The Raiders are the most dysfunctional team in all of professional sports ... tough to make the comparison with the "U" ... many examples of coaches in the last few years who have not hit rock-bottom in year No. 1 (Pelini, Snyder again at KSU this year, Paul Johnson at Georgia Tech, Paul Rhoads, Brian Kelly, Mark Dantonio, Dan Mullen this year to a degree in the toughest conference, Dennis Erickson (bad since, but awesome in year No. 1) ... )
That is not what Brewster said, he said he had good talent when he took over here and was fortunate it was not a rebuilding job. However, lets assume he lied then, if the talent is so poor than why is it that more of his star recruits cannot unseat this poor talent for more playing time. After all, he isn't in a position where he has the luxury to sit his best players to wait for next year.
WHAT???? How many teams started off hot and were average to terrible by the end of the year? Stewart Mendel finally refused to rank them before the 6th game of the year. Some of you really are good at revising history in your mind.I disagree with this quote, Mason's teams were well coached, well prepared, and they improved throughout the season.
your right it was an extreme comparison, one that was not to be taken to heart as you just did! my point was if you fire a coach every 3 years we are doomed in the future and if you deny that then i have to assume your football knowledge is lacking. i would bet money that if we compared all of those first year rosters to minny's you would laugh at the difference in athletes and talent! you have got to be kidding me!
your right it was an extreme comparison, one that was not to be taken to heart as you just did! my point was if you fire a coach every 3 years we are doomed in the future and if you deny that then i have to assume your football knowledge is lacking. i would bet money that if we compared all of those first year rosters to minny's you would laugh at the difference in athletes and talent! you have got to be kidding me!
I know may on this sight assumed we would be winning the national championship this season and with a 6-6 record that no one expected, the "Fire Brewster" comments are really coming out of the woodwork. These are the reasons why we should not fire Brew:
1) 2 years and 12 games for a new head coach taking over a sub par program is not even remotely close to enough time!
2) I believe Brew hasn't been playing his recruits yet(for the most part) because these guys are being developed(learning the playbooks, strength and conditioning, personal growth)
3) He hasn't shown to me that he is a bad coach yet(Losing to NDSU sucked, but I'm pretty sure any coach walking into that crappy team would have been beaten as well)
4) The U hasn't had this much support since I was born. I have never seen so many kids walking around in Gopher gear in my life, I believe that has everything to do with Brew and his over the top positivity.
5) He has played Wisconsin tough since his arrival, Iowa has kicked our ass, but for all of you saying "be competitive with our rivals, I have to say losing to Wisky the last 2 years has been quite competitive...55-0 blows, but let's see how it plays out this week. by the way, iowa nearly lost to niu who is a d1aa school, i dont think the majority of their fan base was thinking the sky is falling. they barely remember that game at this point!
6) If we fire him right now, or at the end of the season, what coach will want to walk into this program knowing that if he doesn't win 8+ wins on average he will be fired within 3 years? How many more coordinators will we put these kids through?
7) I know many of you are trying to compare tubby and brew, which is ridiculous! you can change a program with one-two players in hoops, football it takes a lot of depth...you cant breing in henderson and expect a championship that first year. By the way, I would like to thank this board for officially turning henderson off to our program! i know he checks into the fan bases of the schools, he hears the boos just like the other recruits and thinks what a joke of a fanbase!
8) We need stability, we need all of our coordinators to stick around, we need to fill the stadium every week, and we need to act right so when recruits show up they dont get disgusted with our negative fans. by the way all you "play gray" people need to calm it down, he hasn't looked very good yet. yes you wioll say he hasn't been given a fair shot, but neither has moses alipate, maybe he is the best player for the position. maybe we should line up all our qb's give them a series and see how it goes? im not actually for that last comment but you people need to have patience!
9) I could go on with a hundred of these but this is my last one...for people talking about glen mason...i would much rather get slaughtered 55-0 by iowa then have a 28 point second half lead and blow it against Michigan, or blow the biggest lead in bowl history to texas tech in the second half, or bitch and moan about brewster not beating his rivals, when did mason dominate our rivals? when did mason bring in hope we were going to become a top team in the big ten? when did mason do anything more than just do enough to get by?
If someone can be rational and give quality reasons why we should fire our coach so early in this process i would like to hear it! Dont just tell me its because of his record, we all expected this!
Mason left 4 to 5 win talent, but not bowl talent like some suggest.
Mason left 4 to 5 win talent, but not bowl talent like some suggest.
eden prairie had a better defense in 07 then the gophs...we were sooooooo slow and bad! willie was hurt all year, lost a jones and who else on the rape deal, 1-2 wins was what i expected. your a joke if you think we had more left over talent then lets say...michigan. how many wins did rich rod have his first year? no way did we have 4-5 win talent.
Let me clarify slightly ... with Mason still as the coach they would've won 4 or 5 games ... I get that a new coach, 1st time ever above the high school level running everything, there would be adjustments ... odd thing, didn't they lose 7-games by 7-points or less? A better decision here or there, and they would've won 4-games.
Everybody on this site always seems to talk about talent. Talent is great only if you can coach and teach it, anything else is just hype.
Doomed in the future if they hired, say, Kevin Sumlin, Al Golden, Butch Jones, David Cutcliffe, or Darrell Bevell (all very, very realistic ... and certainly the coaches at Utah, Cincy, and other places are worth shooting for)? I would bet not.
If we fired Brewster, he would be replaced with someone of similar caliber, and the process would start all over again.
Outside of Sumlin, none of those guys do anything at all for me. Bevell? He's lucky he's not bagging groceries somewhere.
Sumlin would be a good hire (if it ever comes to that) because he is a good coach, has experience running a top-25 program, and knows the area due to his previous experience on the Minnesota staff.
You know you're my boy Doogie, but you're crazy if you think Brian Kelly/Kyle Whittingham/Chris Petersen/etc. would come to Minnesota.
Nearly always, you must give a head coach at least 5 years, especially in a power conference. The only exception is if we had the option to hire either a proven coach fired from a previous successful stint (Fulmer, Tuberville, etc.) or a mid-major/lower-BCS coach like the ones mentioned in the previous paragraph.
But the fact is that there is no chance in hell of anyone of that caliber coming to a Minnesota program in its current state. If we fired Brewster, he would be replaced with someone of similar caliber, and the process would start all over again. The basketball team was able to hire Tubby because they have consistently been good-to-very good (Monson notwithstanding) over the past few decades. The football team has done nothing for 42 years. We would have to be extremely lucky in finding a diamond-in-the-rough coach. The guy hired to replace a fired Brewster this offseason would be no better, and most likely worse, than Brewster himself.
Not if his replacement has been a head coach or a coordinator during his career.
Doomed in the future if they hired, say, Kevin Sumlin, Al Golden, Butch Jones, David Cutcliffe, or Darrell Bevell (all very, very realistic ... and certainly the coaches at Utah, Cincy, and other places are worth shooting for)? I would bet not.