Doogie: It's inexcusable to have only 10 men on the field for two straight plays

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Doogie tweet: "It's inexcusable to have only 10 men on the field for two straight plays. The #Gophers had 18+ sec. to sub on the 4th-&-7 on NW's 2nd drive."

Go Gophers!!
 

Doogie has obviously never played on a young or injury riddled team. Unfortunately this team is both.
 

You go coach Doogie. Where are you coaching these days?
 

I don't like Doogie either, but he is right. I would be pissed if a high school team was screwing that up.
 

You can't argue with Doogie on this one. If our team has to sub 4 guys at a time this is bound to happen against a hurry up offense. We need a better base defense who can stay out play after play during the hurry up for several plays at a time.
 



The defense being young or banged up is not a legitimate excuse for having ten men on the field.
 


Have to agree with Doogie on this one. This is not the first or second game of the season, it is the second to last game of the season. That is a problem that should not be happening this late in the season.
 





Unregistered User said:
1 play=excusable
2 consecutive plays= inexcusable
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Better two consecutive than two spread apart. Verse a hurry up spread this can happen with an injury riddled and young team.

"The defense being young or banged up is not a legitimate excuse for having ten men on the field." - Okay it shouldn't be, but it is. The reason is if you are subbing out of sequence, or playing on a different unit, you can realize you should have been out there too late. Teams like NU make this more of a possibility.

Year one. I doubt we'll see this going forward.
 




That just verifies what kill is talking about!! This team doesn't have alot of sandwiches in the picnic basket!!
 


Was it poor awareness by the coaching staff and players? absolutely.

What does inexcusable even mean? Inexcusable is what Joe Paterno did...
 

always an excuse for this coaching staff...this is big ten football, cant have 10 men on the field-bad coaching bad player awareness. quit making excuses
 

lakesgopher said:
always an excuse for this coaching staff...this is big ten football, cant have 10 men on the field-bad coaching bad player awareness. quit making excuses
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Ya, we know. You coach high school football. I'd guess (if you actually do since you seem sort of clueless) that your teams team faces a hurry-up offense like Northwestern's and handles it perfectly. At least no more advice for Coach Kill about how you motivate.
 

phipho said:
Doogie is an idiot.
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I guess you think having 10 men on the field is cool! Why even bother wasting your time typing that?
 

Great Plains Gopher said:
Shades of Jose Salem! Used to happen regularly with his teams...
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I thought that it was worse under Cal Stoll, and Gutey lost a couple of games (I recall Iowa and that Ohio State debacle) because he had 12 players on the field. Its not a new problem.
 



BleedGopher said:
Doogie tweet: "It's inexcusable to have only 10 men on the field for two straight plays. The #Gophers had 18+ sec. to sub on the 4th-&-7 on NW's 2nd drive."

Go Gophers!!
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Earlier in the season Kill and staff are incompetent. Then they outcoach Iowa. Now this is inexcuseable.

Panic much, Doogie?

So they F'd up, relax, it happens. Two plays in a row, oh my god!
 

Agree with Doogie. None of the coaches noticed on the first play and either corrected it or called a timeout on the second play. Much worse that any of our 10-yard punts.
 

It cost us a touchdown. Period,end of story. I like Coach Kill, but in all honesty the staff has made some bonehead decisions this year.
 

10 men on the field is 99% the fault of the coaching staff. Yes you hope someone on the field will notice they are short a guy but they don't have a birds eye view and the players are focused on making the calls and covering the other team. Up in the booth you have the coordinator and a handful of other coaches and grad assistants from both sides of the ball. I would think someone up there would have the responsibility of making sure the right number of guys are on the field. They are in communication with the sideline over head sets so if someone is on the ball up top they radio down and the 11th player gets on the field for the second play. Somebody dropped the ball. I agree with someone earlier in the thread that said 10 men on the field one time is excusable, two plays in a row is inexcusable.

The game moves fast and things get chaotic but it is the job of the coaching staff to see everything that is going on. Mistakes happen but they dropped the ball on this one.
 

Mulligan said:
Ya, we know. You coach high school football. I'd guess (if you actually do since you seem sort of clueless) that your teams team faces a hurry-up offense like Northwestern's and handles it perfectly. At least no more advice for Coach Kill about how you motivate.
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its odd how high school errors are ok for some excuse making gopher fans...kinda sad
 

I like this staff in many, many ways. One is their straight talk and I bet if you asked Jerry Kill about this he would say it is inexcusable. You can debate the meaning of the word inexcusable all you want, but in the realm of the football world ... it is inexcusable. So it is still a real good staff who F'ed up this time.
 

10 men on the field two plays in a row is a mistake. Doogie is grasping for straws right now by magnifying small mistakes. What's Doogie trying to accomplish by making a big deal out of this? The gophers lost. How about trying to be a respectable journalist and discuss issues that can actually be fixed. This type of comment is generally reserved for coaches being run out of town and the media is looking for any excuse to get rid of him. I don't understand pointing this stuff out for a coach in his first year of a rebuilding job.

Maybe I'm in a minority but I actually want to see this coach be successful at the University of Minnesota. I'm all for constructive criticism but saying sh*t like this is just stupid.
 

It is inexcusable and Coach Kill would probably agree with that tweet. Remember in HS, when the coaches would call for the punt unit or something like that, and some kid would be day dreaming and not be ready, I don't think there is a way to tick a coach off more than that scenario. It is completely inexcusable and that's on the coaching staff.

That said, I wouldn't expect it on a regular basis. We are extremely young, we play a lot of different coverage packages, and we have a lot of injuries. there probably isn't a more of a recipe for these kinds of boneheaded mistakes. I'm not making an excuse for what happened, because it is inexcusable.
 

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