BleedGopher
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per Dustin:
The last three weeks seemed to be a sneak peek into Fleck’s vision of the program. The first building blocks for a program dedicated to constructing a contender. There’s still a bowl game remaining, but people can’t help but think about 2019.
Looking ahead is all well-and-good, but what shouldn’t get lost is the significance of this season and the kind of turnaround this team needed to even get into the postseason conversation.
From an outsider’s perspective, this might look like a typical 6-6 campaign. Minnesota lost some games it should’ve won, and won some games it should’ve lost. In the end, it all evened out. But 2018 was anything but normal. Fleck and Co. might’ve kept their oars in the water, but the canoe was making circles through the first seven weeks of the season.
How everything got straightened out, and so quickly, is still a bit of a mystery.
This season won’t be remembered as one of the best in Minnesota history. Nobody is running to the bookstore to purchase a T-shirt with a 6-6 record plastered on the front. But that doesn’t minimize what the Gophers accomplished this fall.
It’s appropriate that Minnesota’s season ended by beating the Badgers and reclaiming Paul Bunyan’s Axe. It was a message to Wisconsin and the rest of the B1G that the Gophers are here for the long haul.
And now they have the right tool to clear their path to the top of the B1G West.
https://saturdaytradition.com/minne...coming-bowl-eligible-is-even-more-impressive/
Go Gophers!!
The last three weeks seemed to be a sneak peek into Fleck’s vision of the program. The first building blocks for a program dedicated to constructing a contender. There’s still a bowl game remaining, but people can’t help but think about 2019.
Looking ahead is all well-and-good, but what shouldn’t get lost is the significance of this season and the kind of turnaround this team needed to even get into the postseason conversation.
From an outsider’s perspective, this might look like a typical 6-6 campaign. Minnesota lost some games it should’ve won, and won some games it should’ve lost. In the end, it all evened out. But 2018 was anything but normal. Fleck and Co. might’ve kept their oars in the water, but the canoe was making circles through the first seven weeks of the season.
How everything got straightened out, and so quickly, is still a bit of a mystery.
This season won’t be remembered as one of the best in Minnesota history. Nobody is running to the bookstore to purchase a T-shirt with a 6-6 record plastered on the front. But that doesn’t minimize what the Gophers accomplished this fall.
It’s appropriate that Minnesota’s season ended by beating the Badgers and reclaiming Paul Bunyan’s Axe. It was a message to Wisconsin and the rest of the B1G that the Gophers are here for the long haul.
And now they have the right tool to clear their path to the top of the B1G West.
https://saturdaytradition.com/minne...coming-bowl-eligible-is-even-more-impressive/
Go Gophers!!