To each their own. Enjoy booing Jon Hoese.
Curious as to how many Brewster backers are still out there...
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To each their own. Enjoy booing Jon Hoese.
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i dont think our struggles are a lack of talent in general *cough*Weber*cough* but rather poor coaching as to how to direct that talent into shape on the field. in all honestly i think we have one of the best receiving corps in the big ten 1-3 with gray. our problem is the delivering end. we have a good running back with duane bennett but the coaches havent shown him the best way to hit the holes that our admittedly improved oline creates.
the largest, most glaring, most mind numbing, most aggravating and most easily fixed problem with the gophers right now lays solely on the play calling of the OC and head coach. being what id say a casual fan of football, (watching packer games every week since forever, keeping up with others, attending every gopher game i can, etc) i called out more than 60% of the plays we ran on offense before we ran them. if i can figure that out, im fairly sure the opposing teams can, and that hurts alot. even if we outmatch the opponents physically, losing the mental chess game basically screws your chance of winning (see SDSU, NIU). i didnt get to watch MTSU but as far as i can remember, i can count on one hand the number of times we've A) run from a WR heavy set, or B) thrown from the I. We did 1 play action vs USC, pow, 20 yard gain. why not mix things up a bit more? against USC (and a bit vs NIU), every 4 downs, run, run, pass. and to top that off all the runs were up the middle, nothing outside or right or left or anything. a 7 year old playing madden chooses a wider play selection (see Post, Deep and Mary, Hail) than our gopher offense has run at times. theres a point where 'pounding the rock' becomes even less useful than pounding your head into a wall. and the coaches missed that entirely, or worse, purposefully.
the largest, most glaring, most mind numbing, most aggravating and most easily fixed problem with the gophers right now lays solely on the play calling of the OC and head coach. being what id say a casual fan of football, (watching packer games every week since forever, keeping up with others, attending every gopher game i can, etc) i called out more than 60% of the plays we ran on offense before we ran them. if i can figure that out, im fairly sure the opposing teams can, and that hurts alot. even if we outmatch the opponents physically, losing the mental chess game basically screws your chance of winning (see SDSU, NIU). i didnt get to watch MTSU but as far as i can remember, i can count on one hand the number of times we've A) run from a WR heavy set, or B) thrown from the I. We did 1 play action vs USC, pow, 20 yard gain. why not mix things up a bit more? against USC (and a bit vs NIU), every 4 downs, run, run, pass. and to top that off all the runs were up the middle, nothing outside or right or left or anything. a 7 year old playing madden chooses a wider play selection (see Post, Deep and Mary, Hail) than our gopher offense has run at times. theres a point where 'pounding the rock' becomes even less useful than pounding your head into a wall. and the coaches missed that entirely, or worse, purposefully.
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Hoese's story is very sad and very touching. It has nothing to do with the topic at hand. If Mr. Hoese didn't play for a D1 football team and instead was at Valley City State, nobody would likely have known about it at all, so thanks for building a strawman for me to knock down.
Now then, perhaps we could get back to the cold hard reality of MAJOR college revenue sports as a business and entertainment spectacle, which at the heart of it, is exactly what they are.
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Well, gee, I expect I'm a Brewster backer until he's no longer a Gopher. That's what I did for Salem (most of the time knowing he would have to leave), and Wacker (seeing he would have to leave but wishing it wouldn't happen because of the quality of his character as a human being) and now for Brewster. Sorry, I can't forget the things he's gotten right, like involving the alumni in the program and reaching out to high school coaches in our state. Yes, he's soon gone and yes, I don't see any other way to begin righting the ship, but in terms of football performance he will have my support until the deed is done. My sons, nephew and myself will be at homecoming next week. It's my nephew's first time at a Victory Walk and I'm not about to make his experience a negative because I'm tempted to whine and moan about losing three games. Let's grow up. Oh, wait, I'm talking to a bunch of people who think it's unreasonable for older fans to actually want to sit during some of the game.