... team can be described in a number of ways.  Puzzling.  Disappointing.  Frustrating.  If you look at how the season finished, the Gophers can consider themselves lucky to be in any bowl.

There are two ways that the Gophers can take their invitation to the Insight Bowl in Tempe, Arizona on New Year's Eve: They can look at it as a free trip to the desert in the middle of a brutal winter or they can take the bull by the horns and give themselves a much needed boost heading into the 2010 season.

This team certainly needs a shot in the arm.  They need a boost to give a little momentum back to a program that gradually lost steam over the season.

The 2009 season was supposed to be different.  After more than a quarter century ...

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