In about 50 minutes Clark will be taking the field for a what I believe will be. First round action in his state football tournament. Anymore info from @jasonwclark would be appreciated.

I will do my best to keep the board updated with stats.

Thank you for your support as a Gopher Football Season Ticket Holder! The 2018 season will continue with a Bowl Game following the Gophers victory over Wisconsin to bring home Paul Bunyan's Axe last Saturday! Stay tuned for Bowl information on Sunday, December 2nd, once the Bowl site and opponent have been determined.

2019 season ticket renewals are also now available! Don't miss five Big Ten home games at TCF Bank Stadium including matchups with Nebraska, Penn State, and Wisconsin. Excitement for the future of Gopher Football continues to grow as Head Coach P.J. Fleck and his coaching staff will welcome another standout recruiting class to Minnesota on National Signing Day on Wednesday, Dec. 19.

Looking at at Denver Warren's Profile It says he has no interest in Minnesota. Yet Coach Fleck personally went to see him. Is there something there that we don't know about. Do we have a chance at him at all? or was this just a token visit? Any chance Fleck can get him to come to Minnesota for a visit?

My son got his MBA from Carlson School of Business. He and a couple of his grad school buddies want to go to the spring game, and they've invited me to go with them. Field Trip!!! Is it in March or April? PJ's doing something when he can get a bunch of grad school nerds to go to the spring game.

Looks like KSTP, regardless of how small their ratings, pulling out of the "game" helped KFAN. That and the Vikings.

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New radio ratings just came out. @KFAN1003 is the highest-rated sports station IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY among the 50 largest markets.

I had seen an article that I didn't click on the Star Tribune's website saying he had gotten four (5 according to others) charges called. I assumed they would be flops and then just came across this article...

https://www.sbnation.com/platform/a...davison-charges-wisconsin-nc-state-video-flop

New Info for 2019
Starting with the 2019 season, the Gopher football team may elect to utilize the north sideline for games after Oct. 15th. What this means:

• For the 2019 season, this could impact three games as Minnesota hosts Maryland (Oct. 26), Penn State (Nov. 9) and Wisconsin (Nov. 30).
• A potential sideline change would only occur for games scheduled to take place during the day, night games will not be affected.
• Minnesota will announce which sideline the team will use for these games either one week prior to the game or when kickoff time is finalized (if determined later than one week prior to the game).

The last away game my old man went to was 1994 WI where MN won.

Anyone know where one could get a hold of that game tape as its not on YouTube?

2019 Schedule Packed with National Powers



SOFTBALL | 11/30/2018 11:22:00 AM

2019 Schedule

The University of Minnesota released the 2019 softball schedule, head coach Jamie Trachsel announced Friday.

Week in and week out the Gophers will square off against national powerhouses with 24 games against opponents that played in the NCAA Tournament a season ago. Six of those teams advanced to super regionals and two competed in the Women's College World Series including the defending national champions, Florida State University.

"This is a championship caliber schedule," Trachsel said. "It was put together to not only challenge us to play our best every day, but also to develop and prepare us throughout the season for conference play and our quest for championships in May and June."

The Maroon and Gold are no strangers to the road and will spend the first seven weeks and 32 games away from home in the 2019 season. The Gophers head to the state of Florida for three different trips including the first two of the season.

Minnesota will face off against Tennessee, Notre Dame, California and the reigning national champions Florida State at the inaugural St. Pete/Clearwater Elite Invitational during the second week of competition. Both Tennessee and Florida State finished the 2018 season with a top-10 RPI mark.

Week three will send the Gophers to Alabama. The highlight will be two games against the Crimson Tide at Rhoads Stadium, one of the toughest environments in all of softball.

Minnesota will start off March by taking on four NCAA Tournament teams at Arizona and follow it up with a trip to Texas where they will play the Longhorns, under new head coach Mike White, three times.

The Gophers head back to Florida over spring break with four games against returning NCAA Tournament teams including a matchup in Gainesville with Florida who is fresh off another trip to the WCWS.

Minnesota opens Big Ten play with a trip to Maryland and will welcome Purdue on March 29-31 for home opener weekend. South Dakota State, Michigan State, North Dakota State, Iowa and Northwestern will all be making trips to Jane Sage Cowles in the 2019 season as well. Last season the Gophers went 11-1 at home adding on to a 32 game home winning streak at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium which is the longest home winning streak in program history.

The Gophers will also have April conference road trips to Illinois and Nebraska this season. The Big Ten Tournament is set for May 9-11 in Bloomington, Ind.

The Gophers finished the regular season 41-17 overall and 17-4 in Big Ten play last year. They captured their third-consecutive Big Ten Tournament title and sixth-consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament.

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Good afternoon Gopher fans,

Before I forget, let's take a trip down memory lane and revisit our successful trip to Vancouver. First and foremost, I wouldn't be surprised if the Vancouver Showcase becomes a popular destination amongst college basketball teams moving forward. The hotel and venue were first class and right across the street from each other. For those who haven't been, Vancouver is a world class, top notch city. I can't wait to go back! Of course, if we lost I would have said I hated the city! That's how coaches remember the places they visit during the season. Thank you so much to our loyal fans who traveled out to support our guys. It definitely helped us get three wins!

I have asked our team often "how would you describe the Gophers if you were watching us play?" Good teams have an identity. In our league, if adjectives such as toughness and grit aren't used then you're not going to win. Plain and simple. We showed great mental and physical toughness in Vancouver. We got stronger as the game went on. We didn't allow fatigue and poor free throw shooting to affect our defense. We won ugly. We need to take pride in that. We are a man down. Eric Curry is extremely important to this team. We need to scratch and claw for everything right now. All three wins will be quality wins down the road.

We laid an egg mentally and physically vs. Boston College. I'm not sure what the problem was but we looked tired. Clearly we couldn't make a shot. That's not an excuse or something I care to elaborate on. When you're trying to get a road win you have to fight through all the elements. That's why it's hard to win on the road. You are going to get in late and be fatigued. We have to get stronger as the game goes on and we didn't. We let our offense affect our effort and intensity. We stopped attacking the basket because we missed a few around the rim. We kept shooting threes because we wanted to make one so that we could get the weight of the world off our shoulders. Below I will break down the Boston College game. I won't give a breakdown of the three big wins in the Vancouver Showcase for obvious reasons. Go negative if you want people to read your blog. That's rule number one that my favorite local media members have taught me and let's face it - I only do this blog for clicks!

Offense: D

We missed a lot of open shots. A lot! That's what our players will take from that performance. In my opinion that's just an excuse. We didn't adjust our attack throughout the course of the game. If shots aren't falling, make the adjustment, and drive the ball. Go inside. Hit the middle of the zone and attack. We were stubborn. Clearly we were cold from three but we also missed three point-blank dunks and several layups. We totally abandoned what we did well vs. Washington's zone. We were 1 for 9 on challenged shots. We sprinted the court properly only 82 percent of the time. Only converted 9 for 23 times on the break as well. We better be prepared for more zone because teams are going to watch that film and surely game plan accordingly.

Defense: D

Coaches often talk about how nothing should impact your effort and intensity on the defensive side of the ball. Clearly that wasn't the case with us. They didn't throw anything at us offensively that we didn't prepare for. We got lazier, not tougher as the game went on. Our post defense on Popovic was horrendous and we let Tabbs do whatever he wanted in the lane. Some positives were we did a solid job on Bowman and Chatman. That's about it. Defense and rebounding needs to be our identity! We did draw three charges which was good to see. Only 14 deflections is 21 below our goal of 35.

Rebounding: D

Minus-7 on the glass won't cut it. Gave up 10 defensive rebounds to their point guard. Hint, hint to our guards. Get in there and scrap! Mitchell got several 50/50 balls as well. I would have given us an F if it wasn't for 13 offensive rebounds.

95%: F

The little things win games on the road especially when your shots aren't falling. Boston College won the loose ball battle 11 to 4. We bailed on at least three charges. Our guys complained to the refs on several occasions. Let's leave that to Mike Grimm. Several people have tried to give us a pass by saying the travel made us look tired. Who cares. Those are excuses. We have to overcome any adversity that is thrown our way.

Coaching: F

Mike Leach has a sign on his wall in his office that reads "You're either coaching it or allowing it to happen." I love this quote. In our staff meeting the next day our coaches, myself included, frustratingly complained about all the things our guys did during the game. I had to stop my guys and tell them it's on us. We didn't play hard for 40 minutes. That's my fault. We didn't execute properly vs. the zone. On me as well. We got outworked, out-toughed, and outcoached. It will be fixed.

Friday night vs. Oklahoma State:

I am going to be honest. I wasn't initially very excited about losing a home game to play in U.S. Bank Stadium. Those feelings went away yesterday when we took the team over to practice. What an amazing setup. To see our guys faces up on that Jumbotron in a world class stadium is something they will never forget. We hope to see everyone out there. I have been told there is less than 60,000 seats available so get online and buy them before they run out! Oklahoma State is playing at a high level. They just had their way with a LSU, a top-20 opponent. They will deny every pass which will make it difficult to run our set plays. It's going to be a great opportunity for our guys and could potentially be a quality win come March. Put the kids to bed, head downtown for dinner, then head over to U.S. Bank! Gopher fans will love our new purple uniforms. Just kidding! Wear gold everyone. See you there!

Go Gophers!

Talked to Kristian yesterday, and he just informed me that he will be visiting Minnesota this weekend.

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Thought this was disturbing enough to earn it's own thread.

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Stewart Mandel Retweeted Trinity High School

Someone apparently made a threat to Jeff Brohm’s high school in Louisville because he turned down Louisville.

Stewart Mandel added,

Trinity High School‏@GoRocks
Classes are canceled on Thursday, Nov. 29.

Trinity officials were notified by police of a threat against the school due to Jeff Brohm deciding to remain at Purdue.

While police investigate the threat classes are canceled and offices are closed on Thursday, Nov. 29.

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Michigan the class of the league. They're completely dominating a very good North
Carolina. From watching the Gophers, they need to fix a lot of things to be .500 in the B1G.

Golden Gopher Fund Auction Now Open



ATHLETICS | 11/29/2018 10:52:00 AM

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The University of Minnesota Golden Gopher Fund is hosting an online auction which directly benefits Gopher student athletes. The auction ends on December 12th at 8 p.m.

The auction launched November 28th and features 57 items ranging from game-worn jerseys to framed prints. Also included is football helmet signed by Tony Dungy, gear packages and autographed items from Gopher greats Lindsay Whalen, Paul Molitor, John Anderson, Darrell Thompson, and MarQueis Gray.

The Golden Gopher Fund aspires to support the athletic department in forging tomorrow's leaders through world-class academics opportunities, extensive student-athlete development and nationally recognized athletic experiences. The Golden Gopher Fund is responsible for generating philanthropic gifts to assist the athletics department in covering all costs associated with the student-athlete experience in the classroom, in competition and in life.

https://gophersports.com/news/2018/11/29/athletics-golden-gopher-fund-auction-now-open.aspx

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Common sense, good reach out by Curry.

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From @Alex Carlson: https://minnesota.rivals.com/news/offense-film-room-minnesota-vs-wisconsin

Seliger-Swenson Named Big Ten's Player of the Year


Eric Miller

VOLLEYBALL | 11/28/2018 1:46:00 PM

Senior setter Samantha Seliger-Swenson was named the Big Ten Player of the Year and Co-Setter of the Year, announced today by the conference office. Head coach Hugh McCutcheon was also named Coach of the Year by both media and coaches. In all, six individuals landed a spot on the First or Second All-Big Ten Team and two were named to the All-Freshman Team. All play an integral role on the Gopher team en route to a conference championship.

Seliger-Swenson, Stephanie Samedy and Regan Pittman were named First Team All-Big Ten, while Alexis Hart, Taylor Morgan and Adanna Rollins were on the Second Team. Rollins and CC McGraw were named to the All-Freshman Team. Seliger-Swenson and Samedy were two of 10 unanimous First Team selections.

Lauren Barnes, a sophomore defensive specialist from Naperville, Ill., also received Minnesota's Sportsmanship Award. One from every team chosen, these students are individuals who have distinguished themselves through sportsmanship and ethical behavior. These students must also be in good academic standing and have demonstrated good citizenship outside of the sports-competition setting.

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Seliger-Swenson, a senior setter from Minnetonka, Minn., becomes Minnesota's third Big Ten Player of the Year since 2015, sixth in program history and first Gopher setter to win the award. She is also the first Big Ten setter to win the award since 2014. Helping Minnesota to a league title and a 19-1 Big Ten record, she also holds a team-best 31 aces and 239 digs. Evenly distributing the ball to five Gopher starters, Seliger-Swenson helped the team hit .300 in conference action. During the conference season, she was named the Big Ten Setter of the Week seven times. The three-time All-American had 11 double-doubles this year and added 1,141 assists. In her career, she enters the postseason with 5,557 career assists and over 1,130 career digs. A four-year starter for the Golden Gophers, Seliger-Swenson completed the trifecta as she was named the 2015 Freshman of the Year, a two-time Setter of the Year (2016, 2018) and now Big Ten Player of the Year.

Samedy, a sophomore opposite hitter from Clermont, Fla., receives her second All-Big Ten honor in two years as a Gopher. She leads the team with 326 kills and averages 3.51 kills per set while hitting .294 and 810 attempts. A Preseason All-Big Ten, Samedy also has 275 digs to average 2.96 per set and 0.76 blocks per set and 20 aces this year. Producing 14 double-doubles this season, Samedy has also led the Gophers in kills nine times this season. She earned AVCA National Player of the Week honors and Big Ten Co-Player of the Week honors once this season as she led the team in points 10 times this season.

Pittman, a red-shirt sophomore middle blocker from Spring Hill, Kan., led the Gophers with a .407 hitting clip, which ranked second in the Big Ten. That number also ranks Averaging 1.11 blocks per set, Pittman also averages 2.59 kills per set this year. With a team-best 107 blocks, Pittman also has hit over .400 in 15 matches this season, including against ranked Big Ten teams in Purdue, Nebraska, Illinois and Michigan.

Hart, a junior outside hitter from Kansas City, Mo., ranks second in the team with 257 kills as she averages 2.92 kills per set. A Preseason All-Big Ten and returning AVCA All-American, Hart was named the Big Ten Player of the Week once this season. She led the Gophers in kills five times this year. Earlier this year, Hart collected her 1,000 career kill this season and now sits at 1,062.

Morgan, a red-shirt junior middle blocker from Blaine, Minn., ranks second in the team in hitting percentage (.390) and fourth in the Big Ten. As a first-year starter for the Gophers, Morgan has 228 kills in 454 attempts. She also averages 2.45 kills per set and 1.04 blocks per set. Morgan has hit over .400 11 times this season, including nine against Big Ten opponents.

Rollins, a freshman six-rotation outside hitter from Carrollton, Texas, has played in all 97 sets as a freshman. Named a four-time Big Ten Freshman of the Week, Rollins ranks fourth on the team with 248 kills and kills per set (2.56). Leading the team in match kills eight times this season, she has also led the Gophers in points seven times and has five double-doubles.

McGraw, a freshman libero from Prior Lake, Minn., has also played in 97 sets as the Gophers' starting libero. Named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week twice this season, McGraw averaged 4.10 digs per set in conference action and 3.97 in all matches. She led the Gophers in digs 19 times this season, including 13 in conference action.

Leading this deep Gopher squad is McCutcheon, who is in his seventh season as the Minnesota head coach. McCutcheon guided the Gophers to a 19-1 conference record and an 18-0 conference unbeaten streak. Minnesota ranked third for the majority of the regular season as the Gophers defeated eight ranked Big Ten teams.

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First Team
Ali Bastianelli, Illinois*
Jordyn Poulter, Illinois*
Jacqueline Quade, Illinois*
Erika Pritchard, Maryland
Carly Skjodt, Michigan*
Regan Pittman, Minnesota
Stephanie Samedy, Minnesota*
Samantha Seliger-Swenson, Minnesota*
Mikaela Foecke, Nebraska*
Kenzie Maloney, Nebraska
Lauren Stivrins, Nebraska
Jonni Parker, Penn State
Kendall White, Penn State*
Sherridan Atkinson, Purdue*
Blake Mohler, Purdue
Madison Duello, Wisconsin
Sydney Hilley, Wisconsin
Dana Rettke, Wisconsin*

Second Team
Ashlyn Fleming, Illinois
Deyshia Lofton, Indiana
Taylor Louis, Iowa
Jenna Lerg, Michigan
Alexis Hart, Minnesota
Taylor Morgan, Minnesota
Adanna Rollins, Minnesota
Kaitlyn Hord, Penn State
Bryanna Weiskircher, Penn State

All-Freshman Team
Paige Jones, Michigan
CC McGraw, Minnesota
Adanna Rollins, Minnesota
Nicklin Hames, Nebraska
Callie Schwarzenbach, Nebraska
Kaitlyn Hord, Penn State
Jonni Parker, Penn State

Player of the Year:Samantha Seliger-Swenson, Minnesota
Defensive Player of the Year: Kendall White, Penn State
Co-Setter of the Year: Jordyn Poulter, Illinois
Co-Setter of the Year:Samantha Seliger-Swenson, Minnesota
Freshman of the Year: Jonni Parker, Penn State
Coach of the Year (Coaches):Hugh McCutcheon, Minnesota
Coach of the Year (Media):Hugh McCutcheon, Minnesota

Sportsmanship Honorees
Beth Prince, Jr., Illinois
Kamryn Malloy, So., Indiana
Molly Kelly, Sr., Iowa
Abigail Bentz, Sr., Maryland
Maddy Abbott, Sr., Michigan
Sam McLean, Jr., Michigan State
Lauren Barnes, So., Minnesota
Brooke Smith, Sr., Nebraska
Allie Lindroth, Jr., Northwestern
Camry Halm, Jr., Ohio State
Kristin Krause, So., Penn State
Erin Williams, Sr., Purdue
Beka Kojadinovic, So., Rutgers
Tionna Williams, Sr., Wisconsin

*denotes UNANIMOUS SELECTION

https://gophersports.com/news/2018/...wenson-named-big-tens-player-of-the-year.aspx

Scoring offense
2018 - 61 (28.5)
2017 - 106 (22.1)
2016 - 73 (26.9)

Scoring defense
2018 - 63 (27.9) last 3 games (16.3) which ranks 18
2017 - 33 (22.8)
2016 - 18 (21.6)

Stating the obvious but hell of a recovery for the defense. Prior to those last 3 games, the defense ranked 87th at 31.8 and giving up an average of 43 points per game in B1G play.