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Nestor is far from the only problem but the pass defense was much better without him against Nebraska.

Great story—thank you for sharing. Great story—thanks for sharing. I know someone who was at the game. He was 12 years old. He claims Minnesota had the ball & the lead in OT & were victimized by a “Wooden call”—a suspect traveling or offensive foul against Minnesota. I have no idea if this...

Random fact: the 69-70 team played at UND (12/4) and then hosted UCLA (12/6). Nothing like a trip to Grand Forks to prepare for the Wizards of Westwood at Williams Arena. (It almost worked: lost by one in OT.)

Play at the pre-game meal…

The 2005 game was Iowa’s senior Day. In one oh those crowded section entrances I ended-up standing in-line with the Iowa parents waiting to take the field. Everybody had a good laugh.

A Chicago trip is always great—even better with Gopher football in the mix. We’re going.

Next time, dear, please cook the pork.

Minnesota beat Iowa each of Joe’s Salem’s first three years yielding a total of 23 points in the games. The 1980 game is one of my all-time favorites. It was the last Minnesota-Iowa game played at Memorial Stadium and the Gopher’s last trophy game win at Memorial Stadium. The game was a...

The Hoover Presidential Library is the one closest to Minnesota. His achievement in feeding starving Europe after World War l is well documented in the museum.

It must be my 62 year old Viking eyes but I’m not seeing the “indisputable visual evidence” of a mistaken call. Nevertheless, the deserving team won the game and it’s time to move on to LA.

Funny: my critique is his insistence on running on first down from the 10 & 11 as they did on the first & last drives. The TOLs killed both of those drives. If you see too much passing & I see too much running—maybe it’s the personnel…

Hoping we run play-action out of the “I”—force them out of their preferred man coverage where by secret Big Ten Officiating Edict they are allowed to hold on every play.

Seems much like Tyler Johnson as a freshman with a capacity to make plays but needing experience and strength. My son and I went to Lincoln in 2016 and Johnson had a catch & run of about 30-40 yards but he was caught from behind. We agreed: give Johnson a couple years and he’ll finish plays...

Love 24-6 October games (Iowa 1980, also)!

Ran the court well in the second half: scored smoothly off a pick & role; may provide passing/pick & role option from the high post. The Palm beach tourney will likely show if he can provide depth minutes in Power 4/Big Ten games.

Jerry changed his best for the 2013 Nebraska game. We need PJ to follow suit for tomorrow night.

There was a different time: it’s 1978 at then Bierman Field. Minnesota and Michigan State are playing a double header. The Gophers rally from seven runs down to win the opener. Kirk Gibson is hanging a miserable 0-fer day at the plate into the second game. He is hearing it from the fans...

He’s become PJ.

The trend line between us and the Badgers has been headed in the right direction to PJ’s great credit. It’s also fair to say we’ve had our share of awful years (1983; 1991; 2007) and great years (1999; 2014; 2019 albeit not enough) but unlike Wisconsin no Big Ten championships. And...

Great to see grit at crunch time (at least at home against mediocre opposition) but struggling to run the ball while struggling to stop the run is a recipe for defeat at every level of football. Sometimes winning leads to improvement but it’s not the natural order of the sports world. We’ll...