The TV in Jerry Kill's office played clips of a TCU game on this July morning. The Gophers football coach paused the video for a visit, though one gets the impression he never changes the channel.
"That's all I'm doing right now," Kill said, glancing at the screen.
To further his point, Kill reached into a drawer and pulled out a three-ring binder as thick as Tolstoy's "War and Peace." The pages contained scouting reports on the Gophers' first four opponents.
Kill has everything he needs to know about TCU, if he didn't already know it. Stats, coaching bios, personnel, formations, tendencies — even the fact that TCU's dynamic quarterback, Trevone Boykin, prefers his morning eggs sunny side up.
(OK, I made that last part up.)
Kill's staff has poured itself into preparation for the program's biggest and most important season opener in decades on Thursday night.
Safe to assume TCU coach Gary Patterson and his staff have done likewise.
"Minnesota, all they worked on all spring was no-huddle," Patterson said at his pre-camp news conference. "At least that's what I'm being told [by] the little birds."