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Gophers depth an issue
I don’t think what happened Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium was any surprise to Gophers football coach P.J. Fleck.
The Gophers didn’t play anybody in the nonconference schedule. Buffalo, Oregon State and Middle Tennessee were a combined 5-7 heading into Saturday, and the record of the five teams they had beaten was 6-16.
Fleck had made it very clear that you can’t compare last season’s 9-4 squad with this year’s team for any number of reasons but especially because of the lack of depth.
The Gophers lost four top players facing Maryland, and then losing safety Antoine Winfield Jr., their best defensive player, on Saturday really turned the tide.
“We’re not deep enough,” Fleck said. “We don’t have enough talent in terms of top to bottom. We had to pull some redshirts this afternoon, especially when Antoine went down.”
And few teams can afford to turn the ball over. The Gophers did it twice.
http://www.startribune.com/vikings-defense-hopes-takeaways-keep-coming/448840843/
Go Gophers!!
Gophers depth an issue
I don’t think what happened Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium was any surprise to Gophers football coach P.J. Fleck.
The Gophers didn’t play anybody in the nonconference schedule. Buffalo, Oregon State and Middle Tennessee were a combined 5-7 heading into Saturday, and the record of the five teams they had beaten was 6-16.
Fleck had made it very clear that you can’t compare last season’s 9-4 squad with this year’s team for any number of reasons but especially because of the lack of depth.
The Gophers lost four top players facing Maryland, and then losing safety Antoine Winfield Jr., their best defensive player, on Saturday really turned the tide.
“We’re not deep enough,” Fleck said. “We don’t have enough talent in terms of top to bottom. We had to pull some redshirts this afternoon, especially when Antoine went down.”
And few teams can afford to turn the ball over. The Gophers did it twice.
http://www.startribune.com/vikings-defense-hopes-takeaways-keep-coming/448840843/
Go Gophers!!