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Nax5 said:
What's more concerning is after (every?) game this year, Claeys has said "we need to fix some things". Eventually you expect these things to be fixed...
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For the most part our penalties were fixed yesterday.
 

bottlebass said:
For the most part our penalties were fixed yesterday.
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That's true. I don't remember if we had a false start penalty yesterday. Which is a far-cry from the 6 or 10 or 50 (don't remember anymore) that we had in the first game of the season.
 

Things can change very quickly in college FB. Before the season, if I had suggested Northwestern would be better than Michigan St this year, people would have said I was nuts.

Having said that, Claeys is facing some issues if he wants to keep his job: New AD with no ties to Claeys; disgruntled fan base; falling attendance; drop in season-ticket sales; trouble raising funds for big athletics project; more off-field issues with players; and a team that seems to be failing to meet expectations. Add in the fact that the coach has a very small buyout by D1 College FB terms, and I would not be shocked if the AD was at least thinking about making a coaching change.

If they do make a change, traditionally teams look for someone who is perceived as the opposite of the current coach. Claeys comes off as pretty bland, so odds are the next coach will be more of a high-energy, firebrand type.
 

The U is a very unique situation. We will be bowl eligible and possibly win 7-9 games. If Coyle still makes a change it would be completely understandable.

Good home schedule next year, good young talent, 1 year closer to new facilities, and opportunity to combine that with a good hire.

Fleck's decision could be between MN and Purdue. I'm not convinced he's as big a hire outside the big ten.


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short ornery norwegian said:
Things can change very quickly in college FB. Before the season, if I had suggested Northwestern would be better than Michigan St this year, people would have said I was nuts.
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I doubt it. Northwestern won 10 games last year to Michigan State's 12, and 6 in the Big Ten to Michigan State's 7. It wouldn't have been a stretch at all to predict that Northwestern would be better than MSU this season. I'm not sure why you picked them as your examples.
 


dpodoll68 said:
I doubt it. Northwestern won 10 games last year to Michigan State's 12, and 6 in the Big Ten to Michigan State's 7. It wouldn't have been a stretch at all to predict that Northwestern would be better than MSU this season. I'm not sure why you picked them as your examples.
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Depends if you look at last year vs first ranking of this season. MSU was ranked 10/11 in first poll. Northwestern was not ranked. MSU was expected by many to compete with tOSU & MI


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MaxyJR1 said:
Depends if you look at last year vs first ranking of this season. MSU was ranked 10/11 in first poll. Northwestern was not ranked. MSU was expected by many to compete with tOSU & MI


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I get that, I'm just saying that Northwestern was a strange example of a team to single out. Had he said Purdue or Indiana, sure.
 

dpodoll68 said:
I get that, I'm just saying that Northwestern was a strange example of a team to single out. Had he said Purdue or Indiana, sure.
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Right. What he should have said was "after week 3 of the regular season...," and used the same teams. MSU was undefeated, just won at a ranked-at-the-time ND team and was in the top ten. Northwestern was 1-2 with losses to an unranked at-the-time MAC team and an FCS team both at home.

That's more truly how fast perceptions can change in college football.
 

We had a false start on a 4th and 1 coming out of a time out and two five men in the backfield calls (1 was on a kick no less). Pre-snap penalties need to get fixed.
 



josh087 said:
Right. What he should have said was "after week 3 of the regular season...," and used the same teams. MSU was undefeated, just won at a ranked-at-the-time ND team and was in the top ten. Northwestern was 1-2 with losses to an unranked at-the-time MAC team and an FCS team both at home.

That's more truly how fast perceptions can change in college football.
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Yes - that was my point. On this board, people were talking about the Northwestern game as either a "probable" win or a "sure" win. Right now, I think the Gophers would actually have better odds against MSU than NWestern. And - to be honest - I did not remember that NWestern won 10 games last year. I seemed to remember a perception that they were disappointing last year, or did not live up to expectations. I would have sworn they were about an 8-win team last year.
 

rickyupchurch said:
We had a false start on a 4th and 1 coming out of a time out and two five men in the backfield calls (1 was on a kick no less). Pre-snap penalties need to get fixed.
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Time out or not, doesn't matter on that play. Dude didn't jump because he didn't know the snap count, he jumped because the defense was jumping around. No amount of times outs change how that plays out.
 

A_Slab_of_Bacon said:
Time out or not, doesn't matter on that play. Dude didn't jump because he didn't know the snap count, he jumped because the defense was jumping around. No amount of times outs change how that plays out.
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Nah, that dude jumped because for once we weren't going to hand the ball off, it was a pass play going to him.
 

Scored 21 in the first quarter...when was the last time that happened?
 




1997vacatedfinalfour said:
Rutgers lost to a very, very bad Illinois team at home last week by 17.....This should have been a two td + victory today if expectations are anywhere higher than mediocrity.
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Amazing a thread like this exists when the Gophers are two possessions away from 7-0.
 

rickyupchurch said:
We had a false start on a 4th and 1 coming out of a time out and two five men in the backfield calls (1 was on a kick no less). Pre-snap penalties need to get fixed.
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Agreed but some how I doubt under Jerry we went five years without a critical false start penalty
 

We are over half way through the season at what point do we start cleaning these kind of mistakes up?
 


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