I see what you are saying about this not being an announcement. Also, a complete homer like myself could read the #BeDifferent as going to a total rebuild in Minnesota.
I believe this is what we all worried about. We saw Curry last year, it was not pretty for the most part. There is always a chance for improvement, but he literally had hung it up already.
It's mid-July. And we're scouring the entire planet for all positions? Yikes.
“Talent is talent”?? Favorable media market I guess.
Oh, if players want to be here they will call the u.
With Ihnen's season-ending injury, I wouldn't mind if the Gophers took a flyer on Harold Yu. 247 has him listed as 27th best center in the 2021 class. For context, Holmgren is 1; Thompson is 21; Pohto is 23. Yu is the top rated uncomitted center from that class.
He has the vertical leaping ability of Randy Brewer!
Maybe so, but at 7"3" he doesn't need to jump that high
Admittedly dont know much about many of these guys but hopefully on the phone with some of them just to sure up some post spots, even if its just for this year. Childs would be a nice 1 year addition for sure, he had some moments last year. MWP3 why not get some name recognition! I mean most of these guys didnt do a ton at their smaller schools but at some point just going to need bodies.That point has arrived.
Do we sign up the guys who make up the women's practice team?
Randy Breuer two time first team all Big Ten center had game . Gophers have no options. While this covid free agency helped many teams it put Minnesota in position to field one of the worst products talent wise this program has ever seen. Ben Johnson might wish he had waited for a head coaching opportunity but he does have a great payday.
Why didn't it help us?
I'm guessing when you look at the talent that was in the transfer portal relative to who we signed. We are not better than last year at the moment.
My point is- the transfer portal is a change in the rules of the game. The winners of games use the new rules to their advantage. We neither succeeded in selling the new hope and teaching acumen of the new staff, nor did we convince our own guys to stay. Others have used this example, but Iowa State seems to be a comparable situation where they are getting some traction and we are not.
Ben's current networking skills only extend to hiring assistants apparently. The top players brought in (battle, fox) are local and committed so they could come home. His biggest recruiting wins have been Fox and Ihnen, who are now both out for the year. Apparently he wasn't working on any hot leads at Xavier when he took this job. Maybe his plan all along has been to target high school guys with game/character he values. One or the other needs to pan out though or we are in trouble.
Perhaps because Otzelberger has been a head coach before.
Would a Randy Breuer or Minute Bol be drafted in today's NBA? Would they be highly sought at the Major D1 level today? With the advent of the 3 point shot and analytics I wonder how they would have fared.
Early reports were 0 was being accomplished by the new staff - I mentioned it and now we see the results.
Builtbadger trusts this staff, so much that we may be calling Ben "Builtgopher" by the time this is over.
So that somehow diminishes Breuers career and the Big Ten championship he helped us win. If you take it one step further how many players in the 70s were even athletic enough to play today. Very few. Manute Bol actually could shot the three. I get your point however.
No, it doesn't diminish it at all. My point is that recruiting a guy who is compared to Randy Breuer today is not the ringing endorsement that it would have been in 1982.
Breuer was a great player.
