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Team met him to move into room.

Damn this room is small!

And these people are grown ass men!

Walked over to locker room etc. Very cool.

Spotted Gable Stevenson in the dorm (Gold Medal wrestler).

Wow Seniors picked us up and took to a casino(18 yo ok in Minnesota).

I just love it here! Of course classes have not started  and no practice yet.



To be continued....

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@Good Knight posted:

Team met him to move into room.

Damn this room is small!

And these people are grown ass men!

Walked over to locker room etc. Very cool.

Spotted Gable Stevenson in the dorm (Gold Medal wrestler).

Wow Seniors picked us up and took to a casino(18 yo ok in Minnesota).

I just love it here! Of course classes have not started  and no practice yet.



To be continued....

Good stuff!

At MN they have a beautiful athletes village of sorts. My daughter's best friend and her sister both play hockey at the U.

Mystic Lake (aka Mistake Lake) is very popular with the 18-21 year old males in MN and only 20-30 min from campus.

Day 2

BB locker room shares a restroom with wrestling team. Those dudes are crazy.When I get the nerve I will wear my IOWA Spencer Lee tee.

Up early and off to lift at 7.

Some of these guys are 23!!

Brought along my photo of Floyd Of Rosedale just in case anyone from Minnesota has never seen it (IOWA has 6? in a row).

Roommate moves in this evening.

Others showing up all day today.

Ohio State game tomorrow night.

The fun never ends..until 1st practice Tues?

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Lots of athletes still moving in.

Making lots of hockey friends (who knew?).

Attending a lot of Freshman orientation stuff and boring him to death.

Made a trip across the river to Business school. This will be huge fun in the Winter with the wind blowing.

Announced a Walk-on try out day Monday for Mn Students.

Tried to lift at baseball facility but not allowed until physicals so use campus work out instead?

Roomate arrived from Southern Kentucky ( wait until he sees Minnesota snow!!)

Attended pep rally for Ohio State game!

Walked thru Dinky town shops and neighborhood.

This is damn fun without practices or classes..

Reality comes Tues!

@Francis7 posted:

How 26?

I guess you could be old for your grade, reclassed in HS, got a redshirt and then a COVID-19 NCAA pass...maybe that makes you a 26 year old senior?

I know a 2018 who blew out his arm right before 2019 season (19yrs old). Medical Redshirt.  Had TJ surgery.  Wanted to come home for rehab so dropped down.  Was starting to come back at local JUCO 2020- COVID (20yrs old).  Liked the PC at JUCO and was seeing pretty substantial velocity gains decided to stay, declined several D1 offers.  Played 2021 season at JUCO (21yrs old). And just started school at an SEC.  Given this kid turned down USC because they didn't offer him enough money, I'm guessing a fair amount of money involved. So he's 22 and has 4 years of eligibility....26 is not so far fetched.

@Good Knight posted:

At the field hitting and fielding the guys.

Had EKG and awaiting physicals so they can lift.

Got fitted for clothes and uniforms.

Excited for classes and practice to start Tuesday.

Will probably go see walk on try outs Monday.

Walk on tryouts are something to see to say the least. Occasionally a good player will attend, but most participants are pretty bad - and I’m being kind. At my Alma Mater our HC referred to them as “the amazings”…… b/c the general level of skill was amazing, but not in a good way.

@Good Knight posted:

Makes we want to go watch too.

I played JuCo ball my freshman year in south Texas. One of the first days a few of us on the team that already knew each other were talking on campus and a guy we didn’t recognize walked up and joined the conversation. He introduced himself as Junior from Corpus Christi. My roommate said to Junior, “what’s your story, are you walking on?” Apparently not familiar with the term (walk-on) Junior’s response was, “no man, I drove my car.” He was thereafter known as “Junior the Drive-on.” He was gone before the first roster cut but the name lives on.

Got a number (30) and a cool locker. A plaque on it with “The Legacy of Number 30” and each player with years played. Pretty cool.



After hitting and fielding with the team the impression is: “wow these guys are sure big”.



First team meal in the athlete village nutrition center.



Next a few weeks of practices and intra-squad games to sort out who can play.



Getting real. Then time management becomes paramount trying to balance pitching, school work and 2 way.



We will see.

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@RJM posted:

When I played we called them jock sniffers.

That’s what they call the male athletes these days that put other athletes their own age on a pedestal. The “jock sniffers” talk endlessly and breathlessly about how great so and so is, etc.  …it’s a part of the social media culture that the current crop of kids grew up in …To me, the children of helicopter parents who buy into the local child celebrity paradigm  are particularly annoying, but it was very easy for me to raise my kids to gain a mental edge on kids like that.

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This “jock sniffer” discussion is DOA.

Who are we to determine what person (of any gender) is engaging with persons because of their sport, or because they are a teen/twentyX who is figuring out who they want to be with? This devolution of the thread reads like a frat text (which we didn’t have when I was in college).

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