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Wonder what ever happened to this guy who started the gopher hole over 20 years ago. Seemed like a nice guy too.
 

There's a Jason Groth who writes local sports for the Perham paper, but I'm not sure it's the same guy.
 

Dave Christensen (sp?) predated Groth. I remember him from the 90's.
 


CWCWCW said:
Dave Christensen (sp?) predated Groth. I remember him from the 90's.
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My understanding was Groth started gopher hole in the early 90’s
 


Doc1001 said:
Wonder what ever happened to this guy who started the gopher hole over 20 years ago. Seemed like a nice guy too.
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"Jason Groth" still shows up on the members online list from time to time. So, he's around.

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Yep, I'm still around. Mainly a lurker these days, due to kids and life, but still a big fan. I started Gopher Hole in the spring of 1996, as a basketball-only site. Dave Christianson started a football-only site (Gopher Gridiron?) around the same time. We joined forces for a few years when Gopher Hole became part of Rivals.com in the late 90s.
 

Back in the day of monochrome screens, DOS, and dial-up internet.
 

Jason Groth said:
Yep, I'm still around. Mainly a lurker these days, due to kids and life, but still a big fan. I started Gopher Hole in the spring of 1996, as a basketball-only site. Dave Christianson started a football-only site (Gopher Gridiron?) around the same time. We joined forces for a few years when Gopher Hole became part of Rivals.com in the late 90s.
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Legend.

Go Jason Groth!!
 



Jason Groth said:
Yep, I'm still around. Mainly a lurker these days, due to kids and life, but still a big fan. I started Gopher Hole in the spring of 1996, as a basketball-only site. Dave Christianson started a football-only site (Gopher Gridiron?) around the same time. We joined forces for a few years when Gopher Hole became part of Rivals.com in the late 90s.
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Do you remember the first (and only) Gopherhole Golf Tourney at Mississippi Dunes GC in 1998? The gal that joined us had to be on the U golf team and I'm convinced that Rouser set the course record for most lost balls in a round.
 


Jason Groth said:
Yep, I'm still around. Mainly a lurker these days, due to kids and life, but still a big fan. I started Gopher Hole in the spring of 1996, as a basketball-only site. Dave Christianson started a football-only site (Gopher Gridiron?) around the same time. We joined forces for a few years when Gopher Hole became part of Rivals.com in the late 90s.
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I found your site while looking for something more online for the Gophers BB run to the final four.. found it right before the awesome Clemson game!

Thanks for the memories my man!!!
 





My memory is fading, but there was a Gopher Hole golf outing & I can't remember if Mississippi Dunes was the location. I think Jason, Slim Tubby, Barn Burner, and Bleed were there? I recall BB and I were in the same group. Any of you remember it that way?

It was a nice outing, but I played like crap!
 


SelectionSunday said:
My memory is fading, but there was a Gopher Hole golf outing & I can't remember if Mississippi Dunes was the location. I think Jason, Slim Tubby, Barn Burner, and Bleed were there? I recall BB and I were in the same group. Any of you remember it that way?

It was a nice outing, but I played like crap!
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I don't believe Bleed could be there (out of state?) but I think there was 12 of us that played and kept the beverage cart lady quite busy.

I had BarnBurner on "Ignore" so I can neither confirm or deny his attendance but I do recall seeing a short bus in the golf course parking lot.
 


If I remember correctly Jason, you started gopher hole while you were a student at Tartan HS. Correct?
 

gopherbadgerman said:
What and raise enough to pay the 104th player on the FB team?
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A local hospital does an annual golf fund raiser at my golf course. They raise over $1 million dollars every year (10+ years in a row).

Gopher Sports could easily run a few of these. They could involve different players. Put a Gopher golfer on one of the holes and teams could donate $20 for the player to hit a shot that doesn't count as a stroke. Put in mulligans, string, grenades, and other power ups and $$$ starts flowing pretty quickly. Give people that already have donated to the fund first rights to sign up or something.
 

XMan said:
If I remember correctly Jason, you started gopher hole while you were a student at Tartan HS. Correct?
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I did go to Tartan, but I'm old enough that it was before the WWW, so I didn't start Gopher Hole until a few years later in college.
 

Slim Tubby said:
I don't believe Bleed could be there (out of state?) but I think there was 12 of us that played and kept the beverage cart lady quite busy.

I had BarnBurner on "Ignore" so I can neither confirm or deny his attendance but I do recall seeing a short bus in the golf course parking lot.
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Yes, I definitely remember the one and only GH golf outing. I think Rouser and the artist formerly known as Hodger were there as well. There was definitely a woman who had played for the Gophers and left us all in her dust. And I think Bleed (not a golfer) might have met us after the round?
 

Can we solve a 30 year mystery? I still want to know why Sam’s minutes were limited? I remain skeptical of the deviated septum and conditioning issues. Also, has Jerry Gee signed with us yet? What about Doug Wrenn? He will pair nicely with El-Amin and Pryzbilla.
 

GoldMedalCounty said:
Can we solve a 30 year mystery? I still want to know why Sam’s minutes were limited? I remain skeptical of the deviated septum and conditioning issues. Also, has Jerry Gee signed with us yet? What about Doug Wrenn? He will pair nicely with El-Amin and Pryzbilla.
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wasn't a lot of that Doug Wrenn's mom's fault?

It also didn't help that Russ A. totally clocked Khalid El-Amin in a scrimmage scuffle.......
 

GoldMedalCounty said:
Can we solve a 30 year mystery? I still want to know why Sam’s minutes were limited? I remain skeptical of the deviated septum and conditioning issues. Also, has Jerry Gee signed with us yet? What about Doug Wrenn? He will pair nicely with El-Amin and Pryzbilla.
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How about when Sam was injured because he tweaked his back after playing video games for 10 hours straight...SMH. That being said, I absolutely loved Sam as a Gopher and I thought his NBA career would be longer.

Go Gophers!!
 

restovich said:
wasn't a lot of that Doug Wrenn's mom's fault?

It also didn't help that Russ A. totally clocked Khalid El-Amin in a scrimmage scuffle.......
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I thought Wrenn just had to retake the ACT, it may have even been flagged causing another retake, but he was studying hard and confident he’d get a qualifying score.
 

restovich said:
wasn't a lot of that Doug Wrenn's mom's fault?

It also didn't help that Russ A. totally clocked Khalid El-Amin in a scrimmag
GoldMedalCounty said:
Can we solve a 30 year mystery? I still want to know why Sam’s minutes were limited? I remain skeptical of the deviated septum and conditioning issues. Also, has Jerry Gee signed with us yet? What about Doug Wrenn? He will pair nicely with El-Amin and Pryzbilla.
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This guy! I remember Sid had me following his recruitment daily to see if we could get him as I recall it was between us, the badgers and maybe Illinois as I think he was from Chicago, but Sid is who I followed for recruiting back then as where else could you hear anything about recruiting. It must have been around 1995 as I worked for Target and we were building a Distribution Center in Oconomowoc WI and I was on a team who went there over the summer for a few weeks to install the back office infrastructure and I ended up at the hotel bar talking smack with some badger fans who thought they would sign him.... I'm too lazy now to look up where he ended up signing but I know it wasn't with the U.
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Jason Groth said:
Yep, I'm still around. Mainly a lurker these days, due to kids and life, but still a big fan. I started Gopher Hole in the spring of 1996, as a basketball-only site. Dave Christianson started a football-only site (Gopher Gridiron?) around the same time. We joined forces for a few years when Gopher Hole became part of Rivals.com in the late 90s.
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Could you over the history of the Gopher Hole such as ownership, who ran it, and so forth?
 


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