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Coach Tim Brewster probably has never had a more disappointing loss in his coaching career than the Gophers' 41-38 loss to a South Dakota team that a week ago lost 38-7 to an ordinary Central Florida team.
This was an unexpected defeat after the Gophers went down to Middle Tennessee and won last week.
Looking back on Brewster's three years, plus two games, I don't believe a team coached by him ever played as pathetically on defense as the Gophers did on Saturday. If they play like that against Southern California next week, the Trojans will run up a record score.
Brewster didn't pull any punches after the game when he took the blame for a horrible defensive performance in which the Gophers gave up 444 total yards. Yes, it was that bad.
"As I just told the team, the depth of my disappointment right now -- you cannot measure it," Brewster said. "I do not want to discredit South Dakota in any way. I want to make sure we give them the proper credit, but it certainly is an unacceptable loss on our part by our team. We make no excuses. We point no fingers. I just did not get the job done with our team and having them prepared to go into the game today against South Dakota. Again, it is a great disappointment, obviously. We did not play well on the defensive side of the ball. We had opportunities to score a lot more points on the offensive side of the ball, and should have."
What was hard to figure out is why a young quarterback named Dante Warren, in only his second start, could complete 21 of 30 passes for 352 yards and two touchdowns and run 10 times for 102 yards and two touchdowns, when he was shut down in his first game by a team in Central Florida that might not be any better than the Gophers.
A week ago, in that 38-7 loss to the Knights, Warren rushed just four times, losing a yard, and completed 10 of 19 passes for only 104 yards and zero touchdowns. South Dakota had 220 yards in total offense in that loss, half of what it had against the Gophers.
Yes, nobody expected this result, certainly not Brewster and the assistant coaches, who were very satisfied with the performance against Middle Tennessee State where the Gophers controlled the ball for 49 minutes, including the last 13 minutes, and gave the offense a chance to perform.
Brewster made it clear he was especially disappointed with the defense that allowed South Dakota to score six of the 11 times it had the ball.
"We can talk about the fact we have young guys on the defensive side and we have inexperienced guys, but there is no excuse to have a defensive performance like we had today," said Brewster.
Well, even though a lot of the players on the Gophers defense on Saturday played quite a bit last year, it was obvious that they aren't close to the 2009 defense of Nate Triplett and company.
The only good news about the defense is two experienced players will be in the lineup next week: Kim Royston, who was on the injured list, and Kyle Theret, who was suspended for the first two games. Maybe they can help.
I might add that I was 100 percent wrong about this team. I thought it had a chance to be pretty good. But it does have 10 more games on the schedule to show something.
Go Gophers!!
Go Gophers!!
Coach Tim Brewster probably has never had a more disappointing loss in his coaching career than the Gophers' 41-38 loss to a South Dakota team that a week ago lost 38-7 to an ordinary Central Florida team.
This was an unexpected defeat after the Gophers went down to Middle Tennessee and won last week.
Looking back on Brewster's three years, plus two games, I don't believe a team coached by him ever played as pathetically on defense as the Gophers did on Saturday. If they play like that against Southern California next week, the Trojans will run up a record score.
Brewster didn't pull any punches after the game when he took the blame for a horrible defensive performance in which the Gophers gave up 444 total yards. Yes, it was that bad.
"As I just told the team, the depth of my disappointment right now -- you cannot measure it," Brewster said. "I do not want to discredit South Dakota in any way. I want to make sure we give them the proper credit, but it certainly is an unacceptable loss on our part by our team. We make no excuses. We point no fingers. I just did not get the job done with our team and having them prepared to go into the game today against South Dakota. Again, it is a great disappointment, obviously. We did not play well on the defensive side of the ball. We had opportunities to score a lot more points on the offensive side of the ball, and should have."
What was hard to figure out is why a young quarterback named Dante Warren, in only his second start, could complete 21 of 30 passes for 352 yards and two touchdowns and run 10 times for 102 yards and two touchdowns, when he was shut down in his first game by a team in Central Florida that might not be any better than the Gophers.
A week ago, in that 38-7 loss to the Knights, Warren rushed just four times, losing a yard, and completed 10 of 19 passes for only 104 yards and zero touchdowns. South Dakota had 220 yards in total offense in that loss, half of what it had against the Gophers.
Yes, nobody expected this result, certainly not Brewster and the assistant coaches, who were very satisfied with the performance against Middle Tennessee State where the Gophers controlled the ball for 49 minutes, including the last 13 minutes, and gave the offense a chance to perform.
Brewster made it clear he was especially disappointed with the defense that allowed South Dakota to score six of the 11 times it had the ball.
"We can talk about the fact we have young guys on the defensive side and we have inexperienced guys, but there is no excuse to have a defensive performance like we had today," said Brewster.
Well, even though a lot of the players on the Gophers defense on Saturday played quite a bit last year, it was obvious that they aren't close to the 2009 defense of Nate Triplett and company.
The only good news about the defense is two experienced players will be in the lineup next week: Kim Royston, who was on the injured list, and Kyle Theret, who was suspended for the first two games. Maybe they can help.
I might add that I was 100 percent wrong about this team. I thought it had a chance to be pretty good. But it does have 10 more games on the schedule to show something.
Go Gophers!!
Go Gophers!!