Athletic Director Reaches Out To Minnesota High School Football Coaches

For years Minnesota high school football coaches have been frustrated with the lack of a relationship between them and the university.

   

Joel Maturi had a meeting with a committee of coaches yesterday and there are some amazing quotes from the meeting, Gopher football: AD reaches out to fix rift between U, football coaches.

"I think our coaches association is starving for a relationship with the University of Minnesota," said Albert Lea coach Clay Anderson, president of the High School Football Coaches Association. "We want it badly. We want to bleed maroon and gold, and for the last 10 years we felt nothing but frustration."

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"I think that's up to the university to make that decision," Anderson said. "As an advisory group, we're more concerned with the lack of a relationship we had with the university for pretty much the whole Mason Era. What we're looking for is to open up the lines of communication and have a much better relationship."

While the high school programs will not produce the number of talented kids it did decades ago, the growth of hockey as near cult status and the lower number and quality of inner city school teams, but there have been many high profile kids leave the state for greener pastures (so to speak).

   

For the first time in many years this 2007 recruiting class, assuming it stays intact, has many Minnesota kids in it. Most of that work was done by an assistant coach or two, not Glen Mason.

   

The next coach really needs to make this one of his top priorities.