The Gophers aren't the first team to blow out an FCS team, nor will they be the last.

[TonyLiebert]

 

[Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0]

If you read SM posts on the subject, you'd swear Minnesota was the only program scheduling overmatched FCS opponents regularly.

 

[Ope3]

If you read SM posts on the subject, you'd swear Minnesota was the only program scheduling overmatched FCS opponents regularly.

I honestly don't recall even 1 post insuating that "only" Minnesota does this nor anything close to that sentiment.

I lament that it happens at all. For any program.

 

[Gophers1992]

I honestly don't recall even 1 post insuating that "only" Minnesota does this nor anything close to that sentiment.

I lament that it happens at all. For any program.

Gotta think it would be tough for these FCS programs to stay alive financially if they didn’t have these games.

 

[Ope3]

Gotta think it would be tough for these FCS programs to stay alive financially if they didn’t have these games.

True.

But it's not even remotely incumbent on FBS football programs to prop FCS teams up with such paycheck games.

Ditto for basketball.

 

[Crosby]

I like the,way it is now. I would do one FCS team, one group of five, and one power 4. If you want to solve the FBS teams blowing out FCS schools, then dont allow anyone to schedule FCS opponents. I'd be fine with that too. But as long as its allowed and counts toward bowl eligibility, then the goohs should do one FCS team per year.

 

[Ope3]

I like the,way it is now. I would do one FCS team, one group of five, and one power 4. If you want to solve the FBS teams blowing out FCS schools, then dont allow anyone to schedule FCS opponents. I'd be fine with that too. But as long as its allowed and counts toward bowl eligibility, then the goohs should do one FCS team per year.

While assisting in the minimum quota for Bowl eligibility, scheduling an FCS team does Jack Squat for FBS Playoff consideration.

 

[Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0]

I honestly don't recall even 1 post insuating that "only" Minnesota does this nor anything close to that sentiment.

I lament that it happens at all. For any program.

They don't say it explicitly. The tone of the rhetoric is clear that they don't understand the nature of cfb in general.

 

[Breakin' The Plane]

Now, I don't think I've ever heard the current coach of the Golden Gopher football program say the program is a "developmental program" or not, but if it is, indeed a "developmental program", I'd think that games like this would be very beneficial in that aspect.

 

[noamfromm]

Now, I don't think I've ever heard the current coach of the Golden Gopher football program say is the program is a "developmental program" or not, but if it is, indeed a "developmental program", I'd think that games like this would be very beneficial in that aspect.

In this mn daily article he's quoted as saying "We said from day one we’re always going to be a high school developmental program". I don't think it's an isolated code either. I think I recall him saying it as recently as a press conference in the last couple weeks.

 

[Crosby]

While assisting in the minimum quota for Bowl eligibility, scheduling an FCS team does Jack Squat for FBS Playoff consideration.

Yeah it does. It gets a game off the schedule without a loss.

 

[Breakin' The Plane]

In this mn daily article he's quoted as saying "We said from day one we’re always going to be a high school developmental program". I don't think it's an isolated code either. I think I recall him saying it as recently as a press conference in the last couple weeks.

I was being sarcastic. He says it all the time, including on the radio after Saturday's drubbing.

 

[Schnauzer]

If you read SM posts on the subject, you'd swear Minnesota was the only program scheduling overmatched FCS opponents regularly.

This is exactly true. Any visit to facebook for any post on the subject of the Gophers 66-0 win over Northwestern State is overflowing with posts about how the Gophers are scared to schedule "good" teams and this is all on PJ for scheduling bad teams so he can pad his record and get to a lame bowl game.

I always remind myself that a lot of these posts are just trolling from fans of other college teams, and still more are from a "fan" base that is remarkably ignorant about college football in general. It is amazing how bold people can be about blasting their ignorant opinion in public despite not knowing anything about the subject they are trying to discuss. It is a Vikings town.

I couldn't help myself and posted responses to a few of these ridiculous posts. Most quieted up pretty quickly once they were confronted with facts, but one guy (completely ignorant) even doubled down, saying Ohio State scheduled Texas, why didn't the gophers? I responded to let him know that the Gophers have both Alabama and Mississippi State on future schedules and play fellow power conference foe Cal NEXT WEEK, while Ohio State literally played an FCS team on the same day that the gophers did, and won by a bigger margin than the Gophers did. That dude disappeared after that exchange.

 

[Ope3]

They don't say it explicitly. The tone of the rhetoric is clear that they don't understand the nature of cfb in general.

Any remotely knowledgeable college football fan (which I feel the overwhelming posters in the Gopherhole forum fall under that category) are aware that such Contract/Paycheck games are common.

Your quote referred to "SM posts", which I thought was referring this forum as well. In hindsight, I don't know what "SM* actually stands for, so if it's not Gopherhole...my bad.