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Pretty Sure You are Wrong
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First, let me say there has been a lot of positive vibes directed at the Gophers and many in the fan base have turned the corner on Fleck and have been won over.
But that isn't what this thread is about. It is about the absolute cesspool of negativity that appears on Twitter and elsewhere with "experts" that watch 2-4 college football games per year throwing out comments about how the Gophers have beat "absolutely nobody" and suddenly see big ten victories as if they are wins against Farmington's JV team.
The schedule certainly hasn't been loaded but being good doesn't require a great schedule. Good teams sometimes have weaker schedules. Nobody began the year by pulling up the MN schedule and determining the team must not be any good because Alabama, Ohio State, and LSU were missing. But that is where we are now.
I have a close friend that moved out of state several years ago. I have been a season ticket holder since 2004 or so. I can count on one hand how many times we have discussed Gopher football in those 19 years. He has reached out to me about it twice this season. The first time was to let me know the Gophers aren't that good because the schedule is weak. The second time was last night to let me know it was waaaaaay too early to offer Fleck an extension.
It gets tiresome. Anyone who has followed this team closely knows this team has improved greatly, and pretty much any Gopher team from the recent past would be 5-3 or maybe 4-4 right now with the same schedule. But the johnny-come-lately types that don't follow the college game want every win to be over Oregon and the team should go 12-0 every year. All that after the last 50 years this program has endured.
I'm to the point now where I am treating this like what I learned in my early days playing Call of Duty on the xbox 360 back in 2006. I was overwhelmed with all the antisemitism and racist things I was hearing and at first felt like I needed to comment on every bit of it, to clean up xbox live all by myself. It wasn't long and I realized that probably only 5% of it was legit. Most of it was a dumb misplaced cry for attention. So, I quit commenting and peeing against the wind. I sense that is what all this Gopher hate is about. I am relearning to tune it out. The experience is much better this way.
But that isn't what this thread is about. It is about the absolute cesspool of negativity that appears on Twitter and elsewhere with "experts" that watch 2-4 college football games per year throwing out comments about how the Gophers have beat "absolutely nobody" and suddenly see big ten victories as if they are wins against Farmington's JV team.
The schedule certainly hasn't been loaded but being good doesn't require a great schedule. Good teams sometimes have weaker schedules. Nobody began the year by pulling up the MN schedule and determining the team must not be any good because Alabama, Ohio State, and LSU were missing. But that is where we are now.
I have a close friend that moved out of state several years ago. I have been a season ticket holder since 2004 or so. I can count on one hand how many times we have discussed Gopher football in those 19 years. He has reached out to me about it twice this season. The first time was to let me know the Gophers aren't that good because the schedule is weak. The second time was last night to let me know it was waaaaaay too early to offer Fleck an extension.
It gets tiresome. Anyone who has followed this team closely knows this team has improved greatly, and pretty much any Gopher team from the recent past would be 5-3 or maybe 4-4 right now with the same schedule. But the johnny-come-lately types that don't follow the college game want every win to be over Oregon and the team should go 12-0 every year. All that after the last 50 years this program has endured.
I'm to the point now where I am treating this like what I learned in my early days playing Call of Duty on the xbox 360 back in 2006. I was overwhelmed with all the antisemitism and racist things I was hearing and at first felt like I needed to comment on every bit of it, to clean up xbox live all by myself. It wasn't long and I realized that probably only 5% of it was legit. Most of it was a dumb misplaced cry for attention. So, I quit commenting and peeing against the wind. I sense that is what all this Gopher hate is about. I am relearning to tune it out. The experience is much better this way.