Minnesota Golden Gophers (official thread)

[ORD_Buckeye]

Pretty hard to stand up in a row boat.

Please let them have a hooker scandal up there, so the Boats N Hoes jokes can commence

 

[cjmik_75]

Yes, fuck these cock suckers.

P.J. Fleck is an annoying, twitchy little douchebag.

Fuck him, fuck Dave Winfield, fuck Bill Musselman and fuck Minnesota forever.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Pretty hard to stand up in a row boat.

Please let them have a hooker scandal up there, so the Boats N Hoes jokes can commence

All the hoes tried to stand up in the row boat and fell out.

 

[Buckeye86]

I think I understand the concept of “rowing the boat” and how it helps a team.

I do not understand how that framing device somehow makes the concept more appealing.

Work hard, work together, make progress towards common goals.

Yep, got it, thank you. Can we stop talking about boats so much now?

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

I think I understand the concept of “rowing the boat” and how it helps a team.

I do not understand how that framing device somehow makes the concept more appealing.

Work hard, work together, make progress towards common goals.

Yep, got it, thank you. Can we stop talking about boats so much now?

I like boats.

 

[AJHawkfan]

I like boats.

 

[Jagdaddy]

I think I understand the concept of “rowing the boat” and how it helps a team.

I do not understand how that framing device somehow makes the concept more appealing.

Work hard, work together, make progress towards common goals.

Yep, got it, thank you. Can we stop talking about boats so much now?

Maybe "Dutch the Rudder" or something would have more pizzazz .... Oh wait, we're not talking about scUM?

 

[Zurp]

Fuck him, fuck Dave Winfield, fuck Bill Musselman and fuck Minnesota forever.

I knew about the fight and I knew that Dave Winfield was part of that team. I didn't know anything about Bill Musselman. So I looked him up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Musselman#University_of_Minnesota_(NCAA)

The 1972 team was tarnished by a brawl against The Ohio State Buckeyes, where several Minnesota players assaulted the Ohio State players at the end of the game.

Musselman's tenure at Minnesota was tainted after an incident during the 1971-72 season when Taylor and Behagen assaulted Ohio State center Luke Witte. The attack on Witte came near the end of the Gophers-Buckeyes game. Witte was seriously injured, taken off the court on a stretcher and hospitalized with injuries, including to an eye, that negatively impacted his basketball career. Two other Ohio State players were also hospitalized as a result of the brawl.[2]

Musselman maintained that he had nothing to do with the incident. Still, critics claimed he had stirred his players into a frenzy before the game that night and encouraged overly aggressive play. A September 1, 1985, article in The New York Times described Musselman's Gophers as "an extremely physical basketball team."

Sense of fairness[edit]
According to former CBA coach Charley Rosen, Musselman possessed an "admirable sense of fairness." In an ESPN.com article,[5] Rosen describes a scene after a game between Rosen's CBA team and Musselman's Tampa Bay club:

"We were involved in a tight game at Tampa Bay. Late in the fourth quarter, one of the refs called three charging fouls on my best player, Cedric Henderson, and the Thrillers eventually won on a buzzer-beating shot by the late 'Fast' Eddie Jordan. Instead of celebrating his victory, Bill followed the refs off the court to their locker room, screaming that they had 'screwed Charley out of the win.' He continued to kick and pound his fists on the closed locker room door, raging for another 10 minutes. 'If I can't win a game fairly, then I'd rather lose.'"

I have a lot of trouble believing that last quoted section.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

It's not just rowing boats...

PJ Fleck on why he's got fake geese all around the place:

“Geese fly in a ‘V.’ And we’re talking about developing leadership. There’s a lot of people here that don’t have experience that are expected to lead. They haven’t done that led alone lead a Division One football program in the Big Ten. And so the goose at the front of the V, that’s the one that has to work the hardest. The geese to the sides are the ones that draft them. The loudest geese are the ones at the back because they’re encouraging everyone else to continue to fly. If one goose happens to leave the flock, another goose leaves with him. There’s no man or goose left behind.

“And so we talked about we’re going to take turns at the front leading this football team. And that’s what the geese are for. They’re around everywhere — sometimes they’re the only things I get to talk to.”

 

[colobuck79]

What a great way to relate to 18 year olds.

 

[CFPBuckeye]

Great. That’s a lot of scholarship players shitting on my car.

 

[CFPBuckeye]

I looked up this morning while coming back home, saw the most fucked up V I’ve ever seen. Thought of you, Minnesota.

 

[zincfinger]

Pretty hard to stand up in a row boat.

Not harder than standing up during a seizure.

Now where the hell is my Classy Post Award?

 

[babybuck]

Not harder than standing up during a seizure.

Now where the hell is my Classy Post Award?

Hey, try gunneling a canoe (stand with one foot on the top of each side then bounce to propel the canoe forward). Something I could (45 to 50 years ago).

 

[bukIpower]

I won't lie...

Just looked through their spring depth chart and damn they return everyone from a team that gave us issues.

They will challenge for the west crown IMO.