Recent content by GopherMenace

Mostly for selfish reasons lol. My dad always wanted to go see the Gophers play in the Rose Bowl. I was gonna save money so we could go in ‘28. We didn’t have the ability in ‘24 to go, so ‘28 would’ve been our one shot.

That’s extremely lame

In my opinion, until Fleck has a season or two where his teams don’t come out miserably flat against a lesser opponent or get embarrassingly blown out by a team of similar talent. I think you’ll be extremely hard pressed to find a major booster who would be willing to take the team seriously...

Laying an egg = playing down to or below a team of lesser talent and losing. Any team is capable of doing this regardless of talent level.

2021 Bowling Green, 2021 Illinois, 2022 Purdue, 2023 Northwestern, 2024 North Carolina, 2024 Rutgers, 2025 Cal, and I’d even argue this years blow out was an inexplicable bad loss due to how badly they got beat. Outside of that 2023 Northwestern game, because that season was a down year...

You can tell that the ghost of James Franklin is still at Penn St with wasting that timeout there lol

I think the yearly inexplicable bad loss is what really holds the program back. It hurts the national perception of the program and kills excitement in the casual fanbase. If I had money to seriously donate to NIL, those losses would give me pause. Because, if you routinely lay eggs against...

Anyone know when the last time we picked up a JUCO kid? Feels like it’s been awhile.

Wild that a non top 25 team could make the playoffs. FWIW, I’m a fan of conference champs being rewarded, but there will be A LOT of noise when Memphis gets in over a SEC school.

I give it a C. For once I’d say the coaching outperformed the players. There were multiple times where players were schemed open and the play was missed or a play was dead but missed tackles let it continue. The play call to have Lindsey roll out and take it himself to end the game was bananas...

ESPN Analysis Joe Lunardi has St. Thomas making the tourney as an automatic qualifier and put them as a 14th seed. https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/bracketology/ncaa-bracketology-2026-march-madness-men-field-predictions

I’m always shocked at how highly Sark is viewed in the coaching ranks. He’s had a #1 ranked QB back to back and transformed them from projected first round picks to day three picks. Have to wonder if they really were overhyped or if Sark is just bad at coaching QBs.

Absent unexcused is what I would probably put in the grade book. To get an F you have to at least be present to receive it.

O’Connell should get charged with a crime for continuing to throw Wentz out there. Both for the pain it’s caused me and the suffering Wentz experiences every time he drops back.

Tua might be after this season