Recent content by PreacherRoe

She committed where? To Minnesota?

Will Schwartz be the only D1 talent left on the roster?

Yes, it's possible to buy a dominant pitcher for over a million. It's also possible to grind her into the ground pitching endless innings in a row to pursue that championship, which Stanford tried to do with her and now Texas Tech, too.

We see parallels all around us, don't we?

Anyone have ideas about a timeline for possible changes in Gophers staff or roster? Hate to say it, but my feeling is: No change = no chance.

Your points are quite good & statistically better supported than mine, but SG, AF, & AP came to campus all able to compete & win given proper support.

More important than 'developing' pitchers is recruiting ones who are already good when they arrive. Groenewegen was BigTen Pitcher of the Year as a freshman; Fiser went 13-1 as a freshman, and Pease beat FSU as early as February of her first year at MN. Good pitchers tend to be ready early.

Personally I can't see this coaching staff bringing in the level of needed on-field talent. I try to be optimistic, but.......

Demanding more from everyone is one thing, but finding players with enough talent to produce more/enough is an entirely different thing. Besides Schwartz, I don't see any player returning for 2026 with the talent to excel at a winning D1 level.

I attended Saturday and Sunday's games vs. MI. It was lifeless, unmotivated Gophers play the last 16 scoreless innings. It's a mystery how the program was allowed to drop to such depths in so few years. As of May 5 the roster is reduced to only one player of substance, Schwartz, who's capable...

I think Schwartz can develop more; she pitched well enough this weekend to win at least two games. On a really good team she'd be a fine #2 starter in the circle. The failure, as I see it, is the failure in 5 yr. as HC to bring in a single pitcher of elite caliber capabilities (except for...

Somebody in a hurry to get out of there as fast as possible?

I followed tonight's MN-MI softball game until it simply quit transmitting with MN up 4-0 in the seventh inning. Anyone know who won?

Great comments. Fielding a representative team in 2026 seems quite impossible barring some portal bonanza. Even if Schwartz and Susa pitch well, what offensive support will they get?

Trivia question: By my estimation Pitt and North Dakota have won 44 games between them, yet Gophers, from the bottom of the Big Ten, outscored them by 32-3 this weekend. How is that possible?