If we have to "give him a chance" it was a bad hire

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MrGopher said:
Its true. The whole "give him a chance" concept does mean that Maturi failed, but it is no excuse to not give Kill that chance.
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+1,000,000

However we have to remember that this is logic and logic has little effect on "Kool-Aid drinking fanatics."
 

One of the best posts of the day GopherinPhilly. Many of us "gave Brewster a chance", I won't be doing the same with Jerry Kill. That may not be fair to Kill, but this was the hire that could not be screwed up. This was the hire, with Nebraska entering the conference, that had to be someone we could believe could get us past 2-6 bad years, 3-5 many years, 5-3 "good" years irrelevant state we've been in for a long, long time. Maturi said all the right things initially and failed more miserably than I thought possible. Very bad day to be a Gopher fan.
 

EG#9 said:
One of the best posts of the day GopherinPhilly. Many of us "gave Brewster a chance", I won't be doing the same with Jerry Kill. That may not be fair to Kill, but this was the hire that could not be screwed up. This was the hire, with Nebraska entering the conference, that had to be someone we could believe could get us past 2-6 bad years, 3-5 many years, 5-3 "good" years irrelevant state we've been in for a long, long time. Maturi said all the right things initially and failed more miserably than I thought possible. Very bad day to be a Gopher fan.
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Maturi is such an idiot it's unbelievable (this has nothing to do with Kill).
 

Bo Darville said:
So... any team that hires a guy that isn't one of the handful of nationally known college coaches is a bad hire? Everybody starts somewhere, amigo.
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Before or After, but never AT the University of Minnesota. That is the lightning that we want to catch in the bottle.
 

I Prefer Kill to Leach and Some Others

USAFChief said:
Tell us who the people are who are thrilled because Kill WAS their preferred coach.
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I prefer Kill to Mike Leach , Al Golden, Brady Hoke among others who's names were in the mix. I really was hopng for a splash name but I believe he has more than proved himself. Hoke and Golden have big contract buyouts and they really don't want this job --- I am happy to have someone of his credentials who is happy to be here.

I was not impressed watching the Temple teams play both games I saw on TV. Hoke was apparently using us as a leverage at his current job. Mullen wants the Miami job. Belotti will not coach next year. Petersen never was a realistic candidate.

Kill has not had any HC he has been working for who is a big name coach. He has accomplished everything by being the HC and wanted by several programs because of his accomplishments.
 



TheManfromtheSouth said:
Don't kid yourself - they didn't want to come here. They wanted a head coaching job. They didn't care what the name of the school was.
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And you think Jerry Kill went to bed at night picturing this as his dream job? He wanted a better job just as the other guys did. The only difference is they had instant name recognition with recruits.
 

GopherinPhilly said:
If we have to "give him a chance," it was a bad hire....period.

We have way too much good at the U for this to be the best we can do...Maturi and Bruininks screwed us because they know nothing about football or running a big time program.

Lets pray these two a-holes don't give this guy a big contract that leaves us screwed for years to come like they have done so many times before (Mason, Monson).

Sad day for Gopherland...this is the equivalent of us hiring Ricardo Patton as our BB coach...and if you don't know who he is...thats my effing point!
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Agree.

He may pan out, but this is not meeting the expectations laid out by the long search and the AD's idiotic gum-flapping. I keep asking myself "what about all the money they allegedly had to buy a new coach?" Which transitions to "Dear God, I hope they didn't blow a bunch of money on this clown." I would have much preferred they take a chance on hot name from the coordinator ranks (eg Malzahn) if they were going to stay in the price range that a Kill is likely to command. This seems like a stubborn refusal to consider non-sitting head coaches.
 

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