Chip: How one mop bucket best symbolizes Gophers football right now

[BleedGopher]

per Chip:

A gray bucket sits on the floor inside the running backs meeting room at the Gophers football complex. A small, ordinary mop bucket that you’d find at a hardware store.

To Gophers running backs, that bucket carries special meaning, a touch of symbolism that applies not just to that specific position group but to the entire team, particularly with an offense that is filled with stars but cares more about group achievement.

Every Sunday, the running backs take index cards and write down their individual stats from Saturday’s game. No names. Just carries and rushing yards. Then they toss the cards in the bucket.

Translation: they did it as a group. No one running back more important than the others. Selflessness over ego. Team success over individual agendas.

“We have really great players,” coach P.J. Fleck said. “But they’re better teammates than they are really good players.”

How one mop bucket best symbolizes Gophers football right now

Here's a hint: The Gophers players care little about their individual stats compared to team success.

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[fmlizard]

We have a pipe wrench, a mop bucket, an Axe, a Bell, oars, like 10 different flags, a logo with multiple slogans, more slogans on top of that, a 400 pound dude, and when the team takes the field it looks like an angry farmer's alliance set to cause mayhem in the next town over. I half expect to see Mark Coyle swinging a sack of doorknobs in the smoke on Saturday.

Have I said how much I love this team? Row the Boat!