Red Five

Was here over the weekend.  He's in Knoxville now and will be in Waco later this week.

2nd year in a row he set up a visit with us and then committed elsewhere before making it to campus

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

Oh boy. 

 

This is him just officially leaving Iowa to go back to Alabama that was reported a month or so ago.

17 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Where is he from originally?

 

 

His grandparents were born in Nebraska.

Removing Worster (Nebraska) and Hickman (Cincinnati)

Known players we are after (we have visited or they have been on/will be on campus):

SF Frankie Fidler Sr Omaha

PF William Kyle Jr South Dakota St

PF/C Pharrel Payne Jr Minnesota

SF Joshua Ola-Joseph Jr Minnesota

C Malique Ewin Jr JUCO/Ole Miss

SG/SF Gavin Griffiths So Rutgers

PF John Hugley Sr Oklahoma

C Igor Milicic Sr Charlotte

8/13 scholarships filled

Seniors (5): Gary, Mast, Ulis, Williams, Morgan, Worster

Juniors (0):

Sophomores (0): 

Freshmen (2): Frager, Janowski

*Hoiberg is a junior walk-on

1 hour ago, SouthLincoln Husker said:

They fit offensively, but they don't seem real athletic.

Because they’re white?

Things looking good for both Worster and Griffiths.  Washut put in CBs for both

Added a few to the list.  Known players we are after (we have visited or they have been on/will be on campus):

SF Frankie Fidler Sr Omaha

PF William Kyle Jr South Dakota St

SG Connor Hickman Sr Bradley

PF/C Pharrel Payne Jr Minnesota

SF Joshua Ola-Joseph Jr Minnesota

C Malique Ewin Jr JUCO/Ole Miss

SG/SF Gavin Griffiths So Rutgers

PG Rollie Worster Sr Utah

PF John Hugley Sr Oklahoma

C Igor Milicic Sr Charlotte

Tranfer Portal opens today and runs through April 30th.

On 4/10/2024 at 9:53 AM, Mike Mcdee said:

Heard this morning that Frankie will be announcing on Monday on 1620 with Gary. Sounds like he has a list of 4, but it really is down to CU and Nebraska. 

No Fidler announcement this morning.  Needs more time.

He was also in East Lansing over the weekend.

13 minutes ago, The Murphinator said:

 

We went after this guy last year, right?  Looks like he averaged 8 and 4 at OU last year coming off the bench.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/john-hugley-1.html

Online chatter saying that Utah PG Rollie Worster is on campus today.  He has one year of eligibility left and looks like he was hurt the last half of this past season.  Not a great shooter (career 29% from 3), but has averaged 5.2 assists and 1.9 turnovers the last 2 years.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/rollie-worster-1.html

8 hours ago, I am I said:

Punt returners or punt catchers? 
I hope they return some punts. 

Punt returns aren't really a thing in modern football.  Only 7 teams returned 2 or more punts per game.  40 teams returned less than 1 punt/game.

Nebraska was pretty average in the amount of punt returns at 1.3 per game (tied for 42nd with 19 other teams).

Now what we did with those punt returns was pretty much dog poop and needs to improve greatly.  We averaged 3 yards/return, good for 124th.

12 hours ago, Mavric said:

 

247

The vast majority of holds don't get called anymore, so I would basically be teaching how to get away with holding.  But I am also just a guy sitting on my couch.

He had knee surgery for "clean-up" right before Christmas and missed a couple of weeks.  You could tell the last couple weeks of the season it was affecting him as he looked like he was laboring when he went up and down the court.

And this is who I think are the known players we are after (we have visited or they have been on/will be on campus):

SF Frankie Fidler Sr Omaha

PF William Kyle Jr South Dakota St

SG Connor Hickman Sr Bradley

PF/C Pharrel Payne Jr Minnesota

SF Joshua Ola-Joseph Jr Minnesota

C Malique Ewin Jr JUCO/Ole Miss

SG/SF Gavin Griffiths So Rutgers

7/13 scholarships filled

Seniors (5): Gary, Mast, Ulis, Williams, Morgan

Juniors (0):

Sophomores (0): 

Freshmen (2): Frager, Janowski

*Hoiberg is a junior walk-on

(I was out of town a week for spring break and wasn't following close, so let me know if this isn't correct)

.169???  Yikes.  Thankfully no one was hurt.

There goes her NIL car, not that she will be able to drive it for the next year anyways.

Hopefully a lesson learned for her and everyone else on the team.

2 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

If this goes through, years from now, fans looking at stats and records will only really be able to compare in the “super league era”. 
 

As far as records and stats, anything before that becomes meaningless. 

Comparing stats and records now is pretty much meaningless.  In the 70s, 80s, and 90s, teams only played 11 games and bowl games didn't count towards official stats.  Now everyone plays 12 games and bowl game stats count.

And until the mid-70s freshmen couldn't play.  And now we'll have a 5 year window due to Covid where you will have guys who play for 5 years.

U of MN built a new stadium 15 years ago and was paid for 40% by the State of Minnesota and 60% by the University.  It only cost $300M (in 2009 dollars), but seats just 50k.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington_Bank_Stadium

Stadium proposal

The push for a new on-campus stadium for Golden Gopher football began in the fall of 2000. The university cited poor revenue and lack of a college football atmosphere at the off-campus Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome as their main reasons for wanting to move back on campus.[13][14] A plan for a joint Minnesota Vikings/University of Minnesota football stadium was proposed in 2002, but differences over how the stadium would be designed and managed, as well as state budget constraints, led to the plan's failure.[15] In September 2003 a highly publicized attempt was made by T. Denny Sanford to be the lead donor for the project, but in early 2004 the plan fell through when the two parties were unable to come to an agreement on the financial terms.[16] The university unveiled preliminary stadium drawings and a general plan to seek state money and donations in December 2003. On March 24, 2005, the university and TCF Bank announced a deal that would have the bank contribute $35 million towards the project which would give them naming rights.[17] The deal was given an expiration date of December 31, 2005; time enough for the Minnesota Legislature to provide the bulk of funding needed to make the project a reality.[18]

During the remainder of 2005 the university concentrated on drafting a stadium proposal that would draw the support of state politicians. The final plan proposed that the state of Minnesota would contribute 40% of the stadium cost while the university would raise the remaining 60% on its own. Portions of that 60% were to be funded by the TCF naming rights, while the remainder would come from a $50 per semester student fee, private donations, the sale of 2,840 acres (11.5 km2) of university land in rural Dakota County back to the state, and game day parking revenue.[17] Even though the university proposal drew widespread legislative support, the stadium effort suffered a setback when the 2005 legislative session ended before the stadium bill could be heard.[19] Late in 2005 when it became evident that this would happen, the university and TCF Bank announced that it had extended the naming rights deal to June 30, 2006.[18]

Despite the 2005 session having ended with the bill not coming to a vote, the stadium effort did not lose momentum in the legislature and was introduced quickly in the 2006 session. On April 6, 2006, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed the stadium bill on a 103–30 vote.[20] The house bill was nearly identical to what the university was proposing and had full university support.[21] However, on May 9, 2006, the Minnesota Senate passed a radically different version of the bill on a 34–32 vote.[22] The Senate version would have removed the TCF naming rights deal, the student fees, and the purchase of the university owned land. The proposed funding that was removed was to be replaced with a statewide tax on sports memorabilia. It also would have required the stadium to be named Veterans Memorial Stadium (similar to the previous on-campus football stadium Memorial Stadium, which was last used in 1981 and demolished in 1992).[11] Governor Tim Pawlenty stated he supported the House version.[23] He signed the bill in May 2006 at the University of Minnesota McNamara Alumni Center.[24]

Legislative approval 2006

Even though the differences between the House and Senate bills were major, the details were ironed out and approved on May 19, in a House–Senate conference committee. The naming rights and land sale remained in the bill, as did a scaled down $25 per year student fee. The tax on sports memorabilia as well as the Veterans Memorial Stadium name were voted out. The committee also voted to increase the state contribution to the project to compensate for the smaller student fees.[25] The compromise bill was then approved by both the full house and senate on May 20, and was signed by Governor Tim Pawlenty on May 24.[26][27][28]