Badgers Gary Anderson wants to coach at a camp near MN border to recruit MN kids

[BleedGopher]

per the STrib:

Now, Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen has an idea designed to catch the attention of Minnesota’s top high school recruits. By next year, he’d like to be part of a camp at UW-River Falls or another school in western Wisconsin.

“We want to be able to get a camp next year closer to there, so we can give those [Minnesota] kids an opportunity to be in front of us, and for us to be in front of those kids,” Andersen said Wednesday during a fundraiser at the River Falls Golf Club.

Entering his fourth season, Gophers coach Jerry Kill is definitely holding his own along the Minnesota/Wisconsin border. But Andersen won’t let Minnesota become a recruiting blind spot.

“It’s a key recruiting area for us for walk-on kids because of the tuition [reciprocity], and for scholarship players,” Andersen said. “The respect that we have for the high school football there is very, very high.”

http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/262969911.html

Go Gophers!!

 

[dlw4gophers]

Becky coach

Good luck with that. Becky's days are over in Minnesota. We have bigger fish to worry about instead of some helmet school wanna be program.

 

[imthewalrus]

Beat the stinking badger!

 

[highwayman]

Good luck, Gary.

 

[e.bigelow]

Beat the stinking badger!

For once, I completely agree with you, Wren.

 

[West Fargo Gopher Fan]

Get your shots kids before you go. We don't want any diseases brought back to Minnesota.

 

[maroonfive]

That curvy W or whatever the hell it is is the ugliest logo in college athletics.


Go Gophers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Winasota Gopher]

Because I have it as my homepage. (Jump to 16s)

 

[wait!what?]

nothing to this

Just Gary Andersen being nice to the RF people. gettin em all wound up.

 

[gophmeister]

This is no big deal. In fact it would be a waste of money. Madison is six hours from the Twin Cities so having a camp a few hours closer probably won't attract that many more prospects and of those who do go they will be the marginal guys they won't want. If anything this is just a dig at us.

 

[Zeppelin Gopher]

Madison is six hours from the Twin Cities

Do you frequently travel by horse and buggy then?

 

[GopherinPhilly]

I am hoping Kill & Co start doing a camp at Southern Illinois each year and maybe one down in Kansas. We recruit both areas hard and a camp to gain more opportunity for relationship building and in person evaluation would be great.

 

[beavergopher]

This is no big deal. In fact it would be a waste of money. Madison is six hours from the Twin Cities so having a camp a few hours closer probably won't attract that many more prospects and of those who do go they will be the marginal guys they won't want. If anything this is just a dig at us.

Damn. Delany moved Madison to the east. That guy will do anything to get more TV revenue.

 

[MNGoldenGophers1]

Desperation time is setting in in skunkville.

 

[50PoundHead]

We've done a pretty decent job picking up walk-ons over there. I can imagine he wants to do the same here.

Bottom line, though, is keeping our top tier-kids home.

 

[Dr.Don]

If it takes a person 6 hours to get from the Twin Cities to Madison, that person is obviously stopping at Ho Chunk Casino down by Baraboo.

 

[beavergopher]

If it takes a person 6 hours to get from the Twin Cities to Madison, that person is obviously stopping at Ho Chunk Casino down by Baraboo.

Or stopping to see a chunky Ho at the casino.

 

[Russ Archambault]

I guess this could be considered a logical progression to Franklin hosting camps in Georgia and Florida??? Maybe Anderson thought it was a bit forward of him to require campers to stop for gas on the trip.

 

[GophersInIowa]

Or stopping to see a chunky Ho at the casino.

Or the rest stop, local bar, Wal-Mart, or just about anywhere else. Chunky ho's are pretty much everywhere in Wisconsin.

 

[dpodoll68]

Do you frequently travel by horse and buggy then?

You must not have received the memo. You are not allowed to make corrections to trivial misinformation that is posted here.

 

[short ornery norwegian]

Baraboo Wisconsin - birthplace of the Ringling Brothers, and home to the Circus World Museum.

(I used to work there - but back then, Ho Chunk didn't have a casino- just a bingo parlor.)

 

[Spoofin]

You must not have received the memo. You are not allowed to make corrections to trivial misinformation that is posted here.

pouty face

 

[KD6-3.7]

i cant imagine why a recruit would be put off by driving a couple of extra hours to madison to camp. i could see a walk-on going to river falls to camp. actual DI players will probably head to madison.