Gophers 2015 football season

[bruinbison]

Connor Olson now verbals to Minnesota for 2016
adding to their early list:

Philip Howard - 5' 11" 175 lbs - Athl - (NDSU offer) (considered 5th best recruit in state)
Thomas Barber - 6' 1" 225 lbs - LB/RB - (NDSU & Purdue interest) (son of Marion Barber Jr. and brother of former Gophers Dominique and Marion Barber III)
JoJo Garcia - 6' 2" 259 lbs - DT - (Eastridge) (3 stars - Rivals)
Carter Coughlin - 6' 4" 205 lbs - LB - (Eden Prairie) (3 stars - Rivals) (considered #1 recruit in state)
Sean Foster - 6' 8" 285 lbs - OL - Mundelein Illinois - (4 stars Rivals)
Sam Schlueter - 6' 6" 272 lbs - OL/DL - Mayer Lutheran HS (Wisky and Sparty (Mich State) offers, among others, Rivals 3 stars)
Connor Olson - 6' 5" 270 lbs - OL - Monticello (NDSU interest)

[bruinbison]

A few springtime articles on the Gophers

Freshman Jones holds importance in Minnesota push for top spot in West.....

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/...golden-gophers

Big Ten's top five freshman breakout players.....

Yep, RB/slotback/WR Jeff Jones again

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/...eakout-players

Spring breakout player: Minnesota Golden Gophers.....

Hank Epke - 6' 5" 244 lbs - DE - Soph

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/...er-minnesota-3

[SDbison]

Who cares about Goophers football recruits..........In the Big Ten the Goofs will remain insignificant in football. When was the last time they won the conference or won a bowl game?

[BlueBisonRock]

Who cares about Goophers football recruits..........In the Big Ten the Goofs will remain insignificant in football. When was the last time they won the conference or won a bowl game?

Things they are a changing!

Yep SD, some of us Bison fans also do want to see the Gophs do well. Got ties to the institution because of kids, little league, and a graduate degree. And Kill is getting them there.

Head to head? Bison!

[bruinbison]

It's not like I slipped the Minnesota Gophers recruiting news into a Bison football thread discussion.

This is way over here in the Division I/FCS news. So yes, the Gophs are my 2nd fave team.
Now, if you are strictly looking for NDSU recruiting news, this does affect that.
My 2cents worth is that Connor Olson is exactly the type recruit Tim Brewster would have overlooked,
Olson had no stars on rivals, but Jerry Kill sees potential in the guy (as did NDSU).
So the bad news for the Bison is that Olson verbaled to the Gophers.
The good news is the 6' 8" 4 star recruit from Illinois. That is good news for the Bison, especially with
Foster being from out-of-state. That's one more scholly Kill won't use on a Minnesota kid,
or a James Johannesson from Fargo South (Brew would've overlooked him too).
And back to Bison recruiting, bisonation.info reporting OL Dillon Radunz from Becker being offered by NDSU
is interesting, as he already has an offer from Coach Bohl and Wyoming.
So to bore you further, Wyoming is showing up on 19 Minnesota high school players' interest page so far.
Maybe NDSU rarely wins a head-to-head recruiting battle against the Gophers, but the Cowboys
were a different story in the 2015 class. (5-2 in favor of the Bison, IIRC)
Hey, there's an idea, I'll start a Wyoming recruiting thread next...........

[WildBill]

Who cares about Goophers football recruits..........In the Big Ten the Goofs will remain insignificant in football. When was the last time they won the conference or won a bowl game?

Hmm.. Experts feel differently. Even Glen Mason expects them to win the west this year.

[SDbison]

Ha ha Goophers will choke and lose. You should go to the goopherhole to get your fix. Doubt a goopher fan over there who happens to be a Bison fan too could start a "Bison 2015 Football" thread and get little or no negative comments.

[El_Chapo]

Keep the gopher info coming, lots of Minnesota in state kids staying there.

Besides A) They will NEVER play NDSU again
B) a better gopher program has them going after 4-5 star kids leaving the 2-3's for NDSU!

[unbison]

Ha ha Goophers will choke and lose. You should go to the goopherhole to get your fix. Doubt a goopher fan over there who happens to be a Bison fan too could start a "Bison 2015 Football" thread and get little or no negative comments.

So it's ok to make shitty comments because others do it?
That's awesome 12 year old logic as good job

[scottietohottie]

Lol at goophers that should be the name of thread.