Anybody but Trestman!!

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Maximus said:
So the last time he coached college kids was 2005..of course he was there two years...so the last time he coached college kids was in 2006. But 1984 sounds better.



We're going to conduct the coaching search through wikipedia?

"Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information." - Michael Scott
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I stand corrected. Anyways, how much experience does he have with college kids?
How long does he keep a job with one team? When was he part of a Super Bowl win? You coach for 25 years you think you would be on a few championship squads. Grey Cup titles? Eight teams. Eight teams. Big part of a national championship? He was a QB coach. Get real.
 

discochris said:
Well, if you want to use Wikipedia to judge Trestman negatively, you might be disappointed. There's a lot of positives in there:

Trestman then moved to the National Football League and coached the running backs with the Minnesota Vikings in 1985 and 1986. He became quarterbacks coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1987 then held the same position with the Cleveland Browns in 1988. In Cleveland he again coached Kosar and the team finished 10-6 and made the playoffs. He was promoted to offensive coordinator in 1989. That year Kosar passed for 3,533 yards and 18 TDs, wide receiver Webster Slaughter had a franchise record 1,236 receiving yards, and the Browns made it to the AFC Championship game.

In 1990, Trestman returned to Minnesota as quarterbacks coach for the Vikings. He spent two years there and then left coaching for three years.

He returned to the NFL in 1995 as quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator with San Francisco, where he served in that capacity through 1996. The first year he was there the 49ers led the NFL with 457 points scored, 644 pass attempts and 4,779 passing yards.

Trestman moved to the Detroit Lions and quarterbacks coach in 1997. That year Lion's quarterback Scott Mitchell passed for 3,484 yards, second most in team history.

In 1998 he was with the Arizona Cardinals as quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator. That year quarterback Jake Plummer threw for 3,737 yards, and the Cardinals made the playoffs for the first time since 1982 and won their first post season game in 51 years.

He next went to the Oakland Raiders in 2001 as the quarterbacks coach. In 2002 he was promoted to offensive coordinator and the Raiders led the NFL in total offense with 389.8 yards per game and passing yards with 279.7 per game. That Raider team made it to the Super Bowl but lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Trestman spent the 2004 season with the Miami Dolphins and in 2005 he returned to college football as the North Carolina State Wolfpack offensive coordinator where he was known for being a conservative play-caller.

On December 18, 2007, Trestman was confirmed as the head coach for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. The Alouettes narrowly lost 22-14 to the Calgary Stampeders in the 2008 Grey Cup championship game. At the conclusion of the season, he was nominated for the CFL's Annis Stukus Award as the league's top coach, with Calgary's John Hufnagel winning. On March 5th 2010, Trestman won the Coach of the year award.

In 2009, Trestman led the Alouettes to the Grey Cup, winning with a thrilling field goal with no time left on the clock.After the season,it was announced that he was signed through the 2012 season as the head coach.
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Charlie Weis
 

The CFL is basically the arena league w/o bouncing it off the wall

Carlson 79 said:
This malice toward an ex-Gopher QB is really baffling, and a bit disquieting to be honest. It's almost as if Trestman must have kicked someone's dog or something. The guy has had a great track record of developing QB's and coordinating high-scoring offenses, and has recently proven his HC chops by winning the CFL championship. I'd be proud and happy to have him here as our head coach. If he's good enough for Tony Dungy, he's sure as heck good enough for me (proud Gopher alum).
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BFD. The CFL is to football what the Northern League (St. Paul Saints) is to baseball. There's a reason that college kids would rather be a 7th round draft pick in the NFL, or even a UFA, than go play in the Great White North. The only reason the CFL gets ANY respect from US media is just out of politeness to Canada. If your neighbor has a kid with Downs syndrome you don't crack retard jokes at the annual backyard barbecue.

I'm not saying that Trestman would be an automatic fail. But I think we can do a helluva lot better, and at least initially we should be setting our sights a lot higher. As others have pointed out, it should sound alarms for any guy who's pushing 50 that hasn't made it to a HC gig in a real football league, college or pro. Joel has made that mistake once already. And just because he's a Minnesota boy shouldn't give Trestman a bye in the first round of candidate screening. It really concerns me that the local power brokers seem to be backing this guy. The last time we let the backroom cigar crowd call the shots we wound up playing in the dome for 25 years.
 




Not to be a prick but Trestman seemed to get stuck as at QB coach in the NFL. I not saying that is where his coaching ceiling is, but it appears that in the NFL he isn't didn't get hired for anything more important.
 





Marc Trestman is not Charlie Weiss, he is our local version of Jedd Fisch.

His two seasons at NC State were atrocious, like made Jedd Fisch's offense was better than his two seasons at NC State.
 

Bob_Loblaw said:
Marc Trestman is not Charlie Weiss, he is our local version of Jedd Fisch.

His two seasons at NC State were atrocious, like made Jedd Fisch's offense was better than his two seasons at NC State.
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I realize he is no Charlie Weis. Charlie Weis was an actual OC on a Super Bowl winning team. I just wanted to point out to discochris that a QB coach/OC's accomplishments in the NFL don't really translate well to success in college as a head coach. I'm still waiting for 60's Guy to tell me when Trestman was part of a Super Bowl win.
 

glovedgopher said:
I realize he is no Charlie Weis. Charlie Weis was an actual OC on a Super Bowl winning team. I just wanted to point out to discochris that a QB coach/OC's accomplishments in the NFL don't really translate well to success in college as a head coach.
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Oh, I know that, and I've said several times he's not my choice. That said, to listen to some posters, you'd think he'd slept with their spouse, run over their dog, and sold their children into slavery. I don't think he's the best, but I don't think he's the worst choice either.
 

It's true he's not the worst choice. They could fit Brewster with a fake mustache and hire him back.
 



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