Minnesota will start Faalele against OSU
For those who recall the recruiting saga with him. Best of luck to him!
October 9th, 2018 at 9:28 PM ^
I can't imagine that will end well going up against that much talent.
October 9th, 2018 at 9:45 PM ^
Yeah... Good luck to him.
October 9th, 2018 at 9:28 PM ^
If Faalele was next to Onwenu in our line they would collapse into a neutron star.
October 9th, 2018 at 9:33 PM ^
I’m glad you didn’t say black hole.
October 9th, 2018 at 9:46 PM ^
True, but if Faalele somehow ended up next to Higdon, they'd become an eclipsing binary system, with Higdon orbiting so rapidly around Faalele that he would gradually lose all his mass, become a brown dwarf, and then eventually cease to exist altogether. :-(
October 9th, 2018 at 9:50 PM ^
Mason would knock both of them into another galaxy!
October 9th, 2018 at 9:55 PM ^
racist, brown-dwarf-hating clown...
October 9th, 2018 at 10:06 PM ^
Why only the brown dwarfs, you would think the red dwarfs would have to come into this too, right?
October 9th, 2018 at 10:15 PM ^
i stand for all the dwarf stars:
yellow, brown, red and white,
they are precious in my sight.
October 10th, 2018 at 1:25 PM ^
Red Dwarf was my favorite Brit-Com
you Smeg Head!!!
October 10th, 2018 at 2:45 PM ^
i have no idea what a 'brit-com' or a 'smeg head' is, but i bet they're bad and i deserved it. or they're good and i should say, 'smeg head to you, too!'
which one is it?
October 10th, 2018 at 2:50 PM ^
Brit-coms are the British Sitcoms that were shown on PBS. There were a slew of them that were rerun for a number of years. Red Dwarf was the story of a deep space miner who was a total slacker that got put into stasis for bad work and woke up 3 million years in the future.
Smeg was their generic curse word, used so they wouldn't cause problems with censors. So while on the show, being called a Smeg-head was bad, to the fan base, it's all in good fun.
October 9th, 2018 at 10:54 PM ^
#Dwarflivesmatter
October 10th, 2018 at 12:17 AM ^
The correct term is "little people"
October 10th, 2018 at 9:49 AM ^
Hey, it’s not my fault the white stars rule the universe! Why do you think I wear all this white face paint??
October 10th, 2018 at 8:03 PM ^
Uranus spins on its side.
October 9th, 2018 at 9:33 PM ^
Never mind. Incorrect/unobtainable information.
October 9th, 2018 at 9:34 PM ^
username checks out!
October 9th, 2018 at 9:58 PM ^
I think that stat's wrong. Minnesota as a whole has given up 13 sacks in 5 games.
October 9th, 2018 at 9:35 PM ^
Maybe Mount Faalele will lift an OSU lineman over his head and twirl him around before hurling him into the stands taking out Buckeye Guy.
October 9th, 2018 at 10:42 PM ^
I'd sit through commercials for that
October 9th, 2018 at 9:56 PM ^
A couple years back I remember the breathless SI articles about that guy. How did he fall to Minnesota?
October 9th, 2018 at 10:07 PM ^
Went to IMG and revealed he was really really raw I believe.
October 9th, 2018 at 10:10 PM ^
No experience with football; no athleticism; no OL technique... That should be enough! Otherwise, he is a large human.
October 9th, 2018 at 10:16 PM ^
Looked great in workouts without pads but played non-aggressive in the IMG games that I can remember. He had a loooong way to go.
He looked like a 3 to 4 year project. I can't imagine playing so early will help his development.
October 10th, 2018 at 1:47 PM ^
I agree with two of the three, but film of him playing rugby and practicing at IMG definitely shows a good amount of athleticism. The issue is that he was about as raw a recruit as there was. He is all about the potential.
October 9th, 2018 at 10:11 PM ^
There's a joke in there somewhere about coming from Oceania and rowing the boat.
October 10th, 2018 at 1:21 AM ^
Saw on 247 that he was recruited by Warriner.
October 9th, 2018 at 10:27 PM ^
October 9th, 2018 at 10:57 PM ^
Unless he's made great strides in practice, this has the faint aroma of a publicity stunt by Mr. Row the Boat.
October 10th, 2018 at 12:08 AM ^
Well it works because I’ll watch him!
October 10th, 2018 at 12:24 AM ^
publicity stunt or desperation.
October 10th, 2018 at 7:07 AM ^
It does seem to be out of desperation. From the story linked in the OP:
"Faalele was inserted at right tackle in the third quarter against Iowa after Hawkeyes defensive end Anthony Nelson abused Schlueter for three sacks in the first half."
Btw, Nelson more than doubled his sack total for the year in one half of play (he had two sacks leading up to the game), and had no sacks after Faalele came in.
October 9th, 2018 at 11:03 PM ^
Just think what Warinner could have done with him.
October 9th, 2018 at 11:27 PM ^
I was stoked for Faalele to be a Wolverine, 6’9”, 400 pounds, strong and athletic, like a bigger meaner Jordan Miliata on the Eagles. Too bad he wasn’t all that. I hope he has developed and squashes OSU.
October 10th, 2018 at 6:36 AM ^
I still like my idea of using an 800 pound man to sit in front of the goal in a hockey game.