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Per Randy:
Nobody with the Gophers football program was shying away from the offense's subpar performance in a 20-10 home loss to Purdue on Oct. 1. After all, the Gophers scored a season low in points and rushed for only 43 yards, their fewest in seven years.
Coach P.J. Fleck said it's on him. Quarterback Tanner Morgan stressed his need to improve. And Kirk Ciarrocca, the man brought back to coordinate Minnesota's offense and return it to previous heights, took his share of the blame for the clunker, too.
"We have to play better and we've gotta coach better, and that's been our attitude," Ciarrocca said Wednesday.
After a bye week to stew over and find ways to correct the mistakes that haunted them — especially on offense — the Gophers have a bigger challenge awaiting them. Come Saturday at No. 24 Illinois, their words of atonement must become deeds of accomplishment in a game that suddenly is pivotal to their hopes of winning the Big Ten's West Division.
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Go Gophers!!
Nobody with the Gophers football program was shying away from the offense's subpar performance in a 20-10 home loss to Purdue on Oct. 1. After all, the Gophers scored a season low in points and rushed for only 43 yards, their fewest in seven years.
Coach P.J. Fleck said it's on him. Quarterback Tanner Morgan stressed his need to improve. And Kirk Ciarrocca, the man brought back to coordinate Minnesota's offense and return it to previous heights, took his share of the blame for the clunker, too.
"We have to play better and we've gotta coach better, and that's been our attitude," Ciarrocca said Wednesday.
After a bye week to stew over and find ways to correct the mistakes that haunted them — especially on offense — the Gophers have a bigger challenge awaiting them. Come Saturday at No. 24 Illinois, their words of atonement must become deeds of accomplishment in a game that suddenly is pivotal to their hopes of winning the Big Ten's West Division.
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Go Gophers!!