Former Gophers o-line coach Tim Davis hired as U of Florida's o-line coach

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Mr. Davis (next to Jeff Horton) was probably the nicest guy on Brewster's staff, and a real professional. Also was able to make a silk purse from a sow's ear with our OL. We could have been a lot worse.
 

highwayman said:
Mr. Davis (next to Jeff Horton) was probably the nicest guy on Brewster's staff, and a real professional. Also was able to make a silk purse from a sow's ear with our OL. We could have been a lot worse.
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I wasn't there but that is completely contradictory to what one of the o-linemen told me. He said something on the order of "psychotic"...
 


Anyone hear what's happend to Gordy Shaw?

I see that he was let go go by Norm Chow. Hawaii then hired Keith Upsea.... Keith U coached at UNLV for 3 or 4 years. I would take Shaw, but I'm not the one to make that decision.
 


I think Shaw burned that bridge and he gets more credit than he should, Browning was a better coach in my mind.
 

highwayman said:
Mr. Davis (next to Jeff Horton) was probably the nicest guy on Brewster's staff, and a real professional. Also was able to make a silk purse from a sow's ear with our OL. We could have been a lot worse.
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+1

Don't know if he was the nicest, but he was very kind and ready to help in a heartbeat. I remember telling Coach Davis about a child being admitted to a hospital with a serious illness and he had players over there the next day with gifts to lift the child's spirits.
 

In an undisciplined program how do you suppose any one of our current coaches would have been thought of? My guess is that "psychotic" might have been a relatively mild adjective.
 

Davis has a great resume and as Abe Lincoln once said "You can't fool all of the people all of the time," leading me to believe Davis knows what he's doing. I don't think everyone who worked for Brewster gets a blank check, but in retrospect, it's pretty obvious that being an assistant under him was a trying experience.
 



Tim Riggins said:
I think Shaw burned that bridge and he gets more credit than he should, Browning was a better coach in my mind.
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My take on Browning and Shaw was that they worked extremely well together with the way they split the line duties. The overall scheme and technique was Browning's but he trusted Shaw to handle the interior guys and knew that Shaw would get those guys ready to do what they needed to. The two of them complimented each other very well.
 

Good for him. His wife let my buddy and I join the coaches' (Davis, Horton, and a couple others) tab at B-locs after the Iowa upset in 2010.
 

I thought Tim Davis did a nice job here. I know that probably sounds bizarre to say considering our line hasn't been great the past few years. But I actually thought his last season, Weber had a decent amount of time to throw the ball (please no Weber debate here).

He was a nice guy when I met him as well. I don't know him personally or have a a working relationship with him (like the OL men), but as far as being friendly to the casual fan, he was always really nice.
 

Bob_Loblaw said:
I thought Tim Davis did a nice job here. I know that probably sounds bizarre to say considering our line hasn't been great the past few years. But I actually thought his last season, Weber had a decent amount of time to throw the ball (please no Weber debate here).

He was a nice guy when I met him as well. I don't know him personally or have a a working relationship with him (like the OL men), but as far as being friendly to the casual fan, he was always really nice.
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I'll add that LG might be the first person I've seen relay a negative on the guy. Maybe that one player referred to was...well, never mind.

I have met many of Tim's players (and their folks) and never heard one bad thing ever. He and his wife have shown me nothing but class.
 



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