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Quote from: DuffMan on Yesterday at 08:13:40 AM

Quote from: hazzben on April 28, 2025, 04:26:59 PMDoes he have to give the NIL money back   

All $75 of it.

I heard it was two free pies at Gary's Pizza.  Hard to give that back...

Crap, we only offered a free game of bowling at Flaherty's ... gonna have to step up our game to steaks at Lindey's 

Quote from: BiggieSmalls on April 21, 2025, 10:24:12 PMJohnnies QB Beau Bush in Portal. Arrived from University of South Dakota in winter.

Does he have to give the NIL money back   

Quote from: AO on April 16, 2025, 12:06:28 PM

Quote from: faunch on April 15, 2025, 07:09:40 PMOn another note...SJU released their 2025 schedule. The SOS takes a hit with week two non-conference game hosting UMN-Morris. Might be good to not have top ranked opponent as the Johnnies will be breaking in a new QB. The Johnnies actually are all time .500 vs the Cougars (2-2-1).

https://gojohnnies.com/news/2025/4/15/old-foes-return-for-sju-in-2025-football-schedule.aspx

They only count the 5 best wins in the NPI, so it's more of a lost opportunity to help the rating than something that actually hurts.

And you're avoiding the true pain, which is a loss to a really good team. With current dial settings it's better to beat a meh team (and get no NPI credit) than to lose to a very good team and have it ding your win percentage. Put another way, the risk of losing to a good team outweighs the benefit of beating that same good team.

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Quote from: DuffMan on April 02, 2025, 02:45:14 PMOsseo has been terrible for several years.  And Auggie Tech...  I can't imagine this will help either program.  If I see Lamker in the 'hood, I'll ask him about it, espicially if I have some SJU and Maple Grove gear on .

Disagree, this will most certainly help Osseo.  You are correct that Osseo has been terrible for several years,since he left there after winning state in 2015.  He won't need to do much to improve things over there.  Not sure how this will impact the Auggies.

I just don't know how he recruits to Augsburg. It appears questionable if you're a player looking at AU and it would seem to be a killer for Lamker's own time to give to recruiting.

But don't disagree, Osseo has fallen so far this likely is an improvement for them.

Quote from: DuffMan on April 05, 2025, 10:04:17 AMRumor is that the Lamker announcement was made on April 1st. 

Honestly that's what this feels like it should be, but Lamker's hubris apparently knows no bounds.

Quote from: Robert Zimmerman on April 03, 2025, 06:22:01 PMSome interesting developments about SJU football that I was not aware of:

https://gojohnnies.com/news/2025/4/3/football-st-cloud-orthopedics-feature-search-for-new-starting-qb-one-of-the-focal-points-of-extended-spring-practice-at-sju.aspx?fbclid=IwY2xjawJb6H1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHeq4NgMgPEb4hhbBmcVDm5gNb0YCjbHDninHASD0DDSwGHXMeoz8YrMGGw_aem_DP7KCh-PInVSEh1DFAerAA

Always great to read an article written by Frank!

So what is SJU's NIL budget? And has anyone ever discussed how that jives with Gags "Winning with No's" (aka no scholarships)?   

No article to link to, but it sounds like Bethel has had a great offseason recruiting as well. Around 50 in the incoming class (their largest ever) that will require an expansion of the locker room. Should be fun to see who reloads best/fastest!

Quote from: SagatagSam on March 30, 2025, 02:23:27 PM

Quote from: BiggieSmalls on March 29, 2025, 11:13:19 PMNot posted yet: The 3 Saints (Olaf, John's, and Scholastica)

Johnnies and the Scots meeting for the first time in 24 years. Probably going to be SJU's homecoming game as it falls in mid-October.

IIRC SJU is still looking for a non-con opponent. UWLax has a week 1 opening, anyone know if the schools have talked about filling both their needs?

SJU has a week 1 opening I believe ...

Quote from: DuffMan on April 02, 2025, 02:45:14 PMOsseo has been terrible for several years.  And Auggie Tech...  I can't imagine this will help either program.  If I see Lamker in the 'hood, I'll ask him about it, espicially if I have some SJU and Maple Grove gear on .

Looks like Lamker has already updated his own wikipedia page to announce the dual coaching role. 

Speaking of schedules, Lamker and Augsburg will be doing an interesting experiment. As if firing his OC and taking over playcalling duties wasn't enough, he's also going to be the HC at Osseo HS this fall.   

Yes, you read that correctly. The plan is that Augsburg will practice in the morning (coaches expected to be available in the am from 6-10ish) and then evidently he'll do standard afternoon practices at Osseo. This seems like utter insanity to me. But especially at two programs that aren't exactly resource rich. If you had massive FT coaching staffs like a Wayzata or SJU to help make this happen, it would still seem insane. Is this Lamker working on a soft landing for if he gets the ax at Auggie?? Honestly scratching my head on this one.

Quote from: DuffMan on March 31, 2025, 03:11:41 PMI distinctly remember the last game; it was at Mac, and the starters were pulled very early.  I recall trying to hide on the sidelines so that Gary and Jerry couldn't take us out of the game. 

They had one excellent d-end...Porter?  Other than that, they were awful.

Porter was a freak athlete. I remember that year, he came off the edge against us, leaped over a RB going to block him and tipped a pass in the redzone. Crazy display of athleticism.

@duff, I'm assuming you tuned in for the NCAA D1 Wrestling championships. Some high drama, one of the more entertaining tourney's I can remember! PSU is still dominant, but some great individual storylines and Nebraska showed out as well. Feels like the sport is in as good a spot as it's been in some time, at least my take from the cheap seats.

I'd guess BU Baseball will at least be in the mix as well, but barring a Johnnie collapse down the stretch I think it's too far out for us to close that gap.

My 6th grade son's basketball season came to close, reason for the board to care ... one of his coaches was none other than OneArmedScott.

OAS was a little more gentle with the refs than he used to be in his glory days pacing MAC games dressed up as a blind ref 

Quote from: OzJohnnie on February 05, 2025, 06:11:11 PMSo, the NFL is coming to Melbourne.  It looks like the Rams will host the Eagles at the MCG in a week one contest that will fall in the bye week before the AFL Grand Final.

My mates are very excited and already planning to go.  I'll go with them, I guess, but the MCG is huge, and we'll be soooo far from the action.  Anyways, we'll see.

Saw this and thought of you Oz. But now that you say the field stuff that makes sense. Sorta like watching football games in baseball stadiums, there can be some really weird seats that are 30+ yds from the sideline.