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Bruce Johnson -> RE: General Gopher Talk (6/23/2012 8:06:09 PM)

Heather qualified for the finals and will race Monday on national tv at 8:50 PM. I was told it will be on MSNBC.

Top three go to the Olympics.




Bruce Johnson -> RE: General Gopher Talk (6/28/2012 7:39:14 PM)

Alas, she did not qualify. However, she will try again in the 1500 k, which has not been her strength. She has been training with her husband who is better at the longer distance, so maybe something good can still happen. (but not likely)

She did advance to the second round, though.




Bruce Johnson -> RE: General Gopher Talk (7/4/2012 4:26:37 PM)

And she did not qualify in the 1500 k. She vows that she will try again in four years. That's a long time. The good news for America is that we must have great reps for the Olympic Track Team.




Lynn G. -> RE: General Gopher Talk (7/4/2012 4:41:16 PM)

I hope she will forever cherish the whole experience. Not many people get even close to the level of talent that it takes to even be in the tryouts.




Mr. Ed -> RE: General Gopher Talk (7/6/2012 10:18:09 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Lynn G.

I hope she will forever cherish the whole experience. Not many people get even close to the level of talent that it takes to even be in the tryouts.


2 Winona brothers, Garrett and Elliott Heath, have run at Stanford in distances.

They were here for the Fools 5 road race/cancer fundraiser this year.

Both came up short in qualifying for the Olympics, one finished 7th in the 5000, the other didn't get out of his semi-final heat in the 1500.

But super-cool that they were competing.




SoMnFan -> RE: General Gopher Talk (12/8/2012 12:09:46 PM)

Gopher women make it to the Elite Eight in VB with win over Purdue.
Keep rollin girls.




SoMnFan -> RE: General Gopher Talk (7/11/2013 3:52:23 AM)

Very cool


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq8FmfAS-NA&feature=player_embedded





Lynn G. -> RE: General Gopher Talk (7/11/2013 9:24:46 AM)

SUPER cool. Seeing a highlight reel like that kind of makes you forget temporarily all of the disappointments we endure as Minnesota sports fans.




Corleone -> RE: General Gopher Talk (7/11/2013 2:40:12 PM)

About damn time.

Gophers athletic director Norwood Teague unveiled a $190 million athletic facilities master plan for the University of Minnesota on Wednesday, surprising observers with the size, scope and cost of a project that will affect every university sport.
“More than anything, I wanted to show that we’re going to be aggressive and be committed to doing the best we can and stretching ourselves all that we can to building something like this,” Teague said. “Am I guaranteeing all of this is going to get done in eight years? No. But that’s our goal.”
In presenting the proposal to the Board of Regents, Teague offered a relatively brief timeline to complete the project and said the athletic department intends to foot the entire bill through fundraising. In comparison, TCF Bank Stadium, the Gophers football stadium that opened in 2009 and had a $288.5 million budget, had a fundraising goal of $86 million.
The plan encompasses a football training complex, a men’s and women’s basketball practice facility, an academic center, a training table for dining, a women’s gymnastics facility, an Olympic sport indoor practice facility, an outdoor Olympic sport track and a wrestling training facility — all of it housed on the athletic department’s current footprint.
“It is true that we need some investment in our facilities,” said University President Eric Kaler. “We’re in the Big Ten and we need to be competitive in the Big Ten. This investment is going to move us a long way toward where we need to be.”
The Bierman Athletic Building will be torn down to accommodate the plans, and the current track will be moved to a new location, with the basketball practice facility landing where the track and a parking lot currently sit. The facilities would be grouped together to create a home base of sorts for student athletes.
“Our desire … is to make the area where Bierman is an athletic village,” Teague said. “We felt like our student athletes, our coaches, everyone wanted more of a center and an anchor and a hub’’ for the athletes.
Regent David M. Larson pointed out that no such holistic plan has ever been proposed at the university. Administrators have instead chosen to attack concerns one at a time. “This is going to be a change from our historic past,” Larson said.
The trick will be finding the money to make it all happen. In the months before this plan was announced, Teague estimated the cost could be between $80 million and $125 million.
Teague lauded the state’s fundraising potential and said the hope was to finance the entire project privately,.There was no figure yet available on funds committed, he said, nor does the department currently have a lead donor.
“We have a lot of passionate people out there, and I’m trusting that if we sell a good vision, that we’ll find that we’ll have a great response,” said Teague, who was hired as Gophers athletic director in April 2012. “We hope there will still be a handful of lead donors.”
In big-time collegiate athletics, extravagant facilities have almost become the norm. That has put the U at a disadvantage in trying to recruit players who are also visiting programs whose facilities are more modern.
The Gophers men’s and women’s basketball teams, along with a host of other programs, share Williams Arena as a venue to both practice and play, while Bierman houses countless teams on a given day. The lack of availability can keep student athletes from practicing as much as they would like, and the cramped space can make it difficult for students to find a place to study, Teague said.
Minnesota along with Northwestern is one of only two programs in the Big Ten without a dedicated basketball practice facility.
Northwestern is currently raising money for a $220 million athletics complex, while Wisconsin announced plans for an $86 million student-athlete performance center last year. Nebraska unveiled a state-of-the art basketball practice facility in 2011 and is currently working on a $179 million arena.
“We need to get caught up,” Teague said.

Teague called Wednesday’s blueprints “phase one,” indicating that there could be a “phase two” in the future. That prospect, however, was not discussed in detail, although Teague said a renovated outer concourse for Williams Arena could be part of it.
 
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/215009961.html




TJSweens -> RE: General Gopher Talk (7/11/2013 3:09:43 PM)

Now will the alumns who have bitched over the years open up their checkbooks? If this was Ohio State the money would be raised by noon.




SoMnFan -> RE: General Gopher Talk (7/11/2013 3:35:10 PM)

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

Now will the alumns who have bitched over the years open up their checkbooks? If this was Ohio State the money would be raised by noon.

This




Stacey King -> RE: General Gopher Talk (7/17/2013 12:10:45 PM)

Miami Hurricane talk...

Players have mentioned how much more mature Seantrel Henderson seems. He said he wants to be a first-round pick, not the fourth-rounder NFL people projected after last season. UM people now know that Henderson responds better to positive reinforcement from coaches than he does to being admonished.




twinsfan -> RE: General Gopher Talk (12/27/2013 7:42:17 PM)

Congrats to Minnesota's Tarah Hobbs - Big Ten Women's Soccer Goalkeeper of the Year.




SoMnFan -> RE: General Gopher Talk (3/22/2014 12:00:41 PM)

Huge day for bp and SteveO
Gopher wrasslers going for the national championship?
Tony Nelson for another individual championship?
Get ER done boys!




SoMnFan -> RE: General Gopher Talk (3/27/2014 8:12:35 AM)

The U is about to break ground on their new FB practice facility!
$70mil [:-]




Mr. Ed -> RE: General Gopher Talk (3/27/2014 8:43:42 AM)

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ORIGINAL: SoMnFan

The U is about to break ground on their new FB practice facility!
$70mil [:-]



So Foos-ball gets the facility first, then the others will.

Basketball gets the shaft again [;)]




Dave E -> RE: General Gopher Talk (3/27/2014 9:18:16 AM)

Way to go, Lou Nanne!

That guy is simply a stud.




SoMnFan -> RE: General Gopher Talk (3/27/2014 9:19:03 AM)

Gets stuff done.
hear hear.




Dave E -> RE: General Gopher Talk (3/27/2014 9:23:41 AM)

Of course, this is Sid's reporting...could well be the football program is actually $70 million in debt. [&:]




SoMnFan -> RE: General Gopher Talk (3/27/2014 9:29:11 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Dave E

Of course, this is Sid's reporting...could well be the football program is actually $70 million in debt. [&:]


I've been trying to ignore that part of the story as well




SoMnFan -> RE: General Gopher Talk (3/27/2014 9:57:24 AM)

False alarm ... Sid overheard Louie ordering a 70 ounce butterknife steak at Murrays the other night.
Understandable confusion. [:D]




Mr. Ed -> RE: General Gopher Talk (3/27/2014 11:35:24 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: SoMnFan

False alarm ... Sid overheard Louie ordering a 70 ounce butterknife steak at Murrays the other night.
Understandable confusion. [:D]



Lou Nanne: "Sid's report is totally irresponsible... Totally incorrect" re: $70m practice facility. "We have no plans to break ground"

Sid...totally irresponsible?

NEVER!

HERESY!




SoMnFan -> RE: General Gopher Talk (4/28/2014 8:22:25 PM)

Congrats Don Lucia.
Gopher sports Male Coach of the Year




SoMnFan -> RE: General Gopher Talk (9/4/2014 3:05:51 AM)

Land O Lakes donates $25 mil to the U for athletic fundraising.
Outstanding.




Dave E -> RE: General Gopher Talk (9/4/2014 10:13:31 AM)

Great news. Hopefully this kickstarts some other major gifts.




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