Do you think their was a spiritual connection between gopher footballs record and my grammar? When I signed up for this board, I literally had zero understanding of grammar. No lie. Today after my experience of being apart of this regime, I've evolved to a world wide writing platform.

At the sametime the gophers football team was improving so was my learning capabilities and grammar.

Link: Ekpe sees big things in Devers and Elmore

thanks as I missed the sports huddle this morning

RB Daniel Young from Houston (Texas) Westfield has Minnesota in his top four:

https://n.rivals.com/news/young-announces-a-top-four

He was a big ole gopher fan, he drove a van, his name was Sam, and he'd always talked about a lamb.

He went through a very long drought in the potato fields of Ireland similar to the draught many gopher fans went through for 40 years. Are we officially as a fan base over that 40 years? Did enough positivity ensue over the past few years to cut of the old and move into the future?

Has deliverance taken place or after each loss will you immediately jump back to the horrific memories and fallys?

As the King of Gopher nation I have come to set you free and put each and every one of you on the mental road to the national championship.

You must believe it to achieve it. It starts in everything but the players. The players and the national championship is the fruit to our machine if you will.

Let's move into the present and the future going forward.

Is it just me or this this site a terrible design? Why when you scroll down doesn't HOME, FORUMS, FOOTBALL, ETC just stay at the top in a permanent header?

When you scroll down...it goes away...so you have to scroll back up to go to it. That seem like the most simple design ever

Has Ndsu ranked ahead of four B10 West teams! haha. What a joke.

a much ballyhooed west division squad, Nebraska.

Dinardo thinks that Sparty and Michigan have a ton of talent, and Michigan just needs to answer the QB question. Dinardo said he was skeptical of all the offseason Michigan hype, but that after seeing them in person, he thinks they are ready to compete at a championship level--thinks Wolverines will be fantastic on both sides of the line of scrimmage. Griffith is also impressed with Michigan, although he seemed a little unsure about the RB position there. Michigan has underperformed at RB the past few years.

Dinardo and Griffith remarked on how far Michigan State has come under Dantonio. Said they used to be a developmental program, but now they have a bunch of true and redshirt frosh who look like they are ready to play now. The guys think that Sparty has reached that point where they just reload---they are past rebuilding.

Dinardo and Griffith think Iowa is a little bit behind OSU/Sparty/Michigan, but he says they compare favorably to Penn State. The crew is bullish on Penn State, which surprises me 'cause I think James Franklin is gonna get fired this year

Dinardo really down on Nebraska. When asked what would make a successful season for the Huskers, he said 'making a bowl game'.

Dinardo went on to say that Nebraska doesn't have the talent to compete for the west division title right now, which is not something I **ever** thought I would hear him say. Griffith is higher on Nebraska and thinks they could challenge for Indy, but Dinardo remains unconvinced.

Gerry D even went so far as to say that when the crew looks back on their fall camp tour, I don't think we'll consider them one of the better teams in the West. (!)

Dinardo thinks Nebraska has 'camp legs'. Griffith was 'surprised by the lack of physicality in practice'. Yikes

http://www.postandcourier.com/20160624/160629670/how-a-college-drug-ring-hid-in-plain-sight


Why a 2500 Xanax bust might be a blessing in disguise...OR...an indication of much BIGGER problems on campus...Coach Robinson: take a look at this...

This example features the college scene in Charleston SC... but the scope of things on a nation wide basis needs to be taken seriously.

http://www.highbrowmagazine.com/194...on-drug-use-continues-plague-college-campuses

It is NOT just a joke: college athletes have access...

http://www.twincities.com/2016/06/02/how-xanax-derailed-college-athletes-career-macalester/

Even really squeaky. clean. smart, hard working, student athletes AND the student body as a whole are not immune to the real dangers of Xanax and other prescription drugs...

When I first became a member of this board, the Adam Weber and Eric Decker connection was in full a mother lalala effect.

Marquis Gray was a freshman. The most exciting moment for some reason as a Gopher fan I've had is when Gray caught that touchdown in the endzone to tie the game.

I was juiced out of my mine figureativly and literally.

Uuuuhhhh those were the beautiful days. But today we're in the future from the past days we were living in.

How do you feel? Let's here it. We've come a long way as a unit.

We used to have more music threads around this place but many of the music snobs have moved on.
Anyhow BJ Barham the lead singer of American Aquarium released a solo album today. It's pretty awesome. I saw American Aquarium last month at the Fineline. He had the band leave for a couple of songs and did some stuff off the solo album. This song was one of the songs he sang. The album wasn't out so people hadn't heard the song but the whole crowd gasped at one point. It's extremely sad and if you watch the video and listen to the words you can't help but feel sad. Anyhow check both him and the band out they're awesome Login to view embedded media

Link: Academics important to Hardimon

I wish I had the power

Today when accessing the forum, the threads are not in any kind of order so the threads I see are from last fall. Is this just me?

Funny thing is the second thread I see is titled, "ZZZZZZZ -- Did Yahoo run out of money again". Or is it AOL now?

Link: Louisville commit plans to visit Minnesota and Wake Forest

Tre Norwood is committed to Louisville, but the Gophers are still very much in the hunt.

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The Gophers join Boise State, Houston, and Nebraska in the top four for Daniel Young. Connor wrote about him in July here.

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We just got rid of the Vikings out of our stadium, and now we're bringing in the boring sport of soccer to TCF. Charge them big time to help pay for the upgrades in our facilities. Don't let them off easy. They don't have a lot of options.

im sorry I started the thread... I was just joking around , Opie, I think your a complete tool, but I think you should be able to speak freely and demonstrate your stupidity as much as you want.

wren, you can eat me.

I talk about my top five potential impact freshmen from the class of 2016. Check it out and let me know yours!

https://minnesota.rivals.com/news/top-5-series-impact-true-freshman

Tomorrow is the day Jorgensen swims, bikes, and runs in the Olympic Triathlon. She's a big time stud. She won like twelve meets in a row and was world champion. Not sure if she still is. Her husband was a bike competitor. When he proposed, he said, "I"ll be your house husband; I just want to be with you." He was a biker who wasn't going anyplace in his sport and she was obviously on top. But biking is her worst skill, so he's got to help there. She's not hard on the eyes either. I don't know when she performs, but it's Saturday sometime, and she's from MINNESOTA!

with the first game near what are all of your favorite pre game routines?
Not talking tailgating, I mean the little things you don't tell peeps.

I have this old pair of mn gopher underwear that I only wear for games, shorts, tee and hat. I have to have one beer before kickoff. It must be finished or it seems we get killed or lose a heartbreaker. (I'm looking at you meechigan)
What you guys got?

Could be from your playin days as well.

Turn hearts from cold to warm? Do you think it was real when Jesus Christ calmed a storm?

Will Kiante Harden and Shannon brooks raise a blind man from the dead or raise a Heisman trophy above their head? Will money making Mitch lead the tribe of Judah to the endzone several times over the enemies of God?

Will Gaelin Elmore destroy the forces of evil trying to perpatrait the score board?

Will Rashad Stills catch a word of God one handed in the back of the end zone to beat Oregon state?

So many questions my people of God. Can we do church this year and cast out the devil? That's my question.

Don't sit there and act like Gopher nation was under a serious demonic covering. Many of you die hard fans thought their was no hope for the gophers to compete.

That's hopeless and despair. That's seeing the walls of Jericho, pitching a tent, drinking beer and saying whatever God, the walls will never fall.

Clearly they did, but the toughest part was it happened after the walls fell. Basically if you were the guys in the Bible, the walls of Jericho fall, you all turn your head drunk and run because a space alien just crashed.

Point nibbling time is over.

A thread in a different place got me thinking. People were upset when JC Hassenauer choose Alabama over us. As things stand today would you rather our center be Tyler Moore or Hassenauer? (Remember Hassenauer had more stars)