6-3 including 4-2 in B1G! I got a kick out of Ryan Burns' "Go find joy" rant!

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Great stuff. To the point of some of the other fanbases not quite where we are as a middle-of-the-pack developmental program in the B1G+ would trade with us in a heartbeat, here's the current standings for the middle and below...

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Not looking to trade places with PSU for example. .

Heck Oregon only has 4 B1G+ wins at this point. Could we be seeing better football? Yes, of course. But just as it could be better, it also could be worse. Just sayin'...
 

IMO Fleck is a great coach, we all know its $ keeping us from ascending, but he makes no excuses

I can see us easily ending with 8 wins, I still think we should have beat CAL though, even more disappointing to me than the Iowa thrashing, Iowa is a good team (better than us), CAL was not (imo)
 

Very pleased with ugly wins and players making winning plays. Winning the penalty battle!
This is a retooling year with a lot of new players
 

Good rant but he trashed the lack of talent a bit too much. He made it sound like coaches are squeezing juice from a turnip.

Also, much of the angst he's hearing is due to losing by 38 to Iowa. That loss really cost Fleck a lot of goodwill.
 


It was almost like to an extent he was worried about his standing with PJ and his staff so he went off completely the deep end the other direction praising them compared to what I think generally are fair analysis and criticisms when needed.
 

MN and Michigan have 3 common opponents

Both are 3-0 in those games over MSU, Nebraska and Purdue.

MN is + 28 in those games.
MI is + 19 in those games.

Just saying.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
MN and Michigan have 3 common opponents

Both are 3-0 in those games over MSU, Nebraska and Purdue.

MN is + 28 in those games.
MI is + 19 in those games.

Just saying.
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I watch most Michigan games (when they don’t overlap with gopher games) with my friend who is from Ann Arbor.

Michigan isn’t better than the gophers. I do wonder how that matchup would go. Always assume they’ll control the trenches but hard to tell.
 

Could not agree with Burns more in this regard. He is speaking about a relatively small subset of social media folks but they are a very vocal and annoying group that if they are anything like their online persona would be some of the worst people in the world to be around in real life.

Enjoy the ride.....any Gopher fan who isn't thrilled with the win needs to find a different hobby. It wasn't pretty but the team found a way to win. Most posters are good, they enjoy the wins but also have critiques about the team and program and want to discuss the areas that clearly need to improve...that is all totally valid.

But any "Gopher fan" in here saying we should be embarrassed by or ashamed of the win needs to find something better to do with their time. 6-3, 4-2, going bowling again and with a chance to finish with 8 or 9 wins on the season....far from perfect but like Burn's says, there are a lot of teams/fanbases in the conference/country that would gladly trade places with us right now.
 




We have a fortunate schedule this year as we barely beat three of the bottom dwellers. A bad break here or there and we are 1-5 instead of 4-2. But, we won those games so take it to a bowl game somewhere.
 

FinnGopher said:
We have a fortunate schedule this year as we barely beat three of the bottom dwellers. A bad break here or there and we are 1-5 instead of 4-2. But, we won those games so take it to a bowl game somewhere.
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We had Ohio State and Iowa on the road, had Nebraska when they were full strength, missed Michigan and Penn State on down years, and still have a trip to Oregon.
 

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