http://www.twincities.com/2017/11/2...four-more-on-senior-day-versus-wisconsin/amp/

I can confirm Greder's report that Everett Williams, Melvin Holland Jr., Will Reger, and Logan McElfresh will all walk today.

Thank you to all of them for their time in Minnesota!

That also frees up two scholarships for the 2018 class (class is still projected to add three more, that doesn't change).

Glad our new HC wears sparkly clothes and doesn't wear a sweatshirt like Chryst does and Claeys did

Confirmed that Rashad Still is no longer with the team.

I hope this guy is in Fleck's sites. Forty-six touchdowns, over two thousand yards. He doesn't run; he glides. Weighs around 220, still fast. He's only a junior, though. He scored five rushing touchdowns yesterday and another one on a kickoff return that was supposed to be a pooch kick. He made Elk River look bad; they're actually pretty good.

leads the Toronto Argo(naut)s to a CFL Championship in the 105th Grey Cup game today. This is his 3rd Grey Cup as head coach. Led the Argos from worse to first.

Looking for updated lists. Still won't be back, neither is Croft.

Will probably lose a few more of our current players, usually backups.

Will probably have some recruits struggle with grades/admissions.

So does that mean our staff is aggressively recruiting another 8 to 10 players?

I am still wondering why Moorehead at Penn State and Brent Venables at Clemson are not being pursued more publically as assistants for head coaching opportunities. Maybe both have already said they arent interested in leaving their present positions, I dont know.... Heck, Moorehead had a successful run for a few years as head coach at Fordham...Venables is from Kansas originally so I thought he may be at a point in his career that he wants a head coaching job back in the plains or even in the SEC. Turned down numerous head coaching opportunities in the past and may be satisfied to work the rest of his career as a top flight assistant..

I heard that if the Mississippi jobs opened up that geographically, it would make sense to get Mike Norvell from Memphis, which is on the Mississippi border..Or maybe former Memphis coach, Justin Fuente who is at Virginia Tech.. Gus Malzahn has a team that has a great chance at making the college football playoffs at Auburn since they have beaten Alabama yet he may want to go home to Arkansas in the same conference... Kinda strange to me, really to go from a school that potentially can win the national championship to a rebuild but it is "home"... Neal Brown at Troy has to be foaming at the mouth as I am sure he would be under consideration to move up to the Auburn job if Malzahn leaves. Brown was OC at Kentucky and has had decent offenses at Troy, which is in Alabama. I have even heard from a person who I dont think has much credibility that Bielema could go to Iowa State if Matt Campbell takes on a bigger job..One thing I am pretty sure is that Nebraska will be the only Big Ten team to change head coaches this off season. Schiano and Mullen are good hires at Tennessee and Florida, in my opinion. McElwain will probably go back out west somewhere, at some point..Butch Jones may end up at a smaller school, perhaps a MAC school. These 2 big hires in the SEC should start the dominoes falling, so this is going to be quite a ride to sort out wild rumors and actual hires.

Cryptic post on twitter. @Littlefinger. Maybe you could post it. Not sure technology wise how to. Doubt he comes here but worth talking about

what did Fleck learn most ya think?

52-26, what a flop

Good grief, not everybody can be Bama

Interested to hear the thoughts from those in attendance.

and the Vols boards are apoplectic

I think I’m fine with PJ Fleck

2-3 years ago the discussion was that many sports, Men's and Women's, the Head Coach had some kind of attendance clause in their contracts. Not sure which, but maybe Football, Basketball, Volleyball and Hockey?

If so, does anybody have an idea what the attendance clause is in Fleck's contract?

I resisted the urge to read but I will post. Physicality. I have been attending Gopher football games for five decades. I have never seen a team as physically imposing as Wisconsin. Forget the crap about current and past coaches. We don’t have players that look like those fielded by Wisconsin on Saturday.

Am I missing any Minnesota offers (or interest) in the High School Finals? Please help fill in the blanks, will be great to take a look live on TV.

Sapp from E Prairie (but not playing)
Owatonna player (RB but do not see an offer?)
Cole Kramer EP (but probably no offer?)
Caledonia TE/Safety was mentioned in a thread
Blue Earth was upset by Pipestone, so the big lineman did not make it. (Side note, there was a kerfuffle at a party after that game, several Blue Earth Players possibly involved)

Any upcoming juniors playing that anyone can recommend?

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The influence Barry Alvarez still has over WI football is enormous. Three people have been head coaches at WI since Alvarez retired and all have won there in a big way. Two of those coaches moved (unwisely) to other jobs and one was fired by Oregon State earlier this year and the other was fried by Arkansas over the weekend.
Why hasn't MN had WI's success? Our ADs did not hire a Hayden Fry like Iowa did, a Bill Snyder like Kansas State did or an Alvarez like WI did. In college football, it's all about the head coach. MN has had some real dandies over the past fifty years.

It will take P.J. Fleck more than the year through his next full season to explain what he did during the fourth quarter of today's game with his play calling on offense. Fleck simply gave up. He provided his team very little or no chance to redeem themselves against WI in this massacre by constantly running the football and, finally, punting on fourth down with little time left in the game.
This is the second week in a row Fleck has apparently decided it was better to quit trying on offense rather than to lose by greater than the combined total of points by which they were defeated any way in the two games. Who cares if you lose by 55-0 rather than 35-0 if you don't even try? I get MN has an ineffective and injured offensive line, no wide receivers and a truly terrible quarterback. But running plays up the middle when you are down by over thirty points means you've given up. When the head coach quits, why should the players care? RTB, my ass!
Lastly, how could any offense in its right mind run a QB option against WI's 3-4 once--let alone time after time? And they ran it using one of the poorest excuses for an option QB in NCAA football history. Kill/Claeys left the cupboard bare at MN but Fleck has made a total fool out of himself and his sloganeering these last two weeks. No wonder MN has not won a championship of any kind in football for over fifty years.

Link: CJ Smith thinks 2018 class will "make history"

last time we were shut out against Sconnie. Guess this is progress

Link: EJ and Matt's preview

I will be running this thread as soon as the feed comes up on facebook live.

We are 12 days from the start of the season. Since the remaining practices are closed to the public, we have all of the info that we are going to get in order to make informed predictions for this upcoming season.

This thread will only cover the regular season (12 games total) since we don't know who the B1G championship game or bowl game opponents are (as applicable).

So let's hear your predictions!



Schedule:

• Thurs, Aug 31 Buffalo TCF Bank Stadium 6:00 PM CT
• Sat, Sep 09 at Oregon State Corvallis, Ore. 9:00 PM CT
• Sat, Sep 16 Middle Tennessee State TCF Bank Stadium 2:30 PM CT
• Sat, Sep 30 Maryland* TCF Bank Stadium TBA
• Sat, Oct 7 at Purdue* West Lafayette, Ind. TBA
• Sat, Oct 14 Michigan State* TCF Bank Stadium TBA
• Sat, Oct 21 Illinois* (Homecoming) TCF Bank Stadium 2:30 or 3:00 PM CT
• Sat, Oct 28 at Iowa* Iowa City, Iowa TBA
• Sat, Nov 4 at Michigan* Ann Arbor, Mich. TBA
• Sat, Nov 11 Nebraska* TCF Bank Stadium TBA
• Sat, Nov 18 at Northwestern* Evanston, Ill. TBA
• Sat, Nov 25 Wisconsin* TCF Bank Stadium TBA