Scrimmage tomorrow?

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short ornery norwegian said:
it's a no-win situation. if they played well, then "it's just a scrimmage."

if they played poorly, then the doom-sayers would be proclaiming that the season is already over.
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Yeah you could that about any team any year, but they still have always released. The expectations are rock bottom, can the results of a closed scrimmage win really sway opinion that much? I can guarantee any "doom-sayers" are already extremely skeptical, withholding the results of a closed scrimmage only adds more skepticism to the pot.
 

Nothing has changed. We are going to be really really bad this year. We have a good start on recruiting but Ben is going to need a killer spring class to restore any optimism.
 



Looks like just one person on a message board is claiming to know how the scrimmage went. FWIW, it seems like a number of these scrimmages are staying secret including the Gophers/Sooners matchup this year as a lot of fans on social meida are hunting for results/info of their teams scrimmage and finding no information. Personally, I'd probably rather lose these scrimmages as a coach than win them. Fix mistakes, nobody gets too high on their ability, etc,etc. Also a lost of these scrimmages vary in how they are run. Some do two separate halves where the score reverts to 0-0, some work on specific situations, some play mostly their regular rotation while others give everyone equal playing time or try out different lineup combinations. Without any of that context, a score doesn't tell you much anyways.
 

minnyrules11 said:
Lost by 20+ according OUhoops message board. If true that is not good for a closed scrimmage.
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Thats good consider our roster. Ill take it. If it was 30+ then id be a little worried but this is where the staff starts to coach up the players. Sets a baseline.
 


EG#9 said:
Looks like just one person on a message board is claiming to know how the scrimmage went. FWIW, it seems like a number of these scrimmages are staying secret including the Gophers/Sooners matchup this year as a lot of fans on social meida are hunting for results/info of their teams scrimmage and finding no information. Personally, I'd probably rather lose these scrimmages as a coach than win them. Fix mistakes, nobody gets too high on their ability, etc,etc. Also a lost of these scrimmages vary in how they are run. Some do two separate halves where the score reverts to 0-0, some work on specific situations, some play mostly their regular rotation while others give everyone equal playing time or try out different lineup combinations. Without any of that context, a score doesn't tell you much anyways.
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I’ll take the reported outcome at fave value, but for the reasons you stated, it doesn’t matter much. The most fun I had over there was reading their description of the state of our team!
 



Well at least they can focus on some weaknesses and hopefully see some strengths. I think we all know we're likely in for a long, strange season so buckle up.
 

Kind of funny thread on the OU side, a lot of "just looked at the MN roster and ummmm not great" "they are going to finish way bottom of the B1G could have just got a better run from ORU"

I mean yah there is really no reason for them to publish the stats. If we got crushed I'm sure Ben didnt want it out there to bring fan/player morale down even further, if we played them tough and/or won the OU fans dont want to hear they lost to a team picked to finish dead last in the B1G.
 












From Marcus Fuller in the Strib:

There's only so far scrimmaging in practice could get the Gophers men's basketball team, so last Saturday's scrimmage at Oklahoma was a win-win situation no matter the outcome.

Word out of that closed scrimmage was that Minnesota coach Ben Johnson's newcomer-laden team was overmatched against the Sooners. No official box score was kept, but "we needed that," Gophers senior guard Luke Loewe said.

"It was definitely a good learning experience," Loewe said from Wednesday's Gophers media day. "We as a team, we'll definitely take a lot from it to help us."
 

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