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Hopkins is the worst but my son's class at Minnetonka had 12 tranfers for basketball his age from 9-11 grade. 5 as freshman, 4 as sophs and 3 as juniors. Many of them leave for various reasons but flush out the local kids on the way. His senior year Minnetonka started 3 Minneapolis , 1 Eden Prairie and 1 Benilde transfer. Kids don't go to the basketball games because they really don't know many of the players.

Breck got beat tonight by Orono.

Warroad scored with 1:34 left to tie. eaded to 2nd OT.

That would never happen because Kessel is not captain material. Per one of his teammates at MN, they were happy to see him go becuase he was such a jerk regardless of his talent level.

This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^. The fact that the team lost doesn't change who he is or anything about him. He works his tail off on every shift and every trip up and down the ice.

Not sure I can follow that logic. If Parise was captain of the Canadian team they probably would have still won and he would be a hero. Is Parise a different guy from who he was in 2010 when he was an alternate captain and we won the silver?

It's foolish to think that Parise as a captain has the same influence with this team vs. a team that is together long term. It would be different if they played together all year and over a longer time period. If we score on one or two of the penalty shots and breakaway the game probably turns out completely differently and Zach is a hero as a leader. Athletics are like that and Kane had a much bigger impact on the penalty shots than Parise had since he was the one that took them.

I talked to a current player last week that I have gotten to know a little bit. He said things are quite different with Bubba and the new coaches. He said there weren't very many rules in the past and Bubba has set a lot of expectations for them. He likes it and he likes the new coaches.

EGF has handled them all this year. I saw them pound Roseau 6-2 and it shouldn't have been that close.

I thought Sparks looked good when he did get a chance at the end of the year. I don't remember what his yards per carry were but they were pretty good in limited carries. EDIT - he had 15 carries for 113 yards - 7.5 yards per carry. Not many carries though but he was able to make something out of nothing a number of times when he did get a chance.

Is there any school that doesn't say that? Why even bother making a statement like that?

Kessel is sitting out the year for the Olympics.

Me too Me too

They did have more scholly money than everybody else during the 80's. They were good at giving kids 2/3 rides and letting them eat on campus for free, and a 2/3 becomes a full ride. They effectively had 1/3 more scholarships than anybody else at that time.

I hope you realize that every team has a strength coach and all of them think their guy is the best. It's hard to imagine that there are many secrets that aren't well known in the industry.

I don't know how justified this arrest was but I do know from a friend at the courthouse that the GF cops and court system get frustrated with the UND police for some of the arrests they make.

Young people make mistakes and hopefully they learn from them. It's time to let this story go.

I I also wish that we could have done something sooner but getting the right coach is more important.

All we heard earlier was that Faison killed this class by waiting too long to name a coach.

Maybe, just maybe Rau was smarting off when they were one person apart in the line. Rau wouldn't have had to wait until they were touching each other to say something. Hakstol did say that Rau was smarting off in the line but wouldn't elaborate. He also said it didn't excuse what Blood did but that it also violated the sanctity of the handshake line.

Some will take it farther. Rumor is after Kleinsasser called Rocky to tell him that had verbaled to UND, Rocky called Wyoming and talked him up, hoping they would offer and Jimmy would take a full ride over his commitment to UND.

Hak did reference them running their mouths during handshake line when addressing the Blood incident. He agreed that the line is supposed to be sacred regarding fighting but said it is also supposed to be sacred regarding mouthing off. He wouldn't elaborate beyond that.

I am not sure how many 18 year olds know or have heard about Hedberg who played one year in the NFL in 1977. I would guess most of them have watched or definitely heard about Bollinger.

I am disppointed to see that Sparks is leaving. He ran well when he got a few carries at the end of the year.

They got permission because they give a ton of money to the Semilole tribe in Florida. I know they only had to get approval from the closest tribe but about 90% of Seminoles live in Oklahoma.