Golden Gophers Have Big Third Quarter and Dominate Purdue

ABOUT MINNESOTA (3-2, 0-1 Big Ten): Kill declined to name a starting quarterback on Tuesday, but indicated after last week’s loss that the decision to pull a potential redshirt from Demry Croft was merely a move to develop his freshman signal-caller.

Purdue is seeking its first conference home victory since beating Indiana 56-35 on November 24, 2012. 5 No fighting spirit Football is a passionate game and about midway in the first quarter, Minnesota began showing what emotion can do – as in positive emotion, determination, tenacity and the will to win. Brooks ran for 176 yards on the day.

Minnesota defensive back Eric Murray (31) back peddles to stay in front of Purdue wide receiver Cameron Posey (18) during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, October 10, 2015, in West Lafayette, Ind. Maybe behind closed doors, someone – a coach, a player, a team captain – is angry enough to step up and change where this program is at right now.

Purdue has lost four straight overall, eight straight in league play and has only two wins over FBS foes under third-year coach Hazell. That was more points than the Gophers have scored in any of their previous five games. “We are going to make passing a lot easier because we are going to run it about 45 times, so you better get your butts in gear, ‘” Kill said. Kill’s quote speaks volumes about why the Gophers have no business as road chalk at Purdue: “I’ve never seen anything like it in my 32 years of coaching”. Adding to the misery, kicker Paul Griggs is battling a confidence problem that has now affected extra points.

And Brooks’ long run broke open the game.

“We have to take a close look at everything we’re doing, schematically, fundamentally and make sure we get better”, Hazell said. Leidner finished 8 of 12 for 59 yards with two TD passes and one interception, and Lingen caught three passes for 22 yards. “When you get into situations like last week at Northwestern, it is something that tests you”. “I’m confident we’ll have the funds flow needed to pay for this, and I think our student-athletes deserve the chance to have the kind of facilities that our competitors have”.

By comparison, former starter Austin Appleby was at 54.5 percent, 669 yards, five touchdowns, six interceptions and a 109.7 rating in three starts. “You need to pay attention to it all the time”. “All of a sudden we were out of sync”. The result was on one touchdown drive the Gophers ran the ball nine consecutive times, before finally scoring the touchdown on a play-action pass from Mitch Leidner to tight end Brandon Lingen. Then on defense, the Gophers gave up an early touchdown to the Boilermakers before shutting them out nearly the entire rest of the way.