Unfortunately a football game is four quarters long. If they just played two the Gophers would have improved to 8-3, instead they find themselves at 7-4 in the midst of a three-game slide. I have never coached football so this is easy for me to say but the Gophers play with very little discipline and mental toughness which always seems to cost them in close games. Is that a result of the coaching or just lack of judgment by the players? They also have a horrible track record when they fall behind in games. Bad things happen to them and then they snowball, which is what happened to them again in Madison today.
To be perfectly honest, I was shocked that they almost pulled off the win, even if Wisconsin is far from an impressive team. Our offensive line once again didn't show up and made if difficult for the Gophers to move the ball consistently. That is the strange this about this Gophers team, the O-line is usually their biggest strength (and for a lot of previous teams their only strength). As this season has wore on the O-line has proven to be their biggest liability.
Hopefully they can play a complete game against Iowa and get to 8-4 and thus avoid having to go to the Motor City Bowl where Ball State or Central Michigan will be salivating to beat another Big Ten team (if you count IU as a Big Ten team).
In other positive news, the T-Wolves managed to blow another game when taking a lead into the 4th quarter for the fourth time this season to drop to 1-7 overall. At least Brandon Roy only outscored Randy Foye 24-10.
I am debating changing the name of the blog to Fire Wittman Now, but then everyone would stop reading it, including myself.
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