On my list of favorite Gopher football coaches I will always rate Tim Brewster ahead of Glenn Mason because he wanted to be in Minnesota and loved being the Gophers coach. Mason regretted taking the job before he arrived on campus and tried to get another job for most of the time he was here.
Since he was fired Brewster has said only positive things about his time in Minnesota. Gopher fans who continue to demonize the man seven years later have forgotten, or never experienced, the 50 years of mostly abject failure by the football team since it last one a Big 10 Championship.
I have to believe that Mike Dubose, Denis Franchione, and Mike Shula don't come up in Alabama threads more than a couple times per year. The same goes for Gerry Faust, Bob Davie, Tyrone Willingham, and Charlie Weiss at Notre Dame. Joel Maturi is far from the only AD to swing and miss at a Division I football school. It happens every year in every DI conference in the country.
Let's get over the obsession about Brewster. It has been decades since the future of Gopher football has looked as bright as it does now. We all need to look to the future and try to forget about the past.