Players who earned notice against USC

[march madness]

tackles

Interesting to note that 4 of our top five tacklers against USC were defensive backs. I know they passed a lot but this can not become a trend. We need to see the pass compleation percentage rate drop and start seeing our linebackers and especially our front four tighten up.
Go Gophers!

A large part of that was wr screens, even after we blew them up, they seem to forget to go vertical. USC got outcoached and outplayed in the second half it is too bad we couldn't have gotten that win.

 

[ShushPush]

Yep

For those not yet convinced on Kill's recruiting ability, Jones and Moulton should be changing your minds.

I might never question the methodology of Jerry Kill and Co. again.

 

[gophmeister]

Game Starters:
Minnesota

POS ## OFFENSE
LT 58 Olson, Ed
LG 68 Bunders, Chris
C 60 Wynn, Ryan
RG 78 Orton, Ryan
RT 76 Gjere, Jimmy
QB 5 Gray, Marqueis
TB 22 Bennett, Duane
FB 85 Lair, Eric
Y 88 McGarry, Collin
X 6 McKnight, DaJon
Z 15 Jones, Marcus

POS ## DEFENSE
DE 93 Perry, Ben
DT 97 Jacobs, Anthony
NT 96 Kirksey,Brandon
DE 95 Wilhite, D.L.
OLB 26 Rallis, Mike
MLB 51 Tinsley, Gary
OLB 4 Cooper, Keanon
CB 21 Vereen, Brock
S 29 Salamon, Shady
S 3 Royston, Kim
CB 11 Stoudermire

Player participation:

Minnesota: 1A-Green, Brandon, 1L-Shortell, Max, 5A-Johnson, Johnny, 6Z-Mottla, Zach, 7-Hawthorne,Chris, 8-Reeves, Spencer,
9-Lewis, Christyn, 13-Wells, Derrick, 14-Henderson, Kyle, 19-Lueck, Adam, 20-Kirkwood, 24-Manuel, James, 30-Henry, Mike,
32-Edwards,Lamonte, 36-Haviland, Chase, 41-Orseske, Dan, 43-Grant, Ryan, 46-Botticelli, 48-Filkins, Jake, 50-Sveum, Pat,
52-Epping, Zac, 53-Olson, Tommy, 59-Balthazor, Joey, 62-Jacques, Eric, 70-Ferguson, Sean, 81-Rabe, John, 83-Goodger, Drew,
84-Keise, Victor, 86-Moulton,Malcolm, 91-Gregory-McGhee, 92-Simpson, Leston, 98-Amaefula, 99-Hageman.