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Well, I'll always remember Biff Poggi as the worst-dressed college football coach ever.

And to think they once had the longest-running bowl streak.

Good question.

Yes, that was it! I stomped out of the stadium and this Boilermaker train was tooting its horn outside. I wanted to kick the stupid thing.

The endzone was painted that way in the Metrodome once and it cost the Gophers a win in OT. There were no replay reviews at the time. It may have been against Purdue in fact, not sure.

Overall health should be a bigger factor than age in my opinion, as we found out with Jerry Kill. Indiana also had a coach, Terry Hoeppner, who died of cancer after coaching the team for just a couple of seasons. I don't know if they or anyone knew about his health problem when they hired him.

My bet is he still leaves if the right team comes calling, and there are programs that wouldn't have much problem paying his buyout. All Indiana has accomplished is bidding up the cost of hiring a football coach.

I might be in the minority here, but I thought Kill was a very good coach and had a great staff to support him. He definitely left PJ something to build on.

It doesn't look like much of a downgrade to me.

The national media always undersells the Gophers. Bringing in a new QB definitely made it hard to predict where the season was going to go. I've been very satisfied with Max Brosmer overall. There still is a chance the Gophers could get 2 or even 3 more wins than last season, and I'm including a...

Well, all they can do now is pull off a big upset against Penn St. I try to keep a running count of where the team is at according to expectations. An upset gets you a +1 and being upset gets you a -1. A win in a couple of weeks will offset the loss to Rutgers. A win against Wisconsin probably...

You can't take any Big Ten team lightly. I'll agree on that. I'll put it this way: Rutgers is bottomfeeder in the conference and these are the teams you have to step over to get near the top. Otherwise, you are going to have to settle 6 or 7 wins and a minor bowl bid which is where this team is...

Well, I'd say it's the same thing from the standpoint of the Gophers seemingly putting it all together and then laying an egg against a bad team, and Rutgers is a bad team. Reminds me of them in years past going into Bloomington and somehow losing the Hoosiers when they were always bad.

Glen Mason lasted 10 seasons at Minnesota. The AD at the time made an impulsive decision, in my opinion anyway, to fire him after an epic collapse in a minor bowl game. Well, you probably know the rest... If you trust your AD to make a great hire then maybe. Otherwise, it's a roll of the dice on...

He's paid about what he's worth at this point in my opinion. Whether he is average or slightly above average is kind of a silly argument. He gets paid the big bucks so he should be able to take the heat, by the way. I certainly hope he does enough to be paid much more in the future. In the end...

I agree. Of course, every Big Ten team can't be overlooked, but I don't accept games like these have to be like a coin flip. Good, well-prepared, focused teams rise above that. Clunkers at the beginning of the season I can accept, but is the time to have it all together. It's not as if this team...

With players now getting NIL money it's become a more legitimate argument. College athletes are going to be treated more and more like pro athletes. Don't like it then play in a lower division.

I think it has less to do with liberal/conservative and more with north/south. Most of the football talent is in the South. How many players from the South want to come to Minnesota?

It's always a roll of the dice with a new coach. We are probably stuck in this situation for the foreseeable future. Could be worse, as the typical Minnesota sports fan says.

Good-bye and have a nice day.