Q&A: National expert says Gophers' Kill 'has to put a fence around Minnesota'

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I haven't read the article but I'm guessing it is dealing with the top-recruit in the state going to Notre Dame.

I've actually think our in-state recruiting has been pretty good with Brewster and Kill. If anyone thinks they we are going to keep every single in-state kid you are delusional. Texas, Michigan, USC, Notre Dame, etc doesn't keep every single in-state kid. We can't let kids go to Wisconsin & Iowa and keep the majority of the kids.
 


Yeh right, Lemming. I guess someone needs to pass this on to Coach Kill.

Tarpley, Turner. Allen and SH would all look very good in maroon and gold. But there is no way we keep them all.
 

station19 said:
Can't you get your butt out of bed a little earlier? I had to use one of my 20 free clicks to read this a little earlier.

Sheesh.
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If you use Mozilla and use the private browsing feature the 20 clicks starts over each session.
 



Bayfieldgopher said:
Yeh right, Lemming. I guess someone needs to pass this on to Coach Kill.

Tarpley, Turner. Allen and SH would all look very good in maroon and gold. But there is no way we keep them all.
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I agree with your basic point, but these guys were all long gone before Kill picked up a U of M paycheck. Mason recruited Minnesota poorly. Brewster improved slightly. The bar is very, very low.
 

To keep more kids at home Kill would agree he needs to keep improving his relationships with the Minnesota high school coaches.
 




I don't care where he gets recruits from, I would just like him to starting signing more up. Like now. Gophers have six 2013 recruits. Next lowest number in the big ten is 11 (Indiana and Purdue). The recruiting cycle is more front loaded than ever. I have serious concerns about filling this class at the current pace if we are still sitting at six at the end of the regular season (or maybe even end of December / January if the gophers make a bowl game).
 

Is it a rule that you must have an IQ of 60 or lower to comment on the Star Tribune articles?
 

AgonyTrain said:
I don't care where he gets recruits from, I would just like him to starting signing more up. Like now. Gophers have six 2013 recruits. Next lowest number in the big ten is 11 (Indiana and Purdue). The recruiting cycle is more front loaded than ever. I have serious concerns about filling this class at the current pace if we are still sitting at six at the end of the regular season (or maybe even end of December / January if the gophers make a bowl game).
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Won't be a problem filling this class since we only have like 12, 13 spots anyway or something like that. Now if we were looking at one of those 25 member classes, I'd be very concerned.
 

Keeping the top players in the state home is always going to be a challenge. There are only 1-2 top flight guys in the state on a yearly basis in football so everyone goes after them. As long as the staff keeps the majority of the top 10 that is about as good as it is going to get. Keeping the one blue chip guy in the state when programs that compete for the national title and have deep pocketbooks come calling is nearly always going to be a losing battle for the U of M.

States like Texas, Ohio, Florida can all lose top flight talent each year to out of state and no one blinks an eye because there is so much talent available. In Minnesota the pool of top D1 players is so shallow to begin with that when one gets away it looks bad when in reality it was probably a long shot to keep that guy anyway given the competition.
 



GopherInPittsburgh said:
Is it a rule that you must have an IQ of 60 or lower to comment on the Star Tribune articles?
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And ESPN, and CNN, and Yahoo, and ....

Internet article comments make the Red Cedar Message Board look like the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
 

Zip codes are over rated and really don't matter when it comes to recruiting. The key is getting good players. MN lacks in that department.

The 2 or maybe 3 quality MN kids are tough gets every year. Many of them end up at ND, Stanford or Miami. Once they shun MN, its just as difficult to convince the equal outstate quality kids to come to MN.

The bottom line is that MN is not in the top 50+ or so schools that the top talent give a sh*t about.
 

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