Hammer and Rails · Jun 13, 2019
Know They Opponent 2019: Minnesota Golden Gophers
Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY SportsFair or not, over the next few seasons Purdue and Minnesota are going to get compared closely with each other. Both teams got their current head coaches at the same time, and since Purdue had fired Darrell Hazell earlier that Minnesota got rid of Tracy Claeys, PJ Fleck was long talked about as a candidate to come to West Lafayette. Of course, for many years the teams have been roughly equal in the Big Ten pecking order. Minnesota has been steadily in the middle, but bottomed out with their own 1-11 year in 2007. The Beckman/Hazell crater has been passed for both schools, however, and now they are each trying to compete for a wide open Big Ten West title.