What did he get banned for? I found him annoying, but there's the ignore feature for a reason.Yesterday was a great day for Gophers everywhere. We pulled in an awesome class of 'cruits, and then to top off the day this happened.
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Hey now, I'll have you know, I put up 10 career points in my college career!
Interesting to see him get banned. Wonder what the threshold was. I enjoyed the back an forth.Yesterday was a great day for Gophers everywhere. We pulled in an awesome class of 'cruits, and then to top off the day this happened.
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Outstate? I wasn’t even aware outstate had lacrosse.
This is kinda funny but I finally put him on ignore yesterday.
Oh sorry, the outstate thing and the hockey, bball, and lacrosse things were unconnected. Basically two possible reasons MN doesn't produce as much FBS talent as other states:
In other words, the other account that he was already previously active on..
I think he used to be Gophers4Life. Then he had the other one that sounded incredibly similar to MplsGopher and he would have conversations with himself.
His next should be "youcan'tgetridofmethateasyGoGOPHERS"
Yeah, I bet the fan of mplsgopher makes a reappearance soon. He has been banned before. sure he did something he had been warned not to. Threads are going to be a lot shorter while hi is gone.
Explain it to the coach. He's the one who resurrected your dead horse by saying we're going to do something about the return game (while talking about Ryan Stapp). He's apparently not satisfied with the way we left field position advantage on the table so many times this year.
It's ridiculous to ban somebody for just being a citidiot.
dpodoll2?
The specialization thing is big - especially as pertains to hockey. I mentioned it before, but it reaches down to the grade school level, where the hockey association was scheduling mandatory tryouts on Saturday mornings when we had football games. We had kids having to miss games.
He definitely creates some ad revenue for the site!
I miss dpodoll!
Nothing is more annoying than one program in a community pushing 3 sports and another pushing their sport.
They all pay lip service to wanting kids to play multiple sports. College coaches say it, but mean at HS level, not college, HS coaches say they like it but really want it to end at HS.
Specialization in one sport early is a real shame but agree that it has gotten more and more aggressive through the years. Too much focus on off season camps and training for a main sport as opposed to going out and playing other sports the way kids used to.
I don't think that parents drive it. They just don't know how to combat it. Kids just want to be active and parents want them to have great experiences as a kid. Unfortunately there is the business aspect of youth sports training. You can't make a living only offering your business 3 months a year.
The issue is the whole youth sports culture but in the end it is driven by the parents because they are the ones shelling out the money for all the camps and what not. If the parents stop paying the specialization goes away.
This happens in our association, as well. Not only do tryouts interfere with games & practices, but there are leagues that start play in early October. I had kids on my 8th grade team playing a hockey game at 4p in Rochester and then rushing to a 6:30p football game in Lakeville.
And this is what really hurts football. It's one of the last sports that isn't year-round, or at least close to it at this point. So if you're expected to train/play year-round in soccer, basketball, hockey etc., you're going to be less likely to be able to play or want to play football in the fall.
Another issue is that the cuts come at the 9th grade level with terrible options if you don't make the team. For example a large school might have 60 kids try out for 20, 9th grade spots, with 10 for A and 10 for B teams. 40 kids are sent packing. Now the parent has to decide whether to put in the extra resources to keep the kid active in basketball to have any shot at making the 10th or JV team, knowing the kid might go from 5'8" to 6'4 in the next year.
Why not give the Gophers a chance if you can’t make up your mind. They will take you in a heartbeat, and your folks and friends can watch you play every home game.
We might be on the outside looking in for his services but with him not signing Fleck has more time to keep working on him if he chooses to. Longshot, but we are talking about a high school kid so maybe something changes his mind and we end up back in the mix.
The one really nice thing we have here is the Southwest League. It's a rec league for kids in Middle and High School, where you play other schools, as opposed to in-house ball, where everyone is in the same district. That's how youth football is run as well, though starting earlier in fourth grade.