After Jerry Kill retired for health reasons on Oct. 28, this sentiment lingered in the air: Tracy Claeys was taking over as head coach, but really he was just occupying the seat in the program Kill was trying to build. That dissipated a little when Claeys was made the permanent head coach a couple weeks ago, but it still felt like there wasn’t much Claeys could do to shake the perception — if he wanted to shake the perception — that this was still Kill’s team and not his. Limited in his options, Claeys on Sunday took the boldest and surest route to carving out his own identity.