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"Gophers had no chance

The Gophers team that lost 41-14 to Nebraska on Saturday would not have defeated the 13th-ranked Cornhuskers even if it had played a perfect game.

The Gophers don't have talent to win any big games, and Tim Brewster is fortunate that he got fired in the middle of last season and didn't have to coach this great group of talent that he and his staff recruited.

But coach Jerry Kill agreed that one of the big problems this team has is it makes one mistake after another.

What happened Saturday is the type of thing that has happened all season. Just look at the opening sequence.

The opening kickoff was fumbled in the end zone, limiting the return to 11 yards; when that opening drive stalled, the Gophers had a poor 23-yard punt that give the Huskers the ball at midfield; the Gophers jumped offside on third-and-10, negating a sack that could have kept Nebraska off the scoreboard; and finally, they had to take a timeout on a Nebraska field-goal attempt because they had 12 men on the field.

There were other problems as the game continued, including two fumbles by Gophers quarterback MarQueis Gray that led to Nebraska touchdowns.

It will be the same thing next week unless a smart Gophers team -- it has 42 players with grade-point averages of at least 3.0 -- finally listens to Kill and quits playing stupid football."

http://www.startribune.com/sports/132382988.html

Go Gophers!!
 

Smart freshmen are still.....freshmen. Smart freshmen will still make freshmen mistakes. Expect it all season.
 

Brewster was fortunate to get hired
he earned his departure
 

Not sure how Coach Brewster was fortunate to be fired as he won't get another shot at a BCS head coaching job. I am sure he'd much rather be here with a shot at keeping his job than working the sidelines for Fox and knowing that his next job is either as a low level head coach or a position coach at a big school.
 

EG#9 said:
...low level head coach...
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Nothing wrong with a low level head job.

Personally, I would rather make $1MM per year and get embarrassed as a coach than walking the sidelines only being able to hope that I get another shot doing the job I've spent my life working towards.
 


I think he'll end up as a position coach and head recruiter. Maybe Kill should bring him in for that? Lol.
 

He recruited crap to this school. His players blow. Plenty of them never made it in school, quit, or transferred. It's a joke. The guy set us back 10 years. We deserved it, we were trying to take a shortcut by getting the guy who could get those four star recruits we always coveted. We all glossed over the fact he had no coaching acumen. That's not how good programs are built.
 

Dirk Diggler said:
He recruited crap to this school. His players blow. Plenty of them never made it in school, quit, or transferred. It's a joke. The guy set us back 10 years. We deserved it, we were trying to take a shortcut by getting the guy who could get those four star recruits we always coveted. We all glossed over the fact he had no coaching acumen. That's not how good programs are built.
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Who knows what would've happened with those recruits with a different coach?
 




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