ESPN's Tom Luginbill: Jerry Kill might be one of the top 5 coaches in CFB right now.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>So I am up at 4am watching tape and finishing a report on a <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Minnesota&src=hash">#Minnesota</a> commit Isaiah Gentry. I got issues, I know. Geez.</p>— Tom Luginbill (@TomLuginbill) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomLuginbill/statuses/429549360549228544">February 1, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/ATL_JAY">@ATL_JAY</a> Yeah, good player too. Jerry Kill might be one of the top 5 coaches in CFB right now.</p>— Tom Luginbill (@TomLuginbill) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomLuginbill/statuses/429553112173805568">February 1, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Go Gophers!!
 


regardless of who it is, any time a national guy says something like that it's never a bad thing.
 

Would be nice to have a little more context to that comment then just the random nature of the tweet. Kill has done a decent job to this point at Minnesota but I would be willing to bet if most sat down and made a list of the top coaches in college football Kill would not be in the top 5. Heck in the Big Ten I would put Meyer, Dantonio, Fitzgerald and probably Ferentz ahead of him, and that is just the Big Ten.
 

MNVCGUY said:
Would be nice to have a little more context to that comment then just the random nature of the tweet.
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“I think [Kill’s] in the process right now of enhancing the roster with more speed, more athleticism,” ESPN national recruiting director Tom Luginbill said. “It’s just not something you do overnight by waving a magic wand. It’s a process.

“And if you don’t believe in [Kill’s] process, then you haven’t been paying attention to his history. Because all he’s done is won.”

One of Luginbill’s 39,400 Twitter followers wondered this weekend why any recruit would willingly pick Minnesota, with its frigid weather. Luginbill replied, “Jerry Kill might be one of the top five coaches in [college football] right now.”

Luginbill explained his point in a conference call this week.

“You’re talking about a guy that has won everywhere he has been,” Luginbill said. “And everywhere he was prior to getting there, they were not winning. And he hasn’t been at places that were easy to win. You ever been to DeKalb, Illinois?”
 


MNVCGUY said:
Would be nice to have a little more context to that comment then just the random nature of the tweet. Kill has done a decent job to this point at Minnesota but I would be willing to bet if most sat down and made a list of the top coaches in college football Kill would not be in the top 5. Heck in the Big Ten I would put Meyer, Dantonio, Fitzgerald and probably Ferentz ahead of him, and that is just the Big Ten.
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http://www.startribune.com/sports/blogs/243616321.html

“Coaching can be defined in a lot of ways, but when you take a football team like the one [Kill] had this fall. You go through the off-the-field situation you had with the seizures and the epilepsy, you win eight-plus games with a roster -- and I don’t mean this to sound negative -- but that roster had no business winning eight games, and I think that’s a sign of coaching.

“In many ways, he’s like a Jim Grobe at Wake [Forest], when he had a great run there. There are guys out there that I don’t think get the credit they deserve, and [Kill’s] certainly one of them.

“And I think he’s in the process right now of enhancing the roster with more speed, more athleticism. It’s just not something you do overnight by waving a magic wand, it’s a process.

“All I know is, if you don’t believe in his process, then you haven’t been paying attention to his history because all he’s done is won.”
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Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0 said:
I'm shocked the guy spelled Minnesota correctly.
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Wasn't able to see the question. Auburn fan knocking our weather I presume? Must still be upset about losing a top ten recruit and Auburn highschool graduate to Tuscaloosa. Can't get too upset with him as I feel bad for Auburn fans and the perpetual red-headed step child inferiority complex they have.
 

minibeaver said:
Wasn't able to see the question. Auburn fan knocking our weather I presume? Must still be upset about losing a top ten recruit and Auburn highschool graduate to Tuscaloosa. Can't get too upset with him as I feel bad for Auburn fans and the perpetual red-headed step child inferiority complex they have.
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The little brother of the SEC. The guy tweeted: somebody is voluntarily going to Minnesota? #wholedifferentkindofcold
 




Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0 said:
The little brother of the SEC. The guy tweeted: somebody is voluntarily going to Minnesota? #wholedifferentkindofcold
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minibeaver said:
Wasn't able to see the question. Auburn fan knocking our weather I presume? Must still be upset about losing a top ten recruit and Auburn highschool graduate to Tuscaloosa. Can't get too upset with him as I feel bad for Auburn fans and the perpetual red-headed step child inferiority complex they have.
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This may sound ludicrous to some but i don't know if we are quite in the position to say things like that about a program that has been to 2 of the last 4 NCs, won one of them and produced a Heisman winner recently. Crazy, I know.
 

minibeaver said:
Wasn't able to see the question. Auburn fan knocking our weather I presume? Must still be upset about losing a top ten recruit and Auburn highschool graduate to Tuscaloosa. Can't get too upset with him as I feel bad for Auburn fans and the perpetual red-headed step child inferiority complex they have.
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Don't feel too bad for Auburn fans. They and Arkansas fans r to the SEC what Becky and Iowa fans r to the Big10
 

die hard gopher said:
This may sound ludicrous to some but i don't know if we are quite in the position to say things like that about a program that has been to 2 of the last 4 NCs, won one of them and produced a Heisman winner recently. Crazy, I know.
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I agree it makes no sense they would feel this way, however as a 7 year resident of the state in which Auburn resides I can assure you they have an inferiority complex that wont quit. If they were literally in just about any other state they would be king. Unfortunately for them the other team they share their state with is Alabama.
 



minibeaver said:
I agree it makes no sense they would feel this way, however as a 7 year resident of the state in which Auburn resides I can assure you they have an inferiority complex that wont quit. If they were literally in just about any other state they would be king. Unfortunately for them the other team they share their state with is Alabama.
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kinda like Kentucky-Louisville basketball
 



I was listening to The Common Man on KFAN on Wed afternoon and he was poking fun at the whole process. He wasn't aware of a "national signing day", couldn't understand why it was such a big deal, had no idea who Tom Luginbill was, had serious questions about the statement that Kill was one of the top 5 coaches in the country. (If he were, why in the world would he want to be the coach at Minnesota). He went on and on and I finally switched channels to 1500 am. He is certainly entitled to his opinions but wouldn't one think that, on the so-called "flagship station" for Gopher Football, one of the prime-time hosts would know something about national signing day and could do something other than crack jokes about the Gopher recruiting class???? I just don't get it. Anybody think that would happen on a sports radio station in any other BIG town? I seriously doubt it.
 

go4rob said:
I was listening to The Common Man on KFAN on Wed afternoon and he was poking fun at the whole process. He wasn't aware of a "national signing day", couldn't understand why it was such a big deal, had no idea who Tom Luginbill was, had serious questions about the statement that Kill was one of the top 5 coaches in the country. (If he were, why in the world would he want to be the coach at Minnesota). He went on and on and I finally switched channels to 1500 am. He is certainly entitled to his opinions but wouldn't one think that, on the so-called "flagship station" for Gopher Football, one of the prime-time hosts would know something about national signing day and could do something other than crack jokes about the Gopher recruiting class???? I just don't get it. Anybody think that would happen on a sports radio station in any other BIG town? I seriously doubt it.
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Sure hope it would. Would hate to think the rest of the country would only hire hosts who would be like sports radio homer Stepford wives!
 


go4rob said:
I was listening to The Common Man on KFAN on Wed afternoon and he was poking fun at the whole process. He wasn't aware of a "national signing day", couldn't understand why it was such a big deal, had no idea who Tom Luginbill was, had serious questions about the statement that Kill was one of the top 5 coaches in the country. (If he were, why in the world would he want to be the coach at Minnesota). He went on and on and I finally switched channels to 1500 am. He is certainly entitled to his opinions but wouldn't one think that, on the so-called "flagship station" for Gopher Football, one of the prime-time hosts would know something about national signing day and could do something other than crack jokes about the Gopher recruiting class???? I just don't get it. Anybody think that would happen on a sports radio station in any other BIG town? I seriously doubt it.
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Someone doesn't get the bit.
 




MNVCGUY said:
Would be nice to have a little more context to that comment then just the random nature of the tweet. Kill has done a decent job to this point at Minnesota but I would be willing to bet if most sat down and made a list of the top coaches in college football Kill would not be in the top 5. Heck in the Big Ten I would put Meyer, Dantonio, Fitzgerald and probably Ferentz ahead of him, and that is just the Big Ten.
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Fitzgerald is so overrated. 27-37 in the Big Ten.
 

Tim Riggins said:
Color me as someone that heard the rant and didn't get the bit. Some friends explained the bit and I still don't get it, oh well I don't listen to kfan anyway.
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The bit is this: common man is too lazy to actually do the research to know anything about anything so he just mocks what he reads on twitter/espn.


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Jeshurun said:
The bit is this: common man is too lazy to actually do the research to know anything about anything so he just mocks what he reads on twitter/espn.


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Very true. Common man doesn't get the bit either. His show has NO content what so ever.
 

The Common Man appears on Rosen's Sports Sunday from time to time. I'll never understand why. The guy knows absolutely nothing. It's like a 'man on the street' interview.
 

station19 said:
The Common Man appears on Rosen's Sports Sunday from time to time. I'll never understand why. The guy knows absolutely nothing. It's like a 'man on the street' interview.
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Common is an encyclopedia of boxing and golf knowledge. Any other sport he takes an uneducated stance which hopefully gets Rosen going. I love the bit.
 

MN4life said:
Common is an encyclopedia of boxing and golf knowledge. Any other sport he takes an uneducated stance which hopefully gets Rosen going. I love the bit.
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Huge difference between you and me then. .
 

MN4life said:
Common is an encyclopedia of boxing and golf knowledge. Any other sport he takes an uneducated stance which hopefully gets Rosen going. I love the bit.
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It's a great show, very entertaining. I always thought of it as a nice break in the day that wasn't all sport sports sports. Of course that was in the days of PA & Dubay, Chad & Barreio, and Sludge & Lake where basically the entire schedule was mostly sports, and Common Man was a nice time to goof off in the noon hour.
 

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