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What position is he going to play?

That approach that you write above is for the coaches and the players. As for me as a fan, realistic expectations are important so I avoid becoming disillusioned by disappointment. One could have never stayed a Gopher football fan over all of these years without realistic expectations...

We will have to play then, reluctantly from my opinion. The West Coast schools entering the Big Ten have some obvious natural advantages in bat and ball sports over the MidWest/Eastern schools. My personal barometer as to if the Gopher have a good softball season is no longer if they finish at...

I assume those are players that want to play the big southern schools in the SEC or ACC as their competition. That is my best guess.

Not many out-transfers though. That is where the rubber hits the road on this issue.

But we have shortstop covered; so we have that going for us. I think we will be okay; but that numerically huge class of Sophomores during the 2025 season who didn’t do much at all during the 2024 season (excluding Richardson who played some) are going to have to show that they can play at the...

What’s the lineup going to look like next year? Thoughts on if the Gophers can climb back up toward the top of the legacy Big Ten conference teams (I am excluding UCLA, Washington, and Oregon from this question due to unfairness).

Oklahoma would be my extremely uneducated guess.

With only one player (thankfully… so far) transferring out; don’t expect in-transfers. Our roster was over-full last season. Our roster for 2025 is going to have to be built the old-fashioned way: with hopefully 4-year student-athletes. Nebraska on the other hand is vacuuming up transfers...

I don’t think Stanford came up short at all. Stanford is a top 4 team! That’s an incredible achievement unlikely to happen again anytime soon. I am not a huge fan of Coach Allister given what she did to us, but I gotta give her credit, she took a bad team and turned it into a great team. Of...

Shooter has good access to information.

“Splashy hire”? To Minnesota Gopher baseball? That is not going to happen. It would never happen.

I do not like that transfer. I was always pro-Leschber. I though she has a beautiful swing with a lot of upside potential on our team.

It’s quite simple. I live in Tennessee so I can tell you that it is really pleasant to do athletic things outside in March, April and into May. By June and certainly July, it is hot as the sun. Anyway, the best outdoor days in the American South line up perfectly with the softball season...

I may be the only one who thinks this but in my mind, “who cares?” I couldn’t care less about UCLA, Oregon, and Washington. But I didn’t want them in the conference anyway. All I care about is Minnesota and how that Gopher softball team will provide to me maximum entertainment from February to...