Recent content by Gophergrandpa

The guy’s path to, away from and back to Cal is odd. I remember a true freshman who started for the Gophers: Ricky Foggie; it can be done. If this guy actually beat out Devin Brown, our defense might have its hands full. Hopefully, Cal’s defense is as bad as expected, …

The 18 team Big Ten needs some better bowl affiliations ...

I realize that there is an "Other" category, but based on PJ's comments, you might have wanted to name WR Jalen Smith individually as a possibility.

AJ Turner will have a few more rushing yards than Darius, because Turner will break some long ones. But Darius will catch 50 passes as well, and will be the leader by far in All Purpose Yards.

With Cardenas gone, the current Gopher roster—by my count—stands at 109. Last I heard, the 2025 roster limit is 105, which would mean that four more rostered players must be dropped. That is, unless the 2025 roster limit has some fudge factors that I forgot about. Anybody remember?

Does anybody know what hotel the Gopher tour is staying at for the Cal game, or a hotel that might have a shuttle to the game? I’ll probably be in the Berkeley area that weekend.

Curious whether Sam Macy played. He had a great HS career, I believe at Chanhassen. He seems to have prospered in the weight room. 6’4” 220 coming out of HS. Listed on last year’s roster, true freshman, at 6’4” 235. Was out injured last year. Listed on this year’s roster, RS Freshman, at 6’5”...

Elijah Johnson??? I assume author or AI means Elijah Spencer, who is gone--out of eligibility. Neglects three transfer WRs. Really lazy, meaningless analysis.

The pessimistic view of Drake might reflect a combination of (1) his relative youth and inexperience; (2) the fact that we will have many new starters on the OL, inc at LT; and (3) that 80% of our WR catches from last year have moved on. But, somehow, I think we wil be better on the OL, that we...

If we are good at CB, it feels like our D could be very good again this coming season.

Some respect for a change …

Save and compare with rankings after the Gopher-Badger game.

Agree. In our first two games the Gophers O typically look as though the squad members just got introduced to each other the day before. OL line usually plays like it has never seen a stunt or blitz. Settles down by game 3.

The bad is pretty bad …

Probably not. But if we get Voss and Petersohn, we'll certainly be much higher than last year. But we take some mid to lower three stars as develpopment projects--wise policy, but pretty much guarantees, math-wise, no top 25 class.