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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Heber said:
This is a clear D or F. This team absolutely should have performed better with a 4-year QB and a very strong defense. The team got an F from the QB and Offense line positions which dragged the team down to below a passing grade.

If this program wants to move up from a bottom/middle team in the Big 10 they need to take advantage of opportunities when they come by. This season was an opportunity given the weak schedule, facing multiple teams with 2nd/3rd string QB's, and the experience on the roster. They absolutely blew it and fans should be disappointed. We need to stop celebrating mediocrity.
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Amen!


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dpodoll68 said:
I've said nothing that you've ascribed to me here, but those are some wonderful straw men that you've constructed. I believe that the Gophers can win division and conference titles and am very hopeful that it will happen, but I'm also realistic enough to realize that it's not going to happen in the first year of any coach's tenure (even if it were Nick Saban or Urban Meyer, let alone Tracy Claeys) and that it's a process which takes time. Firing coaches after one year in the hopes that the next one is better is a fool's errand. Suffice it to say that Mark Coyle agrees with me, and he's the only person whose opinion really matters on the topic. "Accepting mediocrity" is a silly nonsense phrase devoid of meaning.
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I literally copied and pasted everything you posted into a notes and responded to it all and my statement answers just about everything you posted.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
So the whole "accepting mediocrity" idea means that fans have accepted that the Gophers are a mid-level program, and will never be anything more than a mid-level program, and they're OK with that as long as the Gophs can squeak out 6, 7 or 8 wins and make it to some kind of a bowl game. (but not the really good bowl games).
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The next person to use this phrase should be stoned. It means nothing. Stop accepting mediocrity and we will win. I stopped years ago, when do we start winning more? From your definition we have been mediocre for decades - if only fans would have stopped accepting mediocrity in the 70s think of where we would be. At least we have it figured out now.


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MNGoldenGophers1 said:
It’s depressing to think that some folks are celebrating this season as something special
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Is this the whole if you don't think it is a disaster than you must think it was special take? Please find me one person who found this year "special"? Good Talk.


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Spoofin said:
Is this the whole if you don't think it is a disaster than you must think it was special take? Please find me one person who found this year "special"? Good Talk.


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I'm too lazy to comb through post but they're out there. One clown mentioned winning eight games three out of the last four years as some significant accomplishment which I would interpret as special, good or great, etc. Symantecs.
 


MNGoldenGophers1 said:
Aside from the few Pollyannas, I mean true fans, who claimed that our eight wins was a success, everyone else knows our season was a big MEH. One knucklehead, I mean true fan, even suggested as proof to how great a season it was did so by noting that in 100-years of “golden” gopher football, only one time have we won more than eight games. Here's the reaction to that fabulous stat by our skunk and hog-eye friends:


I don’t even want to know how many times the skunks and hog-eyes have won nine or more games in a season.* It’s depressing to think that some folks are celebrating this season as some kind of meaningful accomplishment which only speaks to how pathetic our program is.* Remember, eight wins in skunk and hog-eye land is a rebuilding year and nine wins can get you fired at Nebraska.
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C-.

Beat who they were supposed to, but choked away at least 2 games. This season could have been really special, but of course did bare minimum with favorable slate.
 



I gave the season a 'Rose Tinted' B. The games we lost we could/should have won (is it good we were competitive every week or bad we couldn't close out?).

I have to say though, IMHO, for good or bad, it has certainly been another gripping season. The pendulum has swung between hope and despair frequently and my heart has been in my mouth at some point in almost every game.

I know I will miss it during the offseason when Saturdays suddenly become a lot less dramatic.
 


Teetering between a C+ and a B-. We won the games we were suppose to, but didn't really win any we weren't suppose to (except MAYBE Northwestern). Fairly average season. Only reason we're above a C and maybe into the low B- is because we competed in all the games even the ones we weren't suppose to win.
 

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