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I have been following Gopher Football for the last several years and while I am thrilled with Coach Kill and the Progress made but I do have several concerns. They are as follows:
1. Coach Kill and Staff track record in bowl games. I believe that Jerry and his staff are currently 0-5 in bowl games. I realize that sometimes you can be matched up against a superior team but the concern I have is there appeared to be a lack of preparation against Syracuse and Missouri. This year there were so many fundamental mistakes that the game became a "sad comedy of errors" on our part. The 3 fumbles by the QB, muffed punt return, 2 fumbles by Cobb that he recovered on his own, dropped passes, the mental errors such as the roughing the passer call on 3rd and incomplete, the LB play in quarters 2-4 was atrocious. We had a LB in perfect position to stop the fake punt and he failed to make the play. The team simply looked like an 8th grade team and with Jerry's record in bowl games I am hoping he will reach out to friends such as Gary Patterson in the coaching fraternity to see if they can identify what we are doing wrong in our preparation for bowl games. This game was a significant setback to the program.
2. Gary Pinkel's staff took us to school. Normally I would stack Jerry and his staff up against any in the country but we were badly beaten on the chalk board in this game. We dominated the 1st quarter and they made adjustments and Missouri took the game over. They had scouted us well with the fake punt and the onside kick and they executed both to perfection. Obviously, Missouri was well prepared and the aggressor. We should have been prepared for them taking Cobb "out of the game" with their defensive scheme and we clearly weren't.
3. Recruiting. Harbaugh and other big names in the coaching profession will be calling several of our commitments for 2015 and I hope we are buttoning things up on the recruiting front as the day of backing off of committed athletes in the BIG Ten is over.
4. Commitment of the fans to building the program. Have you seen the facilities at Wisconsin, Ohio State, Nebraska and Oregon? Jerry Kill is at a significant disadvantage in relation to the facilities we have compared to most of the rest of the BIG Ten. When fans complain about licensing fees and ticket price increases this is something that the majority of the BIG Ten schools have been doing for years. I have a number of friends and colleagues in the coaching profession and facilities is the number 1 thing that many 18 yr. olds are looking at in a school. The sooner we break ground on the new improvements the greater chance Jerry has at landing marquee recruits. But Alumni, Boosters and Friends of the university will have to do their part to make this happen.
Growing up in Ohio, playing college and professionally I can tell you that these are items that would be quickly addressed at Ohio State. But these challenges will take commitment by everyone involved to maintain the progress we are seeing in the program.
1. Coach Kill and Staff track record in bowl games. I believe that Jerry and his staff are currently 0-5 in bowl games. I realize that sometimes you can be matched up against a superior team but the concern I have is there appeared to be a lack of preparation against Syracuse and Missouri. This year there were so many fundamental mistakes that the game became a "sad comedy of errors" on our part. The 3 fumbles by the QB, muffed punt return, 2 fumbles by Cobb that he recovered on his own, dropped passes, the mental errors such as the roughing the passer call on 3rd and incomplete, the LB play in quarters 2-4 was atrocious. We had a LB in perfect position to stop the fake punt and he failed to make the play. The team simply looked like an 8th grade team and with Jerry's record in bowl games I am hoping he will reach out to friends such as Gary Patterson in the coaching fraternity to see if they can identify what we are doing wrong in our preparation for bowl games. This game was a significant setback to the program.
2. Gary Pinkel's staff took us to school. Normally I would stack Jerry and his staff up against any in the country but we were badly beaten on the chalk board in this game. We dominated the 1st quarter and they made adjustments and Missouri took the game over. They had scouted us well with the fake punt and the onside kick and they executed both to perfection. Obviously, Missouri was well prepared and the aggressor. We should have been prepared for them taking Cobb "out of the game" with their defensive scheme and we clearly weren't.
3. Recruiting. Harbaugh and other big names in the coaching profession will be calling several of our commitments for 2015 and I hope we are buttoning things up on the recruiting front as the day of backing off of committed athletes in the BIG Ten is over.
4. Commitment of the fans to building the program. Have you seen the facilities at Wisconsin, Ohio State, Nebraska and Oregon? Jerry Kill is at a significant disadvantage in relation to the facilities we have compared to most of the rest of the BIG Ten. When fans complain about licensing fees and ticket price increases this is something that the majority of the BIG Ten schools have been doing for years. I have a number of friends and colleagues in the coaching profession and facilities is the number 1 thing that many 18 yr. olds are looking at in a school. The sooner we break ground on the new improvements the greater chance Jerry has at landing marquee recruits. But Alumni, Boosters and Friends of the university will have to do their part to make this happen.
Growing up in Ohio, playing college and professionally I can tell you that these are items that would be quickly addressed at Ohio State. But these challenges will take commitment by everyone involved to maintain the progress we are seeing in the program.
Yes, I'm from Ohio and I played High School and College ball in Ohio. But I love the Twin Cities, the State of Minnesota and I bleed Maroon and Gold.
