Kill starts from ground up with Gophers

MINNEAPOLIS — Jerry Kill has spent the better part of a busy nine months putting his personal touch on the struggling Minnesota program.

Now he’s arrived at the fun part: actually coaching football.

MarQueis Gray is taking over as the starting quarterback, one of the few certainties surrounding this year’s team. Before Kill will set starting lineups and discuss some of the competitions taking place at various positions, he’s focused on simply getting the guys to play, study and act the right way.

Kill has said more than once after taking over that he has a lot of work to do to turn the Gophers around.