I said towards the ends of non con as the meltdowns continued over our pass defense that I was comfortable with the mentality to sell out on the run first. Here's why. Lunt, Stave, Leidner, Northwestern fr. My thought was that if we allow these guys to throw for 300 yards, well, then, we are doing so well at taking these teams out of their comfort zone of what they WANT to do, that we would win and win handily. Now. We didnt. But I ask you. Who do you put more blame on in the Illinois loss and Wisconsin loss? Offense for defense? Sure, it's a team game. But lets play this game anyway? Who do we blame? We held Illinois to less than 50% comp percentage, 260 yards passing and 14 points. We held Wisconsin to less than 50% comp percentage. Joel Stave completed less than 50% and went over 300 yards. You make Wisconsin throw that much, and you like your chances, yes? They scored 23 points. And prior to conference play, if you were told these situations, youd think we have fair chances to win these games pretty out right. But you have to score points.
Now, ifs and buts were candy and nuts. But that's my take
Minnesota is not gonna run the score up. This game will be a close one again. Jesus. these sky-is-falling assumptions are beyond ridiculous. WHAT EVIDENCE ARE YOU BASING A BLOWOUT LOSS ON? Like prediciting 9 wins for this season-which is still possible by the way. Well, when you win 9+ games 8 times in 9 years, makes it pretty hard to think otherwise, yes?