Golden Nugz - 07.29.10
by GopherNation on Jul 29, 2010 8:29 AM CDT
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PrintTim Brewster has added another commitment, this time he went back to the familiar Dallas Skyline High School campus.
Mike Moore is a linebacker who visited Minnesota this week and has verbally committed to play for the Gophers.
Moore did not originally plan to commit this early on. "I really did not head up to Minnesota with the intention of committing. I knew that I liked the coaches and I had a good feeling about Minnesota, but I did not think I would love it as much as I do. I was not going to commit right away, but after seeing everything and meeting everyone I had no reason not to commit so I jumped on it and committed."
As I'm sure most of you know the Gophers have been to Skyline before and Moore is continuing this little pipeline.
When he arrives on campus, Moore will be the fifth Skyline Raider wearing the Maroon and Gold. "I am really excited to get up there and play with my guys from Skyline. I talk to Coop (Keanon Cooper) all the time. He loves Minnesota and worked on me really hard to come up. I talk with all those guys and they always have great things to say about Minnesota. They all had a big influence on my decision to come to Minnesota."
Moore currently does not have any guru-stars but he did have offers from a few other BCS schools (Kansas St, Kentucky and Iowa State. He currently plays DE but will be a LB for the Gophers.
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LBs
That is 4 LBs in this class so far. With no senior LBs on the roster, I would think that we should be set a linebacker (as far as recruiting) for the next couple years.
by MinnesotaCatFan on Jul 29, 2010 11:02 AM CDT reply actions
In Dallas
Skyline is a top football program year after year…getting kids out of TX is not easy…let alone from Skyline…a bit impressed.
agreed
we aren’t getting their premier players (Nelson last year, Wallace this year) but we are getting some good players and at least building a reputation there.
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by GopherNation on Jul 29, 2010 8:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Well these quotes are a good start...
“I knew that I liked the coaches and I had a good feeling about Minnesota, but I did not think I would love it as much as I do. "
“I talk to Coop (Keanon Cooper) all the time. He loves Minnesota and worked on me really hard to come up. I talk with all those guys and they always have great things to say about Minnesota. "
I guess the “reputation” would be that guys love Minnesota?
"they're calling insane hogs???"
So far it seems like all Skyline kids are having very good experiences
At the very least all of them will be significant contributors in the SO / JR seasons. Brewster stuck with Reeves through his academic issues, gave McKnight a chance that no other schools did, Cooper was a key sub in his SO year and Stoudermire was given KR duties as a true freshman.
The more players who come here and have a good experience will relay that experience back to their Skyline coaches and players. Brewster’s message is one thing but when it is backed up by 4 or 5 players who used to play at Skyline it is validated. Ultimately it is much easier to get into Skyline households after several kids have been here, contributed and hopefully win than it is to get a kid from any other HS in Texas that has never sent a kid to MN.
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by GopherNation on Jul 30, 2010 9:53 AM CDT up reply actions
to add
They kind of are big fish in a little pond. They feel needed and wanted by the Big 10 teams outside of OSU and might not get that kind of attention going to Oklahoma, Texas, TT or A&M. Their experience is great at MN…they get treated well and get a chance to play at a major college level…you can make the pros out of MN fairly easily if you are good enough. And they see the likes of Marion Barber crushing guys for the Cowboys down here in Dallas and see you can play for MN and be a big part of a team like the Boys…
by DallasGopher on Jul 30, 2010 2:27 PM CDT up reply actions
Lets just say
If your starting a college hockey team and you had to recruit form the US states that play hockey you would be darn happy to pull 2nd tier recruits from MN than just about any other state. A couple could turn out to be gems and at the very least they are steady in their positions for a couple years. Thats kind of what we are doing out of TX…we might not be getting their top flight players, but there are only so many roster spots in the big 12 or whatever it is now…and if we can take some of those 2nd tier kids to MN I would much prefer that over 2nd tier MN or even Midwest football players. Same holds true for Florida and California…just the size of the states and the amount of kids. There are quite a few good MN college hockey players not playing for the Gophers and not even in the state of MN…we all see it each week in the WCHA..CC, WI, Den etc have some decent hockey players out of MN high schools each year….some even escape the master eye of our own Gopher recruiters and would have looked nice with the M on their sweater.
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