Golden Nugz - 9.2.11
by JDMill on Sep 2, 2011 7:28 AM CDT
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PrintGame day is tomorrow. Game day is tomorrow! Game day is TOMORROW!!! GAME DAY IS TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!
-Brendan Beal & Aaron Hill are two Gophers who won't be playing against USC on Saturday. Gotta be concerned about Beal considering his history of knee injury.
-USC secondary coach Willie Mack Garza resigned yesterday, citing an undisclosed personal situation.
-We don't normally link to this slideshow heavy site, but can't hurt to share some optimism.
-This is very funny, and could come in handy.
-Don't try reading FBT's breakdown of sack stats if you're tired. Or hungover. Or have been drinking. Or if you don't like math.
-Dude! A Gopher preview featuring position-centric haikus?!?!?!?! WINNING!!! (This reminds me: yesterday I saw a stat that 20% of all searches performed on Google everyday have never ever been searched for before. So, I wondered? Has anyone ever searched "position-centric Gopher football preview"? Well "someone" (/points at self) has now, and the results are underwhelming.)
-Interesting read on football revenues in 2009, the season The Bank opened, in which the Gophers ranked 22nd in the nation.
-And lastly, how many of you expect to have a scene like this play out with your significant other sometime pre-kickoff tomorrow?
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Sorry guys
but try as I might, I cannot shake this feeling of doom tomorrow. Decades of conditioning I guess. If the game tomorrow is still in doubt entering the fourth Qt. I will be shocked. I see Gray struggling along with the entire offense and the defense getting picked apart by Barkley. But I will be watching and pulling like crazy to be wrong. I am looking forward to the beginning of the Kill era.
Just remember:
A Tim Brewster-led team was leading USC in the 3rd quarter last year.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Sep 2, 2011 8:42 AM CDT up reply actions
WSR
the big “X” factor, or Q factor in our case, is what the QB is going to look like. I really don’t think anyone has any idea (including the coaches). Say what you want about Weber, but we knew what we were getting. Q on the other hand, is anyone’s guess. I am extremely curious to see what unfolds tomorrow.
Absolutely.
Q is a huge ?. But I’m trying to look at positives. We’re 0-0, so there’s no need to be defeated just yet.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Sep 2, 2011 9:36 AM CDT up reply actions
Q-Factor
man am I excited to see what that actually looks like. I really have no idea what to expect tomorrow. I am sure USC is going to stack the box and try to make us beat them through the air… are we going to be good enough to still have a decent running game even with a stacked box? Is Q going to be able to make some throws if/when he has to. Will our defense be respectable after such an atrocious year last year? Hoping for the best. Go Gophers!
how the hell is kiffin's tampa-2 defense
supposed to cover a mobile quarterback? I have a hard time seeing a blowout victory for anyone. I think USC’s offense will pick us apart, but there will likely be an INT returned for TD by Troy (because Barkley does force passes) and I don’t see how Kiffin’s defensive scheme is supposed to stop a running quarterback (it is a pro style tampa 2 defense…which doesn’t cover athletic QBs well).
"My love for Jerry Kill knows no bounds." - Jeffrick
by TheEvilProfessor on Sep 2, 2011 11:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Deep Breaths....
….this will be a long season Tejas….hang tough! I think you would be silly NOT to feel doom for tomorrow’s game. That is common sense. Our team is really, really bad this year. I’m hoping to see slow growth throughout the season, and with a few fortuitous bounces, we may win a Big 10 game. Do I expect to? No. Zero. But something tells me we will have to win at least one of them….I just can’t figure out which one.
Tomorrow I expect big time jitters. By me probably more than Q! I’m already nervous even though I’m most certain we will lose in a “not so close game”. I just don’t want to be embarrassed again and then have to read all the garbage in the Minnesota papers about how bad we are. I want positive vibes for the program…and if we get killed, there is just no way to get those.
I see Q struggling, but eventually getting comfortable. I’m hoping he keeps his fumbles down. I’m hoping our corners can make a few plays and that we can get a few turnovers to keep the game close.
Look at me…I’m all over the board here. Maybe I’m just uber-excited to see the Gophers playing in the Rose Bowl….
Not sure what to think of you....
I appreciate your passion, but how can you say we won’t win 1 big ten game before we’ve even entered the season. Plus we won two games against pretty decent big ten teams last year in the midst of a tumultuous season with no sign of competent coaching. I think you might be surprised by this team if we stay healthy. Our starters have some real talent but if we can’t stay healthy we do lack serious depth. I am super pumped for tomorrow and think we might be able to stay in the game. We’ll see though.
and...
….I am so excited that I will honesty have trouble sleeping tonight. It’s been like this since I was in high school. I can rarely sleep well nights before Gopher football games.
So sometimes I share too much of what I’m thinking and I come across as super negative…having been abused like all of you for so long (maybe longer)…but in the end, I absolutely BLEED maroon and gold, my flag will be out in front of my house tomorrow, my kids will both be wearing Gopher gear, my 3 year old will have his stuffed Goldy he sleeps with every night at his side and will tell me to rewind any time he sees Goldy on television, 100 times, and I will stand 4 feet from the television most of the game feeling every tackle to the point where I’m exhausted after a 3 hour game (which pisses my wife off).
So with all of that, no matter what I say here, there is not a bigger gopher football fan that I know….so I apologize in advance for always speaking the negative without much positive. I need to re-learn how to be positive about this team just like they need to re-learn how to play football. I will work on that! I will take this as a personal growth challenge.
And props to the BLOG...
….that is really amuzing shit to read. Very well done by Tre and GE’SWAN….very funny material in that write-up.
Fair...but....
….I join the “experts” who do this for a living and spend hours and hours at practices/scrimmages/interviews, who also can’t figure out if we will win a single Big 10 game. So consensus is that we will finish dead last in our division, and the most lofty of predictions (excluding “best scenario” analysis), was that we would win a single Big 10 game. I’m sort of in line with that camp…waiting to be pleasantly surprised.
I can’t compare this team to last year’s team either, so I really don’t care a single bit what we did at the end of the roller coaster ride last season with Horton in charge. I enjoyed it, but it was a 2 game thing in my mind that is so far from where we are today (good or bad) that to me, and it’s just my opinion, those two wins have nothing to do with any analysis of the 2011/2012 season. It’s so apples/oranges….but looking at a lot of factors, including Kill’s records taking over previous teams, new QB, thin WR corp, questionable running backs, new center/young line, new schemes all over…to name a few, when I look at what each Big 10 team we play brings back to the table this year, I can’t point at a game and say “that’s the one we win”. We will/should be underdogs in each of them, so by definition, we aren’t expect to win a single Big 10 game.
In our worst of seasons under Wacker I feel like we could find a way to win a Big 10 game…so I think we will win one….but my expectations are for a very long season of hopefully continued growth and experience for our guys. I hope everybody stays healthy. I will enjoy whatever fruit comes from the vines this first year…knowing you can’t start making wine until several years into a vine’s life.
Not a single comment on the "Saved by the Bell" I'm so excited reference? Shocking.
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Saved by the bell...
…was mint. It showed all the expected emotions of tomorrow. The highest of highs jumping and celebrating, ending with tears and frustration and despair.
I was remiss in not mentioning it. It was very well played sir.
a few more interesting links
abc tv map for game tomorrow – http://www.gophersports.com/blog/2011/09/blog-national-coverage.html
USC scout team wears UCLA jerseys for practice against MN (note Marqueis Gray scout team member MG is slightly bigger than that guy) – http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/photos-usc-football-team-wears-ucla-jerseys-29837
Filthy Michigan Love...
….Chicago gets pushed to ESPN 2. I can’t stand Michigan…
And this sucks
because the midwest’s recruiting hotbeds all will see Michigan on ABC, not Minnesota against USC…so if we get killed, this is a small blessing that only about 45/50 states see them without cable. If we pull off a big victory, the midwest will be seeing it on ESPN 2.
Though, me thinks if we can beat USC it’ll be on ESPN highlights all night long….
All I've gotta say
Look for the sombreros. Win or lose, we still booze. Go Gophers
When we get the Pig, the Jug and the Axe, we'll have one hell of a picnic
by Marshmoose on Sep 3, 2011 12:20 AM CDT via iPhone app reply actions
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