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Saw this posted over on GH. Thought this was pretty cool.

https://rivalrytrophy.com/collections/golden-gophers-collection

What does the Punk have to say?

Is it who I think it was ?

Anybody got any video of longer locker room footage or when they returned home?

Lots of comparative $ on many levels on how the three conferences work. i am thinking that the P12 needs to rein in its commissioner.

https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/o...y-scott-leftout-part1.html#incart_river_index

wife is creating the Christmas card

Free night to myself on the couch

Just terrible basketball

Odds we are terrible and coyle makes a run at musselman?

Hard watching Nebraska win versus a top 20 team on the road and we score roughly 12 points in the second half

Have not yet placed my desktop AXE (until i see the win in person, replicas not allowed on my desk). it is time to place the AXE. the AXE has been in storage so long, may take a while to find before it can join the jug and pig on my desk. in the interim no reason i could not do some other AXE decorating.

always #skiumah.

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Not sure if the Mods will be sharing any news of the coaches on the road recruiting this week, but thought I'd start a thread to aggregate any/all info...
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Offense:

Passing Direction and Pressure:


Ibrahim Rushing:

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The axe made it in and we bumped into some elite company! Nice Gold medals @TeamShuster. #Gophers #SkiUMah #RTB


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Game time is 8 p.m. on ESPN2. Minnesota (5-0) heads to Chestnut Hill, Mass., to take on the 4-1 Boston College Eagles. BC won both its games over Wyoming and Loyola-Chicago to win the Cancun Challenge this past weekend. Their only loss is a seven-point home loss to IUPUI.

Minnesota, coming off a championship at the Vancouver Showcase, has three top-75 wins, with victories over Pac-12 teams Washington and Utah and Texas A&M from the SEC.

The very 1st snap of Wisconsin’s 1st possession. Taylor broke through the line and into the secondary, with Jacob Huff making a shoestring tackle to save an immediate 74 yd TD run that would have completely changed the belief in our squad.

Instead, Huff saves us, we eventually stop them, and Gaglianone misses for a huge swing of early momentum.

I don’t think there was a more important play!

...by placing the Axe in the end zone before the end of the game.

That is NOT the tradition. The tradition is that when the clock strikes all zeros the other team swarms your sideline and takes the Axe from you in an aggressive way that makes you feel physically and emotionally violated.

THAT is the tradition .

Who can forget Rhys Lloyd leaping the Skunk bench after his game winning FG to make sure he was first to the Axe?

Preemptively moving the Axe to the endzone was an act of abject cowardice by a bunch of cow tipping, cheese swilling, drunken degenerates.

True competitors take it on the chin when deserved. They don’t hide from the consequences of their failures like a bunch of sniveling pansies.

LOSERS

What's with Coffey? Dreadfully Bad. Expected him to be a leader on this team .

This has really been a strange year for results and especially on defense. Considering we had so many "match-up" games on paper at the beginning of the season, we had very few games that finished as one possession games.

If you had separated out and tried to predict results of the defense into these two buckets before the season, I'm guessing the predictions would have resulted in fairly close ppg results between pools.

Pool A-
Wisconsin, Ohio St., Purdue, Fresno St., Miami of Oh., NMSU

Pool B-
Iowa, Maryland, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, Northwestern

Pool A includes 5 teams that finished in the top 75 in country in scoring offense this year and two in the top 25, while Pool B only had 3 teams in top 75 with highest being Iowa at #47. On paper and including in season results, Pool A had the tougher offenses as a whole. Yet:

Gophers defense against Pool A teams resulted in average ppg of 13.6. That average would have been good enough for #3 in the country.

Gophers defense against Pool B teams resulted in average ppg of 42.2. That average would have been bad enough for #125 in the country.

That is a crazy contrast which I believe can be partially explained by injuries (primarily Winfield, and to a lesser extent OJ Smith), but also highlights the necessity to change D coordinators as the ceiling for the defense was much higher than we saw during many games in the middle third of the season.

Marcus Fuller said Carr should hear from the NCAA on his appeal Wednesday. It would be huge if we actually got good news for a change.

There should be another ranking coming this week. Maybe both teams will get into their respective Top 25.

Anybody know when was the last time the Gopher Women were ranked before this year?

http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/rankings/_/week/3/seasontype/2

I came across these LED-lit 3-D replicas of TCF Bank Stadium and thought others might be interested. There's a 10% discount today if you use the discount code of JAYSON.

https://www.homefields.com/collecti...cts/minnesota-golden-gophers-tcf-bank-stadium

Curious if anyone of the usual suspects have given Fleck any credit on their platforms? Just searching twitter and Barerio gives no credit and even somehow mentions Brewster. Souhan nothing. I’m hopeful this game does not get lost on the casual fan who listens/read their garbage.

Don't know if this has been posted or not. Pull or move it if it has been.

The way Hugh McCutcheon sees it, being part of a conference as rugged as the Big Ten can shape a team in two ways. “It’s a grind,’’ the Gophers coach said. “And it can either polish you up or wear you down.’’

Though Friday’s loss at Penn State denied the Gophers an unbeaten Big Ten season, they earned the prize they really wanted Sunday: a No. 2 seed in the NCAA volleyball tournament. The Gophers (25-3, 19-1 Big Ten) will host the first and second rounds of the tournament this weekend, opening play Friday against Bryant. South Carolina and Colorado will play the other first-round game at Maturi Pavilion, with the winners meeting Saturday in the second round.

By virtue of capturing a top-four seed, the Gophers’ road map to a national championship will not leave Minneapolis. If they win both matches this weekend, they will host the regional semifinal and final on Dec. 7-8, followed by the Final Four at Target Center on Dec. 13 and 15.

McCutcheon’s point about the Big Ten was underscored when the 64-team tournament bracket was announced Sunday. Seven league teams made the field, with two — the Gophers and third-seeded Illinois — earning top-four seeds. Wisconsin (No. 6), Nebraska (No. 7) and Penn State (No. 8) also were seeded, while Michigan and Purdue also were awarded at-large berths.

“We’re pretty happy we don’t have to pack a bag,’’ McCutcheon said. “We’ve got work to do now.

“There’s no doubt that being in the Pav will help. Home-court advantage is a real thing. We’re excited to try to be here as long as we can.’’

The Gophers also were the No. 2 seed — the highest in program history — in both 2015 and 2016, when they advanced to the Final Four.


Their portion of the tournament bracket includes No. 17 Oregon, one of three teams to defeat them during the regular season; sixth-ranked Nebraska; and No. 11 Kentucky.

This season, the Gophers are 14-0 at Maturi Pavilion, earning a perfect regular-season record on their home court for the third time in the past four years. They are 59-2 at home since the start of the 2015 season.


http://www.startribune.com/gophers-...-a-stay-at-home-in-ncaa-tournament/501215961/

Douglas' punt return TD comes in at #2.

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