Kill sounds discouraged

[Vandy]

Our first two games. TCU and Colorado State. Combined...has another B1G team played any tougher competition than us so far...? In my honest opinion...I don't think so. What are your thoughts on this?

+2

 

[killme]

I'll eat crow if we beat Purdue at West Lafayette this year, and I'll give up beer for a week (ahem,168:00:00.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001).

Disclaimer: Does not include spirits.

You have us losing to Purdue?

 

[Pompous Elitist]

I'll take the over. They have new coaches who people feel are of quality and up and coming. They played without their best player. They had a game plan tailored to us, they'll have a different one next week tailored to that opponent. Remember, we were a bad matchup for them...we have a strong secondary, they like to pass. We are a run based team and their weakness was a poor run defense.

Tim Brewster.

He's proven nothing as a head coach, AFAIK.

 

[hungan1]

No, it is a toss up against a team playing at home that nearly beat us last year.

Don't worry, I've got my mojo working to put a hex against the boilers so that we are victorious.

One week of no beer is a serious sacrificial offering.

 

[60's Guy]

Tim Brewster.

He's proven nothing as a head coach, AFAIK.

I'm just saying I think they'll have a winning record. I'm saying based on one game, they were prepared to play and compete versus the pre season Big Ten West favorites. I agree he has proven nothing as a head coach other than that, AFAIK either. You are predicting doom for Colorado St, I'm predicting they have a winning record....kinda hard for either of us to be right before the end of the season...

 

[husker70]

Coach Kill is an old school coach. He uses the idiom coaches lose games, players win them. In the opener he pointed to two plays. The strip sack. Which he said was on the coaches. They moved Pirsig after the sack, when he should have started there. The other was the fumble going into the end zone. He said you just cannot do that. Now they play a poor game at Colorado State, but they win. He will take the win, but the players have to know this will be a make or break week. Execution and being closer to what he thinks they can be can make any coach at little grumpy.

 

[dpodoll68]

Our first two games. TCU and Colorado State. Combined...has another B1G team played any tougher competition than us so far...? In my honest opinion...I don't think so. What are your thoughts on this?

Off the top of my head, I'd say MSU's schedule (@Western Mich, Oregon) has been pretty analogous to ours. I think most every other Big Ten school has played at least one cupcake, so you're probably right.

 

[MaxyJR1]

Off the top of my head, I'd say MSU's schedule (@Western Mich, Oregon) has been pretty analogous to ours. I think most every other Big Ten school has played at least one cupcake, so you're probably right.

Just because W Michigan recruits the same players we do doesn't mean they're good. [emoji6]They lost 43-17 to Georgia Southern. I get you're point.


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[MrGopher]

Our first two games. TCU and Colorado State. Combined...has another B1G team played any tougher competition than us so far...? In my honest opinion...I don't think so. What are your thoughts on this?

I think there is a decent chance this will prove to be true, especially with one of them being on the road.

However, as I said in the in-game thread several times, neither the home crowd/altitude nor CSU's quality were our biggest hurdles: our own self-inflicted mistakes and inconsistencies were.

 

[station19]

What concerns me more is that this team most often does not show up at the start of the game.

This team can't afford to do that.

 

[We're Comin']

I agree...we are terrible in the 1st quarter. It is rare for us to score on the first drive.

 

[imthewalrus]

You seem to be in good spirits. Does it have anything to do with the Morse code next to the bottom of your message?

I am always in good spirits. It doesn't really have anything to do with my Morse signature and standard symbol though.

I'll let you in on the signature line:

.-- .-. . -. (wren) .-- .- ... (was) .... . .-. . (here)

I have fun where ever I am killjoy

Beat the stinking badger, Gopher!

 

[imthewalrus]

Ahem.....and the CHAIR

This one's for you Zales!



An ODE on a Slide Trombone:

(AKA: the badger's slippery slope)




The CHAIR: some in Lincoln would say "why should we care?" we sit down and have a drink.
The Bell: we still have it here, "what the hell?" we won it from Penn State.
A chair that won't hold you and a bell you can't ring, another round the waiter brings.
Hold the glasses high...here's to you... and we have to ask the others: "Do you hate Iowa too?"

Now tell me of the glory and the traditions that you know
the JUG that Yost left here...the PIG, the stolen bacon: the badger was the crook...
The AXE became the trophy for the winner of the game to take
And when the Gopher wins the game the AXE stays in our great state.

The walk in the wilderness will only end for sure when all the trophys come to rest
the CHAIR...the BELL..the JUG...the PIG and finally our favorite, the AXE.
TCF BANK STADIUM will echo SKI-U-MAH and illuminated by the Northern Star
ourfootball fans and the marching band shall praise the Gopher near and far.


Just one single old Slide Trombone Man recalls that step and beat...
He marched in that old dome so long but never forgot his home was on the Range.
Zales was a troubadour marching in the band: the pride of Minnesota, trombone in hand.
And sometimes I recall RANGER Zales when I hear the ROUSER played...

The CHAIR? Yes Zales we need the CHAIR that you remember all so well
I think I'll call it broken bits of wood, but only if you don't think you'd care.
And maybe if we think of it, you can ring that Freedom Bell...
The trophys come and go but if the GOPHER wins the AXE everyone feels so well!

And the broken bits of CHAIR...bring those broken bits along!
Old Zales marches slowly...he still knows the sharps and flats...he knows all the songs.
He can even play Sousa's Minnesota March backwards from memory and by heart.
Zales: always was a "first chair" guy, but in Alumni Band he'll play most any part.