Daily Gopher - Jerry Kill from an Northern Illinois Perspective

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Thought I would throw out a link to the DailyGopher blog.

Well done as usual.

We had SB Nation Northern Illinois blogger Mike Breese from Red and Black Attack on the podcast back in September when the Gophers played- and lost- to the Huskies. Little did we know then that Husky HC Jerry Kill would become our new head coach. As someone who covered Kill for his three seasons at NIU, we asked Mike for his opinion on Kill, especially as a recruiter (since that seems to be the main concern among Gopher fans right now) and how he thinks he'll do at Minnesota. A huge thanks to Mike for doing this! Here are his thoughts...

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http://www.thedailygopher.com/2010/...ry-kill-from-an-northern-illinois-perspective
 

Kill, first and foremost is a recruiter, that is his lifeblood. With limited resources, he's brought in a bunch of somewhat unheralded kids in here, got them in the weight room and turned things around. He's really not going to care at all what recruiting services like rivals think of his class or anything like that. He's not going to be on twitter or facebook. He's just going to recruit athletes and tell them straight up what the program is going to offer and where they stand.

That's the main focus when Kill recruits: Just get the best athletes (speed!) and coach them up. The strength and conditioning program has improved so much since 2007, it has been night and day with Eric Klein at the helm. We are essentially a Big 10 program at this point in terms of just getting guys hitting the weight room, as evidenced by pretty much destroying the Gophers this past season. The base of recruiting will be in the midwest, but he goes to the south for speed, especially in Florida. If you need any quick fixes, Kill has extremely strong ties with the lauded Kansas JUCO system.

Lovin this, hopefully he can execute it in the Big Ten....cause this was kinda Brewster's philosophy a little bit as well, but we saw how that one turned out haha.
 





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