Official Minnesota Golden Gophers Thread

viks_fan21 · Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 5833

All Minnesota talk in here.

2006 Stats

Passing
Name-------------Attempts---Completions--Percentage---Yards----TD---INT
Bryan Cupito ------359------------214---------------59.6%-----2,819------22-----9
Mike Maciejowski----2-------------1-----------------50%-------28-------0------0
Tony Mortenson----10-------------2-----------------20%-------15--------0------2

Rushing
Name-------------Carries-------Yards---------Average----------TDs
Amir Pinnix---------252-----------1,272------------5.0----------------10
Alex Daniels--------67-----------309------------4.6---------------5
Jay Thomas--------37--------------225----------6.1------------------4

Receiving
Name--------------Catches---------Yards----------Average----------TDs
Logan Payne---------59-----------------804--------------13.6------------9
Matt Spaeth---------47-----------------564--------------12.0-------------4
Ernie Wheelwright---26-----------------437--------------16.8------------5
Eric Decker----------26-----------------378--------------14.5-------------3
Mike Chambers-------19-----------------231--------------12.2------------0

Defensive
Name-----------Ints
Dominique Barber---4
Jamal Harris----------3
Mike Sherels----------3
Dominic Jones--------2
Kevin Mannion--------2
Duran Cooley---------1
John Shevlin----------1

Blue denotes Freshman - Green denotes Sophomore - Indigo denotes Junior - Red denotes Senior

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FORMER PLAYERS WATCH

Laurence Maroney - Rookie (#2 on DC) - 745 rush yards (4.3 YPC), 6 TDs
Anthony Montgomery - Rookie (#2 on DC) - 6 tackles, 3 assists, .5 sack
Marion Barber III - 2nd year (#2 on DC) - 654 rush yards (4.8 YPC), 14 TDs
Thomas Tapeh - 3rd year (#1 on DC) - 9 rush yards (1.8 YPC), 16 catches, 85 yards (5.3 YPC), 1 TD
Ben Utecht - 3rd year (#1 on DC) - 37 catches, 377 yards
Ben Hamilton - 6th year (#1 on DC) - 16 games, 16 starts

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Early look at depth chart - http://minnesota.scout.com/2/516297.html

Latest talk - http://www.gopherhole.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=560

Can Minnesota take that next step towards becoming a legitimate top 25 team? It will be an uphill battle.

c0insnap · Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 3:07 am Post subject:

Not without Gary Russell they won't.

iavikefn · Joined: 06 Mar 2005 Posts: 15659 Location: Iowa City, IA

It's going to be a tough year for Gopher fans this year in the Big Ten. You lost your top two offensive lineman (Eslinger and Setterstrom) as well as your top two running backs (Maroney and Russell). They'll start off strong against weak non-conference opponents, and then fade out in the Big Ten like they do every year.
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Vigilante · Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 3235

Look out for Pinnix, ive heard some good things about him and he could step up right away!
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oleboy41 · Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject:

for some reason I'm very optimistic about this year although I have no real reason to be. I just think with an experienced QB and a hopefully improved D we should be okay. Plus nobody else in the big ten really scares me except OSU this year
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viks_fan21 · Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 5833

To keep everyone current, here's the latest recruting:

http://minnesota.rivals.com/default.asp?SR=RivalsFP

^^^ On the far right side it shows our targets. At this point we are targeting/drawing interest from 6 Rivals Topp 100 athletes.

http://minnesota.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=45993&Sport=1

We're also one of the 9 teams currently on John Clay's list. I doubt he goes to a smaller, mid-major school (unless it's Wisconsin), but if we could get him that'd be ridiculous. I'd say we've got a 1/15 chance of landing him, but there's still hope. He could truly go for 2k in our system.
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viks_fan21 · Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 5833

viks_fan21 · Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 5833

Let's get this thread back going. Now that Russell's out, do you see Brylee Calendar or Justin Valentine (FB) as Pinnix's backup?
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ts_vike · Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Posts: 4389

accually i heard Brylee Callender was supposed 2 be a stud, talk 2 one of my sources on the team and they said he was pounding the d-line in the practice sesions this offseason, they said it is possible he might split time with amar if he continues his preformence
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tdub · Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 14802 Location: Buckhead, GA

I pretty much would expect this year to be like the past 3 or 4.

Start out 6-1. Lose to Michigan and finish 7-4. Celebrate yet another Sun Bowl or Music City win. I wish we'd do better, but its tough getting excited each year about the great start then watching them play it away.
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Vikefan79 · Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 25112 Location: Atlanta

It would be nice to Wisconsin this year....we threw that game away last year with imo a much more talented team on our sidelines than what they had.
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