I know what the thought process is, I just don't really agree with it, but whatever. We could handpick examples from any demographic to debate this but I would rather not.Talk about rent free... It's not just a Motzko thing. I'll never want a team full of Minnetonka and Wayzata kids.
The reason is they're rich kids and get every camp or skills coach they need growing up with little adversity. Having too many prima donnas has been a concern for Gopher hockey for decades. You gotta mix as many kids with different backgrounds as you can. They're often bottom 6 guys.
Now of course, many of the outstate kids are rich, too...
But the outstate kids put their heart into the M at a much higher rate per capita than the metro kids. And that's why they become fan favorites even if they're not superstars. Seth Ambroz. Jaxon Nelson. Ben Meyers (Delano kind of edge of civilization/metro). Huglen. Fish as a STP public school kid. Travis Boyd (Hopkins). Aaron Ness (never reached what we hoped for him)
eh i don't really view that as a Bob comment and more how its been for at least the last 25 years given Lucia's propensity for that as well (while it being obvious that from an access and skill standpoint, you're going to get higher numbers from your backyard in one of the country's hockey hotbeds). It's just kind of what gopher hockey has been as the outlying MN programs have grown and that you are going to run into more recruiting battles the further outstate you get as well.He is always complaining that Motzko only recruits kids from Minnetonka... That was a backhanded shot at Bob.
Even if St Cloud goes under, you will continue to see more and more Minnetonka area and Stillwater area kids on the Gophers in the coming decades. Hockey is just so expensive. UND will lean more to the CHL kids and I bet UMD will, too, as fewer kids on the range and on the North Shore can afford to play hockey.eh i don't really view that as a Bob comment and more how its been for at least the last 25 years given Lucia's propensity for that as well (while it being obvious that from an access and skill standpoint, you're going to get higher numbers from your backyard in one of the country's hockey hotbeds). It's just kind of what gopher hockey has been as the outlying MN programs have grown and that you are going to run into more recruiting battles the further outstate you get as well.
So, then Bonin took a shot at the Gopher program for how its been for the last 25 years. You can defend Bonin all you want but his comment was a shot at Motzko (as usual).eh i don't really view that as a Bob comment and more how its been for at least the last 25 years given Lucia's propensity for that as well (while it being obvious that from an access and skill standpoint, you're going to get higher numbers from your backyard in one of the country's hockey hotbeds). It's just kind of what gopher hockey has been as the outlying MN programs have grown and that you are going to run into more recruiting battles the further outstate you get as well.