F.U. Callahan!

[The Afoci]

Leave Lyndon Murtha alone. Give back Nathan Swift.

That is all.

[Ryche]

Would you want to play in the Metrodome or outside in front of however many 10s of thousands of rabid football fans?

[Danny]

I concur, F.U. Callahan.

[The Afoci]

Would you want to play in the Metrodome or outside in front of however many 10s of thousands of rabid football fans?

I smell logic. I don't like logic.

[Ryche]

It would be damn nice to see Murtha clearing holes out in front of Barber and Maroney.

[mckerney]

Leave Lyndon Murtha alone. Give back Nathan Swift.

That is all.

I concur. Fuck you Callahan.

And fuck you Murtha too. Hope you have fun playing for a coach who half his team wanted to beat the shit out of him last year.

[mckerney]

Dola:

We better land 6'8" 340 pound tackle Eric VandenHeuvel from just over the river next year. From what I hear he wants to stay close to home, so that could help.

[The Afoci]

I was really hoping to steal Swift from Nebraska, but to lose Murtha sucks ass. I watched him in the game the lost in the dome and he was horrible, but then so was all of hutch that game. But I still hope Murtha reconsiders before signing day...

[A-Husker-4-Life]

To all of U who hate Callahan and Nebraska.... F.U.

[mckerney]

This doesn't look good...

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/sports/colleges/7813434.htm

The University of Minnesota's most celebrated football recruit this year said he backed out of his commitment to the school because a number of Gophers players took him and three other recruits — one of whom was underage — to a strip club during his official recruiting trip last month, a practice that apparently happened at least twice after that.

Lydon Murtha's trip to the club during the weekend of Dec. 5 was enough to "shock" him and contribute to his doubts about whether the U was the right place for him.

"I'm not into that kind of stuff," said Murtha, an offensive lineman from Hutchinson, Minn., who added that he will attend the University of Nebraska instead.

The recruits went to the Deja Vu Nightclub, 315 Washington Ave. N., an 18-and-older strip club that does not serve alcohol, with a group of "less than 20" Gophers players, said Wayzata's Dominique Barber. Barber said he was there with fellow recruits Murtha, Hopkins' Johnny Carlson and Jack Simmons of Mundelein, Ill. Carlson confirmed he was there. Simmons was unavailable for comment.

Barber, a sought-after running back, is 17 years old.

Murtha's Hutchinson teammate, Tony Mortensen, said he went to the same strip club during his official university visit the following weekend. Another recruit, who requested anonymity, said he also went to a strip club on his recruiting trip in January, but that participation was up to each recruit.

Gophers head coach Glen Mason, on the road recruiting, was unavailable for comment. Gophers athletics director Joel Maturi said he will look into the practice of taking recruits to strip clubs and try to find a way to prevent it from happening in the future. Maturi said he did not think there was a policy, in writing, against going to strip clubs, but he feels that should be an understood rule. "That'd be like saying, 'Don't go rob a bank,' " Maturi said.

That one of the recruits was underage was particularly troubling to Maturi.

"Well, that's a concern now," he said. "Does he have a fake ID? Did we provide him one? Did the people at the club? There's lots of issues here. … I'm first concerned what our student-athletes are thinking of when they do this. Now, in essence, we jeopardized a recruit to being arrested. It's going back to what Glen says: 'Don't put yourselves in jeopardy, don't put the university in jeopardy, don't put the kids in jeopardy.' They didn't listen real well."

Whether taking a recruit to a strip club constitutes an NCAA violation would be subject to interpretation under bylaw 13.5.2 for "excessive entertainment," which states that a "member institution may not arrange or permit excessive entertainment of a prospect on campus or elsewhere." The bylaw gives examples of limousine or helicopter rides, or hiring a band to perform for recruits, as examples. NCAA spokeswoman Kay Hawes said she could not speculate on whether a trip to a strip club would be a violation.

NCAA rules allow hosts $30 a day for entertaining their recruits, Hawes said. It is unclear whether using that money for entrance to a strip club falls under the "excessive entertainment" violation. Carlson said he paid his way into the club. Mortensen said he did not pay his way in and said he didn't know who paid for him.

Gophers assistant head coach Moe Ankney said Mason specifically told current Gophers players before official visits began in December that strip clubs were a definite "don't" when acting as recruiting hosts.

"I sit in the meeting, and our policy is we don't condone that, and Coach Mason doesn't condone that," Ankney said.

Ankney said he has not heard of players taking recruits to a strip club in his three years on the Minnesota staff. He said he could not speculate on any discipline for players involved.

"(Mason will) have to see what happened and take appropriate action when he does," he said.

When asked to comment about going to the club when he was underage, Barber hung up the phone. Mike Gabrysiak, general manager at Deja Vu, said "Everyone that enters the establishment must be 18 or over. Anyone that enters the door must have a valid ID. If they don't have that, they're asked to leave the property right away.''

He said he doesn't remember any Gophers football players coming in last month and that the club has no special relationship with the university.

Deja Vu's unofficial motto is "Ladies Dance Until They're Nude." There is an $8 cover charge and an $8 bottomless, nonalcoholic drink. Deja Vu's parent company also owns DreamGirls on North Fifth Street in Minneapolis, along with a several dozen clubs in California, 14 other states, Canada and France.

Murtha, a consensus top-50 recruit nationally, had orally committed to the Gophers during his junior year, but that commitment is not binding. He said, "The Gophers did a lot of good things for me," but he decided to visit Nebraska last weekend. He said he did not attend any strip clubs there and felt more comfortable with the situation.

"He just told me he had the best time he ever had (on his visit)," said Hutchinson teammate Tony Mortensen, a Gophers commitment and former friend who said he is "upset" with Murtha for how he dealt with the recruiting process. "So I just think this is a bunch of B.S."

Recruits are permitted five paid visits to five different schools. Generally, official visits are a chance for the recruit to get to know the campus and socialize with players.

According to recruiting analyst Allen Wallace of SuperPrep, trips to strip clubs for recruits probably aren't common, "but I'm sure it happens."

[General Mike]

F.U. Glen Mason. I'm glad you didn't want the Rutgers job. That is all.

[mckerney]

It wasn't in the article I posted, but I also read reports of taking recruits to bars as well.

[The Afoci]

What a dink. I am sure Nebraska didn't have any cute girls escort him around campus...

[FargoFreez aka fof playa]

I concur. Fuck you Callahan.

And fuck you Murtha too. Hope you have fun playing for a coach who half his team wanted to beat the shit out of him last year.Awww shit! You have got to be fucking kidding me. Metrodome or not, who wouldn't want to be a part of what will be the best ground attack in the nation.

Maroney appears to be the "type" of back that can create most of his own holes anyways, so maybe it won't be such a big deal. But anyways..f-u Callahan!

Maybe some bad recruiting karma has finally blown our way a few years after Rickert decided to ditch AZ.

[mckerney]

Maybe some bad recruiting karma has finally blown our way a few years after Rickert decided to ditch AZ.

I thought Rickert deciding to ditch 'Zona was our bad recruiting karma. :confused:

[The Afoci]

I thought Rickert deciding to ditch 'Zone was our bad recruiting karma. :confused:

Well at least it looked good. Too bad there is no chance that Humphries will be around next season.

[FargoFreez aka fof playa]

I thought Rickert deciding to ditch 'Zona was our bad recruiting karma. :confused:Hmmm..you may have a point. Well, in that case the ying must cohere to the yang. According to the Laws of Karma, Article III Section 4.a says, "Ye jackass cornhusker newcomer stealith big lineman, thou offense of thee west coast shall suckith goat testicles, nothing more, nothing less."

*Edited to match mckerney's editing.