I just checked out the usually lame gophersports.com and they have some new videos they are posting around Spring practice. Seriously, if you're not excited for football season or the start of the Jerry Kill era - please watch these immediately...and you will be ready to go out and take someones head off.
Day 1
http://www.gophersports.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?&db_oem_id=8400&id=762422&DB_MENU_ID=&SPSID=&SPID=&DB_OEM_ID=8400
Coaches Profile
http://www.gophersports.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?&db_oem_id=8400&id=763912&DB_MENU_ID=&SPSID=&SPID=&DB_OEM_ID=8400
Paste these links in your browser, if that doesn't work go to gophersports.com and you'll see them on the front page. They are called webisodes and they are awesome.
Go Gophs!!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
It's been nearly 4 weeks...
So it's been nearly 4 weeks since the last post on the Football Challenge blog. I've switched categories at work and become infinitely more busy for the time being. But there is too much going on to go any longer with some kind of communicado.
1. MM Pool - 4 men entered, and I will keep the cash. Final tally:
JR-67
AW-64
JG-61
SS-61
JG was the only one to even hit 1 F4 team, but he had UConn losing so no more points are possible. Thanks to all of you that made the trip a couple of Saturdays ago - tons of fun as always. I think the next event will be the June golf outing, when we're all getting amped up for football season!!
2. SPRING PRACTICE!!
3 days of Spring ball down for the Gophs. All practices are open to the public this year - a nice touch when you are trying to get more people interested. The Gophs have also made the switch to KFAN for their Saturday broadcasts, which shouldn't hurt their coverage either. So far with Spring ball the headlines have been as follows:
a) Marquies "Q" Gray will be the QB - he's the most advanced on the new schemes and overall ability - physical and mental.
b) Jerry takes no shit from anyone. It sounds like a night and day difference from what the Brew Crew looked like during practice the last 4 years...this is a good thing. Kill sprints around the field encouraging and teaching in a high energy mode all the team. Everything is detailed and fast to get the right pace and the most out of every minute of practice. Bottom line - this is what a real football coach does, which we haven't seen around here in a while.
c) Minnesota Loafers - Kill hammers the guys that aren't giving max effort at all times, so far only 2 are wearing these "Loafer" shirts throughout practice...Michael Carter, not a shock, and a young OL named Eggen. It sounds like during practice these guys don't even really participate and just push around a sled and do brutal drills the whole time - that should be enough motivation to put in the effort I guess.
d) We are slow. Jerry said it after about 2 days of off-season conditioning, we are slow and need to get faster everywhere. I think that is priority #1 beyond learning the schemes this Spring.
e) Spring game is APR 23rd - come check it out. I know there are tickets still available for some of you loyal Purple guys. Odds are we will not see much from that club this year so pick up some Gopher tix, come find us in the tailgating lot, and jump on this bandwagon before it's full in about 3 years!!
JG is heading to VEGAS for a week - be sure to send him every tip you have so the guy can come back with more money than he left with for once in his life!!
Hopefully work will be quieting down over the next few weeks and I'll be sending out more garbage like this.
1. MM Pool - 4 men entered, and I will keep the cash. Final tally:
JR-67
AW-64
JG-61
SS-61
JG was the only one to even hit 1 F4 team, but he had UConn losing so no more points are possible. Thanks to all of you that made the trip a couple of Saturdays ago - tons of fun as always. I think the next event will be the June golf outing, when we're all getting amped up for football season!!
2. SPRING PRACTICE!!
3 days of Spring ball down for the Gophs. All practices are open to the public this year - a nice touch when you are trying to get more people interested. The Gophs have also made the switch to KFAN for their Saturday broadcasts, which shouldn't hurt their coverage either. So far with Spring ball the headlines have been as follows:
a) Marquies "Q" Gray will be the QB - he's the most advanced on the new schemes and overall ability - physical and mental.
b) Jerry takes no shit from anyone. It sounds like a night and day difference from what the Brew Crew looked like during practice the last 4 years...this is a good thing. Kill sprints around the field encouraging and teaching in a high energy mode all the team. Everything is detailed and fast to get the right pace and the most out of every minute of practice. Bottom line - this is what a real football coach does, which we haven't seen around here in a while.
c) Minnesota Loafers - Kill hammers the guys that aren't giving max effort at all times, so far only 2 are wearing these "Loafer" shirts throughout practice...Michael Carter, not a shock, and a young OL named Eggen. It sounds like during practice these guys don't even really participate and just push around a sled and do brutal drills the whole time - that should be enough motivation to put in the effort I guess.
d) We are slow. Jerry said it after about 2 days of off-season conditioning, we are slow and need to get faster everywhere. I think that is priority #1 beyond learning the schemes this Spring.
e) Spring game is APR 23rd - come check it out. I know there are tickets still available for some of you loyal Purple guys. Odds are we will not see much from that club this year so pick up some Gopher tix, come find us in the tailgating lot, and jump on this bandwagon before it's full in about 3 years!!
JG is heading to VEGAS for a week - be sure to send him every tip you have so the guy can come back with more money than he left with for once in his life!!
Hopefully work will be quieting down over the next few weeks and I'll be sending out more garbage like this.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
March Madness & Cards
WHAT: March Madness viewing/gambling party
WHERE: My house (Chanhassen, MN)
WHEN: March 19th - SATURDAY (times TBD)
Bring your cash and some booze and let's wish the winter away together. I'm expecting a lot of cards to be thrown and plenty of side action on the numerous hoops games that Saturday (8-2nd round games running throughout the day).
Put it on your calendar - I'll send out more specifics when I have them. Hope you can make it.
WHERE: My house (Chanhassen, MN)
WHEN: March 19th - SATURDAY (times TBD)
Bring your cash and some booze and let's wish the winter away together. I'm expecting a lot of cards to be thrown and plenty of side action on the numerous hoops games that Saturday (8-2nd round games running throughout the day).
Put it on your calendar - I'll send out more specifics when I have them. Hope you can make it.
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