DL Xion Chapman commits to the Gophers

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Tully55 said:
I have been following Gopher football since #78's first year in a Gopher uniform. I also have been diagnosed with early stages of dementia. I guess the fact that I might not recall individual players solely by their numbers disqualifies me as a true fan. Oh, by the way, for those of you to young to know, the #78 I am referring to is Bobby Bell.
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Just having some fun with a known board grouch. I wish you many more years of Gopher memories.
 


DarthGopher said:
I choose to believe the coaches responsible for evaluating talent know what they are doing. Stats are one set of data, but not the only set of markers they consider.
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Stats are the primary metric we get to consider as fans, along with other schools showing interest. I think we have pulled in some nice players at positions of need, particularly on defense, but nothing transformational.

It's the off-season. If we all just say "we trust the coaches" we won't have anything to yammer about for the next 8 months!
 


GreasyGopher said:
I’d say that there’s quite a few guys that had good production at lower levels. I’m honestly more concerned about the higher rated guys. As they didn’t really contribute at their last P4 stops.
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13 tackles and 3 sacks doesn’t speak highly of this signee.
 



GreasyGopher said:
As others have mentioned, those stats are not the greatest indicator of the impact of a DT.
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A decent DT who plays a lot of reps is going to have at least 50 tackles and a handful of sacks. It just isn’t true that they aren’t counted on to make plays.
 

Gopherchase said:
A decent DT who plays a lot of reps is going to have at least 50 tackles and a handful of sacks. It just isn’t true that they aren’t counted on to make plays.
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He’s rather highly rated in the portal by at least 1 service and had teams like Penn State after him.

He also had 22 QB pressures and 18 hurries.
 

I was looking at 247 and Chapman did not have any stars at that point, a few other of our signees don’t either. I get the punter and kicker, but can some of the learned guys explain this? Is it of concern? Thanks.
 




Gopherchase said:
A decent DT who plays a lot of reps is going to have at least 50 tackles and a handful of sacks. It just isn’t true that they aren’t counted on to make plays.
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Eastern was our best DT last year and he had 2.5 sacks. Logan-Redding was arguably our second best DT and he had 15 tackles and 0.5 sacks on the year.
 

matt said:
Eastern was our best DT last year and he had 2.5 sacks. Logan-Redding was arguably our second best DT and he had 15 tackles and 0.5 sacks on the year.
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And we got gashed up the middle a lot that was kinda my point. Plus, against good teams we got no push on pass rush. Our DTs were liabilities last year.
 

Tech Machine said:
I was looking at 247 and Chapman did not have any stars at that point, a few other of our signees don’t either. I get the punter and kicker, but can some of the learned guys explain this? Is it of concern? Thanks.
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We have learned guys on this board? Huh
 







Clairemont Gopher said:
Your 2nd and 3rd sentences seem contradictory.
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Not really. The higher rated offensive transfer (I.e. Warren and Thompson) are more potential while the defense recruits are players productive at lower levels and seem to be smart moves. This makes those higher rated offensive players at a greater risk to underperform.
 


btowngopher said:
Is it? Or is it just filling out the roster? Not sure why’d you ever want to leave roster spots empty.
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Naw, as evidenced by so few of the departing Gophers finding new homes.. most were "encouraged" to get into the portal so we could add better players.
 


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In case anyone was wondering…

Mr. Chapman is the Gophers highest rated transfer.
 

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