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I am sitting in seat #4 if I have the chance. If I am sitting in seat #9, I am going to be tempted to do the old professional wrestling double noggin knocker.

Interesting take. I think it depends a lot on what type of production they get out of the RT spot. If one of the options there can give us average B1G tackle play we could be very good with Carroll and Cooper inside and Ersery at LT.

I really hate how all the articles written about Gopher sports seem to be with a victim mentality. Why can't Minnesota be a school that adapts quickly to this "shifting landscape"? It should be looked at as an opportunity. Coyle's teams in the revenue sports have not been very good (football...

I haven't been a fan at all of the roster construction this offseason. I'd want as many 6'5-6'8 guys on the roster who can defend on the perimeter as possible and Ben brought in one such player in Odukale. This was a significant issue last season as our one player in this size range who could...

This was a really big get for Fleck and Harbaugh. We were in on Kollack early, lost him to Washington, but got back in when their coach left for Alabama. We ended up with one of our plan A guys after missing out on some guys we didn't like as much while he was committed to Washington. Pretty...

This post show just how wild the Ben Johnson hire was. As I said before Ben Johnson wasn't even the most qualified former Richard Pitino assistant for a potential head coaching position. Kimani has been rumored to be a candidate at places like Fordham and Iona over that past year or two while...

Couple thoughts on points made in this thread. We have 3 guys leaving (though Carrington might be returning?) from Ben's 4 commit class from 2 seasons ago. Henley already left. All 4 have been reported to be upset with their playing time/how they were used at Minnesota and at least Payne (and...

I knew it existed and actually was rooting some for former Gopher Royce White (this was years ago before it was clear he went off the deep end). It started out with more well known former players (Allen Iverson played one of the years, "White Chocolate" Jason Williams played a year or two...

Who you blame here is dependent on your perspective. I lean towards JOJ just not being willing to be the type of player this staff thinks he should be. If they see your role as an energy/rebounder guy who hopefully can be a versatile defender and you don't rebound (and at least occasionally...

This would be the concern as our backup big IMHO. His advanced stats suggest he's not very good defensively (this year he had a career worst Defensive Box Score Plus Minus at -2.4) and the biggest red flag is he's not a rim protector at all. Morgan had a total of 8 blocks in 32 games this...

Normally don't engage in stuff like this, but they've had a number of QB visitors in, including one that finished a visit tonight. I clearly said SOME other position coaches, not ALL. This is no longer true two weeks later BTW. It is true that Winston is killing it terms of getting nice...

I am not able to watch as many Wolves games as I would like (largely due to blackout rules) but I feel like I make a complete 180 on this team 2-3 times a month. They do something completely awful like collapse against the Bulls and then have a dominating win in LA against the Clippers. With...

I didn't want to start a new thread but Nubin said he had meniscectomy after the season which is why he didn't work out at the combine and still wasn't back to 100% at pro day. For his sake, I hope they only needed to remove torn pieces and not the total meniscus as that could affect his draft...

Go Illini! Having Iowa and Wisconsin come in to Minneapolis and win both the Women's and Men's Tournaments would be quite the kick in the nuts. Apparently the "U" invests in a titanium cup though as stuff like this doesn't seem to bother them. There will be two teams from Iowa in the NCAA...

So interesting to see how a couple of locals are trying to frame Monson and Pitino making the tournament as some black eye against the Minnesota job. Monson went from the Big Ten to coaching in a one bid league for 17 years where he just made his 2nd NCAA tournament tonight. I was rooting for...

These results are shocking to me. Hopefully it's some Badger and Hawkeye fans coming over and "Izzoing" the poll results. In Selection Sunday's final field of 68, I count THIRTEEN coaches who started at their new job at the same time or after Ben Johnson. If you go through the next 8 teams...

Really happy the Vikings signed Cashman. It's great to have a Gopher on the roster after not having one last year after Esezi's release. On the field he seems like a great fit for Flores defense with his blitzing ability. I think the Vikings have a really nice free agency with their 3...

I really hope the lack of a Spring game is because of roster depth issues and not some sort of paranoia on PJ's part. I have heard speculation elswhere that PJ is either concerned with other teams being able to see what we run OR other teams being able to see our players and poach them after...

Winston seems to be killing it on the recruiting trail with a lot of Dline visits set up for this Spring/Summer. I cannot say the same for some of the other position coaches where we still don't even have a single (at least publicly known) visit set up.

This is a choice. Just like it's a choice to allow past poor results to excuse current poor performance. It was a very bad omen when Coyle did that interview with Andy Greder and the topic of " Minnesota only being in X number of tournaments in X number of years" was brought up in relation to...