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I think we will have a Big Ten championship batting order, but a big question as to what part of the Big Ten our pitching would rank. I forgot that we have Snippes as well, I wonder how Snippes and Richardson will compare to one another and potentially compliment one another on the mound.

Choboy decommitting hurt quite bad, in my opinion. Wucherer has lots of talent and as this is only starting her a sophomore year, she is very valued as a Gopher, this year and in the future. Landfair has been here four years.

Richardson’s capabilities may be the most important open question as to how well the Gophers softball team performs in 2024. If she can pitch at the college level, that may be numerous more games in the win column versus the scenario where she can’t get college batters out. There are few other...

To be honest, I don’t care even a little bit about the above. I only care about how much entertainment I get from following the team and their games. It’s 100 percent about entertainment; a distraction from the real world to be enjoyed by the fan. If my team (the Gophers) is not as competitive...

Which is why this (“the goal is win a conference with historically 3 good teams”) is and has for 50 years for Big10 teams playing within the NCAA baseball/softball structure been the appropriate goal the fan should have for their team. I likely will never cheer on another conference tournament...

I think I agree with some of the sentiments above, although I was not there to see it. I guess the question this comment poses however is what the heck does “good enough” really mean? We will clearly be down this year as our pitching will be down compared to the past dozen years or more. But, I...

Fair point! Maybe I was too crabby yesterday and shouldn’t have posted that. Maybe that post was too strong. But still, for the record, I was pro-Hugh through it all.

This is the attitude that drives me crazy… a hope-y change-y philosophy. In my posts over the past few years I tried to convince some fans that it would not get better than Coach McCutchen, and here we are with posts like this. Drives me crazy. “Change” plays to people’s hopes, but hopes are...

Thank you for that update! Very helpful, and I am glad you got to talk to Autumn Pease. I hope she is well. What is she doing these days?

Rowdaboat is bringing us the spicy news.

I think we can do better than 9th… can’t we?

If so, now that would be a plus! However, given that there is only one BTN, my guess is a disproportionate number of the televised games will include national title contenders UCLA, Oregon, and Washington and relatively fewer televised games of the non- national title contenders (read:everyone...

… said the Gopher football fan at the 1962 Rose Bowl. But, technically, you are right as everything will happen if one stretches their time horizon out far enough.

You’re right, it’s personal preference. The high point of my sports fandom these past 11 years have been those four tournament wins in 14,15, 17, and 18 (and that oh-so-close championship game in 19). Those were great times for my personal entertainment as a fan.

Yeah, well I just don’t care much about the whole. I care about being personally entertained by my team… the Gophers. It is harder, for me at least, to feel entertained when my team seems helplessly underpowered as compared to their competition. I did not feel that way in the old Big Ten.

And the Gophers have just been pushed further down the softball power rankings in the Big Ten. As a softball fanatic, I could always hope that my team could make a run and at least win one tournament, the Big Ten tournament. Now I’ll be dead before that happens again. Actually, my kids will...

Taryn Kern transfers to Stanford… someone once responded to one of my Softball board posts by writing that it was impossible (yes, impossible) to transfer to Stanford.

I didn’t know about Krapf’s bum knee. What is it that insiders know about this issue?

I wonder if she already received her degree? A UNC degree is a good one to have. Maybe she just wants to play one more year of softball and UNC didn’t have space for her and she can take her degree and go to someplace where she can play?

As of June 16th, still only one Gopher in the transfer portal as displayed on D1Softball. We mentioned this before on this board, but it sure doesn’t look like a large out-transfer year for our team. We may therefore already know all the names on our 2024 squad right now.