From Kent Youngblood's Strib Blog

[Rescooter]

Just a quick update on Hayo Carpenter, the highly-regarded junior college wide receiver. I blogged a while back about how people I was talking to said there shouldn’t be a problem with Carpenter qualifying academically for the upcoming semester.

Well, Carpenter arrived in the Twin Cities on Monday, has apparently cleared all hurdles and looks good to go when practice starts Aug. 10; coach Tim Brewster officially welcomed ”HC” to the Twin Cities with a tweet.

That’s about all. Enjoy the day.

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-While most of us anticipated this, it's nice seeing the word getting out. I look forward to Hayo and Decker torching secondarys - especially on October 3.

 

[Section2]

I still don't understand why everything still has to be couched with "appears good to go" "seems like there will be no problems". Can't we just say if he's in or out?

 

[Maximus]

As Gray proved last year, nothing is set in stone until first day of classes.

 

[koppco1]

For anyone who thinks Minnesota is the only D-1 team with a few players that have academic issues, it appears becky lost one of their promising young cornerbacks due to academic reasons. It happens to ALL of the teams but for some reason anytime Minnesota loses a player its front page news. Here is the link.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/51232377.html

 

[Bronko Nagurski Gopher]

For anyone who thinks Ninnesota is the only D-1 team with a few players that have academic issues, it appears becky lost one of their promising young cornerbacks due to academic reasons. It happens to ALL of the teams but for some reason anytime Minnesota loses a player its front page news. Here is the link.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/51232377.html

that is the difference between between small towns like madison, iowa city, bloomington, west lafayette, champaign/urbana, etc. and minneapolis. in those small towns the university and their sports teams is usually what "butters the newspapers and the city's bread" so they are not usually very eager to ever paint anything about the university (and especially the athletic teams/players) in a bad light lest they feel the wrath of the school pushing back. madison and iowa city seem especially adept at this type of selective reporting and often putting an unprompted positive spin/silver lining on an otherwise negative story when it comes to becky and the hogeyes and their player's mis-steps.

where in a large city like minneapolis the u of m and the gophers are just another place/team amongst many, so the two main newspapers have no financial or personal qualms about extremely agressive and sometimes unfair reporting when it comes to covering our local big ten squads. perfect example is the idiots over at FOX 9 sending an uncover reporter with a hidden camera to follow a couple U of M hockey players into a campus bar to catch them on tape having a couple drinks.

 

[drunkenMNgopher]

hooray for underage drinking. we all loved it freshman and soph. years. whether it be your 3rd freshman year or 1st. kudos fox for such amazing journalism.

 

[Handsome Pete]

that is the difference between between small towns like madison, iowa city, bloomington, west lafayette, champaign/urbana, etc. and minneapolis. in those small towns the university and their sports teams is usually what "butters the newspapers and the city's bread" so they are not usually very eager to ever paint anything about the university (and especially the athletic teams/players) in a bad light lest they feel the wrath of the school pushing back. madison and iowa city seem especially adept at this type of selective reporting and often putting an unprompted positive spin/silver lining on an otherwise negative story when it comes to becky and the hogeyes and their player's mis-steps.

where in a large city like minneapolis the u of m and the gophers are just another place/team amongst many, so the two main newspapers have no financial or personal qualms about extremely agressive and sometimes unfair reporting when it comes to covering our local big ten squads. perfect example is the idiots over at FOX 9 sending an uncover reporter with a hidden camera to follow a couple U of M hockey players into a campus bar to catch them on tape having a couple drinks.

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