emann says: "...The Michigan job is better than the Gophers job, based on numerous factors, including the levels of talent at each school. As poor as RichRod did at Michigan record-wise, he left the program in pretty good shape. If he did that here, we would have put up a statue of him. Instead, the Gophers had Brewster and there's really no comparison..."
THAT is exactly what doogieman got blasted for. He tried to compare Minnesota's situation to Michigan's situation and he TRIED to blast Kill with that comparison. It is high time that the media people get BLASTED by we fans when THEY try to tell US what we should think. What I think is that doogieman's comparison of Michigan to Minnesota was SO absurd that I HAD to tell doogieman that I totally disagreed with what he said. I've been watching Gopher Football for over half a century and the ONLY times Minnesota Football compared favorably with Michigan Football during the time I was watching Gopher Football was under Murray Warmath...the late 50's-1967 when the Gophers won quite a few games against Michigan. That coincided with a "down" period for Michigan Football in which MSU came into the Big Ten and was the best Big Ten Team in the state of Michigan. Then, Bo Schembeckler took over and it was pretty much all Michigan all the time with the exception of Stoll's win and then Gutey's win in 1986. Other than Murray's good run against Michigan, the ONLY other multiple year run in which the Gophers were "right there" with Michigan occurred from 2003 through 2005. The 2003 and 2004 games were heartbreaking losses and in 2005, the Gophers beat Michigan. During that 3 year stretch...there were a LOT of Gophers playing who could have played for Michigan...and a remarkable number of Michigan players would not have been starting for the Gophers.
doogieman also talks about "the expectations..." WHAT damn expectations? Anyone with a brain knows that last year Minnesota only won 1 ooc game and after brewster had been fired and bought out, Horton led the Gophers to 2 Big Ten wins for a total of 3 wins.
A Lot of the EXPERIENCE graduated or is no longer here. Another new head coach, new set of coordinators, new position coaches came on board. 22 of the players who were here were academically inelegible.
"...expectations..." are usually the very first things to be broken, smashed, dashed, bashed and trashed during a total rebuilding process and even during the best of times, jumping to "expectations" created by the media is a pretty foolish passtime. Of course, those media types just LOVE to have "unmet-expectations.." to write about.
Anybody who had "expectations" for this total rebuilding year was just plain "full of it..."
Sorry doogieman and emann: you media wannabe's are going to have to do a lot better than you and your pals on the air waves, in the print or on the internet have been doing. Come up with something in which there really IS a comparison. Try comparing apples to apples. What makes this rebuilding job the same...or different than other rebuilding jobs by coaches here at the Unviersity of Minnesota? There certainly have been a LOT of rebuilding jobs here at the U of M...compare and/or contrast?
For crying out loud: who is to blame????? I suppose that ultimately the administrator who has hired the coaches, fired the coaches, signed off on all the different coordinators and has left the poor kids in the program adrift in all of the confusion, distraction and utter chaos of the badger joel macturi/prexy b administrative moves, blunders, errors, buyouts and poor timing mistakes. Now THAT would be a worthy topic for either you emann or doogieman to explore in depth....
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Anything to get gopherjay riled up.
