We Are Maroon and Gold Episode 190

 

The Timberwolves and Dawson Garcia transferring to Minnesota.

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We Are Maroon and Gold Episode 189

Spring football thoughts and the Timberwolves.

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When Do the Gophers Get Commitments? (And Other Recruiting Questions)

We are in the late stages of college football's first installment of the offseason, that period between the national championship and most spring games. Even with those scrimmages on the horizon, practices underway, and a smattering of news items here and there, this part of the year doesn't come with a lot of substantial conversation topics. So it's a good time to do some big-picture thinking.

In the next few months, the Gophers will receive verbal commitments from prospects in the 2023 recruiting class. A few players have already given their pledges, but there are still plenty of spots available.

When should we expect those spots to be filled? History suggests we could see a series of commitments in April. Prospects can start taking official visits in April of their junior years, which tends to mean a wave of commitments in the spring months. Nearly half of the Gophers' 131 verbal commits in the P.J. Fleck era have come between six and eight months of the December signing day:

The 2017 class is excluded from discussion of Fleck's tenure because it was a
transition class and cannot be treated the same as any other year. Any in-season
commitments would have occurred under Tracy Claeys.