I am sure we do need yet another sweep. That’s what happens when the team is in a deep hole. They need to dig there way out through sweeps. It’s a tough spot to be in.
I put a lot of blame on the Big Ten University presidents admitting the west coast schools into the conference. Those additions to the Big Ten have made the diamond sports of Softball and Baseball totally unfollowable.
We know that the Midwestern teams do not have a chance at winning the...
I see Jessica Oakland is playing SS and hitting 3rd for a very strong Duke team these days. Good for her. She, like Kendyll Lindaman, was a great Gopher softballer.
I have long thought that coach named Jamie Trachsel was quite the softball achiever, very accomplished for a northern woman in the southern softball power zone.
I wonder if she will be available to move from the SEC soon? Would she be interested in the top spot here in gopher land?
The Minnesota baseball team is doing better this year than they have performed for the last 5-6 years. Maybe they are a better entertainment product to spend one’s precious time in this life following?
Zero pre 2011 Big Ten teams made the ncaa baseball tournament. Big Ten expansion has been and will be a disaster for far-northern, legacy Big Ten programs like Minnesota for the two sports played on the diamond. A complete disaster.
Besides football (that team deserves credit!) all the sports I have tried to follow were the most boring to follow in decades:
Baseball… boring!
Softball… boring!
Basketball.. boring!
Volleyball… boring.
Conference championships (even participation in conference championship games) are now...