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RE: Gopher Football - 12/2/2010 7:26:04 PM

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Goldy is #1! Check this out!

http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2010/12/01/mascot-power-rankings-its-goldy-gopher-by-a-foot/

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/3/2010 7:49:23 PM

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??? Lou Holtz ???

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2010 All Big Ten selections...

Coaches:
Honorable Mention: DJ Burris

Media:
Honorable Mention: D.J. Burris, Troy Stoudermire, Gary Tinsley

Phil Steele
Troy Stoudermire (1st Tm, KR); Da'jon McKnight (3rd Tm, WR)

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 11:05:17 AM

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Couple suggestions in paper today that Maturi will name new coach this week and maybe tomorrow. If not a named coach, they still won't sell tickets

Coaches from N.Ill & Miami Ohio and Cryst from Wis who is a personal friend of Maturi, and he is also in love with the MAC since he used to work at a school in that conference

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 2:33:00 PM

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Sorry, I knwo this is gonna get me crucified ....
But I want Horton.
Cheap option, GREAT guy. Team obviously believed in him.
Yep, some huge red flags, I get them all, don;t need to lecture me .... but I want someone I can believe in and everything I've seen this guy do (in a bad situation) has impressed me.
Screw the same old hash-overs. Quit paying those clowns millions for pretending to care about the U of M.
Give it to a guy who is hungry to MAKE a name for himself without using smoke-and-mirrors. Jeff Horton.

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 2:35:00 PM

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Sorry, I knwo this is gonna get me crucified ....
But I want Horton.
Cheap option, GREAT guy. Team obviously believed in him.
Yep, some huge red flags, I get them all, don;t need to lecture me .... but I want someone I can believe in and everything I've seen this guy do (in a bad situation) has impressed me.
Screw the same old hash-overs. Quit paying those clowns millions for pretending to care about the U of M.
Give it to a guy who is hungry to MAKE a name for himself without using smoke-and-mirrors. Jeff Horton.

I'd be okay with it if the other options do not pan out. He'd be cheap so you'd think they could pay the coordinators as much as any in the conference, which would help.

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 2:39:50 PM

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Yep, would allow for some better help.
Screw re-runs. Give a guy a chance (who isn't a snake-oil salesman)
And no ... he's not Tim Brewster II. This guy is a lifer who has paid dues and wants to lay it all on the line for someone.

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 2:49:22 PM

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Pioneer Press reporter Marcus R. Fuller:

PiPress Gophers Now
Let us just say the Gophers couldn't get Petersen and Edsall and Hoke and. ...How many people would be pleased with UW OC Paul Chryst?

PiPress Gophers Now
Just a guess, but Chryst would probably keep current assistants such as Jeff Horton and Tim Davis, maybe others. There would be stability.

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 3:07:29 PM

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Pioneer Press reporter Marcus R. Fuller:

PiPress Gophers Now
Let us just say the Gophers couldn't get Petersen and Edsall and Hoke and. ...How many people would be pleased with UW OC Paul Chryst?

PiPress Gophers Now
Just a guess, but Chryst would probably keep current assistants such as Jeff Horton and Tim Davis, maybe others. There would be stability.

And heaven forbid Kevin Cosgrove

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 3:12:07 PM

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Cosgrove and Brewster shoulda been a packaged deal.
Equal disasters at their jobs.

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 3:19:30 PM

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Cosgrove and Brewster shoulda been a packaged deal.
Equal disasters at their jobs.

And he stays if either Cryst or Horton get hired. The defense was the worst part of this years team

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 3:24:39 PM

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Maybe you're right ... but i would hope Horton is smart enough to know that area is the biggest need for change.
Cosgrove was a Brewster guy, haven't heard of any love affair between Horton and Cosgrove.
And you're right ... there better not be, or that'd be a deal breaker for me.

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 3:45:31 PM

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Maybe you're right ... but i would hope Horton is smart enough to know that area is the biggest need for change.
Cosgrove was a Brewster guy, haven't heard of any love affair between Horton and Cosgrove.
And you're right ... there better not be, or that'd be a deal breaker for me.

They were together at Wis with Cryst

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 6:06:31 PM

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Jerry Kill of Northern Illinois fame is the pick.

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 6:24:03 PM

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Don't know anything about him - what's the reaction here?

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 6:36:29 PM

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Post from another board:

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Kill is a good coach. He has won wherever he has gone. Better than that, he has turned around every program he has been at. This is not a bad pick (if it really is the choice) considering the aftermath of the Brewster era.

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 7:30:12 PM

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The University of Minnesota apparently has ended its search for a new football coach with Northern Illinois' Jerry Kill expected to be announced as Tim Brewster's replacement at a press conference Monday, according to Gopherillustrated.com and KSTP-TV.

After stating after Brewster's firing Oct. 17 that he was going after a "Tubby Smith-type hire" in football, Gophers athletics director Joel Maturi obviously failed to deliver on that level with Kill, who has only been a Football Bowl Subdivision coach for three seasons.

But this was a big season for Kill.

The 49-year-old former two-time Division I-AA coach of the year went 10-3 this season at Northern Illinois and earned a No. 25 ranking before losing 26-21 to Miami (Ohio) on Friday in the Mid-American Conference title game.

Kill, who led NIU to a 34-23 victory over Minnesota on Sept. 23 at TCF Bank Stadium, has compiled a 23-16 record since taking over the Huskies in 2008, including losing two back-to-back bowl games.

Before taking over at Northern Illinois, Kill was the head coach at Southern Illinois, Emporia State in Kansas and Saginaw Valley State in Michigan. His longest stint was at Southern Illinois, where he went 55-32, including five straight playoff appearances and five straight seasons with at least nine wins.

In 2010, Kill and his Northern Illinois team faced adversity on and off the field to open the season, going 1-2 and receiving a scare when Kill was hospitalized for dehydration following a 23-17 victory Sept. 11 over North Dakota. Kill said it was not related to cancer surgery he had while coaching Southern Illinois in 2006.

After Kill returned to the sideline for a 28-22 loss to Illinois on Sept. 18, Northern Illinois beat Minnesota the following week and won nine straight games before losing in the MAC championship. The Huskies are scheduled to play Dec. 18 against Fresno State in the Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho.

http://www.twincities.com/ci_16784987?nclick_check=1

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 9:17:02 PM

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I'd agree w/Yawn.....

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 10:06:37 PM

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Jerry Kill of Northern Illinois fame is the pick.

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I guess it'll be wait-and-see now ....

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 10:38:14 PM

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Funny; they were just talking on Friday about Kill on Nashville radio as being the possible Vandy coach.

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 10:42:33 PM

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So we swooped in and stole the guy that Vandy wanted. Sweet!

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 10:56:35 PM

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Not hard.

Minnesota's a better/easier job IMO.

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/5/2010 11:03:07 PM

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Whoops. I just realized I'm wrong;

they were talking about Michael Haywood, Miami (OH) coach. They were playing each other the other night so I confused myself.

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/6/2010 5:59:57 AM

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Reusse:

If you were going to the Mid-American Conference to find a new football coach for the Gophers, why didn't you hire the guy who won the MAC title game on Friday night, rather than the loser?
Miami (Ohio) was a 17 1/2-point underdog to Northern Illinois in Ford Field. Final: Miami 26, NIU 21.

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/6/2010 8:09:29 AM

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Not the big name I was hoping for....and not a great playoff/bowl game record with the last couple of teams.

Otherwise, pretty much everything sounds alright.

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RE: Gopher Football - 12/6/2010 8:43:46 AM

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Reusse:

If you were going to the Mid-American Conference to find a new football coach for the Gophers, why didn't you hire the guy who won the MAC title game on Friday night, rather than the loser?
Miami (Ohio) was a 17 1/2-point underdog to Northern Illinois in Ford Field. Final: Miami 26, NIU 21.

Gosh, I don't know Ruesse. Maybe the other guy wasn't interested in the job?

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