Minnesota coach Jerry Kill is seeing red -- and he's tired of it. Literally.

The fifth-year Gophers coach told the media Tuesday that Wisconsin's "been a pain in our butt" and he doesn't enjoy seeing Badgers shirts around the Twin Cities. He joked that he even had an idea to fix the problem.

"There ought to be ban," Kill said with a smile. "The Governor is always banning. We need to ban any other shirts but the University of Minnesota and the Vikings. That's it. The secretary likes the Packers. We're in Minnesota, aren't we? Right? All right. I'm off that soapbox."

Just before he stepped off that soapbox, though, Kill also shared a recent experience when he bumped into a red-wearing fan near the river. The local had on a Nebraska shirt -- not Wisconsin -- but the color still irked Kill.

"I go, 'Hey, what's that?' And the kid is in a wheelchair. I go, 'What's that?' " Kill said. "Nebraska. I said, 'You know who I am?' Yeah, I think so. I said, 'Well, who am I? He says, Coach Kill. I said, 'I'm from the University of Minnesota. You've got that Nebraska thing on.' "

"He goes, Coach I like you. And I said, 'Well, you need to come by and get a shirt, but I'll take a picture with you.' So I took a picture with him, liked the kid and everything."

It's not difficult to understand why the Gophers coach is a bit annoyed by Wisconsin's reach. The Badgers have defeated Minnesota in their last 11 meetings. The last time Minnesota took home Paul Bunyan's Axe, in 2003, Kill was in his third season coaching the Southern Illinois Salukis.

Wisconsin has beaten Minnesota by double-digits in the last five meetings, including a 34-24 victory last year.

"The No. 1 question I get in the state when I got out and talk is we've got three trophies -- but where is the Axe?" Kill said. "It's not, 'Hey, Coach, so happy to have three trophies.' It's, 'Where's the Axe? Where's the Axe?' We've got to get that done. Sooner or later, I always keep saying, sooner or later it's got to happen. I'd like it to be sooner."

Minnesota hosts Wisconsin at TCF Bank Stadium on Nov. 28, during the last week of the Big Ten season.