Ohio State dominates Minnesota, wake me when it's over

by GopherNation on Oct 30, 2010 10:10 PM CDT in Gopher Football

Your Golden Gophers made things interesting for about two series. The two teams exchanged touchdowns on their opening series and after that is was all Ohio State. Wide running lanes and wide open receivers is what we were treated to during primetime on Saturday night.

I'm not really sure what to say, we all saw this coming. Ohio State is top two in the Big Ten for points scored, points allowed, yards accumulated and yards allowed. We are not. Would it surprise anyone if i told you I wrote this before kickoff? For the record, I didn't. But I'm kind of at a loss over what to type.

We were terrible in every facet of the game. Defensively we put up little to no resistance. Offensively we were inept following the first drive. And Special Teams were awful. On the one hand Ohio State is really, really good. A loss was expected, it was expected to not be close, but this was embarrassing. Somebody please wake me when we have a new coach so we can start looking ahead to 2011.

Want some highlites of the night?

Gopher hockey won.

Gopher basketball picked up ~~Austin~~ Andre Hollins for their 2011 class.

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Why are we not moving on yet?

Ok…so Horton is gone after this season, so is Weber and this year is TOTALLY a loss.

Why IN THE WORLD are we not playing Gray at QB? We already have #11 at CB (btw, he is terrible there so far, but why not play him there, he is our best athlete?…nothing to lose). Playing Weber at QB and not playing Edwards at RB just seams stupid.

Five words for the coaching search…Chris Peterson OR Mike Leach.

by Close to Being a Former Gopher Fan on Oct 30, 2010 11:35 PM CDT reply actions

Play LaMonte Edwards?

How in the world is that a good idea – waste a year of LaMonte Edwards’ eligibility on this garbage season?

by foobee on Oct 31, 2010 7:10 AM CDT up reply actions

Is he Red-shirting?

I know he was playing earlier in the season, so I thought he was already using a year of eligibility. What are your thoughts on playing Gray, or in Alipate the real deal as a redshirt?

by Close to Being a Former Gopher Fan on Oct 31, 2010 10:42 PM CDT up reply actions

EVERY SNAP WEBER TAKES...

Is wasted experience from somebody else without an “S” by their name…why in the f’ing WORLD would you continue to play a senior QB when you are eliminated? Play anybody who could even be 3rd string at QB next season just to get them reps!!!!!

I’m not bashing Weber…if Weber was the best QB I’ve ever seen I’d say the same thing. This is about him stealing reps from younger guys in a wasted season. At QB, the learning curve is too steep…we have the perfect opportunity to play somebody young and get him reps against the best teams in the Big 10…but we throw Weber out there.

I hate to say this, but I’m watching the game hoping he gets knocked out so that it forces the hand we all know must be played. But somehow, Weber avoids hard contact all the time. I’m not wishing bad things on Weber, I’m not blaming him for the losses, but I’m pissed off that the coaching staff doesn’t give another guy incredible game-time experience going into next season. Like I said, even if he’s just a backup next season, every snap Weber takes is a waste.

Unless the argument is that he gives the receivers the best “practice” out there, so we can play a senior QB and it allows 3-4 receivers/tight ends to develop…..which I would buy I guess, but I want the issue addressed at least.

by jimipig on Nov 1, 2010 9:03 AM CDT up reply actions

Agree completely...

I understand you lose a WR with Gray at QB, but especially once the game is in blowout status (and you can certainly argue since we’re not going to a bowl the whole game), Gray should be getting QB snaps. Even half of a game for the next few would be invaluable experience that he’s not getting.

Besides, its not like the coaches opened up the playbook to 100% pass in the 2nd half with Weber… They could have run their run-screen-incomplete pass 3-down waltz with any QB.

by mraveling on Nov 1, 2010 11:15 AM CDT up reply actions

You still did better than Purdue did last week.

If Ellestad makes the field goal, it’s 14-10 early in the second quarter. It didn’t get awful until two minutes before half-time. Compare that to Purdue getting shellacked 49-0 last week by the same team. It’s not much of a silver lining, but Minnesota could still pull an upset or two under the right circumstances. Best of luck the rest of the season.

by Semicorrect on Oct 31, 2010 12:14 AM CDT reply actions

We picked up Andre Hollins not Austin, he is here already

fyi

by D-Man20 on Oct 31, 2010 12:58 AM CDT reply actions

sorry

I really did know that.

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by GopherNation on Oct 31, 2010 2:42 PM CDT up reply actions

Looks like there is a lot of consensus on Thomas Hammock

Here’s a good snipit from Pioneer Press on Thomas Hammock… we gotta keep this guy. The jury’s out on whether he’s ready to be a full-time OC in The Big Ten, but if we get an offensive-minded coach to share those duties/mentor him, I’d be all for giving him a nice raise and the OC job. I think a Sumlin-Hammock tandem at HC-OC would be dynamite and probably stay together for 4-5 years at least.

http://blogs.twincities.com/gophers/2010/10/new-play-caller-for-the-gopher.html

He’s got such good credibility with the players, is an excellent recruiter and has done a great job developing offensive players (and calling plays for the past couple weeks). If we don’t work hard to keep him, he’ll get snapped up by somebody else in the conference.

by foobee on Oct 31, 2010 7:24 AM CDT reply actions