Aaron Hill hustles through the whistle in 42-39 win

[GopherLady]

Per Minnestota Daily's Jack Satzinger...

The 2011 Gophers football pregame video featured head coach Jerry Kill yelling the words “Hustle through the whistle!” to his new team.

Those words came to fruition two years later in Minnesota’s 42-39 victory over Indiana on Saturday afternoon.

With less than a minute left in the game, senior defensive back Brock Vereen disrupted a backward pass, and senior linebacker Aaron Hill saw the football on the ground in front of him. Hill, hustling through the whistle, scooped up the ball to clinch the game.

Minnesota improved to 7-2 with the win and earned its third Big Ten win in a row.

....http://www.mndaily.com/sports/athletics/big-ten/2013/11/03/hill-hustles-through-whistle-42-39-win

 

[maliksealy]

The officials blew the whistle before the play was over? I don't think that was the case.

 

[GophersInIowa]

It was a very heads up play. If you watch the replay, he never hesitated.

 

[bleedsmaroonandgold]

The officials blew the whistle before the play was over? I don't think that was the case.

I don't think it was meant to be taken that literally. I always envision "playing through the whistle" as being like following through on your shot in hockey. You don't swing in a way that allows you to bring your stick to a stop the second it hits the puck, you hit the puck at feel speed and then let your follow through deal with the momentum. When the author says "play through the whistle", I think he just refers to playing full speed up until the whistle, and not slowing up in anticipation of a whistle (especially when there is a football lying on the ground.

 

[die hard gopher]

I don't think it was meant to be taken that literally. I always envision "playing through the whistle" as being like following through on your shot in hockey. You don't swing in a way that allows you to bring your stick to a stop the second it hits the puck, you hit the puck at feel speed and then let your follow through deal with the momentum. When the author says "play through the whistle", I think he just refers to playing full speed up until the whistle, and not slowing up in anticipation of a whistle (especially when there is a football lying on the ground.

or when you run a forty