BleedGopher
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The tough guys are out in force now. Whether reading or hearing people from traditional media outlets, or those nasty folks that respond anonymously on newspaper and other websites, or those that use discussion boards dedicated to the subject at hand, it is now open season on Tim Brewster, the Gophers' football coach.
The media types are in competition to see how much more clever they can be in bludgeoning Brewster than the previous guy. The parasites that sneak out of hiding to post at the bottom of articles are in competition to find out how much more vile they can be than the previous guy.
And even the boards alleged to be home to the faithful followers of the team have turned. Gopherhole.com, the most-popular site for U of M football and men's basketball, appears to have change to title of its football forum from Brew's Crew to Six National Titles in recent hours.
To all these tough guys, I have a single question: Why bother?
Brewster has been defeated. He has been muzzled. He has been drained.
That was a sick-looking man on the sidelines late in Saturday's 34-23 loss to Northern Illinois. And leaving the field, with only a few hundred stragglers remaining in the new, on-campus stadium, he looked as if he might need assistance to stagger to the locker room.
And now there are scores in the media, and hundreds of parasites, and thousands in the fan base, ready to show how tough they can be in blasting Brewster. And I'm a media type that started in on Brewster from his first news conference, from the moment that he first uttered "Gopher Nation,'' and now I say, "Why bother?''
I listened to that over-the-top bluster from Day One, and said, "There's no substance to this, there's no sincerity,'' and started taking shots in Star Tribune columns, as a sports guy on what was then the Talk Station.
It was only an opinion then - based on previous experience with B.S.er's holding jobs of large responsibility - that Brewster was never going to succeed as a Big Ten football coach.
To me, that opinion turned to fact two years ago. The Gophers started that season 7-1: four non-conference wins, a loss at Ohio State, and then a three-game Big Ten winning streak.
There was a road victory at Illinois in that streak, and Brewster called it a program turner. For him, it was certainly, since Illinois was his alma mater and the Illini had annihilated the Gophers at the Metrodome in 2007, but to take his first-ever notable and say, "This is it ... a program turner,'' it only reinforced the idea this was a coaching approach built on nonsense rather than substance.
I wasn't 100 percent on that, though, until the Gophers lost the next three to fall to 3-4 in the Big Ten, and then lost 55-0 to Iowa in the season finale - and the last game ever played at the Metrodome.
A week later, he was changing the offense and turning coordinator Mike Dunbar into a scapegoat. That was another tipoff: Competent assistants that could find another job were bailing on Brewster, and others were sacked by Brewster to direct responsibility for failure away from himself.
This is old stuff, of course. Brewster's failure to make it as a head coach in a BCS conference has been guaranteed since Kirk Ferentz brought the Iowa Hawkeys to the big top and gave a Gophers' team that was once 7-1 the worst Big Ten loss in Minnesota's football history.
So, now he's 1-3 heading into the Big Ten schedule, with a loss to South Dakota in a shootout, and a loss to Northern Illinois in a fourth-quarter blowout, and the machetes are swinging from everywhere.
The "Fire Brewster'' chants are unnecessary. That's going to happen at season's end. Brewster knows it. His bosses know it. Anyone with even a mild interest Gophers' football knows it.
So, why bother with the tough opinions, and nasty posts? Watching Brewster leave the stadium on Saturday night, the dead horse already had been kicked
http://1500espn.com/blogs/Dead_horse_thats_already_been_kicked
Go Gophers!!
The media types are in competition to see how much more clever they can be in bludgeoning Brewster than the previous guy. The parasites that sneak out of hiding to post at the bottom of articles are in competition to find out how much more vile they can be than the previous guy.
And even the boards alleged to be home to the faithful followers of the team have turned. Gopherhole.com, the most-popular site for U of M football and men's basketball, appears to have change to title of its football forum from Brew's Crew to Six National Titles in recent hours.
To all these tough guys, I have a single question: Why bother?
Brewster has been defeated. He has been muzzled. He has been drained.
That was a sick-looking man on the sidelines late in Saturday's 34-23 loss to Northern Illinois. And leaving the field, with only a few hundred stragglers remaining in the new, on-campus stadium, he looked as if he might need assistance to stagger to the locker room.
And now there are scores in the media, and hundreds of parasites, and thousands in the fan base, ready to show how tough they can be in blasting Brewster. And I'm a media type that started in on Brewster from his first news conference, from the moment that he first uttered "Gopher Nation,'' and now I say, "Why bother?''
I listened to that over-the-top bluster from Day One, and said, "There's no substance to this, there's no sincerity,'' and started taking shots in Star Tribune columns, as a sports guy on what was then the Talk Station.
It was only an opinion then - based on previous experience with B.S.er's holding jobs of large responsibility - that Brewster was never going to succeed as a Big Ten football coach.
To me, that opinion turned to fact two years ago. The Gophers started that season 7-1: four non-conference wins, a loss at Ohio State, and then a three-game Big Ten winning streak.
There was a road victory at Illinois in that streak, and Brewster called it a program turner. For him, it was certainly, since Illinois was his alma mater and the Illini had annihilated the Gophers at the Metrodome in 2007, but to take his first-ever notable and say, "This is it ... a program turner,'' it only reinforced the idea this was a coaching approach built on nonsense rather than substance.
I wasn't 100 percent on that, though, until the Gophers lost the next three to fall to 3-4 in the Big Ten, and then lost 55-0 to Iowa in the season finale - and the last game ever played at the Metrodome.
A week later, he was changing the offense and turning coordinator Mike Dunbar into a scapegoat. That was another tipoff: Competent assistants that could find another job were bailing on Brewster, and others were sacked by Brewster to direct responsibility for failure away from himself.
This is old stuff, of course. Brewster's failure to make it as a head coach in a BCS conference has been guaranteed since Kirk Ferentz brought the Iowa Hawkeys to the big top and gave a Gophers' team that was once 7-1 the worst Big Ten loss in Minnesota's football history.
So, now he's 1-3 heading into the Big Ten schedule, with a loss to South Dakota in a shootout, and a loss to Northern Illinois in a fourth-quarter blowout, and the machetes are swinging from everywhere.
The "Fire Brewster'' chants are unnecessary. That's going to happen at season's end. Brewster knows it. His bosses know it. Anyone with even a mild interest Gophers' football knows it.
So, why bother with the tough opinions, and nasty posts? Watching Brewster leave the stadium on Saturday night, the dead horse already had been kicked
http://1500espn.com/blogs/Dead_horse_thats_already_been_kicked
Go Gophers!!
