1500: Gophers quick hits: Defense turns out dominant performance in victory

[BleedGopher]

per 1500:

• Freshman cornerback Jalen Myrick made his collegiate debut, taking over a role on kick returns that had been filled by fellow corner Briean Boddy-Calhoun, who suffered a season-ending ACL and MCL tear last week.

The decision to take a redshirt off Myrick was made by the Gophers coaching staff earlier in the week. Claeys said he expects to slowly faze the 5-foot-10, 200-pound Georgia native into the backend of the rotation in the secondary, as early as next week, using him another option in nickel packages.

http://www.1500espn.com/sportswire/...ns_out_dominant_performance_in_victory_091413

Go Gophers!!

 

[Gopherprof]

I noticed that Myrick was in there. Pretty much inevitable with BBC hurt. We need to recruit a lot more bodies for the secondary, especially with Vereen, Shabazz, and Baltazar all graduating this year.

 

[husker70]

More numbers inside the story. The Gopher defense was dominant on third down. Depending on how you interpret the Western Illinois 3rd down conversion of 4-14 or 28.5%, or the Gopher Defense stopped Western Illinois 10/14 times 71.4% of the time.