Sid Hartman: U football mystery

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U football mystery

The big mystery about the Gophers football team is how it could play well against Ohio State and Iowa and yet play so poorly against Maryland, Nebraska, Indiana and Illinois.

Ohio State, which is 8-1 and No. 10 in the county, gained only 92 yards rushing against the Gophers in a 30-14 victory. Iowa, which is ranked No. 21 in the country, had only 106 yards rushing in a 48-31 victory.

But Maryland, which is 5-4 overall, rushed for 315 yards vs. the Gophers. Nebraska, which is 2-7, rushed for 383 yards. And Illinois, which is 4-5, rushed for 430 yards, the most the Gophers have given up this season.

“That’s a lack of consistency that we have. That is credited to a lot of different things, but it’s just a lack of consistency in all areas,” coach P.J. Fleck said while pointing out the Gophers have to tackle better. “There is a lot of issues with that. We have to get that corrected. We worked on that again [Wednesday]. We’ll continue to work on that. Part of that we have to be able to catch up on that in the offseason, as well.”

Does Fleck think that changing defensive coordinators from Robb Smith to Joe Rossi will make a difference against Purdue this weekend?

“This isn’t about instant results,” Fleck said. “This is about a long-term-type decision. This isn’t about just now, it’s about long-term, as well. We want to get our guys confident and playing really fast and playing a lot better, and that is what we’re going to do.”

Unfortunately the Gophers’ remaining schedule is against teams with winning records in Purdue, Northwestern and Wisconsin. Purdue is a 12-point favorite, and with one of the best passers in college football in David Blough it figures to be awfully tough for the Gophers to defend against the Boilermakers.

http://www.startribune.com/lindsay-whalen-breaking-records-for-gophers-again/500096131/

Go Gophers!!
 

per Sid:

U football mystery

The big mystery about the Gophers football team is how it could play well against Ohio State and Iowa and yet play so poorly against Maryland, Nebraska, Indiana and Illinois.

Ohio State, which is 8-1 and No. 10 in the county, gained only 92 yards rushing against the Gophers in a 30-14 victory. Iowa, which is ranked No. 21 in the country, had only 106 yards rushing in a 48-31 victory.

But Maryland, which is 5-4 overall, rushed for 315 yards vs. the Gophers. Nebraska, which is 2-7, rushed for 383 yards. And Illinois, which is 4-5, rushed for 430 yards, the most the Gophers have given up this season.

“That’s a lack of consistency that we have. That is credited to a lot of different things, but it’s just a lack of consistency in all areas,” coach P.J. Fleck said while pointing out the Gophers have to tackle better. “There is a lot of issues with that. We have to get that corrected. We worked on that again [Wednesday]. We’ll continue to work on that. Part of that we have to be able to catch up on that in the offseason, as well.”

Does Fleck think that changing defensive coordinators from Robb Smith to Joe Rossi will make a difference against Purdue this weekend?

“This isn’t about instant results,” Fleck said. “This is about a long-term-type decision. This isn’t about just now, it’s about long-term, as well. We want to get our guys confident and playing really fast and playing a lot better, and that is what we’re going to do.”

Unfortunately the Gophers’ remaining schedule is against teams with winning records in Purdue, Northwestern and Wisconsin. Purdue is a 12-point favorite, and with one of the best passers in college football in David Blough it figures to be awfully tough for the Gophers to defend against the Boilermakers.

http://www.startribune.com/lindsay-whalen-breaking-records-for-gophers-again/500096131/

Go Gophers!!

I think too many nuances were being added onto the scheme as the season went. Potentially we did better when the opposing offense wasn't hitting the nuances as much and we did way worse when they did. Not saying the opponents picked out the nuances or didn't, just that they were hitting them. Given that the nuances were added part way through the season, it made those conditions more vunerable.

Hopefully Rossi removes a few of the layers of nuances/goes back to the base system, simplify it and give the players some confidence during execution.
 

per Sid:

U football mystery

The big mystery about the Gophers football team is how it could play well against Ohio State and Iowa and yet play so poorly against Maryland, Nebraska, Indiana and Illinois.

Ohio State, which is 8-1 and No. 10 in the county, gained only 92 yards rushing against the Gophers in a 30-14 victory. Iowa, which is ranked No. 21 in the country, had only 106 yards rushing in a 48-31 victory.

But Maryland, which is 5-4 overall, rushed for 315 yards vs. the Gophers. Nebraska, which is 2-7, rushed for 383 yards. And Illinois, which is 4-5, rushed for 430 yards, the most the Gophers have given up this season.

“That’s a lack of consistency that we have. That is credited to a lot of different things, but it’s just a lack of consistency in all areas,” coach P.J. Fleck said while pointing out the Gophers have to tackle better. “There is a lot of issues with that. We have to get that corrected. We worked on that again [Wednesday]. We’ll continue to work on that. Part of that we have to be able to catch up on that in the offseason, as well.”

Does Fleck think that changing defensive coordinators from Robb Smith to Joe Rossi will make a difference against Purdue this weekend?

“This isn’t about instant results,” Fleck said. “This is about a long-term-type decision. This isn’t about just now, it’s about long-term, as well. We want to get our guys confident and playing really fast and playing a lot better, and that is what we’re going to do.”

Unfortunately the Gophers’ remaining schedule is against teams with winning records in Purdue, Northwestern and Wisconsin. Purdue is a 12-point favorite, and with one of the best passers in college football in David Blough it figures to be awfully tough for the Gophers to defend against the Boilermakers.

http://www.startribune.com/lindsay-whalen-breaking-records-for-gophers-again/500096131/

Go Gophers!!

I don't get lumping Iowa in with OSU as games where the Gophers "played well." I didn't think we played well against Iowa at all. It was a home game, and it was never really in doubt. Seth Green scored halfway through the 3rd to bring it within a TD, but Iowa scored again 3 minutes later. Iowa was ahead by 2-3 scores for most of the game, and we never led. We actually held the lead twice against OSU and were within a single score for the majority of the game, which was on the road. We certainly didn't play as poorly against Iowa as we did against the others mentioned, but we didn't play well either.
 




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