Ah, I love new Sid-Column Day. A bunch of tidbits that may or may not be entirely based on fact for us to wildly speculate.
He mentioned the University of Houston as a potential candidate to fill the September 5th, 2009, open date on our schedule for Gophers football. This seems to be a good opponent, as they have made it to 4 bowls in 5 years under Art Briles. The wildcard is they have a new coach, Kevin Sumlin, so who knows where this program will be in 09. Hopefully they are a solid, competitive team(that we beat easily, of course). Also, this allows us to go down and play in a fertile recruiting territory. Hopefully we'll have some Houston area recruits for 2010 that will come watch us play.
If Troy Calhoun and Jeff Tedford are still coaching their respective programs, then I'm thinking the 2009 non-conference schedule should be filled with some solid teams: @ Houston, Air Force, Cal, and, ugh, South Dakota State. Well, three out of four isn't bad.
In other "jottings":
He mentioned the University of Houston as a potential candidate to fill the September 5th, 2009, open date on our schedule for Gophers football. This seems to be a good opponent, as they have made it to 4 bowls in 5 years under Art Briles. The wildcard is they have a new coach, Kevin Sumlin, so who knows where this program will be in 09. Hopefully they are a solid, competitive team(that we beat easily, of course). Also, this allows us to go down and play in a fertile recruiting territory. Hopefully we'll have some Houston area recruits for 2010 that will come watch us play.
If Troy Calhoun and Jeff Tedford are still coaching their respective programs, then I'm thinking the 2009 non-conference schedule should be filled with some solid teams: @ Houston, Air Force, Cal, and, ugh, South Dakota State. Well, three out of four isn't bad.
In other "jottings":
- He erroneously lists March 25th as the date for the Gophers Football spring game. If you have access to an accurate calendar, you will see this falls on a Tuesday. The actual date is April 25th, a Friday night.
- In one simple sentence, he instructs us not to "be suprised if you see schools such as Alabama, Virginia Tech, LSU and Virginia on future Gophers men's basketball schedules." OK. I won't, but can I get a couple reasons why I shouldn't be suprised? Has there been talks with these schools' coaches or athletic directors? Have they mentioned possible home and away agreements or early season tournaments with these schools? No? OK. Is it OK if I just act suprised then?
- He also notes that the U has plans to install a new floor and baskets for Williams Arena in 2009. A poster on the GopherIllustrated.com message board suggested they sell pieces of the floor to obsessed fans and collectors of random sports-related crap. If this happens, I'm totally bidding on the piece of the floor that has the Cub Foods logo.
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