Is he still working with the defensive line this spring? Any progress to report?

Just over a 3 hour drive to College Park for me. Looking forward to football and crab cakes!

Any one else plan on going?

Chad Fanning might be the top LT. He did not make the 105 last August. Did he improve that much (good news) or are the red-FR not impressive?

Watching Matt Thomas often makes me a bit salty. Love him as a player and when he was a recruit.

Matt wanted to be a Gopher. Came on two unofficial visits before his senior year both times wearing Gopher gear with his family. Has family in the Twin Cities and wanted to live close to home (La Crosse I think) and be in this metro area.

Tubby offered him late. Tubby didn't show much interest in him at all really or at least didn't put much effort in. Matt was patient with them though. Was interested to see how much interest the Gophers would show in the open period that spring. All the teams on him were there on night one at Hopkins for the NY2LA event with head coaches, some also with assistants. They were playing a young Rashad Vaughn. Many Gopher fans went to watch it. And many Gopher fans noticed no Tubby. And they also noticed not a single Gopher coach was there watching until Saul Smith showed up with a hat deep over his eyes wearing clothes that were likely meant for his going out after the games.

They could of had him in that 2013 class with any type of effort. Instead they got Foster and Ellis who ended up not coming. Matt went to the next closest place, Iowa State.

I will never forget this. It blew me away. Effort was terrible.

All can be found on the main page.

Running backs flourishing in new offensive scheme https://minnesota.n.rivals.com/news/spring-football-rb-s-like-new-offensive-system

5 items to take away from Saturday's practice w/video of Claeys talking to the media https://minnesota.n.rivals.com/news/5-things-we-learned-from-saturday-s-spring-practice

Video: Mitch Leidner's first spring football interview with media https://minnesota.n.rivals.com/news/video-catching-up-with-mitch-leidner

About 15 high schoolers were in attendance, all will possibly attend summer camp. Blaise Andries and Eric Abojei were only players there with offers.

So obvious. Duke is undermanned and gives every ounce. Syracuse is a 10 seed, no f*cks given. Drunken Sconnies still living off the Grinch set the game back 100 years but by god they make tourney runs every year. Dopie, take some notes. No chance in hell drunken Sconnies have more athletes than Jrs guys but Jr. is training on the job. Hope he proves me wrong. Coaching alone can get you 1-2 wins in the Dance if you are a top 50 team on talent.

Wasn't a big fan, but he did have some funny moments. Larry Sanders stuff was pretty good

Thanks!

1PM today on CBS (regular channel, not CBS Sports).

Bet the dog...

I guess in the interest of 'being correct'....I rained on STP's parade in his Duke thread last week. But I was thinking....once a year, why not let STP have his fun. What harm is that?

So STP....okay, you can go ahead and tell us what a surprise this is. How Duke is young, or whatever problems they have this year. But how Coach K was able to really coach well and rally the team. How we should really appreciate this. It's okay, you can tell us....

Was on Wikipedia, clicking around like I do and I came to the 89-90 season page ... look at the stats compared to today! Two goalies with a Save % over .90 lol!!!!! GAA all over 3.00, except for Roy (whose S% of .912 was the best). Scoring was at an all-time high, or close to it?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989–90_NHL_season

From Brainerd Dispatch

http://www.brainerddispatch.com/spo...-football-gophers-next-stop-clcs-djam-johnson

Baseball SWEPT #15 Missouri State today, 12-5 and 7-5.

Terrin Vavra 4/6 in gm 1. Senior Connor Schaefbauer also had 3 hits in the win and is on a hot streak. Riley Smith and Austin Athman homered.


Micah Coffey had another 2 hit game in game two, Schaefbauer, Jordan Smith and Matt Stemper also had two hits.

No errors in 18 innings of baseball.

Young team that really played well this weekend.

Women's softball can sweep Purdue with a win tomorrow.

und vs northeastern is underway.

Score updates in this thread would be nice this weekend.

Always a great feeling when UND is eliminated.

We

Big win by the boys in Maroon and Gold yesterday! Hope they can take down Boston College.

(Just pretend the hyphen and every thing to the right of it doesn't exists)

There has been much talk about coaching so I thought I would name some facts about the coaches of the teams left in the NCAA tournament.. Things besides records.... Thought it to be interesting

Ages of the coaches: Jim Boeheim of Syracuse is the oldest at 71 years old.. The youngest is Tony Bennett(Virginia) at 46. There are 2 in their 60's - Roy Williams(North Carolina) and Lon Kruger(Oklahoma)...There are 2 in their later 50's - Dana Altman of Oregon and Mike Brey of Notre Dame are both 57. There are 2 in their early to mid 50's - Jay Wright(Villanova) is 54 and Bill Self(Kansas) is 53. You have the oldest(Boeheim) vs. the youngest(Bennett) to go to the Final Four.

Coach of the year: ALL THE COACHES in the Elite 8 have won "Coach of the Year" in 2 or more conferences except Jim Boeheim.. Boeheim has been a player, assistant, and head coach in all 51 years of his association with Syracuse so he has known no other college experience.. And yes, he was "Coach of the Year" multiple times.

Locations where they learned the game: Brey(Maryland); Boeheim(New York), Wright(Pennsylvania) and Williams(North Carolina) are easterner/Atlantic seaboard types....Kruger(Kansas), Altman(Nebraska); and Self(Oklahoma) learned their games in the plains area.. Bennett was born in Wisconsin, of course so he is an Upper Midwest guy.

Coaching trees:
Boeheim: Roy Danforth is all he knows from the college game as he played and coached under him.. Rick Pitino was on his staff at Syracuse.

Bennett: Of course, played and coached under his dad Dick Bennett.

Altman: Coached under Jack Hartman and Lon Kruger(whom he will be facing this next round)

Kruger: Played and coached under Jack Hartman

Wright: assistant for 7 years under Rollie Massimino

Self: assistant to Larry Brown, Leonard Hamilton, and Eddie Sutton

Brey: played and coached under who may have been the best HS coach ever in Morgan Wooten at DeMatha High School outside of Washington DC.. Then coached under one of the greatest college coaches as an assistant for Coach K at Duke

Williams: Of course, he was an assistant under Dean Smith. Only Elite 8 coach to NOT play varsity college basketball(played for the North Carolina freshman team only).

That is the few details behind the story of some successful coaches.

A near-UNI meltdown!

Go to hell, Bucky!

road this week handing out offers seeing as there is a break in practice? If they are, strangely quiet.

He was one of our Plan-B or C guys for 2016. And after our class was wrapped-up early with our Plan-A's, I was in the Badgers Den....long time ago....they really wanted Hughes. But he long-ago rejected them. Still no recruits for WI in 2016.

Dutch footballer famous for several reasons, but i will just leave this here

figured if anyone deserved his own, targeted blessing it would be @bradt42, given his historical plethora of good holiday tidings.

Videos: The Jays' post practice interviews.

Defensive coordinator Jay Sawvel https://minnesota.n.rivals.com/news/video-dc-sawvel-discusses-gopher-defense

Offensive coordinator/QB coach Jay Johnson
https://minnesota.n.rivals.com/news/video-oc-jay-johnson-breaks-down-qbs-in-camp

Story: Leidner showing vast improvement, position changes on offensive line.

https://minnesota.n.rivals.com/news/spring-football-leidner-showing-improvements

Nothing is set in stone until February, 2017, but defensive end/tight end Trevor Kent, one of the Gophers top 2017 targets, has seemingly ended his recruiting process after committing to Northwestern today.

Kent talked with GI last week about his recruiting process and where the Gophers stood on his list. Minnesota wanted him as a tight end and according to the story, Kent was recruited as a defensive end at Northwestern.