4 of the 7 divisions in Ohio high school football have crowned state champions. Divisions 1, 2, 5, and 7 have completed their seasons..There are some stud athletes that I want to share with you that I would hope PJ Fleck would keep track of in the future for the Gophers.. 3 of the 4 starting QBs of the state championship teams will return next year so there is talent coming down the pike in Ohio, as usual. I wanted to share the Freshmen and Sophomores that made significant contributions to their teams in the state championship games

Division 1: Demeatric Crenshaw, 2020 QB for Pickerington Central.. Demeatric scored 6 TDs rushing tonight in their 56-28 victory over Mentor.. At 6-2 190 pounds, he has a strong arm as well. He will continue to see top level competition through the rest of his HS years.. Tough runner as well as fast.Tonight, they just didnt need to throw the ball that much but this kid is a special athlete.

Division 2: Shane Hamm, 2021 QB for Akron Hoban... Took over for much decorated Danny Clark, who is a freshman at University of Kentucky... Shane is a better QB than Danny Clark was as a Freshman, IMO.... Got great touch on the deep ball and fades..Good field vision and excellent accuracy... ,Threw for 243 yards and 4 TDs in the D2 state championship 42-14 victory over Cincinnati Winton Woods. He has 3 years to grow but is 6-0 190 pounds at this point. Very strong runner for his size and sneaky fast.

Division 2: Luke Bauer, 2021 LB for Akron Hoban... Amazing that a state champion caliber team starts 2 freshmen let alone one on a team with 70-80 players.. Bauer is the younger brother of DB Nate Bauer, who considered the Gophers... Luke is 6-1 230 as a HS freshman so he might outgrow linebacker.. But he is aggressive and reads plays very well... Good leverage and uses hands well to get off blocks..

Division 5: Jaden Rayford 2020 RB for Eastwood.. Eastwood lost an agonizing close game against Wheelersburg in the best state final so far. 21-14 in overtime.. .This kid lives near me up in Toledo... Jaden had 136 yards against a staunch defense in today's loss.. Eastwood runs a Wing-T offense so the defense knows it is a run but still had 2208 yards rushing with 35 TDs on the year. 6-1 195 RB with good burst....A very talented sophomore.

Just thought I would share some names that would be good potential Gopher recruits.

Major channels in BOLD

Friday, December, 1st
Pac12CG : Stanford vs. USC 7:00 pm ESPN / WatchESPN
Saturday, December, 2nd (Printable schedule w/ DirecTV channels)

AACCG : Memphis at UCF 11:00 am ABC / espn3 Video
CUSACG : North Texas at Florida Atlantic 11:00 am ESPN2 / WatchESPN
MACCG : Akron vs. Toledo 11:00 am ESPN / WatchESPN
Big12CG : Oklahoma vs. TCU 11:30 am FOX / FSGo Video
SECCG : Auburn vs. Georgia 3:00 pm CBS / CBS Video
South Alabama at New Mexico State 3:30 pm FSAZ+ / espn3 Video / AggieVision
SWACCG : Alcorn vs. Grambling 3:30 pm ESPNU / WatchESPN
Troy at Arkansas State 6:30 pm ESPN2 / WatchESPN
MWCCG : Fresno State at Boise State 6:45 pm ESPN / WatchESPN
ACCCG : Clemson vs. Miami 7:00 pm ABC / espn3 Video
B1GCG : Ohio State vs. Wisconsin 7:00 pm FOX / FSGo Video

http://www.lsufootball.net/tvschedule.htm

Post season ban. Current players can transfer with out penalty. Phoning Taamu!!! Sr qb making a great competition for VV?

I was just checking to see when Barry Alvarez first went to the Rose Bowl (4th season), when I noticed his overall B1G record was just 64-61-1. His legacy is actually better as an AD, but in any case, it made me wonder what would be a good overall expectation for PJ? Alvarez didn't go to a Rose Bowl again until season 9 and again in season 10. Would these be good numbers for PJ?

Sorry for the delays and lack of prompt responses. We take full responsibility for that and are looking more into where the coaches will be going. Happy to answer questions or anything else.

Coach Wenger and Burns were in to see Craig Williams
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Coach Callahan will be in to see Tyrik Henderson at some point

Coach Fleck, Linguist, and Simon went and saw Rashod Bateman
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I just confirmed Ciarocca was or will be in to see Matthew Baldwin this week

Coach Fleck, Burns, Smith, Linguist, and Warriner went to see C.J. Smith
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Coach Fleck was in to see Grant Norton
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There were coaches in Florida to see Ahanotu, and Bryce Williams. Possibly Dunlap.
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Minnesota offered recent four-star center and FSU decommit Verdis Brown and he's an IMG guy. We'll see if there's going to be any interest there.

A little bit behind since I was moving from my temporary corporate housing to my permanent home today. A couple of offers went out today. Here we go...

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Gophers offer 2019 3* Georgia Center Jakal Clark. He has P5 offers from Minnesota, Kansas, and Oregon State.

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Gophers also offered 2020 Illinois Wide Receiver Jadon Thompson. He has P5 offers from Minnesota, Illinois, and Indiana.

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i saw on tos that Hopkins is hosting 4 games on Saturday that are displaying future Gophers or players that they are recruiting. One game pits Minnehaha vs East Ridge. Suggs obviously plays for Minnehaha but they are also recruiting Ben Carlson of ER. Mods, how good is Carlson and can he play with Suggs. Other games feature DeLaSalle vs Iowa City which is led by Future Hawkeye and son of the coach McCaffery, Orono (Gopher signee Omersa) vs Armstrong and CDH vs Hopkins ( Oturu vs Badger signee Hedstrom and Nnaji who the Gophers are recruiting). Would be great to have updates on this if anyone is going.

Yeah they manage to fill the stadiums. But contact any random person from an SEC state, at random....and they won't have a clue about football. They won't know who the coach is....or anything whatsoever about football.

With Mullen on his way to Fla and Schiano on his way to Tennessee which are both extremely good hires iyam that all but locks up Frost to Nebraska imo

He inherits a 9-4 team that beat a very good Washington State team the year before with an injury and suspension riddled team.

Year 1 he complains the team isn’t good. They win 5 games to teams they would have beat with any coach and get absolutely embarrassed in their 7 losses.

Year 2 will be way way uglier than the 7 losses they had in Year 1. A 2-10 or 3-9 record is coming

Year 3. An improvement. Fans will be hoping for a bowl game and will say the program is on the rise. They end up 6-6 or 7-5 and go to a boring bowl game that no one cares about but will act excited about.

Year 4. The team will go 9-4. Exactly where they were when Fleck took over and whined about the program he took over. He then will be rumored to take an average to above average SEC or ACC school. And he will take it.

Same story. Different author. Wake me up in 2021.

INSIDE GOPHER ATHLETICS: AN EARLY START FOR BIG TEN BASKETBALL



Nov. 30, 2017

By Mark Coyle

We were all reminded what a magical place Williams Arena is last night when our men's basketball team battled a top-10 opponent in front of a raucous, sold out crowd. While we all would have preferred to see a win, fans were treated to a tough, hard-fought game between two great teams. I can't thank the fans who packed the Barn last night enough for the energy they brought to the building, and the support they showed Coach Pitino and our students.

With Wednesday's game now in the books, our team will now dip into Big Ten play with a home game against Rutgers on Sunday and a road contest against Nebraska on Tuesday. These games mark a start to the conference season several weeks earlier than previous years. They're also a sneak peek at how our men's basketball schedules will look in the future.

Two months ago, the Big Ten shared that it will move to a 20-game conference schedule for men's basketball starting next season and that early December Big Ten basketball will be a standard part of our schedule moving forward.

Adding two games to league play is a positive for everyone involved, particularly fans, who are now guaranteed another quality home game each season with the addition of another Big Ten opponent. This expanded schedule will also better protect regional rivalries, such as ours with Wisconsin and Iowa. In this new format, we will play these teams 10 times each in every six-year window, and will host each of them five times in those six seasons.

Though still an 18-game schedule this year, we will get our first taste of early December conference games this Sunday. The move up was necessary due to the Big Ten men's basketball tournament moving up a week this year.

After the experience our fans provided for our men's basketball program on Wednesday night, I hope we can usher in a new tradition, our Big Ten opener in early December, in the same fashion. I look forward to seeing many of you at the Barn for Sunday evening's game against Rutgers.

If you're interested in purchasing tickets to this Sunday's game, click here.

If you have questions or specific topics you'd like to see addressed as part of Inside Gopher Athletics, email them to icaadmin@umn.edu.

Tennessee cans their AD presumably due to circus of hiring a new FB coach and Ole Miss gets 2018 post Season ban and scholarship reduction

On the day the 2nd woman accused Franken....the Strib prints a story right under the Franken story....with the headline blaring "GOP yada-yada...."....about a Texas STATE congressman being accused of having an affair. As if a STATE legislator from Texas has anything to do with Minnesota. And as if "GOP" needed to be the first word in the headline.

Just stop and take a moment to think of the absurdity of this. Reverse it. Let's say where I used to live, Champlin MN....let's say my state legislator from Champlin had an affair. Can you imagine that being a front-page headline story in the top newspaper in Texas?

That audacity of the Stib. And the blatant disrespect for their audience. They must think their audience is so dumb that they won't notice how stupid that is.

- Washington shooting 17 shots is not good. He was better towards the end, but also had five TOs and 4 PFs. Would have liked to see Mason bringing the ball up instead.
- Murphy dominated in the first half and seemed pretty quiet in the 2nd half. I know they were double-teaming him a lot, but needed him more down the stretch.
- Coffey had a great game. Easily the MVP for the game and had an amazing shot from his seat a la Hoffarber.
- We're really going to miss Lynch next year. Finished with 12 points, 10 rebs., and 7 blocks. He also only had 1 PF, which is impressive.
- We had ZERO points from our bench on 0-1 shooting. McBrayer not playing was a big loss. This could be a major issue throughout the season.
- Our 3-point shooting is a concern. Coffey seems like the only reliable shooter there.
- Miami made big shots the whole game and our defense didn't seem too bad. Definitely some 3s that were too open. D. Vasiljevic was a thorn in our side for a stretch going 3-5 from 3. They ended up 10-25 from 3. Continues to be a concern.
- We didn't cause enough turnovers (8).
- Huell killed us with tons of dunks. Pick and roll defense questionable?
- A few calls down the stretch hurt us. Missed call against Murphy on offensive rebound and Washington out of bounds when it looked like he was in are a few that come to mind.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday unveiled measures aimed at educating the public and schoolchildren about sexism and violence against women and improving police support for victims.

During his campaign Macron, who won the presidential election in May, promised to rethink sexual politics and gender equality, which he made a national cause for his five-year mandate.

The Harvey Weinstein scandal in the United States has accelerated a rethink of attitudes towards sexual harassment in France, a country that cherishes its self-image as the land of seduction and romance.

"Let's seal a pact of equality between men and women," Macron said in a speech marking the International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women.

About violence and sexual abuse, he said: "It is essential that shame changes camp."

"Gender-based insults will be punishable by law. Offenders will face a deterrent fine," he added.

During his speech, Macron observed a minute's silence for the 123 women killed by their partner or ex-partner in 2016.

Measures announced include educating secondary school children about pornography and simplifying the system for rape and assault victims to go to the police.

Proposals that could be included in a 2018 draft law include criminalising street harassment and extending the statute of limitation for the rape of minors to 30 years from 20 years. Macron also said he was personally in favour of setting the age of sexual consent at 15. Currently France has no minimum age for sexual consent.

Planned changes to the police system include allowing victims of rape and sexual assault to make their initial complaints online, before going to a police station to bring criminal charges. Other measures include "on demand" bus stops, where women can stop a bus anywhere at night so they can get home safely.

French feminist group Osez le Féminisme said the measures were going in the right direction but must be accompanied by adequate funding.

"Without funding, any communication, training, awareness or help plan for the victims will be useless," the statement said.

France has often debated sexual harassment over the past decade following scandals involving French politicians.

Six years ago a sex scandal forced former finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn to resign as head of the International Monetary Fund, provoking a round of soul-searching in France about sexual abuse that goes undetected in the upper echelons of power.

(FRANCE 24 with REUTERS)

http://www.france24.com/en/20171125...tive-combat-sexual-violence-harassment-france

Gopher 2018 commits: Gabe Kalscheur and Jarvis Omersa

2019 targets: Matthew Hurt, Tyrell Terry, Zeke Nnaji

2020 targets: Ben Carlson, Dawson Garcia, Jalen Suggs

Credit Doogie on the info from Twitter.

As a former offensive lineman, the term "getting separation" as applied to wide receivers is confusing to me. My thought is that the defense so disregards the abilities of the opposition that D-backs press the WRs and leaves the QB few options in the pass game.

What are the nuances of "getting separation" that I don't understand? Is it lack of respect for the WRs? Is it sloppy route running? Is it DBs being more physical at the line of scrimmage? Is it lack of physicality in the establishing of running the route on the WRs?

Please help me understand.

Link: Behind Enemy Lines: Rutgers

Every year transfers happen. It happens on EVERY team.

We are getting a couple next year. One from Florida and the other from Alabama.

That said, the guys who are leaving are opening up spots for better players.

Look at the offers the players that are leaving had. I wish them the best of luck at their future schools, but they probably should not have been recruited to a P5 school in the 1st place.

Like Fleck or not, we are getting players that other P5 schools offered as well. Kill got a few, but a few doesn't cut it in today's game.

I could give 2 craps about the stars. I want to see the real legit offers a player has. The guys leaving are being replaced by better players. It is what it is.

Again, I am not bad mouthing anyone and I hope the players leaving can find a great place to call home.

It well worth reviewing.

Assumptions: 1. Coaches selections; 2. 1st to 3rd teams; 3. Conference wins. The data indicates good players win Big Ten conference games. Data also indicates Michigan and Indiana under performed and Purdue over performed.

Team. Conf. All Conf
Wisconsin. 9. 12
Ohio State. 8. 13
Northwestern. 7. 9
Penn State. 7. 6
Michigan State. 7. 4
Michigan. 5. 9
Iowa. 4. 5
Purdue. 4. 1
Nebraska. 3. 1
Rutgers. 3. 0
Indiana. 2. 3
Maryland. 2. 1
Minnesota. 2. 0
Illinois. 2. 0

i know a lot of folks are down on Fleck and Co today, but he was “the” hot coach in last year’s cycle and the Gophers got him.

If we had waited one year and were looking this year along with 4 SEC schools, Nebraska, ASU and others what priority/caliber of coach would we have gotten?

Getting shut out twice in a row sucks, and I’m sad, but I haven’t jumped ship yet. The future may still be bright. Let’s give it a few more seasons.