The 2016 class of Minnesota high school athletes is deep and talented. Maybe deeper and more talented than any we have seen in decades. Gopher Football has traditionally had a problem keeping in-state talent. The cream of the crop, who had options to go to any school in the country, would most often choose those other schools. Notre Dame, Ohio State, Miami, Oregon, Alabama and other blue-chip programs have routinely taken the best this state has had to offer over the past few decades. But that is changing with the 2016 Empire Class.
There is something going on over in Dinkytown and that trend is beginning to change.