I think that Brewster promised Maresh the flag before the heart stuff even came up. I could be wrong, though. ....
Looking through media coverage of the event would lead me to say it was in response to the kid's hardships and not a promise made in his recruitment. FWIW
It comes down to this and only this. Would you rather have an arrogant jerk of a coach that pisses on the high school coaches in the area and gets lots of third level Ohio recruits but coaches us to average seasons. OR a way to chipper coach who the local coaches love, he himself loves to recruit, but we may have really bad seasons.
I'll take the second option, because at least with that scenario we have a chance at seasons that won't be just average.
I don't think anybody has suggested rehiring Mason anytime soon, so can we stop making these statements already? "Better than the last guy" is no more to hang your hat on than "at least we are bowling" was under the previous regime. Cripes.
...1. Going from 111th in the nation to 110th would be considered an improvement, going as you say from 111th to 55th would be considered a hell (more than significant) of an improvement. Me personally, I was thinking moving up 30 spots would be considered a significant improvement. It appears you believe the Gophers must make the Rose Bowl to have significant improvement.
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Note: You will seem alot less silly if instead of name calling you spend more time making a decent point. You feel me?
You will do well to stay away from semantics in regards to a statistical comparisions of our team under Brewster.
Feeling particularly self deflating I looked into this (per
ESPN as the NCAA's site was being uncooperative) and I think we all knew that our offense has been trending downward in production, but yikes, I hadn't really know it was this bad. Working backward for effect:
2009 in Yards/Game we were 109th in the nation and in Points/Game we were 100th
2008 91st in Yds/G and 83rd in Pts/G
2007 52nd in Yds/G and 68th in Pts/G
2006 37th in Yds/G and 30th in Pts/G
2005 9th in Yds/G and 10th in Pts/G
Pretty much falling like a stone down the well...
Now do I advocate firing our coach this year?... no. It is an unsustainable trend to fire a coach every three incoming classes and if we do, we had better look long and hard at replacing our AD as well. And personally I don't see anybody out there that screams both "getable" and "instant upgrade". But the cries for his head will be audible this year, as I see little chance of an up turn given the harshest schedule of my lifetime, and the first game being nothing of a warm up (10 win team, whose offense looked dominate in its bowl game and is returning every element from waterboy to back up punter? yikes). Will I be suprised if this is the final hurray for Brew? Not as much if you had told me that we'd be here two years ago. Will I be happy if he is replaced... probably not given it assuredly will be another no-name and we will be back to square one. And don't anybody start on goddam Tony Dungy!
