Not so much giving up, but damnt every big game of importance, we just get the snot beat out of us. We will have a game like the wisky game where we lay all out on the turf and still come up short. I can live with that game. It's the other games where teams put up a 5 6 or a 7 for a first number on us. At least when Osborne was losing all those games they where close well fough out games. Like others have said we hired .500 coach to coach us to 7-4 8-3 records and I suppose bottom top 25 team "at times". Till the university figures it out in the coaching department, we will be a slight above mid level team.
So do i lore for the days of old ? Yep, but who doesn't. First and foremost we need a QB coach. So tired of seeing our QB hit there plateau then start to regress at an alarming rate.
As for Minnesota I don't know what to expect with/without TA.