This should be fun. Reusse interview with Tracy Claeys

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Spoofin said:
I still can’t believe that some in this fan base, of all fan bases, would belittle a 9-win season and the remarkable upset in the Holiday Bowl that year. Honestly, if you need to do that for some misguided reason of supporting the current staff and/or the firing of the old staff, you need to step back and re-evaluate. The take is dumb, but to be fair, it is also stupid.
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Reading the last few pages of this thread really makes your head spin. I don't get what is so hard to understand about the past and where we presently are. Kill came in and undoubtedly improved the team from where it was during the Brewster era. They didn't improve the recruiting but what they did was build a safe style of play and were able to develop solid players on the defensive side of the ball. At very best I think that Kill's recipe was being a team similar to Iowa winning no less than 6 games every year but rarely winning more than 8, but maybe not quite as high of a ceiling (I think in-state talent may play into this as well, which really matters if you aren't able to get a ton of solid recruits out of state). I guess I personally really wouldn't mind if we were able to sustain a level of play like that, but some might disagree. Recruiting under Kill and Claeys was very mediocre. When Kill left I really think it was going to drop off another notch. I know he only really had one class to build but it was not great and was pretty close to the bottom of the B1G. I think Claeys probably would have been able to get 6 wins last year as the D would have played better maybe 7. However Fleck was hired and came in and improved the class Claeys started, and had a recruiting class significantly better than what Claeys would have gotten in year two. This is including his third class this year that I believe, obviously have no specific reason other than track record, Fleck already has a better class than what Claeys would have gotten. Claeys probably would have been able to improve the D and maybe scrape out a 6-7 win season this year, but with the lack of recruiting from Claeys, I think its really hard to say he would have gotten us out of the Gopher Football funk. I don't think there is anyway he would have been better than Kill and what Kill did as the head man. Better D strategist yes but I don't think that is really the thing that's going to set him apart from others. We might suffer short term with Fleck as our D completely sucks ass and we need to get Robb Smith gone, but Claeys hit his ceiling and then would have went on the decline over the next 3-4 years in my opinion. Would he have done better than PJ short term (last to years)? I think this year and the year prior he probably would have. From year 3 of Fleck on do I think he would have put a better product on the field than Fleck? I seriously doubt that. Fleck has raised our recruiting level and got us exposure we haven't had and I think if he gets a competent DC in their for next year, we can start to see some major progress. Short term is PJ kind of sucking? Yeah he really is, our D is terrible, but we have the increase in talent to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
 

Regardless of what you think about TC or PJ, one thing Is for certain, Reusse is a hack tool.
 

6 minutes to play in the 3rd quarter. Stanford has 300 total yards and 31 points.
 





Looks like it was a good game. Unfortunately hardly anyone could watch it.
 

GophersInIowa said:
Looks like it was a good game. Unfortunately hardly anyone could watch it.
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We're out at a Sportsbook in Vegas but we do get the PAC12 Network on Dish back home. You're right though, not a lot of people do.

By the way, the Cougars beating Stanford was VERY popular out here.
 



Stanford offense is terrible. WSU wins with great offense. No doubt "make that with double cheese" would have won 10 games this year with the Gophers. No doubt.
 

MinnGopher said:
Reading the last few pages of this thread really makes your head spin. I don't get what is so hard to understand about the past and where we presently are. Kill came in and undoubtedly improved the team from where it was during the Brewster era. They didn't improve the recruiting but what they did was build a safe style of play and were able to develop solid players on the defensive side of the ball. At very best I think that Kill's recipe was being a team similar to Iowa winning no less than 6 games every year but rarely winning more than 8, but maybe not quite as high of a ceiling (I think in-state talent may play into this as well, which really matters if you aren't able to get a ton of solid recruits out of state). I guess I personally really wouldn't mind if we were able to sustain a level of play like that, but some might disagree. Recruiting under Kill and Claeys was very mediocre. When Kill left I really think it was going to drop off another notch. I know he only really had one class to build but it was not great and was pretty close to the bottom of the B1G. I think Claeys probably would have been able to get 6 wins last year as the D would have played better maybe 7. However Fleck was hired and came in and improved the class Claeys started, and had a recruiting class significantly better than what Claeys would have gotten in year two. This is including his third class this year that I believe, obviously have no specific reason other than track record, Fleck already has a better class than what Claeys would have gotten. Claeys probably would have been able to improve the D and maybe scrape out a 6-7 win season this year, but with the lack of recruiting from Claeys, I think its really hard to say he would have gotten us out of the Gopher Football funk. I don't think there is anyway he would have been better than Kill and what Kill did as the head man. Better D strategist yes but I don't think that is really the thing that's going to set him apart from others. We might suffer short term with Fleck as our D completely sucks ass and we need to get Robb Smith gone, but Claeys hit his ceiling and then would have went on the decline over the next 3-4 years in my opinion. Would he have done better than PJ short term (last to years)? I think this year and the year prior he probably would have. From year 3 of Fleck on do I think he would have put a better product on the field than Fleck? I seriously doubt that. Fleck has raised our recruiting level and got us exposure we haven't had and I think if he gets a competent DC in their for next year, we can start to see some major progress. Short term is PJ kind of sucking? Yeah he really is, our D is terrible, but we have the increase in talent to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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This is 100% conjecture! You don't have any idea where the Gopher program would be in Claeys third year as head coach, nor do I.
 

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