Minnesota players were having fun Saturday. They were SO much better than Iowa, so much quicker, and so much more athletic. They simply were able to do what they wanted, similar to what Texas did to Iowa. When they put pressure defense on Iowa, Iowa was unable to do anything on offense and Minnesota basically did what they wanted, when they wanted.
Why wouldn't they laugh and have fun?
Fortunately, Tubby called off the dogs about the last 10 minutes of the game because Minnesota could have named the score Saturday. Their reserves got to see a lot of playing time and we had trouble against them.
One of the Minnesota posters, I believe the fellow who runs the rivals site for Minnesota compared Iowa and Lickliter to the Minnesota and Monson situation. His evaluation as an outsider was spot on about Iowa bb and quite insightful. The only difference was that he said the Minnesota AD never let the attendance get as bad as Iowa; he had never seen anything like Carver in all of his years going to games. He said Carver was SO quiet that it was creepy in there. Maybe people don't talk for fear of being heaard?