GopherWeatherGuy
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Seriously dude - stop spending your time here if you are so unhappy, hate our coach, bitter about everything Gopher FB, etc. I'm worried about you - you need to be happy and clearly aren't. Stop punishing yourself.
I'm miserable because I use facts to back up how I think the football program is beginning to trend in the wrong direction? I'm sorry that those facts don't always align with homerism. So many are blinded by 8 wins on paper and don't care about anything else. That's fine and that's your opinion. I come to a fan message board to vent and/or express my opinion about the program now and the future of the program.
Kill built up the program and had a lot of momentum going into last year and then everything that could have went wrong, went wrong. Claeys, aided by Coughlin, was able to keep the good MN recruits home. Outside of that, the recruiting was mediocre. Combo that with questionable coaching decisions, undisciplined play, a perceived lack of personality, no rivalry/ranked wins, and a current recruiting class ranked dead last in the B1G with not a lot of help on the horizon, I'm worried.
QB play regressed this year. They are obviously not convinced any QB on the roster is better than Leidner, or ready to play next year. The jury is still out on whether they can get another QB to commit here, and there are no guarantees that he will be any better if they do. That's scary.
The Northwestern attendance is a warning sign that the momentum is being lost. I'm not the only one who is concerned. As others have said, they were just as close to losing some bad games this year as they were to winning a big game. They lose some solid SRs on defense, and have a giant ? at QB going into next year. It's very possible they could struggle next year. What happens if they only win 4 games, and recruiting continues to struggle? Then we've lost all momentum that Kill had built, and that's what terrifies me the most. I don't want to start from scratch again.
As far as positive posts, all you had to do was look at the posts I made on the basketball board last year. I was one of about 2 Pitino supporters left during that brutal season because of the talent he continues to recruit. Now that's starting to pay off, and next year could be one of the best Gopher basketball teams we've had in a while.