Possible that Taylor and Evans will get turns at RB. Williams might be 3rd down only.

Could be a switch at one of the guards. Either Shaw getting a shot or Carrol moving to guard and Guedet getting a shot at RT.

Lindenberg might be ready at LB

Gousby might get more playing time at safety.

The staff did not attend any local high school games last night, just focused more time on the game tonight.

Some expected visitors in town for the Eastern Michigan game on Saturday. Will add more if we hear/see them....

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- Notable offers from Michigan State, Cincinnati, MAC schools

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- Has an Illinois offer

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- Notable offers from Cal, Miami (Fla.), Iowa State, South Florida, and MAC schools. His brother is redshirt sophomore offensive lineman at Cal.

Taylor Faalele who lives in Plymouth, Mn and goes to IMG in Florida committed to Dartmouth. He might have camped with Minnesota who never offered, however Illinois did offer. He is a DT.

We will have more preview content up tomorrow morning as well. Been a busy day that got away from me, and I have a high school game to cover, but we'll have matchups to watch, players to watch, and our gameday preview/predictions as well tomorrow!

EJ Walker, a 2025 PF from Kentucky

That's Minnesotan Frank Ragnow (Chanhassen H.S./Arkansas) playing center for the Lions, and pulling on numerous plays to aid Detroit's offensive attack against the Chiefs. Ragnow was a 5.7 3* on Rivals, and the third-ranked player in Minnesota in the 2014 recruiting class. Ranked 1 and 2 were RB Jeff Jones, Washburn H.S. (committed to MN but never played there), and J.C. Hassenauer, OL, Eastridge/Alabama/Falcons,Steelers, Giants.

Nathan Roy, an offensive tackle commit from Mukwonago (Wi.) is currently 3-0 in his senior campaign with the Indians. Roy and his team are coming off a 41-10 rout of Waukesha North.

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Brady Pretzlaff, a linebacker commit from Gaylord (Mi.) is 2-0 with the Blue Devils this season, claiming a 42-39 victory over Kingsley in week two.

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Brett Carroll, an offensive lineman commit from Olathe East (Kan.) has competed in one contest with the Hawks, falling short 42-14 to Olathe North in week one of the season.

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Corey Smith, a wide receiver commit from Brownsburg (Ind.) is making the most of his senior campaign as the Bulldogs are 3-0 after week three, recently defeating Franklin Central 35-21. Smith hauled in an impressive 28-yard pass last Friday.

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Dallas Sims, a wide receiver commit from Clearwater Academy Intl (Fla.) is heading into week four of the season with the Knights as they fell to 0-3 on the season with a 15-14 loss to Edgewater in week three of the season.

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Drake Lindsey, a quarterback commit from Fayetteville (Ark.) recently improved to 2-0 on the season as the Bulldogs defeated North Little Rock 58-20. In his first game, Lindsey recorded 23 completions out of 39 attempts for 348 yards and four touchdowns.

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Jacob Simpson, a tight end commit from Johnston (Ia.) has picked up a 2-1 record with the Dragons so far, falling 35-21 to Cedar Falls in week three.

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Jalen Smith, a wide receiver commit from Mankato West (Minn.) is coming off a commanding week one victory with the Scarlets, recording a 42-0 blowout win over Northfield.

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2024 DE/WR offered as a defensive end.
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BTN has a number of games this weekend, thus they are picking up spare guys. The Announcers will be Connor Onion and local and former player Tommy Olson. Not sure if he has been part of a TV game crew or not.

More info on Saturday's matchup with Eastern Michigan, courtesy of @Dylan Callaghan-Croley

7. Minnesota: (1-0)

Week one result: 13-10 win over Nebraska

Week two matchup: vs. Eastern Michigan

PJ Fleck and Minnesota came out on top of a defensive showdown against Nebraska to kick off the Big Ten slate on Thursday night.

While the Gophers got the victory, the offensive output creates cause for concern. The Athan Kaliakmanis led attack struggled until the end of the fourth quarter. Wide receivers Corey Crooms and Daniel Jackson did show the ability to be weapons on the outside.

Minnesota’s defense was as advertised, coming up with four takeaways and holding Nebraska to under 300 total yards on the day. Future NFL Draft pick Tyler Nubin came away with two interceptions on his own. One of the nation’s top defenses over the last two years looks to be in mid season form already for PJ Fleck.

Summarizing what Minnesota players said during Thursday's interview session

Athan Kaliakmanis:

- Watching Nebraska film left a bad taste in his mouth
- Was a little inaccurate
- Needs to be better fundamentally
- Scrambled a lot more than he needed too
- Wasn't as good as he wanted to be
- Eastern Michigan has a lot of good players, went 9-4 last year and won their bowl game
- Good throws come on the run, better throws come when you stay in the pocket
- Wants to stay in the pocket more

Corey Crooms:

- All the receivers took him in when he got to Minnesota in January
- Said Daniel Jackson and Autman-Bell were the two main guys he stuck by
- Took little pieces from their game and try to implement his own

Jalen Logan-Redding:

- Praised Winston DeLattiboudere on correcting assignments and techniques from the Nebraska game
- Putting a big emphasis on pass-rush this season
- Did what was necessary for the team (moving back-and-forth from three-tech to five)
- Have to be selfless to be a championship team

Danny Striggow:

- Some good, some bad on defense
- Had ups and downs, need to be more consistent
- Need to execute game plan the way it needs to be executed

Sounds like there is a chance Lindenberg might be able to play.

Darrin Strey from Michigan will be at the game. No Minnesota offer, however Eastern Michigan offered. Michigan State also offered.

Intermat did a good interview with Coach Eggum today!

In it he said:

- Gable may still be back for this year, it just depends on what the WWE allows him to do.
- If Gable is back, Garrett Joles will go back down to 197.
- Jake Gliva will be back to wrestle 133.
- The interviewer Tony Rotundo said that Brayton Lee hurt his collarbone at the end of the year. He tried to come back from that, but it didn't work.
- He's excited that Vance VomBaur and Drew Roberts are going to have a good effect on our line-up!

Rotundo said that Intermat had our 2023 recruiting class ranked 14th. What a pile of hogwash, that's way too low!!! With Gavin Nelson (197) and Max McEnelly (184), Tyler Wells (133), Ethan Riddle (174) and Brandon Morvari (125), this class is much better than that!! Just Nelson and McEnelly would give anyone a top 5 class!!

These 2023 elite recruits will show them!!!

Here's the interview from Intermat:

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Also, here's an article on Zach Sanders promotion to Assistant Coach from Gophersports.com:

Sanders Promoted to Assistant Coach​

Gophersports.com
8/3/2023
Wrestling

MINNEAPOLIS – Zach Sanders has been promoted to assistant coach, Minnesota wrestling head coach Brandon Eggum announced Thursday.

Sanders has spent the past six seasons as the team's volunteer assistant coach, working primarily with the team's lightweights. Including his four years as an administrative assistant, he's been a member of the wrestling staff for over 10 seasons.

"I have given a lot of time and energy to the program because of the relationships I treasure from within the program," Sanders said. "I have turned down a lot of opportunities over the years because this is where I want to be. Minnesota Wrestling is what I'm passionate about."

During his tenure, he's helped nine wrestlers at 125, 133 and 141 lbs., earn 14 All-America honors. In addition, 28 wrestlers at those weight classes have qualified for the NCAA Championships, highlighted by Ethan Lizak's runner-up finish in 2017. Meanwhile, Chris Dardanes was Big Ten champion at 133 lbs., in 2015.

"Zach is one of the most accomplished wrestlers in state and program history," Eggum said. "He has been instrumental to our program during his 17 years as an athlete, mentor and volunteer coach. We are excited to reward his dedication and passion for Gopher Wrestling as we elevate him to assistant coach."

Sanders' time on the Minnesota staff comes after a highly successful career with the Golden Gophers. In 2012, Sanders became the seventh four-time All-American in Gopher history with a third-place finish in the 125-pound division at the NCAA Championships. He finished his career ranked sixth on the Gophers' all-time wins list with a record of 134-27.

Sanders was ranked as high as No. 1 nationally during his senior season. He was named Team MVP for the second year in a row after going 32-4. Sanders took second at the Big Ten Championships, his best finish following two consecutive third-place showings.

Sanders finished sixth at the NCAA Tournament as a freshman before finishing fifth his next two years. He was named to the Amateur Wrestling News All-Rookie Team and voted both Most Outstanding Freshman and Most Exciting Wrestler by his teammates in 2009. Sanders was also an Academic All-Big Ten honoree during his career.

Following the end of his senior season, Sanders competed at the U.S. Olympic Trials in freestyle wrestling. Sanders has represented USA Wrestling abroad numerous times, including the 2019 World Cup. Sanders has qualified for the World Team Trials nearly 10 times in his career.

QB Jacob Clark, now at Missouri State, was 14/21 (67%) for 143 yards, 1 TD, 2 INTs, with 1 sack, and a QBRat of 120.5 in a 48-17 opening loss to Kansas. He also rushed 8 times for 36 yards.

RB Ky Thomas, who transferred to Kansas for last season (and had limited production there - 53 carries, 162y, 2 TDs) transferred to Kent State in the off-season but had no stats in Kent State's season-opening 56-6 loss to UCF. (Injured perhaps?)

Dylan Wright, WR, transferred to TCU and is listed as 3rd in the depth chart for one of the WR spots. TCU hosts CU tomorrow to kick off Coach Prime's tenure as HC of the Buffs. Update: Wright had 2 catches for 44 yards, including a 23-yard TD on a crossing route.He played mostly in the 4th quarter. CU won the game 45-42 behind 510 yards passing, 38/47 (80%) and 4 TDs from QB Shedeur Sanders and 4 TDs from freshman RB Dylan Edwards. Travis Hunter played both ways for CU at WR (11/119) and CB (1 int).

Zack Annexstad, Illinois State QB, was 23/30 (77%), for 255 yards, 1 TD, and a 159 QBRat, in a 41-0 win over Dayton.

With 6 minutes left in Oregon's game with Portland State, RB Bucky Irving has 4 carries for 119 yards and 2 TDs. Ducks lead 74-7.

Michael Brown-Stephens, WR at USF, had no stats in today's 41-24 loss to W. Kentucky. He's listed as no.2 WR-Z on the depth chart.

Trey Potts had 5 carries for 6 yards for Penn State in its win over West Virginia.

I wasn't at the game, but am curious what Gopher fans thought.

Rate the Gold Out on a scale of 1 to 10. One being an epic failure, and ten being a home run success.