Just brought in an RB, rooms sits at 8 with incoming freshman and guys coming back. I don't see us taking another RB after the Purdue kid who just committed.
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Yeah, I have no idea if he is B1G quality just that he’s been mentioned numerous times.
I hope we see the gophers identify position that have to be good each year and be willing to spend on those positions and alternatively, I think there are positions that can/should be filled through HS recruiting.
Pass. He wasn’t good enough at UND to warrant an offer.
I could see taking someone with some experience. We should be an attractive destination with a Senior number one and no clear number two.
Can anyone calculate a quick percentage of the number of players in the portal compared to the total number of scholarship players currently on rosters?
In the vein of Terrelle Pryor, more and more guys are not going to college to play school.
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Thanks for the correction. I knew it was tOSU and thought Pryor, but maybe I'm thinking of the free tattoos. Can you remember all the angst over free tattoos and a decade or so later, players are getting money enough to buy a dozen tattoo parlors.
I didn't come here to play school.
He’s visiting MN and then Iowa.
If he makes it out of MN without signing......
Well, if we agree only 100 teams play big time football that's 100 teams X say 110 players? That's 11,000 scholarships. 4700 guys is closing in on half and that was the day one entry number. Lots of money grab lottery like hopefuls.
I’d guess a high end estimate for how may transfers a team brings on average is about 30. So then you’re at 3,000 guys that will get signed out of that 4700 day one entries. Plus you still have the guys that entered earlier and weren’t signed and whatever guys that continue to filter in.
Based on the suitors and stats listed this would seem like a decent/good pickup but Cochnauer did not receive any level of all-conference recognition this year playing in the Mountain West.
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St. Juste? Filiaga? Williamson? Carroll? Howard?
All of these played significantly or started at the Big Ten team.
Agree about DT -- although I haven't really looked at who we've got on the team right now, I just am reacting to the departures.
While I think it’s possible to pick up solid players that had limited roles at P2/P4, I agree that it’s likely to have a higher hit rate by picking up top performers players from lower levels. Going the G5/FCS route will probably be cheaper too.
In terms of actually impact/starter level players, I think they need 2 DTs, an OT, a CB, WR, and a nickel. I would put them in a hat order.
There was a study a few years ago that showed only about half end up with scholarships at the new school at the same level, around a quarter drop down (G5, FCS, etc) and the rest don't show that they ended up at another program. I wonder if those numbers have changed.
I don’t think we’ve taken a lot of these types unless they were young.
Also, taking a DB from Iowa is likely a worth while risk. As long as they had some sort of tangible experience.
