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Agreed! The see through pants are awful. They stretch as the players move and look white. They look cheap. As for the pitching, I think most agree that we should be deeper on the pitching staff. That has been the discussion for some time. I have seen most posters lamenting the fact that we do...

True!

The recruiting misses are due to multiple factors. Recruiting rankings, changing coaches, Covid everything, and just plain bad luck with injuries. Others have questioned the accuracy of recruiting rankings and are right to do so. They are more popularity contest in softball than many other...

Fair question. In my experience, many of the best play their best when they are loose and relaxed, and in order to stay that way they smile and laugh with teammates. Of course there are others who are more serious and intense, a good example of that are the players for Oklahoma. One is not...

This is Ritter's second season being the Gophers head coach.

Excellent take and recap on the last decade of Gopher softball! There is no doubt that Allister's super power was/is identifying players that will excel at the college level that other programs couldn't recognize. Look at the direction she has Stanford going in the last two seasons. Those are...

I agree. I have posted on this multiple times in the past. I have refrained from continuing to post this frustration myself, as it becomes too negative. Clearly, this is an issue. For additional insight, I have a recruit that had an interaction with the Gophers hitting coach. It was not...

The Gophers coaches have consistently shown an inability or unwillingness to substitute at critical points in the game. Choosing instead to let whoever is up next to step into the batters box, regardless of the horrific results to that point. It is clear this is their coaching philosophy. My...

Thank you for the update on, Dueck. That is a very unfortunate injury. Those are tough decisons when you have been competing your whole life to get to this point in your softball career. I wish her all the best in her academics and for life after softball.

My complaint is the same as last season; when you have opportunities to score you have to put your best hitting player available in the batters box. We have not seen Coach Ritter make substitutions in those instances regardless of how inept the player scheduled to bat has looked. She is an...

Very true, DarthGopher. And especially in football, where injuries are going to happen, it is just a matter of when and how severe. I wasn't clear in my original post, but was speaking in general about all sports. So, sports without the same risk of injury of football. However, your point...

It is a really challenging time to be a high school student athlete looking to find the right school, coaches, and program. Throw in the transfer portal and the extra year of eligibility for Covid and you can see that significantly limits the opportunities these kids have to earn a scholarship...

Obviously, it is a choice by the coaches and specifically Fleck, not to risk it. But, don't talk about how we are going to be elite and then treat special teams as an opportunity to only avoid mistakes. There isn't a single team we played this year as afraid of making a mistake on special teams...

The issue I had with special teams is that we were clearly more concerned with not making a mistake than trying to make a play. That by definition is not elite. Elite teams are trying to take advantage of every opportunity to make a play. I understand the risk of running back a kickoff may be...

The title of this thread made me immediately think of Jim Mora's legendary "Playoffs?..." rant! "Passing?...Don't talk about passing! You kidding me? Passing? I just hope we can win a game!"

I thought the same thing! I remember watching Fleck's Western Michigan team playing in the MAC Championship and the Cotton Bowl. His teams did look to the sideline every play, but the offense was much more dynamic than we are seeing now. They ran and passed up and down the field. They were...

This is a great question. In my opinion, whether you kick the field goal on the 2 yard line or not, is not the problem or cause for my frustration. My frustration lies in how we call plays when we get to about the 35 yard line of the opposing team. We are playing to "not give away a chance to...

I have read many of the discussions comparing KC to Sanford. The one area that I don't think has been mentioned with any real specificity is the fact that Kirk set up his offense to evolve every week. What I mean by that, is he would literally plan for the defensive coordinator of the other...

Thank you for the summary! Looking forward to the Spring and seeing the new team in action.

Sadly, this made me laugh as hard as anything today!! Good stuff on an otherwise, horrific day. Thanks!!