Earlier this week Minnesota Golden Gophers fans learned that walk-on linebacker Blake Cashman had earned a full scholarship. We also heard that the coaching staff revealed this exciting news in a fun event involving Easter eggs. Today, we get to see exactly what went down and it’s just as fun as you could imagine.
In Coach Fleck’s post-practice media scrum earlier this week, he revealed that the football staff put this together in about a day. They even designed a logo for the event:
(NOTE: I expect we’ll get to see logos for a lot of fun team contests, as they’d already done something similar for the intra-team Golden Tee tourney around the Masters)
Walk on players getting a scholarship from Fleck in a memorable fashion isn’t a new thing.