Chip Scoggins: Loss to Wisconsin shows how far Gophers football has fallen

per Chip:

P.J. Fleck plans to hit the recruiting trail Sunday afternoon after the Gophers football team banquet. Here's a quick suggestion: Find some legitimate Big Ten-caliber players on offense and bring them to Dinkytown.

Find a quarterback. Find a bunch of receivers. Find some offensive linemen.

And then keep searching some more because one recruiting class isn't going to fix the mess put on excruciating display Saturday in a rivalry game that was more lopsided than an elephant sitting on a teeter totter with a mouse.

The undefeated Wisconsin Badgers didn't even need bother wasting cargo space on the charter for Paul Bunyan's Axe because the trophy had no shot of changing hands for the first time in 14 years. Predictably, No. 5 Wisconsin moved a step closer to securing an invitation to the College Football Playoff with a walk-in-the-park 31-0 victory at TCF Bank Stadium.

"We've got a long way to go," Fleck said.

Miles to go on offense. The Gophers were shutout in back-to-back games for the first time since 1950.

http://www.startribune.com/loss-to-wisconsin-shows-how-far-gophers-football-has-fallen/459997923/

Go Gophers!!

Chip teeing off on Gophs:

The Gophers lag so far behind Wisconsin as a program that all they can see is dust swirling in the air. The Badgers represent the gold standard in the Big Ten West because they operate with assembly-line efficiency and consistency. They have perfected their formula, especially on offense, and they don't deviate from it.

The Gophers offensive identity is … what exactly? Hope Rodney Smith is sturdy enough to put 10 teammates on his back without breaking down?

Their offense is so feeble that a 26-yard completion in the third quarter felt like witnessing man's first visit to the moon.

Did you see that! An actual catch. Wow!

http://www.startribune.com/loss-to-wisconsin-shows-how-far-gophers-football-has-fallen/459997923/

Go Gophers!!

Find some coaches too while you're at it.

I agree with the sentiments of the article. What I disagree with is that it is new?
We built with a quarterback for 3.5 years only to have him throw picks and blow a 4th quarter lead.

I’d say that’s more proof that we aren’t close than any result the following year when their team is better and yours is worse.

Yet the Badgers have had three different coaching staffs in ten years, same as the Gophers. Somehow their system goes on...and on.

Great Plains Gopher said:

Yet the Badgers have had three different coaching staffs in ten years, same as the Gophers. Somehow their system goes on...and on.

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Not making an apology for how bad the Gophers were, but the reason that the Badgers have had three staffs is because Alvarez runs the show, has since he "stepped away from coaching" and the coaches that have left have likely done so for that very reason. They don't want to be coaches in name only.

Fine, we’ll be patient, but Gophers football remains a 50-year assault on patience.

This says it all