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Conner Krizancic video blows me away I am not a video guy in the sense that, for the most part, I can't tell a good player from a bad player by looking at video highlights. Besides I have the philosophy that even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then - meaning even an average player, over...

I’m trying to put myself in the coaches' place. In the past they have had success in year three. Even though Coach Kill said year three would not be THE year with the Gophers - there was still more to do - they are a very competitive bunch and I am sure they expected a lot this year. Going...

I don’t know anything about Streveler except last year during spring practice Kill said Streveler was the fastest person on the team. Coach Kill amended that a few days later by saying Streveler was probably the fastest person on the team in the first 10 yards. I doubt both of those statements...

Thinking about Leidner Nelson is gone and that is a fact. What does Leidner have to work on for next year? Nelson started over Leidner as a freshman because Leidner wasn’t as fast as Nelson, Nelson was perceived to have more leadership ability and Nelson seemed to understand the offense...

I’m sticking with my prediction of 8-4. I think the Gophers are the best of the middle or will be by next year. The bottom is Purdue and Illinois. The top is Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan State in that order. Before we can join the top we need at least a couple more recruiting classes and...

be the top 1 or 2 team in the conference. It looks like Coach Kill has gotten the team to at least Mason levels. What do we need to go beyond that level. Just in terms of players for next year I would say we need Several more speed backs. Edwards is the real deal but he is small and...

When will the excuses stop. I don’t mean for the Gophers - I mean for the other team. If your worldview is that the Gophers are the same old sucky team then, when the Gophers are 10+ underdogs and still win the game, you look for something wrong with the other team to explain the Gopher win...

There is a saying in aviation “There are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are NO old, bold pilots.” The same is true in football. Mistakes lose football games and many/most football games are lost rather than being won. Real football coaches at every level are conservative, not...

What we haven’t seen yet or we have seen very little of so far... Gopher I (or Maryland I) - I think we saw it 3 or 4 times last Saturday. I think they only ran it once in an earlier game. Off tackle runs - even though they have two beasts at tackle spots. I thought these were our most...

I can't remember the date that all of the Iowa players landed in the hospital after a winter workout. Was that a year before Iowa started to suck? Could it be that Iowa players are not as strong as they used to be? i.e. no HGH after the trip to the hospital? Even if no PEDs were being used...

I think this team is the best Gopher team I have seen in 20 or 30 years. I think by the middle of the second quarter it will become obvious that the Gophers are totally dominant. Never the less, I don’t expect a blow out tonight because I think the coaches will want to give the twos some work...

Last year I picked Wright and Eldred to have breakout years. Meh. OK, so I'm not the best prognosticator of individual talent but lets see if you can do better. Rules - there are no rules except the idea is to pick a couple people who will surprise this year. If you pick Hageman, for...

Last summer I picked two players I thought would have breakthrough seasons. I thought Devon Wright would become a dangerous breakaway back. I had vacationed in Australia and had seen some Australian rules football so I thought Christian Eldred would be the real deal. Meh. Predictions like...

Small improvements in a lot of different areas will add up to a couple more Big 10 wins next year. Here are some areas where I expect impovement. Philip Nelson will be a little bit better than last fall. He will be a year older and will have another spring practice and fall practice and the...

I was waiting in the concession line at halftime of the New Hampshire game when I noticed a lady ahead of me in the line had a T-shirt that read "Why Wait Hate Iowa Now" It make me laugh out loud.

will be next year. Shortell vrs Nelson. There is no way that Shortell replaces Gray this year unless Gray keeps turning the ball over or doesn't heal very well. Nest year could be interesting however. I know most people seem to think Nelson will start but I would put my money on Shortell...

What Ruesse and his toe sucker fellow travelers will print/say this season after each Gopher game. Win - UNLV - UNLV is a terrible team. Gophers only won by 30. They should have won by 110. Win - New Hampshire - Same as above Win - Western Michigan - A MAC team. They can't be taken...

How about starting lineups? I looked at Gophersports.com but didn't see anything. Is there somewhere else it might be posted?

Last night's Gopher preview on the B10 network was very interesting. Generally positive. One thing Gerry DiNardo said which got me thinking was “Jerry Kill will win every matchup game”. He defined a matchup as a team that has the same talent level or a little more or a little less as the...

I had thought the scrimmage open to the public was Saturday morning but thanks to a heads up from Killjoy that it might be Friday I called the Sports Information number. They told me the last practice open to the public was Thursday Aug. 9 and the scrimmage was at 10:25 at TCF on Friday Aug...