Ditch the Gophers once and for all and support a real college football program

[Big Dave2]

[Big Dave2]

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/cam-robinson-clemson-gropers-better-not-try-me-like-that/ar-BBxUCGr?li=BBnb7Kz

[smurfy]

so Dave...........gonna be cleaning the garage tonite!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Big Dave2]

Nope, got a few buds coming over to watch the game. I give them the chance to give me a hard time in person in case the Tide would lose but it never happens!

[Big Dave2]

Just now, Rick said:

I'd say the Gophers basketball team is starting to look good. Not ditching them. Sorry David.

 

You should keep them. I watched them last night and Richard Coffey's son looks pretty darn good. I'm not sure how much of a measuring stick Ohio State is this year since they have also lost to Purdue and Illinois already but the Gophers are looking good so far.

[Rick]

I think PJ Fleck is just what the Dr. ordered for the Gophers football program. 

Here is his press conference....

 

[Rick]

Fleck stole Ohio States co-offensive coordinator and rising star Coach Warrener to be the MN Gophers offensive line coach.

 

WOW!!!!!!

[Big Dave2]

28 minutes ago, Rick said:

Fleck stole Ohio States co-offensive coordinator and rising star Coach Warrener to be the MN Gophers offensive line coach.

 

WOW!!!!!!

 

Or maybe Ohio State wanted to get rid of him after their offensive performance in the playoffs? 

[Rick]

SEC has very recently released Alabama Crimson Tide roster for 2018. Since the roster lists the two players, VanDarius Cowan and Jordan Davis, in the team, it appears SEC needs another couple of weeks to finalize the roster. VanDarius Cowan was dismissed from the team recently, citing a violation of team rules. Jordan Davis, on the other hand, enrolled at Copiah-Lincoln Community College, Mississippi.

[Big Dave2]

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Is the 2018 Alabama team the Tide's greatest ever?

 

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Nick Saban doesn't understand the fuss. It annoys him that anyone who understands football would even ask the question. This Alabama team? The best ever? Have you watched the video? Have you seen the mistakes? Isn't it as obvious as the scowl on his face that the Crimson Tide defense is not playing up to Saban's standards?

 

Everything Saban has learned in 46 years of coaching, every fiber in his Panama-hat-wearing, aight-saying, rat-poison-averse being says this Alabama team has issues. The defense is young and thin, which is great if you're a model but not if you want to be a model defense. Alabama is allowing 15.9 points per game, the second-highest average since this incredible Alabama run (133-14, .905) began in 2008.

 

There are 16 players from last year's national champion team on NFL rosters, six new assistant coaches, nine defensive backs from the 2017 team who have either gone to the NFL or gotten hurt. Even with all that turnover, this Alabama team has won every game by at least three touchdowns.

 

Eight noncompetitive games in, fresh off an idle Saturday, preparing to play at No. 4 LSU, and about to be named No. 1 in the first College Football Playoff selection committee rating, Alabama stands alone. After Missouri held Alabama to a season-low 39 points, Tigers head coach Barry Odom said the Crimson Tide are "as good as I've ever gone against, as good as I've ever seen.".........

 

The Alabama offense is the reason that Alabama has played more than 1,200 snaps and trailed for exactly three of them. The Alabama offense is scoring a school-record 54.1 points per game.

 

It has four NFL-ready running backs who remain August-fresh as the calendar turns to November.

 

It has five receivers averaging at least 17.5 yards per catch.

 

It has a left tackle, Jonah Williams, who will be bro-hugging Roger Goodell in prime time next spring.

 

And it has Tua.

 

By all accounts except Saban's, the Alabama offense through eight games is a once-in-a-generation unit. The Tide have scored a touchdown on the opening possession of all eight games. Odom said his staff spent the entire week stressing that Missouri couldn't give up explosive plays. On Alabama's second snap, Missouri strong safety Cam Hilton found himself trying to cover Tide sophomore wide receiver Jerry Jeudy. This is the kind of mismatch that offensive coordinators concoct during the week. When quarterback Tua Tagovailoa delivered the ball, Jeudy already had created a 3-yard cushion. He took the pass 81 yards for a touchdown.

 

"You see it on video," Odom said. "You wonder how it looked up close and personal. It was as good and maybe even better."

 

Tagovailoa is as accurate as a "Jeopardy!" champion, which is actually the reverse of how ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit described him.

 

"This guy," Herbstreit said on The First Team on ESPNU Radio, "has answers before the questions are asked."

 

Tagovailoa has 25 touchdowns and no interceptions. His 97.5 QBR is the highest through eight games in the 15 years that ESPN has produced the metric. He still hasn't played in a fourth quarter this season.

 

Woody McCorvey, who is Dabo Swinney's right-hand man at No. 2 Clemson and coached Swinney on the 1992 Alabama national championship team, has bought in. When Clemson had an off week earlier this month, McCorvey got caught up watching Alabama.

 

"Right now, they're on pace to be one of the best offenses that's ever been there," McCorvey said. He singled out Tagovailoa's ability to place his passes where his receivers can catch them at full speed, comparing it to Joe Montana hitting Jerry Rice and John Taylor three decades ago.

 

Along those same lines, Gary Danielson of CBS has compared Tagovailoa to Danielson's fellow Purdue alum Drew Brees. When Tua hit freshman Jaylen Waddle for a 77-yard touchdown pass, the third of Alabama's four first-quarter touchdowns in the 58-21 defeat of Tennessee,

 

Danielson responded in amazement.

"He just delivers the ball right on him, right in stride," Danielson said during the telecast, the wonder palpable in his tone. "People don't do this kind of stuff."......

 

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/25091096/where-does-2018-alabama-team-rank-all-greats

 

[Big Dave2]