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It'll be interesting to see who gets a HC job first- TB or Jerry Kill.
 

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1. Tim Brewster
School: Florida State
ESPN 300 recruits: 5
Top commitment: ESPN 300 No. 25 Malik Henry
Previous ranking: 1
Why Brewster: Florida State has the No. 3 recruiting class in the country largely because of Brewster. Not only has he been involved with five ESPN 300 commitments, but he's also got his hooks into a number of elite national prospects who could still swing Florida State's way. Brewster has been widely respected for years as one of the best in the business, but his 2016 efforts stack up as some of his best work.
 

I wish Brewster had a more successful run at the U. It wasn't for a lack of effort, he poured his heart into the program. Unfortunately, his sales pitch began to fall on deaf ears when the on the field product did not match the sales pitch. I wish he would have kept to his plan instead of changing his plan every other week.
 


No one can sling the BS like Brew. Maybe one day someone will let him call plays.
 

As punishment for bringing up Brewster (I love his "Southern Accent"):

 

He recruited well at UNC, Texas, Mississippi State and is recruiting very well at Florida State. When he started doing well at Mississippi State, he said it was easier getting kids from the South to go to Starkville than it was getting them to the Twin Cities. He got ripped for that here (of course) but he was telling the truth and he proved it both ways.
 






Brewster should be a used car salesman.
 




MNfootballfan said:
I wish Brewster had a more successful run at the U. It wasn't for a lack of effort, he poured his heart into the program. Unfortunately, his sales pitch began to fall on deaf ears when the on the field product did not match the sales pitch. I wish he would have kept to his plan instead of changing his plan every other week.
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I think he's in his ideal job right now - a position coach at a school that is enticing to recruits. Clearly he is a great salesman but when it comes to having a vision and running a program he is pretty lacking.
 

gopher7 said:
I think he's in his ideal job right now - a position coach at a school that is enticing to recruits. Clearly he is a great salesman but when it comes to having a vision and running a program he is pretty lacking.
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I agree. His skillset is probably best used at a big-time school where his main job is to recruit and focus his attention on a single position.
 

He always seemed like an actor playing a stereotyped coach. Maturi, WTF were you thinking?
 



Who knows what would've happened if Brew had kept the offense intact.

He killed his career with three offensive overhauls in under four years.
 

MNfootballfan said:
I wish Brewster had a more successful run at the U. It wasn't for a lack of effort, he poured his heart into the program. Unfortunately, his sales pitch began to fall on deaf ears when the on the field product did not match the sales pitch. I wish he would have kept to his plan instead of changing his plan every other week.
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his problem wasnt a sales pitch

Brewsters biggest and most damaging issue was that he changed his philosophy on offense too many time sin such a short period of time.
had he not changed coordinators so often he might have been able to stick it out here.
 

Studwell55 said:
Who knows what would've happened if Brew had kept the offense intact. He killed his career with three offensive overhauls in under four years.
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He never would have survived the recent sexual harassment investigation
 

Studwell55 said:
Who knows what would've happened if Brew had kept the offense intact.

He killed his career with three offensive overhauls in under four years.
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I don't disagree that changing offenses hurt, but IMO Brew failed because he wasn't a very good recruiter here. I know, the star boys will come after me, but Brew had zero clue how to recruit players that complimented each other and/or fit specific needs. He also struggled identifying players that could get in and stay in school. Sure, he could get commits from kids he targeted, but there was no direction in who he targeted.

Of course we could spend all day discussing why basement Brew failed. Many correct answers.
 


Anybody can learn to be a good coach. Good recruiters are born and not made. Glenn Mason himself said that recruiting is 80% of success in college football. The Gophers set Brewster up to fail by hiring him in January, 2007 and asking him to hire a coaching staff and and try to patch together Mason's already crummy recruiting class in less than 30 days. Mason left Brewster three straight terrible recruiting classes. We all can imagine the bitching and excuse making Kill would have done if he had been hired under those circumstances.

Brewster was always playing catch-up from day one with the Gophers. His big mistake was hiring the best offensive coordinator he could get in the short time he was given and he turned out to be a spread offense specialist who was a complete flop for the Gophers. I predicted a couple of years ago that Brewster will be head coach of a team in the BCS playoffs before the Gophers get there. That prediction looks better now than when I made it.
 

Well..... he is a very good recruiter.

As much as that era was painful.... I'd take him as a recruiter.
 


With the Kegel decommitment, does that mean they have four scholarships left to go after a TE or two, another DT, an RB, and another OL?
 

UpnorthGo4 said:
I predicted a couple of years ago that Brewster will be head coach of a team in the BCS playoffs before the Gophers get there. That prediction looks better now than when I made it.
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Still a terrible prediction. No athletic director at a P5 school would hire Brew as a head coach. He blew it with MN, and the only way he gets back into a HC role is with a non-P5 school and maybe if he does well there can get into a P5 head coach job.
 

UpnorthGo4 said:
Anybody can learn to be a good coach. Good recruiters are born and not made. Glenn Mason himself said that recruiting is 80% of success in college football. The Gophers set Brewster up to fail by hiring him in January, 2007 and asking him to hire a coaching staff and and try to patch together Mason's already crummy recruiting class in less than 30 days. Mason left Brewster three straight terrible recruiting classes. We all can imagine the bitching and excuse making Kill would have done if he had been hired under those circumstances.

Brewster was always playing catch-up from day one with the Gophers. His big mistake was hiring the best offensive coordinator he could get in the short time he was given and he turned out to be a spread offense specialist who was a complete flop for the Gophers. I predicted a couple of years ago that Brewster will be head coach of a team in the BCS playoffs before the Gophers get there. That prediction looks better now than when I made it.
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That first line simply isn't true. Coaching is a lot like teaching, it isn't how much you know, it's how you can communicate your knowledge and how much you can get out of your players. You can always refine your tools, but it isn't like learning how to make a sandwich at Subway there as to be the natural ability. Coaches are leaders, leaders are born not made. As for Brew he came in saying he wanted to run the spread, than changed his mind in the middle of year two. Considering Brewster getting a little too old to be hired by an up and coming BCS program and already failed at one. I doubt your last take will ever come to fruition
 

UpnorthGo4 said:
I predicted a couple of years ago that Brewster will be head coach of a team in the BCS playoffs before the Gophers get there. That prediction looks better now than when I made it.
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Two P5 head coaching jobs without ever calling a play. That would be impressive.
 

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