BleedGopher
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per Souhan:
There are two takeaways from this abomination against football, and they tell slightly different stories.
The first is that never in the history of this rivalry had Northwestern won by 39 points, until Saturday. Fleck accomplished what Tim Brewster’s couldn’t.
The second is that with a regular-season finale against unbeaten Wisconsin scheduled for Saturday, the Gophers are all but guaranteed to finish with two Big Ten victories for the fifth time in eight seasons. Gophers football mediocrity is as predictable as bad November weather in Chicago.
Every Gophers coach since Lou Holtz has had a season in which he has won two or fewer games in the Big Ten. Unless he beats Wisconsin, Fleck will be joining good, bad, and mediocre company.
A lousy Gophers season is nothing new, and there is danger in drawing conclusions from any one game. If you thought Minnesota had turned a corner by scoring 54 points against Nebraska, you were wrong. If you think Fleck has no chance to win because of one bad game in Evanston, you’re jumping to conclusions.
Even if you don’t want to write off Fleck as nothing more than Smarter Brewster, you may feel free to conclude that his team performed on Saturday the way a badly coached team would perform.
“I’ll take the blame,” Fleck said.
His team wore white and anthracite on Saturday. The assumption was that the uniforms were meant to attract recruits, but maybe Fleck suspected his players might require disguises on one of the worst days in recent Gophers football history.
http://m.startribune.com/a-bad-goph...conclusions/458523133/?section=sports/gophers
Go Gophers!!
There are two takeaways from this abomination against football, and they tell slightly different stories.
The first is that never in the history of this rivalry had Northwestern won by 39 points, until Saturday. Fleck accomplished what Tim Brewster’s couldn’t.
The second is that with a regular-season finale against unbeaten Wisconsin scheduled for Saturday, the Gophers are all but guaranteed to finish with two Big Ten victories for the fifth time in eight seasons. Gophers football mediocrity is as predictable as bad November weather in Chicago.
Every Gophers coach since Lou Holtz has had a season in which he has won two or fewer games in the Big Ten. Unless he beats Wisconsin, Fleck will be joining good, bad, and mediocre company.
A lousy Gophers season is nothing new, and there is danger in drawing conclusions from any one game. If you thought Minnesota had turned a corner by scoring 54 points against Nebraska, you were wrong. If you think Fleck has no chance to win because of one bad game in Evanston, you’re jumping to conclusions.
Even if you don’t want to write off Fleck as nothing more than Smarter Brewster, you may feel free to conclude that his team performed on Saturday the way a badly coached team would perform.
“I’ll take the blame,” Fleck said.
His team wore white and anthracite on Saturday. The assumption was that the uniforms were meant to attract recruits, but maybe Fleck suspected his players might require disguises on one of the worst days in recent Gophers football history.
http://m.startribune.com/a-bad-goph...conclusions/458523133/?section=sports/gophers
Go Gophers!!