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What a gutsy team!! I might have to take in a game or two next Fall.
 

That was a fun game to watch. Unbelievable goal line stand. Then the QB scrambles for the winning TD. Was sort of chilly by the end of the Iowa game. Can't imagine being in the stands for that one.
 

UMD is Great Program

I only saw from the mid 3rd Qtr on but came away very impressed with UMD tonight. They are a gutsy team. They are really well coached. Nielsen really is a great coach there.I feel proud to be a Minnesotan and really hope they win next week.

Last week I saw another gutsy team play a great game against a great team. I went to the Bethel - St. Thomas game and really enjoyed it also. My daughter is a soph at Bethel so I was happy with the outcome. Bethel lost today to Mount Union in Ohio today.
 

That game was awesome. They have an amazing coach who knows what he is doing. Bottom line.
 

It was a great game to watch while stuck in the house due to the storm.
 


Just got back from this game. It was damn cold and windy.
UMD is all business and a pleasure to watch. No excessive celebrations. No showboating. Just hard-nosed football on both sides of the ball.
The crowd (about 4,000) was vocal and spirited.
One of the better sporting events I've been to in awhile.
 


Due to the weather I took in the Bethel, UMD, and NDSU games. NDSU got screwed a bit in OT. This is part of the reason the Gophers are down a bit and have a tough time finding those kids that bleed Maroon and Gold. We have 3 of the top 10-15 D3 programs in the country. We have the #1 D2 progam in the country and have a couple top D1AA school schools in NDSU and UNI. These schools are all within four hours of MPLS and offer great opportunity for kids that are walk-on material.
 

At the Bulldog game last night I tried to figure out if any of their players could contribute for the Gophers. Tough to tell because of the cold. A couple of linemen look pretty good. #74 (Hekkinan?) has great footwork. He's only about 290, which might be too small for the Big Ten. He's very athletic for someone his size. I'm guessing he's about 6-2 and was told he was a hell of a basketball player in high school.
 



Heikkinen is a damn good football player, very athletic and he's more like 6-4, 6-5 for his height. And he's only a RS Sophomore this year. What's scary for D-2 football is that from last nights starting lineup, UMD only had 2 seniors on offense starting and 4 seniors on defense starting.
 

CP Gopher said:
At the Bulldog game last night I tried to figure out if any of their players could contribute for the Gophers. Tough to tell because of the cold. A couple of linemen look pretty good. #74 (Hekkinan?) has great footwork. He's only about 290, which might be too small for the Big Ten. He's very athletic for someone his size. I'm guessing he's about 6-2 and was told he was a hell of a basketball player in high school.
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ILBs Kiel Fechtelkotter and Robbie Aurich are recognized as two of the best in D2 and probably both could have figured in with the Gophers at some point.

RB Isaac Odim is a professional prospect, and IMHO would have been the best RB the Gophers had the past three years.

John Pawielski was planning on attending UMD before deciding to walk-on at the U of M. Ended up being a captain and a damn fine football player for the gophers.
 

Vogler is the qb for umd and from rosemount. I always thought he'd have been a good last minute addition as a safety prospect. He was an all conference fs/wr as a junior in the lake conference. There was all the talk about vraa, I thought Vogler was the better player.
 

gopherjay said:
Riiiight. I fell asleep.
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good for you. if you don't care about this thread then don't open it. it is quite the accomplishment for UMD. they could win 2 national championships in 3 years if they win saturday. They are a great football team.
 



go4fan said:
good for you. if you don't care about this thread then don't open it. it is quite the accomplishment for UMD. they could win 2 national championships in 3 years if they win saturday. They are a great football team.
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gopherjay prefers to watch domeball games from the comfort of his living room with the QB's throwing a minimum of 60 passes each.
 

Odim certainly could have played for the U. But he has other issues keeping him out of the U.
 

go4fan said:
good for you. if you don't care about this thread then don't open it. it is quite the accomplishment for UMD. they could win 2 national championships in 3 years if they win saturday. They are a great football team.
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Indeed. Well executed football is always fun to watch, and they are very disciplined. BTW, I thought they were pretty seriously outsized by NWMS. Is that just my imagination? UMD beat them anyways. Go Bulldogs!
 

Does anyone know if a UMD Bulldog message board site exists? I tried searching for one, but couldn't come up with much. Surprising they wouldn't have something like this, especially considering the hockey program.
 





discochris said:
Like what? He's Academic All-American.
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He went JC down in Rochester coming out of HS. I don't know why he did this, it could have been academics or any number of reasons that would have made him unattractive to the U of M. Or he could have been there for no reason at all.

If he had academic issues coming out of high school, he has done a great job getting it turned around. But you can't look at Academic AA and assume he was an easy qualifier coming out of HS. Unless you have specific knowledge that he was.
 

Odim had a full ride to Yale but ran into serious legal trouble the summer before he went to Yale. There are a lot of stories about what actually happened that night but there seems to be a consensus that he was falsely accused. He took that fall off then attended RCTC for a year than UMD...absolutely nothing to do with academics. Everything I have heard about him is all positive. Whether he gets a shot in the NFL or not, this kid has a bright future ahead of him.
 

go4fan said:
Odim had a full ride to Yale but ran into serious legal trouble the summer before he went to Yale. There are a lot of stories about what actually happened that night but there seems to be a consensus that he was falsely accused. He took that fall off then attended RCTC for a year than UMD...absolutely nothing to do with academics. Everything I have heard about him is all positive. Whether he gets a shot in the NFL or not, this kid has a bright future ahead of him.
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Ivy League doesn't give football scholarships



Also, you don't think that having serious legal trouble is reason enough to back off a kid who was a borderline D1 prospect coming out of High School? If the guy was headed to yale, as you implied, then there is probably reason to believe he was a borderline D1 prospect (in the football sense). The guy did not even get major offers coming out of JC, so after his sophomore year, he was still considered a borderline D1 prospect.
It is completely understandable that "serious legal trouble" is a reason not to offer the kid out of HS.
 

Ok, that makes sense then, if it was legal trouble. If he was accepted to Yale, he's probably pretty sharp academically.
 

Rosemountian said:
Ivy League doesn't give football scholarships



Also, you don't think that having serious legal trouble is reason enough to back off a kid who was a borderline D1 prospect coming out of High School? If the guy was headed to yale, as you implied, then there is probably reason to believe he was a borderline D1 prospect (in the football sense). The guy did not even get major offers coming out of JC, so after his sophomore year, he was still considered a borderline D1 prospect.
It is completely understandable that "serious legal trouble" is a reason not to offer the kid out of HS.
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Ivy League does give academic scholarships to football players, however. And Isaac had one of those.
 

Rosemountian said:
Ivy League doesn't give football scholarships



Also, you don't think that having serious legal trouble is reason enough to back off a kid who was a borderline D1 prospect coming out of High School? If the guy was headed to yale, as you implied, then there is probably reason to believe he was a borderline D1 prospect (in the football sense). The guy did not even get major offers coming out of JC, so after his sophomore year, he was still considered a borderline D1 prospect.
It is completely understandable that "serious legal trouble" is a reason not to offer the kid out of HS.
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I know what your saying - after juco he still wasn't viewed as a D1 prospect, but I have seen him play. He is, in my opinion, the best RB not playing for the Vikings in the state of Minnesota right now.
 

You can say that now. If you would have said that 3 years ago and been correct then you would be making a lot of money for somebody.

I am surprised the Ivy League pullled his full academic ride over a legal problem that didn't end up amounting to anything. What was he accused of?
 

Rosemountian said:
You can say that now. If you would have said that 3 years ago and been correct then you would be making a lot of money for somebody.

I am surprised the Ivy League pullled his full academic ride over a legal problem that didn't end up amounting to anything. What was he accused of?
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It amounted to something. Believe me.
 


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