Some of the Flecksters have so villainized a former coach it is sad, a coach who set up Fleck for success here. Kill did really good things and had us playing to win the Big Ten West at Madison. Way to go Jerry!
Rewrite history. He’s a former coach who had success here, playing for the Big Ten Wesr championship on the final week of the season. If that’s a failure then Fleck has failed as he hasn’t achieved more than that, and his best season is largely a result of the players Kill recruited and left him. You are so blinded by your love for Fleck that you can’t see the good Kill did and how that set up Fleck early, and how he has pissed away the West when it has never been as weak as it has been since he’s been here.
Why are you referencing Fleck? I keep saying that isn’t relevant. Kill being a failure is completely divorced from Fleck.
I am not a Fleck fan, but Kill was obviously incapable of the job, both in health and in competence.
I agree this season is a failure but that is completely predictable because losing is baked into the marrow of this program. Countless, statistical-violating losses year-after-year. Look at our best comeback - what was it like 10 points 20 years ago against Indy? We cannot overcome even the slightest deficits while other teams easily and consistently overcome what should be insurmountable leads for the Gophs.
The Mizzou basketball game from Thurs is another drop in this bucket. In a few years few will remember the context of that overwhelming collapse, but it is so essentially indicative of what being a Gopher fan entails.
Gopher fandom is painful. But watching kill was pain on pain - a hat on a hat. Dude didn’t have it and we are all better off that he is gone.