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Stopped reading after this line:

"Two weekends ago, I spent time putting up my Christmas tree and starting my Christmas cookie baking."
 

My favorite part was the line about Glen Mason practically begging for playing time for Marion Barber III.
 

Silvio said:
My favorite part was the line about Glen Mason practically begging for playing time for Marion Barber III.
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Glen was the source of that quote. He's said it over and over through the years to explain how sometimes you're just "surprised" when dealing with high school kids.

Overall, not a bad opinion piece. I wonder if that paper's ever been referenced here before?
 

Brewster gave us pride, he told us our new goals was that of prominence, victory,and the Rose bowl. Coach Kill has offered hard work and improvement-day to day. We are being sold how he is a great hire. If he is a great hire, we would not need to be pumped up after this hire. No one needed to be sold on the Tubby Smith hire.
Hopefully he will be the answer to our football team, but in the meantime a gray cloud hangs low over TCF bank stadium.
 


we will win this week? said:
Brewster gave us pride, he told us our new goals was that of prominence, victory,and the Rose bowl. Coach Kill has offered hard work and improvement-day to day. We are being sold how he is a great hire. If he is a great hire, we would not need to be pumped up after this hire. No one needed to be sold on the Tubby Smith hire.
Hopefully he will be the answer to our football team, but in the meantime a gray cloud hangs low over TCF bank stadium.
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I do believe that a gray cloud is always hanging over you --- not TCF Bank Stadium.
 

Uffda said:
I do believe that a gray cloud is always hanging over you --- not TCF Bank Stadium.
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...a gray cloud is always hanging over you...

For all of you young pups out there, this is the personality of one "JOE BLTFSK" from the comic strip """Li'l Abner""" who always claimed gloom and doom. Joe Bltfsk walked around with a black cloud over his head, wherever he went.
 

Coon Rapids is trash.

(The column is pretty spot on though, it was pretty straight forward and the point of view of "wait and see" is a smart one.)
 

It's not bad, it's just kinda late. Once everyone got over their initial reaction, most changed their opinions dramatically.

Edit: This was my 2,000th post. Not a very memorable one.
 





GophersInIowa said:
It's not bad, it's just kinda late. Once everyone got over their initial reaction, most changed their opinions dramatically.
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That was my thought, a little late to the party. Gopher fans began to really warm up to Kill within the first two days after his hire. Anger turned into interest which turned into enthusiasm, as people looked more into his resume.
 




we will win this week? said:
Brewster gave us pride, he told us our new goals was that of prominence, victory,and the Rose bowl. Coach Kill has offered hard work and improvement-day to day. We are being sold how he is a great hire. If he is a great hire, we would not need to be pumped up after this hire. No one needed to be sold on the Tubby Smith hire.
Hopefully he will be the answer to our football team, but in the meantime a gray cloud hangs low over TCF bank stadium.
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Brewster set goals, but had no coaching experience. Kill has a record of winning. Aside from Holtz, Kill is the only football coach we have hired with a winning D-I record since Warmath. Stoll, Wacker and Mason all had losing D-I records. Salem only had D-II coaching experience. Gutekunst only had two years as DC, and Brewster only TE coaching experience. What Kill has offered is a track record of winning.

Not all great hires are Tubby Smith hires. A big name coach is no guarantee that you made a great hire, even big names can flop. And every coach started somewhere. Every Tubby Smith was once a Jerry Kill.
 

CentralGopher said:
Nothing like being a week late to the party
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These articles are actually kind of starting to piss me off. From what I've seen, the majority of Gopher fans were over the doom-and-gloom by the end of Coach Kill's press conference, most are willing to at least give him a shot, and many are actually very excited about the direction Kill could take the team. Those have been the prevailing sentiments both in places like this forum and in conversations with people that follow the team.
I've seen at least 3 columns like this one since then, that largely patronize fans and work from the point of view that we're all in the middle of a collective hissy-fit because we didn't get a marquee coach. I know that some people are in that boat, but that's going to be the case with pretty much any hire. By-in-large, articles like this one either demonstrate that most of these columnists just aren't paying attention, or that I'm completely off the mark on the current attitude towards Coach Kill by Gopher fans in general. Either way, they make us look bad, which bugs me.
 

Uffda said:
I do believe that a gray cloud is always hanging over you --- not TCF Bank Stadium.
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I think you are missing my point, The gray cloud is fifty years of being in the bottom half of Big Ten football. I have been watching this team for many years and always stay until the band is done playing.
 

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