Chip: Season had a chance to be special, which is why this clunker should bring supreme disappointment.

[BleedGopher]

per Chip:

It’s wrong to call any 10-2 season a failure, especially at Minnesota, which is new to this neighborhood of relevance. The Gophers will still play in a desirable bowl game in a warm-weather locale. In time, people will reflect on this season with positive memories and potentially as a turning point for the program.

But this is about today, the present. Their season had a chance to be special, which is why this clunker should bring supreme disappointment.

It was a baffling performance in many regards, but the overarching difference was unmistakable: The Badgers were physically better, and they were ready for the moment. They deserved the mad dash to reclaim the Axe.

The Gophers left the field quietly, the scene and mood in stark contrast to the raucous celebration after their upset of Penn State three weeks ago. Anything felt possible that day. A division title. A trip to Pasadena. Heck, maybe even a spot in the College Football Playoff.

What a buzzkill.

Gophers football team can't finish what it started in Big Ten West race

www.startribune.com

Go Gophers!!

 

[MplsGopher]

It's a harsh and honest assessment of the reality for this game. This one gets a click from me.

 

[MGGopher]

It's a harsh and honest assessment of the reality for this game. This one gets a click from me.

Ditto. It WAS a super disappointing buzzkill. Everybody agrees with that. It also didn't make this season a failure and therefore shouldn't overshadow all the great things that happened.

 

[imthewalrus]

per Chip:

It’s wrong to call any 10-2 season a failure, especially at Minnesota, which is new to this neighborhood of relevance. The Gophers will still play in a desirable bowl game in a warm-weather locale. In time, people will reflect on this season with positive memories and potentially as a turning point for the program.

But this is about today, the present. Their season had a chance to be special, which is why this clunker should bring supreme disappointment.

It was a baffling performance in many regards, but the overarching difference was unmistakable: The Badgers were physically better, and they were ready for the moment. They deserved the mad dash to reclaim the Axe.

The Gophers left the field quietly, the scene and mood in stark contrast to the raucous celebration after their upset of Penn State three weeks ago. Anything felt possible that day. A division title. A trip to Pasadena. Heck, maybe even a spot in the College Football Playoff.

What a buzzkill.

Gophers football team can't finish what it started in Big Ten West race

www.startribune.com

Go Gophers!!

It was college football. How do the Vikings exit the field after they get their butts kicked time after time in their disappointing losses?

It’s football Chip. To the victors go the spoils...the celebrations...the cheap trashing-talking moments for their fans and especially the blow-dry, aging tv, radio and print media types.

How do you exit after mailing in still another example of piss-poor dismissive pieces of an oversimplified and inadequate obituary for what has been a refreshing, hopeful and very encouraging chapter of the ongoing fight for making GOPHER football relevant in 2019 and beyond? NOT the way you did today Chip.

Wait for next year Chip. Things are better today than they were in 2018. Buck up Chip.....

 

[GopherNuts]

While it’s definitely a buzzkill, I think it’s all a part of the build to getting to where you want to go. Clemsoning was a thing for awhile under Dabo, they eventually broke through and now can’t be touched in the ACC. Not saying we have that ceiling but I think there are and will continue to be similarities to their climb as the Gophers push toward being among the elite in the conference. That means while we’ll see continual growth, there will be more heartache like last night and those letdowns can fuel the staff.

Fleck’s good at coachspeak and always bringing things back to the bigger picture but that was matched with fire I thought last night in his presser. That to me will be a lasting moment of Fleck’s tenure...”We aren’t going back”. Similar to the program changing win that beating Wisconsin was last year and the national stage beating Penn State brought the program to. All a part of the climb.

Edit: thought i’d include this rant by Dabo about “Clemsoning” from back in 2015. Think it’s very similar to PJ’s closing statement last night that’s doing the rounds on here.

 

[Deckergopher]

Stfu chip.