As the dust settles.

[scools12]

What silly analysis, so basically they looked at the box score, saw 17 points, combined with no sacks and wrote that. CFN is absolutely not a reliable source of analysis, read NOTHING into what they print.

Things that stand out after the dust settled for me:
Not much hand showed offensively, I think Weber said they only used 30% of a pared down playbook. Alot of counters, flips, end arounds can be built off of the basic dives/traps/and tosses we saw.

Very few mistakes or penalties. A funny moment was when a timeout was called in the middle of one of our drives, my buddy, assuming it was one of the many "offensive WTF confusion timeouts" we saw last year, yells at Brewster(TV), turns out MTSU was confused on D and needed a timeout

Interested to see whether the D was scheming to contain the QB(my theory on the lack of pressure), or if they simply were not getting there. I think they saw Kilgore throwing well on the run and took that away.

Here's to a nice comfy 40 point injury free blowout that I can enjoy without any blood pressure spikes and that my caribbean jerk ribs are tender, my bloody mary is spicy and my beer is cold on Saturday.

Not going to argue whether CFN is a reliable source of information or not but anyone can look at the box score and see MTSIU ran the ball 22 for 146 which is 6.6 YPC. With all the talk about how well the Gophers ran the ball MTSU actually ran the ball 2.4 YPC more than the Gophers.

Really not any reason to think that MTSU did not run the ball well and to a good job against the Gopher defensive front from looking at the box score. Just because you choose to ignore it doesn't make it any less true.

 

[Schnoodler]

You're not a girl? I bet the underdog thinking I was buying lunch for a chick!

Man would I be an ugly chick. My appetite just grew by the way.

 

[RodentRampage]

Not going to argue whether CFN is a reliable source of information or not but anyone can look at the box score and see MTSIU ran the ball 22 for 146 which is 6.6 YPC. With all the talk about how well the Gophers ran the ball MTSU actually ran the ball 2.4 YPC more than the Gophers.

Really not any reason to think that MTSU did not run the ball well and to a good job against the Gopher defensive front from looking at the box score. Just because you choose to ignore it doesn't make it any less true.

Who was saying that MTSU didn't run the ball well? Let's go back what CFN said "Middle Tennessee doesn’t have any offensive punch without QB Dwight Dasher". That is the issue, and it's an unwarranted assumption. Perhaps they DID have some offensive punch with Kilgore? That could explain why MTSU was able to have a decent performance on the ground.

 

[scools12]

Who was saying that MTSU didn't run the ball well? Let's go back what CFN said "Middle Tennessee doesn’t have any offensive punch without QB Dwight Dasher". That is the issue, and it's an unwarranted assumption. Perhaps they DID have some offensive punch with Kilgore? That could explain why MTSU was able to have a decent performance on the ground.

This is the point I disagree with you on. IMO this is not that unwarranted of an assumption as you make it out to be. Dasher was a known commodity with around 4000 total yards and 36 combined TDs last year. Kilgore wasn't even on their roster last year. It is not such a stretch that anyone would assume that MTSU would not be as good offensively or have the same offensive punch with Kilgore as they would of had with Dasher.

It seems your making an assumption that what CFN infers is a rip on the Gophers defense being bad. Or at least that is what you are questioning. I don't see it that way. I see it as CFN pointing out what anyone can infer from looking at the boxscore.

 

[Unregistered User]

It seems your making an assumption that what CFN infers is a rip on the Gophers defense being bad. Or at least that is what you are questioning. I don't see it that way. I see it as CFN pointing out what anyone can infer from looking at the boxscore.

Absolutely disagree. CFN did not infer anything. They implied a rip on the Gophers defense, I infer that as a rip on the Gophers D. Just as I infer your analysis as an implication of a bad Gopher D.

I would further assume that anyone who lends even an ounce of credence to anything that is written on CFN as uninformed.

 

[caliGopher]

I'm critical of the Gophers when I feel it's warranted, but I'll boil it down:

The preseason predictions are basically based on the premise that the Gophers are worse than last year. There is NOTHING in the victory against MTSU that suggests the Gophers are worse than last year. If anything, you gotta coming away thinking the offense is more effective. They have a lot to prove, especially on defense, but that game was absolutely a counter to the notion that they are worse this year. I am not ecstatic, but I am definitely hopeful, and they deserve credit for a methodical victory.

Go Gophers!

The predictions are based on the premise that the Gophers did not improve at the same rate of their brethern schools. We could be 2x better but if everyone else got 3x better, we'd slip.

Preseason stuff comes from the OOMA Study. That would be the Out of My Ass study. Doesn't mean they're right or wrong, necessarily, but in college sports, you never know.

I'm worried less about what Phil Steele thinks and more about how we'll fare against marginal teams that have lost their all world QB the week before the game.

We'll learn nothing from the USD game, so we're on hold until USC to learn more about this team.

 

[AhliBobwa]

Despite the fact that they ripped the Gophers, CFN still predicted a 45-10 gopher victory.

...I'd love to see the CFB blogosphere if the Gophers beat USC

 

[eker0016]

Despite the fact that they ripped the Gophers, CFN still predicted a 45-10 gopher victory.

...I'd love to see the CFB blogosphere if the Gophers beat USC

I'm not a conspiracy theorist regarding the Star Trib etc., but I don't think it would be a huge deal to CFB as a whole. It's a home game for the Gophers, we have an easier opponent the week before, they are breaking in a new coach, they lost a number of players to transfers, there is a black cloud hanging over the program due to sanctions.

Recipe for Jim Souhan: If the Gophers win, pick 2-3 of these reasons and write a satirical article about why the Gophers really didn't accomplish much because their victory was tainted/against a weakened opponent. There! A job well done.