Comments on: Monday (They were ready) edition: Wha’ Happened?

By: danonymous

danonymous — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:14:20 +0000

I think the Hot Beef Sundae is trotted out by a pig with custom made saddle bags and served in a miniature St. Paul Saints helmet.

By: jama

jama — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:02:07 +0000

Dave

I will never trade my Eugene Smith card for a Maturi. Now if you can find me that Tim Curley card where he is giving JoPa the finger. You got yourself a deal.

By: lattewarrior

lattewarrior — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:00:47 +0000

I’ve attended a couple of GODs in my day. A brother of a college friend had a townhouse right on Grand, which made for choice home base. Of all the embarrassing moments linked to GOD, my favorite had to be makeshift square-dancing to Cotton-Eyed Joe with strangers at the Wild Onion. It was completely spontaneous, glorious, atrocious and ferocious.

By: ramon

ramon — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:55:01 +0000

“Neil Young thought it was better to burn out than to fade away…”

He also re-sang it as “It’s better to burn out, rust never sleeps”. Which in, my opinion, is a direct reference to Doug Risebrough’s insomnia problem.

Just to let y’all know, me and Mrs. Ramon made it home just fine after The Breeders’ show. The argument wasn’t about who was supposed to be designated driver. Mrs. Ramon’s a dog lover and thought I was taking her a Rottweiler exposition. (It’s all good - you can’t make up if you don’t have an argument.)

By: Dave MN

Dave MN — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:51:36 +0000

Jama - Do you want to trade me a Eugene Smith card for a Joel Maturi? I’ve got doubles and I just need Smith to complete my set of 11…

By: jama

jama — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:48:20 +0000

Jon

You win! Maturi is my new favorite AD in the Big 10. He is the savior of the Gophers. I sure hope they put a statue of him up at the new stadium. I will never bring up past failures again.

By: jama

jama — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:46:43 +0000

Does the Hot Beef Sundae come in a waffle cone or a dish?

By: The Hootie

The Hootie — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:32:50 +0000

Did anyone actually try the Hot Beef Sundae? If so, can you please describe it? Is this something we should be lobbying the Twins to offer at the new stadium?

By: The Hootie

The Hootie — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:25:39 +0000

All this talk of pants-lessness and “various states of undress” really has me second guessing my choice of plans for yesterday. Why wasn’t I informed of these things beforehand?!?

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:21:07 +0000

jama - I would disagree that football is in worse shape than six years ago. For one, there’s the stadium, which Maturi didn’t make happen, but he certainly helped. Secondly, he’s dumped Glen “Status Quo” Mason (albeit two years too late) for a guy that just brought in the best recruiting class of the last quarter-century at least. To borrow a football term, that seems to me to be showing some forward progress.

And as I noted before, the hockey program won WCHA titles in 2006 and 2007, the first back-to-back league titles for the Gophers since 1988-89. (I can’t understand how you think this represents the hockey program getting worse.)

It seems to me that both basketball & football - and the athletic department as a whole - are on a better track than they were before he arrived.