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"Darius Taylor has started and finished 4 games: - 33car, 193yds, 1TD, 2rec, 13yds - 22car, 138yds, 1TD, 1rec, 25yds - 31car, 198yds, 2TD, 3rec, 18yds - 35car, 208yds, 1TD, 2rec, 11yds 30.3 carries/game, 184.3 yds/gm, 5 total TDs" You guys know I'm a homer, but let's slow our roll and be...

I did not know Louisville has a ton of NIL $. How do you know this? I probably missed it on some other thread.

Crazy!

Very interesting! Thanks for the history. I disagree that 1998 to 2019 was the best era, but would like to know more about why you think it is? I think this era will turn out better once a few major NIL and portal bugs are worked out. With NIL & especially the portal, more teams will be...

I think he still might show progress. It just won’t be here. It’s such a hard position to play well!

I’m with you on the new PAC teams except Oregon. They beat Ohio State badly just a couple years ago, recruit really well and have tons of money for NIL from Phil Knight. They might be second to Ohio State on average. None of the others scare me in their current forms. USC and UCLA have...

Very happy for the young man. Wish we could have kept him. In the below articles (part 1 & 2), they say he was playing here, but not full-time, which is why he left. To get to the NFL, he had to go somewhere he could get on the field more. Who woulda thunk we had a loaded CB room...

PJ is a good P5 coach. Can it really be argued? I'm not saying he is great, but he is good. Wouldn't the extra time coaches have available to prepare for bowl games further separate the wheat from the chaff? If he was bad, shouldn't he routinely lose bowl games when coaches have several...

Agreed. Context is huge. I only listened to about a minute around that 8:50 mark, but he seems like a very reflective, honest head coach. Second guessed some of his own calls, complemented Gopher calls. Seems like a good guy.

I agree with you on Washington being interesting. They lose what I think was the best quarterback in college football and the rest that you mentioned. They could be way overhyped for 2024.

Florida State from the ACC

This is better for us compared to our past, but doesn't it seem like other B1G schools in the lower tier with us are also getting more highly rated recruits than the past? More TV money and exposure, and being in a tougher more respected conference should give us an advantage when recruiting...

What do you mean? It's 50 degrees here now in December. In the summer it's 80. What's not to like!:) On a side note, can someone from the southeast please explain why the weather isn't a negative for football players, especially the bigger guys? I lived down there for a while and the hot...

I agree, but only on out-of-state kids. To me, this is why it seems PJ put such a high emphasis on recruiting Minnesota kids this year. Earlier in the year, it seemed like he had commitments from just about everyone in the top 10 or so. I don't remember seeing that before. Some of those...

I agree he is likely to be an extraordinary Gopher. I never said otherwise.

Hey, believe me, I hope you're right!

True. I just feel like people are maybe getting a little over their skis for him because he's home grown and was on the freaks list. Who knows how good he'll be? I hope very good!

No one will have the depth they once had at high or middle tier programs. No good player is getting stuck on the bench anymore. They will transfer to another team with a hole at their position and fill it. That SHOULD increase parity and year-to-year volatility.

Freak is a relative term. He is NOT freakishly fast. His 10.89 second 100m might make him really fast for Minnesota, but would have placed him last in Georgia's 2023 7A state championship. https://ga.milesplit.com/meets/552225-ghsa-7a-state-championships-2023/entries If he has NFL...

We seem to forget young players usually improve over time. Maybe two years from now after another year of development behind a starter, he is actually pretty good. Isn't he similar to what AK would have been for us if he'd stayed? A depth QB that could POTENTIALLY start at the P5 level if he...