Last I checked, home prices were doing quite well in Minneapolis and there has been a ton of new residential development in areas that were previously industrial. I'm pretty sure many young professionals still consider MPLS an attractive destination. Still a ton of Fortune 500 jobs in the area.
We have had the same rise in crime issues in Denver since March. More shootings, more theft, plenty of protests and damage in June. Yet people are still offering $100k over asking for homes here and new apartment buildings are going up in every direction.
Sure. Any small(er) town. Rochester is only Rochester because of Mayo. Wherever Mayo had established itself ... you do: Mayo + IBM + main UMN campus + state capital. Actual college town feel. Who knows.
Very strange take?
Yes, all programs have had to deal with it. I think with the way PJ operates, this has hit us harder than some others.
I think it's fair to be concerned for sure. If we look at the level of the D recruits (by P5 offers) from 2019-2021, things *should* improve as they have time to develop. I'm looking at the size and potential in that group and making an assumption that they develop well. I'm still excited about a lot of the young guys on DL and LB. The 2021 CB recruits should be very good. For various reasons the D is out of sync this year, but I guess I'm gonna assume that 2018 and 2019 was the real Joe Rossi defense and not this mess we are seeing this year. My assumptions could obviously prove way off next year...
The apartment buildings are emptying out. This is happening across the country though. It's COVID mixed with crime. Fewer young professionals are going to have to relocate for work and the ones that do are going to be less inclined to pay $2500/month for a soulless box. If you don't believe just click on a few homepages. . . the prices for all of these luxury apartments is dropping and the they all have move-in specials.
Minneapolis Council Moves To Defund Police, Establish 'Holistic' Public Safety Force
Yeh. Renner, Coughlin, Williamson... they all got NFL looks because of the previous coaching staff.
A huge part of recruiting is identifying talent. PJ and staff don't seem to do that well on defense, at least to this point. So, people are right to be concerned about recruiting.
It was. They identified a ton of defensive talent and recruited it, despite few of them, other than Coughlin, being highly recruited. To this point, Fleck has not recruited as much talent on defense as the previous staff. Hopefully that changes, but not to this point.
Things do not go well when you have an all-one-party City Council and they vote unanimously to defund police! The old left was full of labor guys - pragmatists - down-to-earth types; now the leading lights are academics and idealist leftist intellectuals, who live in an alternate universe. No doubt, some parents would not send their boys to an evil big city - better to go to Lincoln or Iowa City, etc.
I hope this is sarcasm. Otherwise, extremely hyperbolic and full of bad info.
I was going to add as well that Williamson was a PJ transfer recruit. I am guessing he will fill this next class out with more transfers like him and OJ Smith; also a PJ recruit.
There are people moving out of Minneapolis but there are also people moving in. There was a recent Strib article that talked about it.
I was lacing it with sarcasm so some people would realize that not everyone who went to the NFL was a magically developed during the brief period prior to PJ's arrival.
Didn't PJ play Celestin with a badly injured shoulder ahead of Cashman the year before Blake had his breakout year? I don't think PJ necessarily saw how good Cashman was at an early stage. I am sure Cashman would have had a scholarship eventually if Claeys or Kill was still there.
Good. I feel like I had you pegged as a very reasonable poster based on what I have seen in recent years. Bottom line, I think we agree we can't really say PJ hasn't developed well based on freshmen LBs and DLs. Its been extremely rough, but I do think we will see a much better team by end of 2020.
I feel like multiple people post under this moniker, anybody else have that feeling?
Many, many Flecksters posted that Cashman was not an every down LB. Too small, too slow.
Dumbest take ever. There are 100K people in Rochester. The U wouldn’t be anywhere near what it is in a town that small. It would be better to have it in the suburbs and away from all that $hit in Minneapolis. Minneapolis is well on it’s way to becoming the $hithole the City Council and Mayor have longed for. If you don’t think the unrest has anything to do with recruiting then your head is so far up your a$$ you can’t see it.
Been thinking of moving downtown now that the kids are grown, regularly looking on Zillow, actually was hoping for some kind of dramatic white flight price drops, not really happening yet, BUT prices definitely plateaued in an area where they were rising at a terrific rate.
If we roll into next spring without addressing people living in tents in all the parks in Minneapolis, my guess is those tent cities will double and the trouble with that will double and that might lead to actual decrease in property values.