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I watched gutsy wins by N.C State (over FSU) and UConn (over West Virginia) this week. Both games featured some great coaching. I know Tom O'Brian and Randy Edsall are not names that are being thrown around here a lot, but I would be proud to see our Gophers performing like the Wolfpack and...

Regarding the announcement of a new head coach... The absolute soonest I can imagine the naming of a new coach would be November 15 or so. The only way this would happen is if the search process concluded on an unemployed or vastly underemployed coach (Belotti, Leach, Jagodinski, Trestman) and...

None of us will have any say over the next coach, but that doesn't make it any less fun to speculate. I thought it would be interesting to devote a thread to head coaches from FBS teams that are in non-automatic qualifying conferences. There are some very experienced coaches (such as Troy's...

It is hard enough to watch your team lose because of things that are under our team's control (playing, coaching, etc.), but it was very disheartening today to watch the (poor) officiating have such an adverse affect on today's game. I Know it wont do any good, but I plan on writing an email to...

Just back from the game and I have to say - to any player or player's parent that reads this board - that I am proud of the efforts of the team today. Given the circumstances (and the questionable officiating) it might have been easy to lay down for a powerhouse program like Penn State, but the...

Regardless of whether "the rumor" is true, Maturi will have to address it some time soon. There are a number of things he could say, I would think the most likely would be: 1) It is obvious that we are not headed in the desired direction, so Brewster has been advised that he will not be the HC...

I am amazed at the amount of interest on this board at times:eek: Who's looking at this board so much other than the 100+/- active Gopherholers, the 200+/- semi-regulars and the 100+/- new/infrequent members? Is there that much national interest? Players? Recruits? Coaches? Brew?

After weeks (months? years?) of people just throwing out random names, I am curious to see what general background people most wish to see in a new coach. I am going to assume that we will not be able to get a winning coach from a big six program (but who knows, we got Tubby and Grinnin' Glen...

The last couple of years we were in the Dome, there was always, "well, this will be the last time that..." Today was the last time that we'll see the circus atmosphere that accompanies the Brewster-Belima matchup. From day one, both of these guys encouraged an atmosphere of trash talk and poor...

Okay, now Kelly Leeks has been brought back from the dead and Sir Tipsy McStagger and Dr. Lloyd Christmas are back in the fold. Are there other long-time posters (excluding Wren and The Loon) who are still MIA? I haven't seen GoldysArmy post here in a long time. What about Rick Mons and...

I am guessing that the folks over at the Gibson-Nagurski Football Complex aren't sitting around pondering whether 5 wins or 6 wins are the magic number for retaining their jobs. They are focused on the task at hand - Northern Illinois. I feel good about the Gophers chances against the Huskies...

I apologize if a thread has already discussed this (I couldn't find it). i was surprised to read this in this morning's Strib from Souhan... "My understanding is that Coach Brew needs to reach seven or eight victories to keep his job. Its hard to see him surpassing four." I don't always like...

With the honoring of the 1960 National Championship team, I would think that if ever ther is a game to suit up in the 1960 throwback uniforms, tomorrow would be it. Plus, it would help the two teams with similar colors stand apart.

If I were to look back over the 12 years that I have been paying close attention to Gophers football, here are the top-5 systemic reasons that I think we do not succeed as well as our peer institutions of Iowa and Wisconsin: 1) Too much coaching turnover. This has been obvious during the 2006...

Here's a thread that has nothing to do with Brewster So, I'm at the game with my kids and the guy in front of us is a 40+/- year old dude that's completely zoned out. He wasn't ranting or yelling or anything, he's just staring blankly in front of him. About 15 minutes into the game, he vomits...

I will never understand booing amateur athletes. For anyone out there that boo'd the players, tell me: Do you think they were not trying to win the game? Do you think you, as a fan in the seats, has a more vested interest in winning than they do? Do you think you could do better? I am very...

Obviously, the Coyotes are the easiest opponent we'll have this year. But keep in mind our past 5 games against FCS opponents: 2004 Illinois State W 37-21 (16 point victory) 2006 NDSU 10-9 (1 point victory) 2007 NDSU 21-27 (6 point loss) :cry: 2008 Montana State 35-23 (12 point victory) 2009...

Even after the Dasher announcement was made, 7 out of 13 MTSU fans (I discounted predictions by Gopher fans) are still predicting a Blue Raider victory on Thursday: http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=349&f=2388&t=6267625 I guess I'm not really faulting them - I have Maroon & Gold colored glasses...

I spent last week at the cabin looking at the media guide and other Gopher football related info as well as a couple of the college football magazines and I have formulated a few thoughts. This is more-or-less a brain dump; I don't claim to be any more knowledgable or connected tyhan any other...

The Gophers are one of only 20 teams to go to a football bowl game and to the NCAA basketball tournament. If you add the 2009 NCAA baseball tournament, we are one of 9 teams to go to all 3. I know a lot of people like to rip on Maturi, but I feel like we have a very good all-around athletic...