Reusse: Which version of Cal will greet P.J. Fleck and the Gophers on Saturday?

[BleedGopher]

Per Pat:

We did not overwhelm Glen Mason with sympathy during his decade as the Gophers football coach, although in retrospect it can be said that he wasn’t the luckiest leader of athletes in that term from 1997 through 2006.

After he inherited a program that had gone 16-39 in Jim Wacker’s five seasons, Mason had a competitive team by his third season in 1999, and a very good one in 2003. Letting that win over Michigan— on Oct. 10, 2003 — in the Metrodome get away cost “Mase” greatly in the category of public opinion.

The Gophers rushed for 424 yards, with the running back combination of Marion Barber III and Laurence Maroney, and the option ability of quarterback Asad Abdul-Khaliq, but somehow allowed 31 points in the fourth quarter and lost, 38-35.

Second-worst gut punch for a major home football tenant in Metrodome history, trailing only Falcons 30, Vikings 27, in overtime, on Jan. 17, 1999.

Reusse: P.J. Fleck and Gophers hope history doesn't repeat itself Saturday night at Cal

A downtrodden program for the majority of the century, Cal beat Minnesota the last time the Gophers traveled to Memorial Stadium in 2006. Now P.J. Fleck brings the Gophers back to the West Coast for a late Saturday night showdown.

www.startribune.com

Go Gophers!!

 

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I guess Pat's doing better. He had me concerned for a while.

 

[Schnauzer]

On one hand Reusse doesn't seem so anti-Gophers as of late. On the other hand, this was a meandering strange column that wasn't nearly as fun to read as the headline suggested. Kind of a strange recap of the 2006 game with Cal tucked within getting distracted by shiny objects like the 2003 collapse vs Michigan, and the Vikings of all things. Not much in terms of the current Gopher team and their prospects for the game this weekend vs Cal

 

[BleedGopher]

On one hand Reusse doesn't seem so anti-Gophers as of late. On the other hand, this was a meandering strange column that wasn't nearly as fun to read as the headline suggested. Kind of a strange recap of the 2006 game with Cal tucked within getting distracted by shiny objects like the 2003 collapse vs Michigan, and the Vikings of all things. Not much in terms of the current Gopher team and their prospects for the game this weekend vs Cal

100%. I literally have no clue what the point of his column was as it relates to the title. I started to count how many paragraphs it was going to be before the thesis (it's usually around paragraph 12 for a rambling Pat column) but I just stopped counting on this one as it wasn't ever going to have a point.

At least he didn't rip Fleck.

Go Gophers!!