Gophers Football

[Mike Sixel]

6 hours ago, gunnarthor said:

What's going on with Ohio State? Why are all these guys leaving?

from what I've read, there are better QBs in the portal, and OSU wants one of them.....so he saw the writing on the wall

[gunnarthor]

Not completely Gopher's related but Harbaugh is leaving Michigan. I wonder if he knows a bunch of **** is going to come out and Michigan is going to get hammered. Sorta like how Pete Carroll fled USC right before the NCAA rulings came down, twenty years ago. 

[Mike Sixel]

5 hours ago, gunnarthor said:

Not completely Gopher's related but Harbaugh is leaving Michigan. I wonder if he knows a bunch of **** is going to come out and Michigan is going to get hammered. Sorta like how Pete Carroll fled USC right before the NCAA rulings came down, twenty years ago. 

and there are fans that think the transfer portal is bad......

[nokomismod]

So NIL has really negatively affected University of Minnesota basketball and football. Just getting that out of the way and I feel like it came at a time where maybe just maybe the football team was on one a positive trajectory.

With that out of the way, this team is in my DNA just as the Twins are. The predictions are not sky high for this year's team, but I see several ways that they could be in the upper group of eighteen B1G teams.

Here is how it happens:

• Max Brosmar is a smart veteran who can get the ball out quickly. He completed passes to 12 different receivers during the Gophers second game
• The running game will come around with D Taylor and solid depth plus an offensive line that will hopefully grow into the unit that many expect them to be (top third of the conference)
• On defense the cornerbacks are very good and there is solid depth at safety. There is also really good talent on the d line, but the linebacker group really is what will make or break this year's defense. They were young last year and missed a ton of tackles. If the front seven can do a decent job stopping the run and generating pressure, this defense will be good enough for this team to win 8 or 9 wins.

So get out there and enjoy an outdoor football game on a beautiful fall game.

 

 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I hope we win (Floyd is on the line. A mite early in the season, but... big ten has more than 10 teams in it. Oh well.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Early turn over...

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Sigh.

So close to avenging 2003...

[Mike Sixel]

1 hour ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Sigh.

So close to avenging 2003...

Not offsides. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

4 hours ago, Mike Sixel said:

Not offsides. 

Tell that to the refs...

[nicksaviking]

On 9/28/2024 at 8:22 PM, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Tell that to the refs...

'Too close to call' per the Big Ten.

Which obviously means no flag should have been thrown.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Maybe they can take out their frustration on another ranked team this week.

 

I wonder what trophy they are playing for this time?

[Aggies7]

Gophers in great shape here to pull an upset over USC. But will they pull a gopher?

[Aggies7]

They tried to gopher it and almost gophered it. Crazy gamble

[Aggies7]

These referees are horrendous but it looks like the gophers will beat the #11 team in the country 

[gunnarthor]

They follow up the USC win with a victory over UCLA. Not bad. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

6 hours ago, gunnarthor said:

They follow up the USC win with a victory over UCLA. Not bad. 

Could be worse...

[Vanimal46]

The Gophers have quietly won 8 straight bowl games. Most years finishing with 8-9 wins which is respectable in the big 10. Especially now with 18 teams. Fleck has been holding up his end of the deal. Getting a player or two drafted, sometimes high in the NFL draft, and keeping the program relevant.

It's a shame that Max Brosmer was only eligible to play 1 year here. I haven't seen good QB play with the Gophers in my lifetime. Hopefully Fleck strikes gold again in the transfer portal. 

[nicksaviking]

On 1/3/2025 at 10:20 PM, Vanimal46 said:

It's a shame that Max Brosmer was only eligible to play 1 year here. I haven't seen good QB play with the Gophers in my lifetime. Hopefully Fleck strikes gold again in the transfer portal. 

They should have gone after the South Dakota State QB. 

Most people thought he'd declare for the draft but instead he goes to Iowa?!? Where I guess he'll get the attention of NFL scouts by handing the ball off 50 times a game?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Too lazy to search for a basketball thread or make one, but the gophers won their last two games. Good on them.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

California beat them.

 

I saw the missed a game tying field goal in the second half, and California cleaned up from there?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

I checked gameday just in time to see the first touchdown happen (against OSU) and that seems like all that happened afterwards.

Oh well.

[Original_JB]

After y-day's debacle, I'm expecting a fresh Fleck extension to be announced tomorrow morning...

 

[Original_JB]

Okay, so I guess they waited a while to piece together this whole new round of $$$ bumps and bonuses....

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-revises-flecks-contract-new-annual-bonus/

[nicksaviking]

I was going to be a bit dismissive when I saw he was the 10th highest paid coach in the conference since there are only 11 teams in the Big 10.

Then I remembered time is slipping away from me and there are nowhere close to only 11 teams in the Big 10 any longer.