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I think the recruit that flipped to Michigan State was a LB named Jones (first name--and in truth perhaps the last name--escape me). Didn't we also lose Robbinsdale Armstrong WR David Gilreath in that coaching change or was that later?

Tony Rice was considering the Gophers (I don't know if he fully committed) when Holtz was coaching, but he followed Holtz to Notre Dame.

He must be really slow then because the whole team looks slow (couldn't resist the set-up). Seriously, it's going to be a long year. I think Medved has a better idea of what he wants to do than Johnson did, but you still need players. Medved will get a fair shake.

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...

I think McCarthy will turn out to be a decent professional quarterback. From watching him, I think his biggest problem now is that he's too confident in his abilities and as a result is making a ton of bad decisions. He has to play within the game at this point until he has the experience to...

And Weinke after he gave up baseball. Edit: We did offer Weinke.

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...

I am pretty sure they scout players extensively before offering.

As I recall, Hull never received a formal offer but did meet with Fleck. Fleck supposedly said something to the effect that we'll offer if you sign right now. Hull wanted to wait so no offer was forthcoming. I coiuld be totally wrong on this, but I think that is how it was reported on this board.

In retrospect, they should have opened up the bank for Daniels. Somewhere in the neighborhood of:

Ask Diego Pavia. He's going to play college football until he's old enough to collect social security.

Agree. It's always hard to tell with DEs/Edge players. I thought Joyner would be drawing an NFL paycheck (if only on a practice squad) but he's not. Smith is better than Joyner, but if he projects as a Day 3 guy I have to think he'll return to school, either here or at a helmet school.

I agree. My beef this year is that there's just no excuse for the 2025 offensive line situation. My only caveat is that I think the defense has underachieved. This was going to be a transitional year with a redshirt freshman QB, but the offensive line issues have made the running game stuggle...

Or a Butter Knife Steak.

Haven't around much because as the saying goes, "If you don't have nothing nice to say, don't say anything." I don't like (but don't mind) getting our butts kicked by the big dogs, but we always seem to underperform against Northwestern and have blown so many big leads against them over the...