Okay, before I start venting and ranting, please remember before you start attacking me that I'm very sensitive and cry easily. With that said, reading many of the threads on this board leads me to conclude that the Gopher Nation deserves Brewster. Here's some of what I'm reading:
1. Minnesota is the Siberia of college football, and it will never be able to attract a big-name coach. Maybe, maybe not - even Michigan and Notre Dame have struggled at times to find coaches. Maybe the Gophs can get a top coach, maybe an assistant turns out to be the right fit, maybe the entire process fails again. Gee, I'm so scared - we better keep Brewster.
2. Brewster deserves one more year. No, if you are paid to do a job and you're not getting it done, you don't DESERVE anything. Going into the fourth year of watching Brewster learn on the job, the fans DESERVE not to waste another year of their time and money. Wow, with many of his recruits finally getting to be upper classmen, maybe we can go 6-6 again.
3. Nobody else has been able to win here. Yep, but only Holtz and Mason, at the time, were good hires. Like others have pointed out, Salem, Wacker, etc. didn't exactly move on to better things. No one outside of Minnesota thought that Brewster was a good hire, and they were right.
4. Brewster has met our low expectations. Now there's a ringing endorsement. Gee, if the team can struggle to 5-7 it will be just as inept as we thought it would be. Better keep Brewster. Did anyone really hope or expect four years ago that we'd be hoping to win a handful of games this year?
I could go on and on, but you get the idea. My problem is that I wasn't raised in Minnesota and I didn't go to the U. I have no vested interest. We moved to Minnesota shortly before Holtz was hired and had season tickets from when he was hired until we moved up here a few years ago. That's many, many years wasted watching crap football, and I can't keep saying," just one more year, just one more year..."
Many, many people on this board will say that I'm not a true fan. Maybe I don't want to be. At least not until people like the diehard fans on this board start demanding better. Maybe if the Gopher fan base was very demanding and expected great things, Maturi would have never taken such a huge risk in hiring Brewster. What kind of message is Maturi receiving even now?
I'm tired of trying to convince myself that the casual fan and the outside experts are the ones who have it all wrong. If Brewster gets another year, someone wake me when it's over.
If you don't demand any better, you don't deserve any better.
1. Minnesota is the Siberia of college football, and it will never be able to attract a big-name coach. Maybe, maybe not - even Michigan and Notre Dame have struggled at times to find coaches. Maybe the Gophs can get a top coach, maybe an assistant turns out to be the right fit, maybe the entire process fails again. Gee, I'm so scared - we better keep Brewster.
2. Brewster deserves one more year. No, if you are paid to do a job and you're not getting it done, you don't DESERVE anything. Going into the fourth year of watching Brewster learn on the job, the fans DESERVE not to waste another year of their time and money. Wow, with many of his recruits finally getting to be upper classmen, maybe we can go 6-6 again.
3. Nobody else has been able to win here. Yep, but only Holtz and Mason, at the time, were good hires. Like others have pointed out, Salem, Wacker, etc. didn't exactly move on to better things. No one outside of Minnesota thought that Brewster was a good hire, and they were right.
4. Brewster has met our low expectations. Now there's a ringing endorsement. Gee, if the team can struggle to 5-7 it will be just as inept as we thought it would be. Better keep Brewster. Did anyone really hope or expect four years ago that we'd be hoping to win a handful of games this year?
I could go on and on, but you get the idea. My problem is that I wasn't raised in Minnesota and I didn't go to the U. I have no vested interest. We moved to Minnesota shortly before Holtz was hired and had season tickets from when he was hired until we moved up here a few years ago. That's many, many years wasted watching crap football, and I can't keep saying," just one more year, just one more year..."
Many, many people on this board will say that I'm not a true fan. Maybe I don't want to be. At least not until people like the diehard fans on this board start demanding better. Maybe if the Gopher fan base was very demanding and expected great things, Maturi would have never taken such a huge risk in hiring Brewster. What kind of message is Maturi receiving even now?
I'm tired of trying to convince myself that the casual fan and the outside experts are the ones who have it all wrong. If Brewster gets another year, someone wake me when it's over.
If you don't demand any better, you don't deserve any better.