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RE: Gopher Football - 10/9/2010 1:53:22 PM   
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25 point game with 7 minutes left and they go for 2.

Classy.
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RE: Gopher Football - 10/9/2010 1:54:02 PM   
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Minnesota should feel fortunate that the Big 10 didn't look to replace the Gophers under the new expansion and realignment. Probably decided to keep them around for homecoming games throughout the conference for years to come.

Badgers go for 2. Now Brewster can complain about that after the game, trying to deflect attention to what a jerk the Wisconsin coach is. Kinda hoping Brewster gets physical after the game and gets himself a lifetime suspension from the Big 10.

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RE: Gopher Football - 10/9/2010 2:03:42 PM   
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25 point game with 7 minutes left and they go for 2.

Classy.


Bielema isn't exactly known for his class. A couple of years ago he was being interviewed by P.A. and Dubay on KFAN, and when they hung up the phone with him both guys were saying "what the heck was that?" He had come on their show and was completely arrogant and smack talking and sounding like a total rube instead of a head coach.

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RE: Gopher Football - 10/9/2010 2:12:46 PM   
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Gophers cover the spread!!

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RE: Gopher Football - 10/9/2010 2:28:51 PM   
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Good win for WI, they really took over in the 2nd half.
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RE: Gopher Football - 10/9/2010 2:40:15 PM   
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Good win for WI, they really took over in the 2nd half.


So what do you think of the un sportsmanship displayed by your Badgers?

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RE: Gopher Football - 10/9/2010 2:44:36 PM   
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Good win for WI, they really took over in the 2nd half.


Was it that good of a win?

The way Wisconsin played, I think a mediocre team beats them today.
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RE: Gopher Football - 10/9/2010 5:10:44 PM   
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Good win for WI, they really took over in the 2nd half.


So what do you think of the un sportsmanship displayed by your Badgers?

What, the 2 pt try? That's what you came away from the game with? I'd be far more angry about the Gophs lack of leadership and direction.
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RE: Gopher Football - 10/9/2010 5:11:18 PM   
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Good win for WI, they really took over in the 2nd half.


Was it that good of a win?

The way Wisconsin played, I think a mediocre team beats them today.

Good thing the Gophers are pretty below mediocre.
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RE: Gopher Football - 10/9/2010 5:19:18 PM   
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Good win for WI, they really took over in the 2nd half.


Was it that good of a win?

The way Wisconsin played, I think a mediocre team beats them today.

Good thing the Gophers are pretty below mediocre.


'Pretty below mediocre' would be a compliment to this team.
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RE: Gopher Football - 10/9/2010 5:19:54 PM   
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I'd be far more angry about the Gophs lack of leadership and direction.


Look at any other post in this thread...
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RE: Gopher Football - 10/9/2010 6:56:26 PM   
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I'd be far more angry about the Gophs lack of leadership and direction.


Look at any other post in this thread...

Frankly, I am surprised Brewster still has a job.

He's almost the Matt Millen of college coaches right now.
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RE: Gopher Football - 10/9/2010 9:39:25 PM   
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Only not as good. Brewster is even worse than Jim Geezo Beezo Wacker. Hell, Lil Wacker could probably out coach him.

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RE: Gopher Football - 10/9/2010 10:45:44 PM   
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You guys are freakin nutz.  He'll bitch slap you tomorrow with the statement that "we had a chance to win that game, we are a good team that is getting better.  We have atheletes that compete".  It's pretty dissapointing that you guys don't share his vision.  It's pretty obvious.  Remember when we beat that team 1st week?  You fair weather fans.
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RE: Gopher Football - 10/13/2010 11:49:35 AM   
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Good AP story today (the usual ... find a bright spot stuff) ... but I have to agree with this one ...
We are seeing some O-Line improvement.
Very few sacks lately, time for gthe QB, and a hole or two is opening.
We aren't back to where we were yet, but we have size and youth and it looks like a "plan".
Good place to start if you are going to work on improving one step at a time.

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RE: Gopher Football - 10/15/2010 5:53:30 AM   
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http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/104997559.html?elr=KArksUUUycaEacyU


Souhan:

The Gophers football team plays at West Lafayette, Ind., on Saturday, with a chance to double its victory total.
A victory would be a shame for everyone who isn't related to Tim Brewster or a senior player on the team. Winning, at this point of Brewster's tenure, would only complicate the timing of his departure.
I don't believe Brewster has a chance to return in 2011. If he is indeed fired, here's how the rest of this autumn could, and certainly should, play out:


1 FIRE BREWSTER NOW
The University should have fired him Monday, after the Wisconsin loss. Now he faces two winnable games, at Purdue and home against a bad Penn State team.
Firing him after a victory is not likely, but the next time his team looks inept, it will be time to make the decision and begin the search for his replacement.


2 HIRE GLEN MASON AS AT LEAST A TEMP
The trickiest aspect of these decisions is their timing. There is a reason few colleges fire football coaches during the season -- because football, unlike baseball or basketball, is a complex bureaucracy that can topple when the balance of power is altered at the top.
If you're going to make the move during the season, you must hire an interim coach who will represent the university well and field a competitive team. There is one person immediately available who could handle that job -- Brewster's predecessor, Glen Mason.
Mason knows the program. He knows the bosses. As an analyst for Big Ten Network, he's watched the games and knows the players. He lives in the Twin Cities. He could take over immediately and give the Gophers a chance to finish the season with some measure of self-respect.


3 MOVE MATURI
Joel Maturi, the Gophers athletic director, was the man who looked into Brewster's eyes and yet became the first man at an institution bigger than a high school to hire Brewster as a coordinator or head coach. He should have nothing to do with hiring Brewster's long-term replacement.

Removing Maturi from the picture leaves two alternatives -- quickly hiring a new athletic director who can decide on the next football coach, or forming a search committee. Because I doubt the university's ability to hire a mover and shaker as a new AD, this is the rare instance in which I'd be in favor of a committee.
Usually, such task forces allow individuals to avoid making tough decisions, and avoid accountability for mistakes. In this case, unless Tony Dungy is willing to spend a month in Minnesota conducting the coaching search himself, a committee would be necessary, because there is no one person in place at the U who could handle the job.
4 CAST A WIDE NET
The Gophers could do worse than hiring Mason -- Brewster has proved that.
But Mason, despite his ability to build a program, wouldn't exactly excite what Brewster calls Gopher Nation.
Consider Marc Trestman, the Minnesotan who won a Grey Cup last year. Consider Mason, who at least would return the program to respectability. Consider a promising coach such as Houston's Kevin Sumlin.


Most important, hire someone who doesn't believe in the excuses too many Gophers coaches and supporters trot out every time they lose a game.


You should be able to recruit to a fine school in the middle of one of America's most livable and picturesque urban areas. You should be able to recruit to a beautiful new stadium. You should be able to advance to a major bowl every four or five years, even if the university insists on the coach recruiting athletes who can actually spell "athlete."
Every winning program has at some point hired an excellent coach whose abilities overwhelmed the limitations he faced.
For Wisconsin, it was Barry Alvarez. For Iowa, it was Kirk Ferentz. For TCU, it was Gary Patterson.
The right coach is out there, somewhere. At this point, all we know for sure is Brewster is not that guy.

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RE: Gopher Football - 10/15/2010 8:01:10 AM   
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Bring back Mason!? Souhan is dumb as ass.

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RE: Gopher Football - 10/15/2010 9:27:16 AM   
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Yeap.  Decent enough article until he brought up that dumb ass idea. 
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RE: Gopher Football - 10/15/2010 9:39:04 AM   
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Now he faces two winnable games, at Purdue and home against a bad Penn State team.

Call me a skeptic, but I will believe it when I see it. And only then.

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RE: Gopher Football - 10/15/2010 9:57:34 AM   
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Yep.
Calling any game the Gophers play winnable is hilarious at this point.
Lets just see what happens.
Purdue could put up 50 on our D.

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RE: Gopher Football - 10/15/2010 9:57:47 AM   
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They're winnable Matt.  We just have to play better than we have in the Brewster era.  Remember the James Bond movie where he is somewhere in the Siberian mountains?  He's fighting a bad dude and the plane goes over the edge (running too).  After he finally whoops the bad dudes ass, he jumps off the mountain, catches up to the plane that fell about 10 seconds earlier, somehow OPENS the door and gets in and flies away? 

Like that, IT CAN HAPPEN!
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RE: Gopher Football - 10/15/2010 10:16:43 AM   
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So ...... you're telling me there's a chance? .......

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RE: Gopher Football - 10/16/2010 7:26:43 AM   
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Phil Miller says there have been intensive talks about potentially whacking the worthless coach.


It's a 15-29 football team since Brewster arrived, and 6-20 against Big Ten opponents -- hardly the legacy that Bruininks, who will retire at the end of the school year, and Maturi, who is 65 and has one year left on his contract after this season, had hoped to leave the university. With time growing short, their urgency to right the school's flagship program might have increased, and firing the coach, particularly with more than a month to play, would be a decisive way to let fans know the record is not acceptable.


Such a move would disrupt ongoing recruiting efforts, but it also could signal potential Gophers that change is coming, lifting the uncertainty about Brewster's status. That could come as a relief to the team itself, too: While there have been few indications that players have given up on the season -- "We're all still confident that we can finish strong," quarterback Adam Weber said Tuesday -- the constant speculation about their coach long ago overwhelmed public interest in their play.


Most important, the university might seek an early start on a search for Brewster's successor. An October severing of their relationship -- whether Brewster, due a buyout if he's axed of $200,000 for each of the three seasons remaining on his contract, remains as a lame duck or is replaced with an interim coach -- would allow the school to openly form a search committee, and even contact former Gophers quarterback Tony Dungy, who won a Super Bowl as coach of the Colts, for his input and participation.

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RE: Gopher Football - 10/16/2010 10:20:49 AM   
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would allow the school to openly form a search committee, and even contact former Gophers quarterback Tony Dungy, who won a Super Bowl as coach of the Colts, for his input and participation.


I think getting Dungy involved would be huge. I think he already said he wouldn't take the job, but he knows what it takes and have him on search committee would help get a good replacement

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RE: Gopher Football - 10/16/2010 11:53:18 AM   
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14-0 in the 2nd.

Get the torches and pitchforks. Fire him on the way home. Ridiculous.

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