What grade do you give the 2016 Gophers regular season?

What grade do you give the 2016 Gophers regular season?

  • A

    Votes: 5 3.0%

  • B

    Votes: 46 27.7%

  • C

    Votes: 81 48.8%

  • D

    Votes: 23 13.9%

  • F

    Votes: 11 6.6%
  • Total voters
    166
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What grade do you give the 2016 Gophers regular season?
 


I don't care if the schedule was easy, 8 wins is above average in FBS college football not to mention we were in and had a lead in every single game. Solid B.
 

0-3 in real trophy games
0-4 if you include chair
At most one win against a team with a regular season winning record.

Will return next year with 0 snaps of experience at the most important position.
Finished with 2 fewer wins than the coach said we should.


Meant to say D. Accidentally hit F, so a mod can edit that if possible
 




I grade against my expectations so I give them a B. I thought we would win 7 games so they surprised me by beating NW.
 


Very underwhelming, and sick of losing to the Badgers. That is now year 6 of the Kills/Claeys regime and no sniff of a win against the Badgers and an empty trophy case. No reason this year for that Trophy case to be empty. This season turned letting the Penn State game slip away and the hangover against Iowa.
Most of these guy's played pretty damn good football this year. Staff can prepare team well during the week for games, but they do not make good adjustments at halftime against the better teams, and always play not to lose. That is twice in Madison the Gophers had the Badgers on the ropes in Madison and they self destructed and made so many mistakes it cost them the football game. Could have put it on them, and then because of the turnovers the game melted away. Those were unforced errors.
 




C-.

0 wins against anyone worthwhile. The 8 wins were mostly ugly. And all against average-to-awful opponents. But I guess it's 8 wins. So that's something.

Need to make the jump from mediocrity eventually...
 







die hard gopher said:
8 wins is better than mediocre in the FBS. 6/7 wins equals mediocre. Anything better than that is at least somewhat above average.
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die hard gopher said:
Doesn't matter. In 5-7 years, nobody is going to remember, particularly the casual fan, if the schedule was easy or difficult. 8 wins is 8 wins which IMO is better than mediocre.
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It isn't bad. It isn't good.

What does that make it?
 


Beat who you're supposed to and lose to who you're supposed to. b-


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D+

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A disappointing C.


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I went with D+ too. We did win the games we should have won, but not as convincingly as we should have. We pissed away great first halves in the games we lost (other than Iowa which was a 60 minute debacle). Had we played stronger against the lesser teams, we'd have done average. Our best win was Northwestern who had to scratch and crawl to get to 6-6.
 

Beat the teams we should have and for the second straight year couldn't beat the stronger teams. Still have a shot at 9-4, which would be a success. 8-5 not so impressive, given the schedule.
 

zero trophies and an extremely weak schedule. 8 wins, I guess I can give a C at the highest
 

First of all, they didn't beat everybody they were supposed to beat they were favored at home against an Iowa team that had already lost home games to NDSU and Northwestern. It's a D or a F for the season and I went with the D because of the Northwestern win. That said, the best win on the season was over a team that lost to Illinois State. At Home. The four other B1G wins were against 3 entirely new staffs and an interim coach replacing a coach fired in season. The combined conference record of those 4 teams this year was 6-30. The only wins that group of 4 had outside of playing each other were two wins over 1-8 MSU. So NOBODY lost to those 4 schools that went better than 3-6 in conference play. The Gophers got a gift of a schedule with essentially 4 layup conference games and only TWO ((!!!) games against top 25 opposition and finished 5-4 in conference play...an opportunity like this might not come around again for decades.
 

I think stubbing a toe and losing to Purdue, Rutgers, or Illinois, but finding a way to beat Iowa or Wisconsin would have mad this year have less of a foul taste, even with the same 8-4 record. Heck even losing one more game (in the NC) and then finding a way to beat 2 of the 4 we lost to would have made this a much more satisfying year.

I still think there is hope for the future with this staff, but the results this year are not going to impress anyone.
 

D...Other than Northwestern they beat god awful B10 teams and they beat the little sisters of the poor in the non-conference....This was the year to take the next step and instead they stepped off a cliff into shark-infested waters once again.
 



C - 8-4 with really only one quality win against Northwestern. None of the 4 loses were what would be called bad losses but at the same time the team missed every opportunity that was there against good teams.

In the end it wasn't a bad season but it was definitely a season of missed opportunities.
 

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