying to come here at one point but had to start off at Central Michigan before going to wisconsin. He took an OV here and he was ours with a simple offer. The badgers then got TJ Watt by extension.

Missing out on two future NFL Hall of Famers starting a family line here probably counts as the biggest miss of the recent era.
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Gopher Mac is correct. Mason recruited J.J. Watt as a TE and seeing Mason had a penchant for putting all the athletes on offense, Watt is probably lucky that things turned out the way they did. Mason even tried to make 4-star Edge/LB Alex Daniels into a running back. He transferred to Cincicnnati and went back to defense.
 
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Wow I thought both would have been offered by Minnesota who the hell was in charge of recuiting back than? I as an uneducated lay man knew of both as great HS football players. How could they not have gotten offers. Wow.
 

Gopher Mac said:
Wow I thought both would have been offered by Minnesota who the hell was in charge of recuiting back than? I as an uneducated lay man knew of both as great HS football players. How could they not have gotten offers. Wow.
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The issue with Foreman was the Gophers only considered him at RB, and never offered him. Miami, Michigan and Nebraska all offered him for defense.
 

Gopher Mac said:
Wow I thought both would have been offered by Minnesota who the hell was in charge of recuiting back than? I as an uneducated lay man knew of both as great HS football players. How could they not have gotten offers. Wow.
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My brother taught at CDH and while he wasn't involved with the football program, he surmised that for some reason there was a disconnect between the U and the CDH program (and it lasted through a string of Gopher coaches). I remember it was a big deal when Brewster got commitments from John Nance and Shady Salamon.
 

Tim Salem a Cretin boy was starting quarterback at the U for his dad Joe. It must have been Wacker and Mason? I know the Brew recuited that Cretin OL so hard he had some recruiting violations imposed on him.
 





Gopher Mac said:
I could be wrong but I believe JJ watt was committed to play for the Gophers on the last Glen Mason class and we fired Glen. He than changed his commitment to Central Michgan. I believe he committed to us as a TE. Just going off top of my head I could be wrong.
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This was the case, then Maturi fired Glen Mason. Gophers lost a big defensive recruit to Michigan State.
 



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