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This is how I feel also. The Gophers have not had a really good rush end since Karon Riley. Vandesteeg had his moments. Otemewu and Mafe made the league on measureables. Bonkers how terrible our pass rush has been the past few decades. Just incredibly impotent. Joyner really the hope there...

Yeah I am not interested in and don't know enough about Euroball to have any awareness of skills translating. It is just fascinating that a team this historically terrible has pro-level players (for any league). Edit: cool to see the updates on other former Gophs playing still.

It's absolutely bonkers to me that a team this bad has two players people are worried about leaving for pro ball. I mean Garcia maybe but still crazy. I guess there are some low-level INTL orgs out there but it is just wild that there is anyone on this team that looks ready to play next-level.

I don't expect to - that's why I was so severely disappointed with the Gophers football outcome this year. The way NIL is currently structured, the top 25 rankings (for both football and basketball) will start to very closely mirror the top 25 NIL spending. Most northern/progressive areas are...

This isn’t Oxford, MS and by every measure of quality of life nobody should want it to be. We’re never going to give large sums of money to third-party intermediaries to then turn around and give it to 17-22 year old kids. I have no problem buying tickets to games or events but I am not giving...

It’s also consistent scheduling of some of the worst offenses in P5, driven by the fact that we are in the West. I am not hating on the defense - happy to have competence. But our pass rush has been bad and context of opponents matter. Need better pass rush. Whether through personnel or...

I don’t think that is contended. But a QB rush is pivotal and the Gophs have been astonishingly weak and frail at this skill. Pass rushing will be more important now as the QBs in the B1G West should be much improved over last few years. Need to cause disruption.

Yeah I was picturing VanDeSteeg but kept coming up with the name Grant Wistrom. Willie was solid. Striggow may be a good contain end but he has shown no ability to rush. Hopefully Joyner can continue progression but our ability to develop talent at the position means we have to bet otherwise. A...

Hope Coach D is a good hire and can produce players that can actually rush the passer and create havoc during obvious passing downs, something we haven’t had here in forever. Mafe and Otemewu are good athletes with measurables but production didn’t match. Before them - really bleak. Last legit...

Yes it’s mostly just my opinion but the upper end of the B1G West (Iowa and WI most years, never the Gophs) is nowhere near the upper-end caliber of most other conferences. Maybe our middle-tier teams are “competitive”, but the conference as a whole has been weak. I think most college football...

It is extremely weak. It may be competitive among the teams but the overall strength of the B1G West is very poor.

And thank God for that. It might be fun to get housed on a Saturday morning but you do not want to live your life for Saturdays in places like Oxford, MS and such. Minnesotans are fans but most have lives with other priorities. The south doesn’t have a lot going for it and the ultra-fetish for...

I agree with this mostly but the losses haven’t been dumbfounding, they have been semi-often if not consistent. We haven’t ever won the weakest P5 division in football while Northwestern, Purdue, and Illinois have. We can win 8 games and claim above average but we don’t win when stakes are...

Our other backs are not good enough for the abysmally slow handoffs. At least Williams and Potts. These need to happen faster or you will see a lot more runs like the first play of the Purdue game where we somehow ran it up the middle for a 5-yard loss (Potts). Have to be faster.

Agree they are largely unproven but WI, Iowa, and Illinois have all brought in heavy talent at a major position of weakness. They aren’t just trying to wish on development from players at a Petras level. Also Mordecai does have numbers at a lower division. We keep talking up receivers and DBs...

They have greatly improved the talent at that position and will be much stronger at QB next season.

Whether Gophs or Vikes, if there is more than 20 seconds on the clock before the half, the other team will score. It’s truly bonkers how buffonish our end-of-half defenses here are in MN. DLine absolute garbage on this drive too.

Ideally you have both Mo and Bucky - they are two different types of players. Mo is more consistent in churning yardage but doesn't have the speed to house one from long. Got chased down past the secondary on multiple occasions this year. It killed us because our offense was so bad we couldn’t...

In the return game, we do not have a legitimate returner. I do not want Redding returning kickoffs and would rather he fair catch them. Happy to have Kesich get a touchback on each kickoff. We don’t have the ability to kick short and rely on coverage.

Fleck has lost me but Kill was a nightmare with a Claeys malignancy. Blessed to have them out of the program.