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Fix that unit, get the secondary to cover somebody and they probably have a good defense again. The second group probably comes down to coaching too. Many players in the secondary looked confused most of the year.

I think there are more to the defensive issues than the DL coach but this is a start.

This dismissal just completes the wet dream for the MN media. They got to negatively cover a bad unit all season and now get to provide negative coverage when the leader of that unit is dismissed.

But there were also a significant number of games where the opposing RB wasn’t getting touched until 3-4 yards downfield. The DL was getting blown off the ball frequently on running plays. Additionally, the pressure wasn’t consistent as they had something like 16 of those sacks in two games.

Hopefully, Stevens’ track speed (10.38) being more significant than Hoskins’ (11.02) translates to the field as they seem to be the same size and we saw how much Hoskins struggled to see the field.

Correct, so you have to adjust on a year by year basis. The goal should be to have your transfers be as impactful as possible and have HS recruiting fill in the rest. For a school like MN, that likely means fewer transfers.

Seems like there are some very significant steps left…

Is this an example of the grass isn’t always greener on the other side? Virginia Tech cashing in on Penn State’s arrogance/ineptitude.

Given that it sounds like he hid an injury from the staff, hopefully he’s finding another team for next year.

Going forward it may be wise to have smaller, more impactful transfer classes. Rather than taking 3 WRs, take 1 that is more likely to be a significant contributor, identify positions by value on each side of the ball and only pay transfers at the most valuable positions, etc. Initially, they...

They will likely need to go to the portal again for OL & DL as there were just too many misses in the 21-23 HS classes.

Looks like a year to take a big swing even if it results in a couple down years to refill the NIL coffers.

Yep, example is the OL this year. While the transfer adds this year weren’t good, the complete lack of success recruiting/retaining HS OL from 21-23 was the killer.

I think the kids name was Charlie Jilek. Possibly a TE.

I wouldn’t be offended if there were changes either. Given the performance of the defense, it would probably be a mistake if all options weren’t on the table.

I don’t think MN or Illinois should fire everyone but MN was seriously lacking this season and a lot of the issues, at least on defense, appeared to be coaching based.

Even teams that struggle angainst Blue Bloods are good at certain phases of the game when playing every other team. This Minnesota team wasn’t consistently good at any of the three phases of the game. There’s definitely room for improvement for the coaching staff.

I’d fire Kevin Kane just for the fact that he vouched for the Purdue DT that didn’t play a snap because he hid a back injury.

That should be a very real fear. The entire defense regressed. I’d expect anyone with a shot at the next level to question their ability to make it there as a Gopher if the current Defensive staff stays in tact.

Kid can play. Haven’t seen many, if any, DBs this year undercut a route the way he did on the second INT. He had a great game!