Recent content by Gophergrandpa

I agree. We seem to have a real unpreparedness/poor game plan issue this year in road games. But this hasn't been the case in many other years. Hopefully just a 2025 thing. Maybe we can shake it off with a decent effort at Oregon and a win at NWern.

I really like that idea. Koi is certainly contributing this year, but I feel he would be much more valuable on offense this year, given how the offense is underperforming. I'd be pleased to see Koi take more reps, maybe the majority or all of his reps, on Offense at WR--especially against...

Coleman was in the field a lot in the MSU game … with Loya and Lanier injured.

Yes …

6-3 overall, and 4-2 in the B1G doesn’t suck. Sorry. A 0.667 winning percentage for the season doesn’t suck. Sorry. You need to follow Ohio State or Indiana so that your minimum expectations can be met. Don’t waste your valuable time on a young, resilient, mid-tier B1G team. You are special and...

Assuming PJ’s trend of significant to shocking road game underperformance is a trend, you hate to have Ohio State, Indiana and Illinois at home in 2027. Better to have the most challenging teams on the road (because we mask a poor road performance with a near certain loss anyway) and save for...

Oregon plays Iowa next week (our bye week). We’ll see what the current Oregon offense is made up of against an Iowa defense that we can only dream of bringing. And can Iowa score on Oregon? I think it might be a close game. I don’t expect the Gophets to beat Oregon—no one does. This year’s team...

Correct. In two humiliating road losses (tOSU and Iowa) we were outscored 83-6 for negative 77 point differential. Thus, in our remaining seven games, we actually have a +31 point differential and a 6-1 record--an average point differential of essentially +5 per game. As you all know, the Gophs...

I was at the Cal game. Defense was poor; Cal ran roughshod over us. Sliced and diced by a true Frosh QB. But Special Teams was beyond poor; it was epically bad and gave at least 10, maybe more to Cal gift-wrapped. The offense had its moments, but this was before PJ had taken the handcuffs off of...

Here is a way to think of the Gophers season that might make one think the team is charmed rather than deficient. Below I list five teams’ points scored, points allowed, points differential, and record in B1G conference play this season: Wisconsin: 27–143, -116, 0-5 Michigan State: 124–213...

Penn State and Wisconsin, both 0-5 in conference play, would kill for an ugly win.

Well, that settles it! Hope somebody tells Harbaugh.

Point spread versus Oregon might be more than +25.

To get to 8 wins, the Gophs will have to win a road game. So far, in progression, the Gophs have looked quite bad at Cal, very, very bad at Ohio State, and then extremely, horrifically bad at Iowa. This road game trend of progressively more inept play and simplistic, transparent offendive game...

He was listed as unavailable for the game. So was Lanier.