Its good to be Jerry Kill these days

[Schnauzer]

People have often said that behind closed doors, other coaches negative recruit, using Jerry Kill's health as a "concern."

If you were about to accept a scholarship offer, would you want to sign up with the B1G coach of the year, or a school that has developed a history of coaches bolting to parallel or lower programs every two years?

Nebraska and Wisconsin each will be bringing in new coaches next season and the Iowa fan base seems to want their coach out as well (on a yearly basis now). Meanwhile the B1G coach of the year appears to be building something great.

It has to be achieved and proven over the long haul but after a 50 year slumber and countless examples of worst-case folly... It appears the seas just might finally be parting for our Rodent football program. Perennial bad luck just might finally be turning.

For the most part you have to make your own luck and Kill and his staff have been doing that. But, there is evidence of good fortune shining on him as well. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Oh. And I'm a nice guy too so "it" is happening for me as well.

 

[Some guy]

Don't sleep on Beckmann who has a larger win improvement this year and a head to head victory


#beckman

 

[Breakin' The Plane]

Wiscy got "Gophered" over the past week. I have to figure that the Gophers may be favorites in the West next year. Exceeding expectations could get tricky.

 

[MrGopher]

Agreed. Coach Kill and his guys need to take advantage of this next year. Get on the right side of the Axe game, end our Kinnick woes, and make it 3(!!) in a row vs. Nebraska.

Throw in a Michigan dumpster fire and an increasing lack of confidence in the coaches in Evanston, Champaign, and West Lafayette... and the proverbial iron has never been proverbially hotter.

 

[MNVCGUY]

People have often said that behind closed doors, other coaches negative recruit, using Jerry Kill's health as a "concern."

If you were about to accept a scholarship offer, would you want to sign up with the B1G coach of the year, or a school that has developed a history of coaches bolting to parallel or lower programs every two years?

Nebraska and Wisconsin each will be bringing in new coaches next season and the Iowa fan base seems to want their coach out as well (on a yearly basis now). Meanwhile the B1G coach of the year appears to be building something great.

I get the sentiment that you are going for with the post and I agree with you in general. On the recruiting part though, that part only holds water if we start routinely getting commitments from guys with Nebraska, Iowa, or Wisconsin offers. For the most part that has not been happening yet under Kill and without going through all the current commitments I don't believe a lot of them have offers showing from those three schools mentioned. But I am sure someone can go through the list and figure out how many do. Would also be interesting to know how many Nebraska, Wisconsin, or Iowa commits have Minnesota offers currently.