Describe the surreal loss to Illinois in 1 sentence

[MplsGopher]

I'll do you one better, and describe the season in one sentence:

What a wasted opportunity.

 

[jblass]

Fumbling the kickoff and spotting your opponent 7 is no way to set the tone for the game.

 

[tikited]

Completely expected.

 

[GopherRock]

Same manure, different shovel.

 

[bleedsmaroonandgold]

Fumbling the kickoff and spotting your opponent 7 is no way to set the tone for the game.

No rule says the defense couldn't have held them to three there. Our offense started the second half getting spotted the ball in great field position after a fumble, and we had to settle for 3.

 

[Some guy]

Back-up quarterback comes off bench in last 2 minutes and tosses three uncanny passes for a total of 85 yards and a TD and Gophers lose another one that seemed in the bag.

Helps that on the biggest pass the deep half safety flat out abandoned his zone

 

[Some guy]

Just disgusted by this crap and PJ’s enablers.

Do you think we should fire him now or wait until the end of the season?

 

[Great Plains Gopher]

Trip to Indy pretty much gone!

Unless Iowa loses two, which they could (Rutgers, Nebraska at Lincoln), and Gophers top Purdue and Wisconsin in Minneapolis, and IL loses one game.

 

[Bob_Loblaw]

Sean Tyler might have a gambling debt.

 

[dbmn]

Fleck, Claeys, Kill, Brewster, Mason, Wacker, Guetekunst, all the same like the last one, nothing ever changes just the name plate on the F'ing door.

Yep...who hired the group of coaches? The athletic directors and administrators. Basketball, same results and coaches hired by the same group of athletic directors and administrators.

 

[Seany]

For a program that finds surreal ways to lose games, we just let a back up QB go 83 yards in 3 plays and we lost to the fat coach for a 10th time.

I would describe that traveshamockery as being amongst the most Gopher-iest losses of all time, and that is saying something. You can't really get more Gopher-y than that.

 

[Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0]

Unless Iowa loses two, which they could (Rutgers, Nebraska at Lincoln), and Gophers top Purdue and Wisconsin in Minneapolis, and IL loses one game.

That's a very likely scenario. I'm not sure I trust our defense to limit us to just one loss however!

 

[gopherdudepart2]

Cannot let one gut-wrenching loss snowball into next week's Purdue game.

 

[FredCoxRocks]

I'll do you one better, and describe the season in one sentence:

What a wasted opportunity.

Pretty much describes '21 and '22 as well.

 

[MplsGopher]

And we were worried about this year because of the added strength of schedule!

Nope. If just win the easily winnable NW and ILL games, we’re in the driver’s seat with open road ahead. Oh well

 

[Five for fighting]

As a bitter, cynical, hardened, jaded Minnesota sports fan, I had promised myself not to ever let one of my teams raise my blood pressure. 2023 Gophers accepted that challenge.

 

[SeaBee_Gopher]

Fairly equal teams playing in coin flip games have unpredictable outcomes.

 

[Unregistered User]

I'm over it, time to move on to Purdue.

 

[1983]

More bad performances piled on him, it's all on him in his own words, start doing squats because it is about to get worse.