***OFFICIAL GOPHERS VS SAN JOSE STATE IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

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Back in my day we played through rain, lightning, hurricanes, volcanoes and earthquakes. Get your butts out there you pansies.
 





When is the basketball season opener?
 

positively4thstreet said:
How exactly do you know he's "not letting Limegrover call a jet sweep?" There are a lot of things to justly critique about today's performance, there's no need to just make stuff up.
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Well let's see....we ran it in all 4 games last year when Claeys was the HC. Never ran it before and never ran it
after when Kill returned to the sideline...

I guess I can add. Pretty simple.

We have three legit threats (Jones, Maye, Edwards) to run that play and it's been ran only once all season and to Fruechte.

Think.
 

Gopher028 said:
Well let's see....we ran it in all 4 games last year when Claeys was the HC. Never ran it before and never ran it
after when Kill returned to the sideline...

I guess I can add. Pretty simple.

We have three legit threats (Jones, Maye, Edwards) to run that play and it's been ran only once all season and to Fruechte.

Think.
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Think??? IMPOSSIBLE.
 




Gopher028 said:
Well let's see....we ran it in all 4 games last year when Claeys was the HC. Never ran it before and never ran it
after when Kill returned to the sideline...
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We did run it before and after. IF14 fumbled it in the bowl game - just like he did this year. Pretty sure DJones ran it against EIU this year too. Sorry to use facts.
 

Gopher028 said:
Well let's see....we ran it in all 4 games last year when Claeys was the HC. Never ran it before and never ran it
after when Kill returned to the sideline...

I guess I can add. Pretty simple.

We have three legit threats (Jones, Maye, Edwards) to run that play and it's been ran only once all season and to Fruechte.

Think.
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Ah, so you're just assuming. Color me shocked.
 


This offense is truly an embarrassment for the U of M. Last year we went almost four games without an offensive TD. today we may very well go 4 quarters without a completed pass (except, of course, the interception).

We are in the 4th year of the Kill regime. But let's give him the benefit of a late hire and say it's only the third recruiting class. Our offense is largely the players Kill and Limegrover recruited. They are certainly the players they have coached for three summers and three seasons.

What do we have for that effort? An offense that cannot complete a pass against San Jose Fricking State University. An offense that starts Freshmen or Red Shirt Freshmen QB's and the next year has them flee running for other opportunities.

It all comes down to three basic things. Recruiting, Coaching and Game Plan. We have recruited very big offensive linemen, trained them and gotten them really big. What has this gotten us? A really big O Line that doesn't seem to be able to pull out to block wide and they certainly cannot stand back and block for a pass. We've recruited big QB's and what have we gotten really big QB's that couldn't hit a cow in the arse with a hand full of rice. But they love to run a keeper play...until they get injured. We've recruited a lot of wide outs that don't seem to be able to run routes, although that may be wrong, because we never will let a QB throw to them.

So what have we got? An offense with very, very big line men and a scheme to run effectively off tackle, until the opponent loads up the box and then we have an offense that cannot do anything.

With regard to the scheme, it seems to me that no one is winning anymore with a "3 yards and a cloud of dust" offense. Players do not want to be recruited to that kind of system, fans don't want to go to a game to watch that kind of a system the only teams that win with that kind of a system, have such great talent that it isn't that kind of system it's "15 yards and a cloud of smoke".

Kill and Limegrover could perhaps recruit and run that kind of system in the MAC and at SIU, but friends, it is never going to fly against the better Big Ten opponents.

What is most scary to me is that Mitch and the receivers seemed to do a great deal of work in the offseason. Everyone (including the NFL players with whom they worked out all summer) agreed that they had developed throw-catch chemistry and that it was going to be a world better come this season. Either that was a lie, or the Kill/Limegrover team has coached that learning right out of 'em.

Make no mistake, this is a bad, a very bad offense. It's slow, unimaginative, and boring. And most amazing of all, the Offensive Coordinator that has developed the system that doesn't work has the additional responsibility for coaching the Offensive Line, that doesn't block or protect.

We were futile last year, but had a month where we were alive. I'm doubtful we recreate that month this year. Unless we go to an offense that adds value and away from an offense to avoid trouble, it very likely ain't going to get any better.

The thing that has me the most upset is that we have kept the wraps on the offense during the pre-season part of the year against SJSU and the other dogs we've played to avoid giving away our schemes. When what we should have been doing was getting our players used to something beside running off tackle. This whole offense thing is a mess. Sorry for the venting.
 




Why settle for vanilla when you can have chocolate cake once in a while. You need to taste it in order to believe it tastes good.

Vanilla offense is crap. You've got to develop your WR & QB rapport in nonconference play or else you get exactly what we have.
 

ncgo4 said:
Make no mistake, this is a bad, a very bad offense.
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It would be pretty hard to mistake that. Makes me think that if we were playing the likes of Northwestern, we'd be on the opposite end of a 17-7 score.
 

This game is very far from over. Defensive unit should be ashamed of themselves for walking off the field prior to the punt play and getting called for too many men on the field. Unreal.
 

I don't think there has been a single penalty called on San Jose State.
 



Being able to tolerate complete bat$hit craziness like this game without suffering an aneurism is the mark of a TRUE gopher fan.
 





Streveler looks like he could care less about passing percentage. Good for him.
 


I haven't seen the whole game, nor read the whole thread, but has anyone seen Edwards? Is he injured?
 

pregameatblarneys said:
I haven't seen the whole game, nor read the whole thread, but has anyone seen Edwards? Is he injured?
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2 carries I think. Our offense is basically Cobb up the middle and Streveler around the end. Brad Childress loves it.
 

pregameatblarneys said:
I haven't seen the whole game, nor read the whole thread, but has anyone seen Edwards? Is he injured?
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Edwards got a couple carries and gained very few yards. Streveler and Cobb have been the only things that have worked in this one.
 

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