Very different conference landscape at that time. Days of Rose Bowl being determined by which team hadn't been there in the longest is long gone. I would put our 11-2 on a similar par to their 10-1-1 that year.
Yep. It really is only a small subset of fans that panic when a local kid doesn't want to stay home and play for the hometown team. It is tough for some fans to accept that a recruits desire to wear the Maroon and Gold might not be as strong as their desire would be.
Would be interesting to know how many CO players have gone to Boulder on average over the past X years. Guessing they recruited Texas hard in the Big 8/XII days, and now recruit California hard.
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Let me start by saying I don't disagree with the idea that it would be great if in-state recruiting improved. But where I struggle is that this is super easy to say but how do you actually go about improving it?
This would be true if there wasn’t 1000s of other guys to recruit. Plenty of people choose to go elsewhere for college. It happens with athletes too. It happens in every state. If Texas was getting 0 Texas kids they’d be in trouble. But Minnesota isn’t Texas.
For all this talk, I still am having a hard time understanding how it matters where the kids come from. We do beat Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska for kids from others states pretty regularly. Say we beat Iowa for 2 kids in Illinois and Florida and they beat us for a kid in MN and Iowa, how is what they did more valuable if the players skill is equal across all four players?
In the end it doesn’t matter where a kid is from to the vast majority of fans. But there are some who feel the local angle is super important.
To me, the biggest thing is where we are losing them to. If a kid wants to go to Notre Dame or Stanford, I can't really fault a kid for getting a free ride to such a place. But losing kids to WI, IA, IA State, etc. hurts more. For a lot of us, we have neighbors, friends, family members that are fans of these programs living here, and it's more of a pride/ego thing than a thing that is necessarily something that will have a direct tie to wins/losses. If we were consistently winning games against these teams, it wouldn't hurt so bad. But when you lose both on and off the field, it is very much an ego/pride thing. Take NE for example, we've beat them often enough that losing a kid to NE doesn't sting nearly as much. I see a kid go there, and I just say "WTF would you want to go there of all places??"
Depends on how many we're losing in that way.
You usually have a pretty sensible and reasonable approach with your POV.
He forgot Decker and TJ. We’d be fine.
According to PJ they're first come first serve.
I find this interesting. I’m not a big gambler, but the season win total over/under for MN is 7 and for CO it is 4.5 in a weaker conference. Even with home field advantage, I find it surprising they would be favored by that much. I would think based on over/unders it would be closer to a pick em or slight Gopher favorite.
