On Monday, I posted that Wilson was visiting today or Thursday and he ended up visiting today. Wilson was on campus for about two and a half hours and just left in the last hour. The visit went very well. His point of contact before was Sherels, so he got to talk to Miller today. Miller and Wilson spent a lot of time together and really connected. Wilson also spent some time with Sherels and I think the new GA, Coach Grimes (could be wrong on Grimes, though).

Like I said before, last I heard was that no more in-state offers will be extended until camp season but that could change. Miller told Eric that he really liked his film but that Claeys makes the final decisions. Claeys is currently out of town for a Nike event, but I'm sure he's seen Wilson's film before.

Eric really likes Minnesota. His family grew up rooting for the Gophers and went to games occasionally. He has a 33 ACT and 4.0 GPA so academics will be important in his decision, so a school like Northwestern would be a big threat. He's visiting Iowa State and Michigan State coming up. I've been saying that his Iowa State offer was from their old staff but I'm wrong about that. It was Campbell's staff that offered him.

I'll have a full story on Wilson later.

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Just like that Iowa is no longer in first place, however Wisconsin is all of a sudden 10-5. I can't believe how much Wiscy has improved throughout the course of the season, they are on fire right now after losing to some bad non-conference teams. Do you think Gard will be given the job at year's end as a result of this? For Iowa, they're all in this year as they start 4 seniors and 1 jr, whereas Wisconsin has everyone returning next year. Was really hoping to see a crash and burn season for the Badgers after losing their HC, but it looks like they just keep on rolling and will be really good next year.

Its sure is getting ugly, I wonder if Butch survives

They sure do love him!
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nca...o-much-fun/ar-BBpZAsJ?li=BBnba9I&ocid=U218DHP

"Georgia coach ......is barking up the wrong tree"

Harbaugh not doing anything wrong, and you can see as a recruit how it would be exciting to have a "spring break" practice. Pretty inventive....but the writer is wetting his pants gushing about it.

Minnesota offered four-star Maine South (Ill.) guard Kevin Jarvis today. I know he's been on Minnesota's radar for a while as he was on my 2017 Big Board, but I'm not sure how much contact he's had with the staff. He also holds offers from Arkansas, Auburn, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi State, Rutgers, Syracuse, and a couple MAC schools.

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Michigan State: Mark Dantonio has signed a new contract, increasing his compensation from $3.67M to $4.3M. Michigan State has also added $250,000 to the assistant pool. Read more here.

https://wisconsin.n.rivals.com/news/coach-fenton-chose-wisconsin-over-host-of-big-ten-schools-

Iowa took a QB in '16 class, Bucky a LB and now this kid

75 minute drive from campus

Posted my post game article and make sure to read about what Jordan says about Joey King. Another sign that this team plays for one another which is a special thing considering the record.

https://minnesota.n.rivals.com/news/two-in-a-row--4

The lady gophers beat OSU 90-88 in OT.
Maybe there is still a chance for the big dance.

Beat OSU 90-88 in OT

big win.

Contract extension? We don't want to lose him to another school.

This list goes back 5 years to 2010. Color me surprised we're not on it. The early days of Kill and Co. were battles against WMU, EMU, Buffalo, etc. I guess we must have won those battles...

Unfortunately there are a few B1G teams in here...

http://www.sbnation.com/college-foo...-worst-teams-power-five-mid-major-conferences

tracey will be in studio with pat Reusse tomorrow from 4-5 on 1500 ESPN.

Claeys said Hall has been moved to OL. When did I miss this move? Never thought he had the explosion to play DL

The Gophers asked Benilde-St. Margaret's guard Eric Wilson to visit either Wednesday or Thursday, and I believe he'll visit Wednesday. Last I heard, there will be no more in-state offers extended until the staff can make evaluations at camp. So I don't anticipate an offer to be extended but stranger things have happened. Wilson's film has the look of a power five player. He holds offers from a handful of MAC and FCS schools and was offered by the old Iowa State staff.

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This is a very exciting time for Gopher football with the slew of commitments these past few days in addition to returning players and the previous commits in the 2016 class. My hope is that the new OC actually plays the guys on offense with the most talent and ability and structures the personnel packages this way too, because I truly think we have some playmakers ready on offense. Defensive Line is extremely concerning to me with lack of talent/depth. Let me know what you guys think!

Offense:
QB: Leidner/Croft
RB: Brooks/Smith
TE: Lingen/Hart
TE-Y: Plsek/Anyanwu
WR: Gentry/Holland
WR: Snelson/Woli
WR: Still/Jeff Jones
LT: A. Mayes/Connelly
LG: Calhoun/Wright
C: Moore/Bobek?
RG: C. Mayes/Wright
RT: Pirsig/Oseland

Defense:
DE: H. Ekpe/Kafo
DT: Richardson/Stelter
DT: Jackson/S. Ekpe
DE: Elmore/DeLattiboudere
OLB: Lynn/Huff
MLB: Poock/Williams
OLB: Celestin/Coughlin
CB: Myrick/Buford
S: Rogers/Ayinde
S: Travis/Dior Johnson
CB: Hardin/Shenault

You guys can call me crazy but I think this win gave this team a ton of confidence and I honestly think they will win at least three more games this year. I just feel that way because of the way they have fought and battled. And I believe there are some good young players turning the corner.

I feel they will have a real shot to win the 13/12 game

I feel they have a shot at Illinois.

I feel that the Barn will be wild when they play Wisconsin and they will play as hard as ever

I feel they have a strong shot to win in NJ.

And I really feel they will play well tonight.

And I feel these late wins will boost them into the off-season in a nice way.

Here is my game preview.

https://minnesota.n.rivals.com/news/rutgers-preview-6

you have to buy the 9.95/MO B1G Ten Plus package to see Kelsey Mitchell and Rachel Banham go head to head tonight at the Barn.
BTN opt for the men's Northwestern/ Michigan game. Bummer.....

is being sold to recruits as a reason not come here. The competition is reminding the recruits of that game. It was the 3rd coldest game in history.

I kind of laughed.

Our season is over at home in November, not January.

"Junior college transfer Garrison Wright, an expected starter at guard, could move to tackle opposite Jonah Pirsig, depending how tackle competition shakes out, Claeys said. But Claeys did note how well redshirt freshman tackle Nick Connelly has looked in offseason workouts."

Thought you might be interested.

Illinois 201
Michigan 194
Nebraska 163
Maryland 138
Indiana 131
Penn St 108
Rutgers 107
Ohio St 105
Wisconsin 99
MSU 83
Iowa 72
NW 48
Purdue 46
Minn 28
Note: Michigan has offered 28 Offensive Tackles alone!

Does this picture disturb anyone else?
Is this part of the reason we usually rank among the bottom 4 in the Big Ten in recruiting and most years struggle to fill out (and have to rely on plan B and C players)
Comments appreciated

Did AZJ and co. play it smart by going in bunker mode until we stopped complaining about it? Wait for a few days to go by and next thing you know we're back to arguing about Pitino as a coach, who starts at OL next year, and boom the lemmings move on! Good PR move or bad? Since there was no apology(MJH doesn't count) with free stuff included, did they save money or will it be a long-term hit to the books?. Were there a bunch of hallow threats at the time or has the number of us on this site dropped?

What's your business take on it? I'm so fascinated with the hoops storyline, RJ's amount of engagement in the discussions, along with the Opie 5 year plan, that I'm locked into the site so I was one of the loud complainers that did nothing about it.

Just came across a couple of Gopher football games on youtube. They are against Washington State from 1965 and 1971. The 71 game is in color and both games were played at Memorial Stadium. WSU is digitizing their football library I wish the main U would do theirs.