Recent content by dpodoll68

Valued at more than $500?!?!?! No way!!!! Yes, St. Thomas is a model exemplar in all things. After all, they have an unbelievable endowment of ~$700M and raised ~$125M last year. Meanwhile, our comparatively paltry numbers are a ~$6B endowment (4th largest in the Big Ten) and we only raised...

It would've been pretty crazy for Colt Brennan to be Matt Barkley's backup at Mater Dei given that Brennan was 7 years older and was 22 years old, playing for his 3rd different college (Hawaii), by the time Barkley first played for Mater Dei as a freshman in 2005.

So confident, and yet, so wrong: NFLPA vetoes quarterback rule change, emergency QB still must be on 53-man roster "...an emergency third quarterback needs to be on the 53-man roster and cannot be a [practice squad] elevation."

I'm far from a supporter of Ben Johnson (in fact, I'm one of his biggest haters), but to blame him for not recruiting Groves is not only dumb, but also stupid. He didn't have a high-major offer until a few days ago. You can't simultaneously say the Gophers are settling for low-major talent and...

It's unfortunate that every Gophers athlete since has been tainted by the scandal of the 1996-97 team.

Concession noted. This will be remembered when you chime in supportively to one of the endless and idiotic "hang the banners" discussions.

I am really trying to be positive and optimistic about the Niko Medved hire and era, I truly am. I am more enthusiastic now than I thought I would be when it became obvious he would be the hire. All of that being said - this looks to me like a roster full of guys who would be the 7th-8th guys...

So every UMN athlete since 1997 is tarnished?

Well duh, most walk-ons (especially in basketball) serve the sole purpose of raising the team GPA, particularly back when that actually mattered and not hitting benchmarks had consequences. Completely unsurprisingly, Olson played in 6 games over 2 years for a total of 8 minutes, and probably...

Oh, for sure, there is definitely a small minority, and they are the exception that proves the rule. I just laughed (literally laughed out loud) at the implication that our basketball players are taking "real classes" in leisure studies and history of video games and UNC's basketball players...

Katy Perry and I WERE thought to be pretty much a done deal 20 years ago until Hollywood started sniffing around and eventually offered well more than I was willing to pay.

It's cute that you think the athletes take the same classes as the rest of the student body. I'm sure the whole basketball team is taking organic chemistry and mechanical engineering.

So much wrong in a tweet of just a few words. There is no such thing as a zero-star recruit. They were never evaluated and thus don't have a rating. Clayton, for example, not only didn't have "zero stars," but also he had at least 3 Division I offers, including one from some nobody named Rick...

Considering that he's currently (as in, right at this moment) a highly compensated and highly skilled professional football player...yeah, I'd say he could still play.

You beat me to it! I was going to come here and offer my capitulation. I still can't believe he's transferring out, though I guess anything goes in the modern Wild West of major college athletics.