Discipline so far through 2 games

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From ESPN, Did You Know? for week 3.

•Through two games this year, the Golden Gophers are the least penalized team in the Big Ten. How’s that for Minnesota Nice? They’ve accumulated five total penalties (42 yards). The most penalized team so far this season is Ohio State, which has racked up 17 penalties for 169 yards this season.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
From ESPN, Did You Know? for week 3.

•Through two games this year, the Golden Gophers are the least penalized team in the Big Ten. How’s that for Minnesota Nice? They’ve accumulated five total penalties (42 yards). The most penalized team so far this season is Ohio State, which has racked up 17 penalties for 169 yards this season.
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After watching last night's TT-TCU game and seeing 23 penalties for over 200 yards combined, I appreciate this even more.

FYI, the Gophers had 11 penalties for 86 yards in last year's opener against UNLV.
 

It's one of those fundamental things that drove me nuts with the last regime.
 




Can't complain about the lack of penalties, had been a problem since Brewster. Of course then all the GHers loved the 15 yard personal fouls for hitting out of bounds because the guys were just being "aggresive".
 

Is this truly indicative of 'discipline' or a combination of factors?

Gopher opponents - is this right? Only ** 2 ** penalties so far? Amazing.
 





Gopher Warrior said:
Is this truly indicative of 'discipline' or a combination of factors?

Gopher opponents - is this right? Only ** 2 ** penalties so far? Amazing.
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Probably both. The refs may not have called as much in the first two games. But it is pretty hard to not call false starts, offsides and those type of penalties. Not having many of those so far is a good sign.
 

It seemed as though there would be a false start penalty in nearly every set of downs during the Brewster years, and that stuff really took a long time to overcome. The line has obviously come a long way on that one, but overall it appears to be a team strength (low amount of penalties) in a place that used to be a weakness.
 

For those who go beyond Brewster to Mason, his teams were notorious for delay of game coming out of a time out. And then following that up with a false start. This certainly along with the take away/give away ratio are bricks programs are built with. And performing on special teams rather than simply paying lip service is another.
 

You can start to tell Kill's influence is taking effect. He stresses a well-disciplined team who is strong in the kicking game, and look what has happened in the first two games. Our special teams unit has dominated and we are the least penalized team in the conference. Of course, we'll see it that continues as the competition steps up, but it's a good sign.
 



Last year was filled with 15-yard Personal Foul penalties, seemed like almost every game. Hopefully that is going away also. That was maddening, and costly.
 

Minnesota was 8th, 79th, 59th, and 28th in penalties in Brews 4 seasons. One season in the bottom half of the nation.

That said, Kill's team is more disciplined by far in nearly every aspect. I expect it will continue.
 

e.bigelow said:
+1. Brewball was full of numbskull penalties.
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Agreed, but the rub was Kill's teams through 2 seasons didn't seem to be any more disciplined than Brew's, to the point that we lost our bowl game because of penalties. This season has been a breath of fresh air.
 

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