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Gophers men's hockey? Gophers football?
 

Hockey.

We have expectations for them and they're coached by a dude who allegedly won two national championships for us.

I'm going to join some of the tin hats on this board and suggest Lucia was body snatched at some point.
 

I was going to post the same question. I'd have to say hockey too, because they have a top 3 recruiting class every single year and they are flat out awful. I like Lucia, but he's going to be gone at the end of this year. Let the Blaise or Blasi reign begin.
 

Depends on how you define "worse", but I think football. That's a total train wreck, and we're going to finish at the bottom of the conference. Attendance is not only going down in the second year of a brand-new stadium, but wait until the crowd at the Iowa game shows up. It ain't going to be pretty with all of those Iowa people in the stands. Didn't want to, but I've also become convinced all of that talent Brewster brought in is pretty much an illusion. Facing 50 years of mediocrity and looking at playing Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska every year (not to mention Michigan if they come back), looks like a real job.

Having said that, I just got home from the hockey game and was totally disgusted. Their first three goals came after Wisconsin won battles along the boards. Then we just caved letting them dominate us. We had nobody really battling to get to the front of the net. Top three recruiting classes don't do you much good if the very best players leave after one or two years. and if they consist of a lot of under-sized players. Aaron Ness was a great high school player, but you hardly notice him now because he's too small to be an elite WCHA defenseman. We're still going to probably finish about in the middle of the conference, and you still can get this program back to the top in a very short time which is why I think football is "worse".

But after sitting through the Ohio State game and after watching the hockey team tonight, all I can say is, "Thank God for Tubby."
 

Hockey because even when they play well it is still hockey.
 


FrothyGopher said:
Hockey.

We have expectations for them and they're coached by a dude who allegedly won two national championships for us.

I'm going to join some of the tin hats on this board and suggest Lucia was body snatched at some point.
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Agree. It's plainly obvious neither the players, nor the coaches, give a damn. The football guys for the most part give an effort. The hockey players for the most part couldn't care less.
 


I turned on the hockey game for a minute tonite. I was thinking that it would be nice to watch a sporting event where we don't suck. It was 5-0 at the 2nd intermission, and Marney was interviewing some kid from Faribault who plays for Bucky. That's special.

Silly me thinking we'd at least get up for a game vs. Wisky. How long until they start showing Gopher basketball games on TV?
 

Hockey by far, simply because of the expectation levels. Sadly, I've grown to expect a healthy dose of misery to go hand in hand with Gopher football.
 



Who is worse? Gophers men's hockey? Gophers football?

Clearly there is one answer here: Yes.
 



Too Long in the Wasteland said:
I turned on the hockey game for a minute tonite. I was thinking that it would be nice to watch a sporting event where we don't suck. It was 5-0 at the 2nd intermission, and Marney was interviewing some kid from Faribault who plays for Bucky. That's special.

Silly me thinking we'd at least get up for a game vs. Wisky. How long until they start showing Gopher basketball games on TV?
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He played for shattuck. I dont really consider that a minnesota kid
 



The football team is worse. Yeah the hockey team has higher expectations but compared to the rest of the d1 hockey teams they are much more competitive. I dont think our football team would even win the conference that duluth plays in
 

Goldy00 said:
The football team is worse. Yeah the hockey team has higher expectations but compared to the rest of the d1 hockey teams they are much more competitive. I dont think our football team would even win the conference that duluth plays in
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The Gophers would look like juggernauts in the NSIC. The Gophers are terrible, yes, lets not get carried away.
 

When were left to look toward our middle of the pack bball program (in good years) it's a sorry athletics program.
 

Hockey.

At least in football we realize it is an uphill climb and despite losing the players are still giving effort. I was so pissed at Helgeson yesterday on Wiscy's 2nd goal. He seemingly let the puck trickle by him without effort and then didn't do anything to get back in to the play. Then he moped slowly to the bench after his lack of effort allowed the goal. Once on the bench nobody--not the coaches nor the other players--said a thing to him. It isn't just that they are the more talented team putting forth less effort, it is that they don't seem to care. At least the football coaches--even though they won't be here next year--get mad at and suspend football players that have attitude problems.
 


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