8 win seasons could be tough

[Gophers4ever6842]

Gophers are a small town team!!! We can’t beat the big city teams and we aren’t suppose to!!! Every win is an upset!!! 7-5 and bowls are fine with me! Compared to 80s/90s in which they were sooo bad!!! I’ll take it!!!

 

[Panthadad2]

For sure


Regardless of your schedule though the goal is to have a system that can sustain and win 6+ against the hard schedule and take advantage of the easy one.



I know the games vs power 5s non conference are fun. But we would be better served as a program playing absolute doormats.

Raises the floor by a game

I agree on the non-con scheduling since the 9 conference games are getting tougher with both the addition of good west coast teams and overall elevation of the BG10 with new $$$$. Pull an Indiana or SEC and schedule all G5/FCS. Heck, Indiana also gets the advantage of having Purdue as its only locked in opponent.

 

[USAF]

Gophers are a small town team!!! We can’t beat the big city teams and we aren’t suppose to!!! Every win is an upset!!! 7-5 and bowls are fine with me! Compared to 80s/90s in which they were sooo bad!!! I’ll take it!!!

I see Peter has made his way over from Twins Daily.

Same bit.

 

[Some guy]

I agree on the non-con scheduling since the 9 conference games are getting tougher with both the addition of good west coast teams and overall elevation of the BG10 with new $$$$. Pull an Indiana or SEC and schedule all G5/FCS. Heck, Indiana also gets the advantage of having Purdue as its only locked in opponent.

Purdue had that advantage in big ten west too of having bad Indiana locked.

 

[FanSinceTheFifties]

Going forward, the Gophers will dominate. They will recruit all the best players. They will coach with flawlessness and precision. And they will never again win fewer than 10 games in a season.

It's easy to recruit the best players. It's harder to get them to Minneapolis.

 

[Gophers4ever6842]

I see Peter has made his way over from Twins Daily.

Same bit.

We are both twins/gophers fans!!!!

 

[Arminius]

Tulane was 23-4 in the 2 seasons prior to Sumrall's arrival, including a Cotton Bowl win over USC and a top 10 finish in the AP Poll.

The top-40 reference I thought was about landing spots for HC's. Admittedly, I may have misinterpreted it.

Yet, your correction reinforced my point. A doormat gets Cignetti and in year-0 is in the CFP. Tulane loses a winning coach and replaces him with a winning coach.

Why are we content as a fan base with a 5-7GPA-7-5 bowl games...after nine years?

 

[Tucker32]

Enjoy this win and season. With the new climate of college football It ain’t gonna be easy for our Gophers to have 8 win plus seasons going forward. For those wishing Fleck would move on be extremely careful what you wish for. Minnesota is really lucky to have him. A lot of us don’t realize where Gopher football ranks as a coaching destination. I’d say it’s not in the top 40.

So dumb. Just be average and you win 8. Win three non-conference games and then beat likely at least three not very good teams out of nine on your Big Ten schedule, and then go 2-4 against the other six. All we needed to do to get to 8 wins this year was beat poor to bad teams without winning records. We were a below average to poor team ourselves.

 

[Some guy]

So dumb. Just be average and you win 8. Win three non-conference games and then beat likely at least three not very good teams out of nine on your Big Ten schedule, and then go 2-4 against the other six. All we needed to do to get to 8 wins this year was beat poor to bad teams without winning records. We were a below average to poor team ourselves.

This is pretty true until you get into specifics

The gophers lost to zero teams with losing records
One team without a winning record (northwestern)

 

[denguegopher]

Also 3 plays away from being 4-8. Rutgers C snapping it through AKs legs for instance in the shotgun.

Won some. Lost some.

Yes, we have little margin for error, neither does Rutgers or Wisconsin.

 

[GooningGopher]

Going forward, the Gophers will dominate. They will recruit all the best players. They will coach with flawlessness and precision. And they will never again win fewer than 10 games in a season.

Ik you said this in jest but I’m bricked up reading this

 

[maroonfive]

It's easy to recruit the best players. It's harder to get them to Minneapolis.

That makes zero sense. It is a lazy excuse.