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So as I anxiously await to attend the opener against UNC I can't help but think that I can find very little info about my favorite college football team. I go to this board daily to get updates about the team and I don't see much of anything. Is it because Fleck is not allowing open practices (I know there was one practice report that people attended but that was it?) and maybe they are not open to the media either? Just nothing to report? No one is interested? I know that in years past there seemed to be many stories about Gopher football. Maybe they will start next week? What say all of you GopherHolers?
 

Pretty quiet this year. Twins playing well, JJ McCarthy and Vikings, but I agree it is pretty quiet.

Based on what the National Media is predicting (bad season), people likely have pretty low expectations.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
Pretty quiet this year. Twins playing well, JJ McCarthy and Vikings, but I agree it is pretty quiet.

Based on what the National Media is predicting (bad season), people likely have pretty low expectations.
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Just a quick scroll through the sports section on the Strib app and it seems like about a 4:1 ratio of Vikings to Gopher articles. Twins probably 3:1 (but they get an article for every game and that skews it). The Vikings will probably be terrible this year so I don't think it just has to do with expectations. The Vikings rule the sports market here.
 

This is the first time in quite a few years where I'm bracing myself for substantial disappointment even though my hopes coming in are high. We're not getting a ton of positive news out of camp and it seems to be smoke and mirror stuff when it comes to the "What looks good?" question.
 



mngg11 said:
This is the first time in quite a few years where I'm bracing myself for substantial disappointment even though my hopes coming in are high. We're not getting a ton of positive news out of camp and it seems to be smoke and mirror stuff when it comes to the "What looks good?" question.
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I think the biggest question marks are what the new DC can bring to a defense that was awful last year and can the OC work some magic in his 2nd year, now with a functional QB.

I'm fairly optimistic the offense will be better. Defense is still a question for me.
 

Panthadad2 said:
To the OP point, I've been looking for a "Football Training Camp: Minnesota" report on BTN but it's not listed this week. A bunch of other schools are listed. Anyone know if BTN already aired one?
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It aired a couple weeks ago. Pretty generic.

One common theme that has me optimistic is that both lines should be solid.
 


Yeah, the BTN deal aired a while back. I believe that this was their first stop.
 



Breakin' The Plane said:
Yeah, the BTN deal aired a while back. I believe that this was their first stop.
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Yeah, and it wasn't all the same people. DiNardo was out west and Yogi was here this time. I also think they are figuring it out as they visit more camps so being first wasn't the most indepth.
 

I'm getting excited for the start of the season as always but yeah it seems different. Maybe it's as I age and am so busy with my family and kids activities. But I think with the changes (NIL, transfers, adding teams to the conference), there just isn't the same excitement there normally is.
 

It has been a little quiet, but that kinda comes and goes.

We've had years where we've gotten more attention than I expected too.

This year there's so much local sports news I get why it is a bit quiet.
 

Some years, especially those when you don't have a huge opening game (TCU, Ohio St, etc), it seems quiet around Gopher Football.

I felt that way in 2019 too. We struggled early (but won) against non-conference, always nervous that the wheels would fall off. It wasn't until Coney Durr returned a pick-six against Maryland to put us up 27-0 in the first half that I turned to my friend and said "what is happening? are the Gophers actually GOOD this year?"...then the next game we took down #4 Penn St to be 9-0 on the season with a shot at going to Indy.

Not saying it will go that way this year, but quiet can be good sometimes.

Could be worse, we could be Nebraska with noisy hype every year only to eventually miss a bowl game (7 straight years)
 



Word said:
Just a quick scroll through the sports section on the Strib app and it seems like about a 4:1 ratio of Vikings to Gopher articles. Twins probably 3:1 (but they get an article for every game and that skews it). The Vikings will probably be terrible this year so I don't think it just has to do with expectations. The Vikings rule the sports market here.
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The Vikings have open practices that the media is allowed to cover every single day with multiple coaches and players being interviewed every single day. Vikings fans are allowed to watch almost every practice and show up in big numbers.

The Gophers do not. Media is allowed to cover the team like three days for the entire four-week camp. I think Ryan Burns said they got to watch two practices total. Gophers fans got to see one practice. It is an interesting strategy from a college football program that could use the attention.
 

Word said:
Just a quick scroll through the sports section on the Strib app and it seems like about a 4:1 ratio of Vikings to Gopher articles. Twins probably 3:1 (but they get an article for every game and that skews it). The Vikings will probably be terrible this year so I don't think it just has to do with expectations. The Vikings rule the sports market here.
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For me...I think the Vikings have just as good of a chance as the Gophers to surprise people and be very competitive winning more than they lose. How good for both? Both possible as pleasant surprises but probably more likely it won't happen for either one is the damper.

Season outlook hinges on game one for both. Much more important to win game one than normal to kick start interest.
 

Word said:
Just a quick scroll through the sports section on the Strib app and it seems like about a 4:1 ratio of Vikings to Gopher articles. Twins probably 3:1 (but they get an article for every game and that skews it). The Vikings will probably be terrible this year so I don't think it just has to do with expectations. The Vikings rule the sports market here.
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I doubt that ratio is much different than it is for most years. Not surprising that the Vikings and Twins would dominate coverage as pro sports usually get way more coverage then college.
 

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