A Smatterting of Thoughts

By Rob Graff, 02/12/10, 1:21PM CST

I'm a single dad to 4 children this weekend. My wife is on a well-deserved break to go to her College Basketball Reunion weekend at Harvard. Needless to say, I'll be supplementing the fast food and child care portions of our economy.
Mankato has been on the upswing for 2 years. They have two of the best offensive players in our confernce in Ryan Reibel and Brent Walby. And they have a stable Head Coaching situation, which will begin to pay dividends this year. I think they are an up and coming team, that will be among the contenders for the UMLL championship. We must be ready to play our best.
MCLA ball effectively starts this week for our nationwide organization. Really excited to see the BYU/Chapman game if I get home in time this Saturday night. And curious to see Michigan's results v. OWU tonight. My guess is that Michigan wins.

Two new postive developments in recruiting this week. May delay announcement to see if we can get closure on them in short order.

We've completed travel plans for Arizona trip. Thanks to Cheryl Offerman, once again, for her tireless voluntary assistance to our team. I don't think the UMD Family understands how much she does for us, how lost I'd be w/o her help and how much $ she saves our team. Parent's we're staying at the 4 POINTS SHERATON in TEMPE. There are two Sheratons - we are staying at the 4 Points one.

UMLL Championship site should be announced w/in 10-12 days.
Frank Clark has taken the bull by the horns and updated the site. I like the new look and hope you do as well. Thanks Frank.

Here's a hint - If you are a spectator ARRIVE EARLY TO THE AUGSBURG GAME tomorrow. There is limited seating as the officials have decided to limit spectators at indoor domes to in-between the Restraining Boxes. Noone may set between the Restrainging box and the End line per officials rulings.

We do have video of the St. Cloud game, but I've not made time to get it up on the site. That's on me.