Golden Nugz...wants YOU

some coverage of the Spring football practice. You see very little of that in the other major news outlets. I’m especially interested in the improvement (if there is some) of the offensive line. especially with more emphasis on the running attack.

…..I hope to get over for a few and I would be happy to write some stuff up. I’m also going to the Spring Football game and I plan to post something about that too.

I think you TDG guys should arrange a tour of TCF Stadium for yourselves and post about the stadium and how it will be as a game-day experience. The answer will probably be “awesome” (or would that be tremendous?) – I drove by it this past weekend and it’s a stunning facility.

recruiting updates.! I also like how some websites (gopherhole.com) have interviews of recruits. I know that may not be a possibility, but even if you are able to focus on one incoming recruit a week, kind of like a profile. Like “Who is the REAL Moses Alipate?” lol. But really, I think profiling incoming players would be a cool theme.

It’s looks like Minnesota is going to do well this college baseball season. Again, coverage is lacking. I’d like to see more of it.
And I agree with you on the recruiting rankings. I’d rather be at the spring practice and see how well they are doing, not how well they are suppose to be doing. But don’t talk with Brewster. He’ll just pump hot air. Talk to the assistants.

…perhaps set up a time in the Twin Cities where your message board posters, if interested, could get together and debate Gopher topics at a bar (those on the East Coast could participate by speakerphone?). Get an hour of material down on tape, then one of the posters could transcribe as a sort of running summer-long post. You could get a lot of material that way.

That could be expanded to during next football and basketball seasons. Perhaps the posters go to the Tim Brewster / Tubby Smith radio shows, listen to the shows, then debate talking points. This probably would work best by having someone do a roundup of the talk show, then have a follow-up post on the message board posters’ discussion.

If there is interest I’d love to do this.

Would be fine but like you said, you better be prepared for much lower response rates than you have traditionally garnered.

Story ideas (brain storms – feel free to think they suck)
- Do a 1 story recap on each MN minor sport. Might be a decent read to recap gymnastics, track, softball ….
- Where does MN stand in the Sears Cup (think it has a new name)
- Do something on “what you read” or “how you prepare for adding content”. As a fellow blogger I’d find it interesting to hear about your process for finding content
- Analysis of BTN? not sure but I’m brainstorming
- Obviously coverage of seat selection process would be good – how fast are premium going? parking..
- You could do more interviews – players, coaches, recruits, HS coaches ..