That's good stuff right there!“Whenever we were stalling, Mark Dantonio would say, ‘Hey, jump into (the) two-minute (offense),’” Cousins said. “Many times, you jump into two-minute, it has a different feel to it, and next thing you know you’re going.”
So the Vikings began the opening drive of the second half up-tempo. Even though it took them nine plays to span 75 yards for their first score, they did it in 3 minutes, 31 seconds. They went no-huddle and called plays at the line of scrimmage with a possession that offered initial hope that perhaps this group could start putting up some points after their first five drives ended poorly.
The only drawback to the plan is that teams usually have a finite amount of plays for their two-minute drill. So using up nine of those plays on the opening drive of the second half left the Vikings in need of some tweaks.
“You have to have a lot of code words, so you’re saying the same thing with a different word,” Cousins said. “You have multiple hand signals for the same play. You try to dress it up with motions and shifts, and then you get pretty inventive.”
What that meant was backyard, sandlot football. After burning through a whole package of two-minute drill plays, Stefanski got out a whiteboard and marker and started drawing brand new plays from scratch.
“One of them was a big play to Dalvin,” Cousins said. “… There were a few times they did that and it ended up being big plays, which is a great job by them on the fly in between possessions.”
How Penn State does against Ohio State will be a real measuring stick.Still not sold on Gophers football. Beat one decent team and lost to a team with 3 losses. They are not "elite"...not yet.
I agree, but they were not suppose to be this good yet. If they somehow get to the Rose Bowl, it would be huge for recruiting. The story on Bateman from the Athletic is awesome.Still not sold on Gophers football. Beat one decent team and lost to a team with 3 losses. They are not "elite"...not yet.
I don't remember that at all. I remember hearing nothing but skeptics and myself never getting interested in them until this year started coming out of nowhere.As I recall we saw all the "we're going to be a perennially great program" hype following Mason and Kill hirings. So forgive my hesitancy towards Fleck.
21-14 now.I don't remember that at all. I remember hearing nothing but skeptics and myself never getting interested in them until this year started coming out of nowhere.
The Gophers have never been taken seriously in my entire life until maybe right now... MAYBE.
BTW - Penn State getting steamrolled by Ohio State. 21-0.
If anyone was the one who preached that stuff, it was Brewster. Mason took a dog crap program and brought it back to being respectable. Kill did the same but to a lesser extent. So far PJ has lived up to what he said his goal was and as long as we keep having success I'm not going to doubt him.As I recall we saw all the "we're going to be a perennially great program" hype following Mason and Kill hirings. So forgive my hesitancy towards Fleck.
If anyone was the one who preached that stuff, it was Brewster. Mason took a dog crap program and brought it back to being respectable. Kill did the same but to a lesser extent. So far PJ has lived up to what he said his goal was and as long as we keep having success I'm not going to doubt him.
You mean what equates to blue chips in our state. Outside of maybe 1-2 linemen every few years we really don't produce "noteworthy" recruits for football. Basketball on the otherhand is completely the opposite.Well he's got a decent stadium and facilities.
I will - like with all my MN teams - remain hesitant and cynical towards any success(es) and withhold opinion on him.
The one thing he can do to bring more towards believing in him is keeping the blue chippers in-state, in-state.