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per the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
Mortell #50:
• How he got here: A native of Green Bay, Wis., Mortell played at Notre Dame Academy and signed with Minnesota as a preferred walkon in the Class of 2011 before redshirting his first season in Minneapolis. He was part of the first class coach Jerry Kill signed soon after he was hired by the Gophers. Mortell was ranked as the No. 8 punting prospect in the nation by Kohl's Professional Kicking and Punting Camps and was a first-team All-State choice in Wisconsin.
• What's ahead: Mortell wasn't one of the 10 semifinalists for the Ray Guy Award as the nation's best punter, while Ohio State' Cameron Johnston was. So Mortell will have continued competition in the battle to be the Big Ten's best punter, and Johnston, with his ability to drop punts inside the 20, makes a compelling case.
Boddy-Calhoun #27:
• How he got here: A high school quarterback in Delaware at Delcastle Tech, Boddy-Calhoun was lightly recruited and wound up at Coffeyville Community College in Kansas for a year. There, the Gophers, with coach Jerry Kill and his staff having some experience recruiting junior college players from that conference, found him after one season. One of Boddy-Calhoun's Coffeyville coaches told gopherhole.com that if he had returned for a second season at Coffeyville, "he probably would have gone to the SEC."
• What's ahead: Boddy-Calhoun and Murray may be the best corner tandem in the Big Ten, and the Gophers could start four seniors in the secondary and line up one of the better defensive backfields in the nation. Minnesota will try to build on consecutive 8-5 seasons behind that defense. (Boddy-Calhoun helped save one of those wins with a strip against Nebraska that prevented a go-ahead touchdown in the final two minutes.)
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2015/06/the_top_50_big_ten_football_pl_15.html
Go Gophers!!
Mortell #50:
• How he got here: A native of Green Bay, Wis., Mortell played at Notre Dame Academy and signed with Minnesota as a preferred walkon in the Class of 2011 before redshirting his first season in Minneapolis. He was part of the first class coach Jerry Kill signed soon after he was hired by the Gophers. Mortell was ranked as the No. 8 punting prospect in the nation by Kohl's Professional Kicking and Punting Camps and was a first-team All-State choice in Wisconsin.
• What's ahead: Mortell wasn't one of the 10 semifinalists for the Ray Guy Award as the nation's best punter, while Ohio State' Cameron Johnston was. So Mortell will have continued competition in the battle to be the Big Ten's best punter, and Johnston, with his ability to drop punts inside the 20, makes a compelling case.
Boddy-Calhoun #27:
• How he got here: A high school quarterback in Delaware at Delcastle Tech, Boddy-Calhoun was lightly recruited and wound up at Coffeyville Community College in Kansas for a year. There, the Gophers, with coach Jerry Kill and his staff having some experience recruiting junior college players from that conference, found him after one season. One of Boddy-Calhoun's Coffeyville coaches told gopherhole.com that if he had returned for a second season at Coffeyville, "he probably would have gone to the SEC."
• What's ahead: Boddy-Calhoun and Murray may be the best corner tandem in the Big Ten, and the Gophers could start four seniors in the secondary and line up one of the better defensive backfields in the nation. Minnesota will try to build on consecutive 8-5 seasons behind that defense. (Boddy-Calhoun helped save one of those wins with a strip against Nebraska that prevented a go-ahead touchdown in the final two minutes.)
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2015/06/the_top_50_big_ten_football_pl_15.html
Go Gophers!!