Brewster is a COMPLETE moron - latest evidence inside

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I just wanted to make sure this particular nugget wasn't lost in the shuffle around here. I really feel this is worth its own thread. If I was Maturi and read this quote, I would fire Brewster on the spot.

"I felt great about us moving the ball in the two-minute (drill), about kicking a field goal to win the football game," he said. "We were in great shape. We felt if we got to the 30-yard line, our guy (kicker Eric Ellestad, whose longest field goal this season is 42 yards) was going to be good. Anything inside the 30 would make it even better. We felt we were in great shape with the clock, but both those runs that we called in the two-minute, they didn't give us much."


Just think about this statement and what it says about Brewster's coaching ability and his parallel existence to reality.
 

30 yard line + 10 yards + 7 yards = 47 yard field goal.
Odds on that - ???????????????????????????????????????????????????
 

The runs were terrible calls. I don't have any issue at all with his quote. Why would Brewster do anything other than express supreme confidence PUBLICLY in his kicker after the game. I don't think it would be wise to say "We obviously needed to get to the 15, because our kicker is terrible". Now, if his actual strategy was to get to the 30 yard line (and not just his public stance)...
 

Maroon said:
I just wanted to make sure this particular nugget wasn't lost in the shuffle around here. I really feel this is worth its own thread. If I was Maturi and read this quote, I would fire Brewster on the spot.

"I felt great about us moving the ball in the two-minute (drill), about kicking a field goal to win the football game," he said. "We were in great shape. We felt if we got to the 30-yard line, our guy (kicker Eric Ellestad, whose longest field goal this season is 42 yards) was going to be good. Anything inside the 30 would make it even better. We felt we were in great shape with the clock, but both those runs that we called in the two-minute, they didn't give us much."


Just think about this statement and what it says about Brewster's coaching ability and his parallel existence to reality.
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I was at the game and that last drive was a joke, Brewster just keeps on talking with no action.
 

I'll Take a Stab...

Let's see, our kicker is 1 for 5 from 30+ yards on the season, with a long of 42 yards. Getting to the 30 gives us a 47 yard attempt.... Hmmm.
 


why not say, we were going for a touchdown? if you fail to get a TD then you mention that you were confident in your kicker.

he really is dumb
 

EG#9 said:
The runs were terrible calls. I don't have any issue at all with his quote. Why would Brewster do anything other than express supreme confidence PUBLICLY in his kicker after the game. I don't think it would be wise to say "We obviously needed to get to the 15, because our kicker is terrible". Now, if his actual strategy was to get to the 30 yard line (and not just his public stance)...
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But that's just it - he wasn't trying to defend his kicker. He was trying to justify those two run calls. He was trying to defend himself - not Ellestad.
 





Maroon...did we really need a new thread for you to tell us you believe Brew is an idiot?

He's already dead, stop kicking him, for Christ's sake.
 



I'll give Brewster this: if he has a shovel in his hands, he'll just keep on digging.

The coach also reasserted his goal for the drive: to reach the Northwestern 30-yard-line "or just inside it," and set up a game-winning field goal of roughly 47 yards in the final seconds. Kicker Eric Ellestad, however, is 1-for-7 from 40 yards or more in his career and has never made a field goal longer than 42 yards for the Gophers.

Was asking the senior to deliver under such pressure realistic?

"We felt we were in really good shape to kick the field goal," Brewster said. "One more first down [from where the drive stalled, at Northwestern's 40] and we're in pretty comfortable range to kick it."
 



This topic absolutely deserved its own thread. The listed quotes are just shameful - especially given the fact that he continued the BS with the quotes in Phil Miller's article today. There are really only two options here:

1) Brew is lying. He fully understands that they weren't confident in having to kick a 47-yard FG, but that's the story he's going with. Why he'd go with this story I have no idea because anyone who has been paying attention this season (and is being honest) would say that they needed to get to the 20 (minimum) to feel reasonably confident that Ellestad would make the kick. So what's the upside in telling this lie? What is he trying to accomplish here?

2) Brew is being honest and he really believed that a 47-yard FG would have been money in the bank. Is it possible that he really is that delusional?

Neither of the above options are acceptable in my opinion - but which option is worse? Personally I'm just tired of all the nonsense about the team being close to 5-0, the draw play being a great call, etc. The direction Brew is going in the media is nothing but insulting to Gopher fans.

I wonder - given that the buyout clause doesn't' change until after the season, is he savvy enough to try and get fired before the season ends to walk away with the bigger buyout? I'm not sure that he is but that would at least be a plausible explanation for his nonsensical quotes.
 

Coach speak, that's all it is. The only thing we should care about is that we lost and are 1-4. Instead, some people are obsessed with his comments in the newspaper the next day.
 

GophersInIowa said:
Coach speak, that's all it is. The only thing we should care about is that we lost and are 1-4. Instead, some people are obsessed with his comments in the newspaper the next day.
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I don't think posting them on a message board equates obsession, but okay.
 



GophersInIowa said:
Sorry, "more interested" fits I guess.
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Nope, not more interested in what Brewster says than I am in the outcome of the game either. But when they do lose, in part due to some questionable decisions by the coaching staff, I am interested to see what he says about that when asked by the reporter who covers the team for the area's biggest newspaper. Obviously I'm not alone.
 

Clyde Tester said:
This topic absolutely deserved its own thread. The listed quotes are just shameful - especially given the fact that he continued the BS with the quotes in Phil Miller's article today. There are really only two options here:

1) Brew is lying. He fully understands that they weren't confident in having to kick a 47-yard FG, but that's the story he's going with. Why he'd go with this story I have no idea because anyone who has been paying attention this season (and is being honest) would say that they needed to get to the 20 (minimum) to feel reasonably confident that Ellestad would make the kick. So what's the upside in telling this lie? What is he trying to accomplish here?

2) Brew is being honest and he really believed that a 47-yard FG would have been money in the bank. Is it possible that he really is that delusional?

Neither of the above options are acceptable in my opinion - but which option is worse? Personally I'm just tired of all the nonsense about the team being close to 5-0, the draw play being a great call, etc. The direction Brew is going in the media is nothing but insulting to Gopher fans.

I wonder - given that the buyout clause doesn't' change until after the season, is he savvy enough to try and get fired before the season ends to walk away with the bigger buyout? I'm not sure that he is but that would at least be a plausible explanation for his nonsensical quotes.
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I was wondering the same thing. There are other ways of getting yourself S-canned early without looking quite so stupid. But I'm not sure Brewster would get his full buyout now if he got busted chasing a secretary around his desk, or just laid a dookie on Maturi's desk. Then again, the steamers he's been leaving on the TCF stadium field haven't gotten him his walking papers yet. Maybe he should just start laughing in the locker room after blowing a lead. That worked for Mason.
 

ruralgopher said:
Considering you have 6 of the now 18 posts on this thread, it might be borderline obsession.
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I think you following me around on here and commenting on the subject of my posts sounds more like borderline obsession.
 

Maroon said:
I think you following me around on here and commenting on the subject of my posts sounds more like borderline obsession.
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I was unaware that I was following you around. Paranoid are we?
 

His comments were further evidence that he has no idea WTF is he doing. He is talking about running against a pass look.........yeah, why do you think they are giving you that pass D? Because you actually have to pass it to win at that point. Moron.

Sometimes you actually have to pass against a team playing the pass. Those runs were indefensible and it shows a huge lack of knowledge by Tim "soon to be unemployed football expert" Brewster. Please let this turd hit the unemployment line soon. Recruiting is dead this year no matter what with the poor record and uncertainty. Just fire him before other programs start the firing march and get someone worth a damn.
 

GophersInIowa said:
Coach speak, that's all it is. The only thing we should care about is that we lost and are 1-4. Instead, some people are obsessed with his comments in the newspaper the next day.
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This.

Not saying you guys shouldn't be ripping Brew.. He's definitely deserved his ripping. But I'm not going to get all up in arms about the stupid stuff our team's head coach says.
 

The pass plays weren't very effective either. That drive was as pathetic as it comes.
 

The more I read the quotes the more I hate him. He just can't be this stupid. He just can't be.

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The run game in two-minute situations is really good, particularly against the fronts you're playing against. They're playing the pass."
 

FireCosgroveGuy said:
The more I read the quotes the more I hate him. He just can't be this stupid. He just can't be.

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The run game in two-minute situations is really good, particularly against the fronts you're playing against. They're playing the pass."
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He is the Carl Spackler of Big Ten coaches....

"License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote."
 

Maroon said:
Nope, not more interested in what Brewster says than I am in the outcome of the game either. But when they do lose, in part due to some questionable decisions by the coaching staff, I am interested to see what he says about that when asked by the reporter who covers the team for the area's biggest newspaper. Obviously I'm not alone.
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As I said, it's coach speak. That's why I don't think what he said means anything. Maybe he truly believes what he said, maybe he was just defending his offensive coordinator. Coaches do that all the time.
 

GophersInIowa said:
As I said, it's coach speak. That's why I don't think what he said means anything. Maybe he truly believes what he said, maybe he was just defending his offensive coordinator. Coaches do that all the time.
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You're certainly entitled to ignore it if you want. But I think it's relevant. And consider this: there is a big story in today's Sporting News from the publication's main college football writer discussing the play-calling issues and clock-management issues by Les Miles and the rest of the LSU coaching staff at the end of last week's game. There's huge criticism there, and the story includes several quotes from Miles about those two issues. Miles was constantly peppered during the post-game press conference for comments and explanations about those things. And the story goes on to say that Miles' continually weak explanations of the issues and his inability to fix the issues has him on the hot seat. That the AD there has issued letters of apology to season ticket holders because of these issues. And LSU WON THE GAME!

So that's fine if you want to chalk this up to meaningless coachspeak. But this stuff does matter. Whether you think so or not.
 

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