Kill on halftime: "If people don't agree with it, I'm not a very good coach, I guess"

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Kill on halftime: "If people don't agree with it, I'm not a very good coach, I guess"

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Go Gophers!!
 


Channeling his inner Tom Kelly.
 

They played like they did against TCU. Not to win. They had 5 turnovers in that game too. Maybe they feel they don't have enough athletes yet to ramp it up.
 

You have a QB who was throwing the ball about as well as he ever had, 3 timeouts and around the 40...he should absolutely be criticized. No one is saying he is a bad coach, but in this situation the moment became to big for him and showed he had no faith in his offense to actually do anything positive.

Karma bit him in the butt with his reasoning of being conservative was that he got the ball to start the 2nd half...how did that turn out Jerry?
 



Sid Hartman said:
You have a QB who was throwing the ball about as well as he ever had, 3 timeouts and around the 40...he should absolutely be criticized. No one is saying he is a bad coach, but in this situation the moment became to big for him and showed he had no faith in his offense to actually do anything positive.

Karma bit him in the butt with his reasoning of being conservative was that he got the ball to start the 2nd half...how did that turn out Jerry?
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Agree. His decision doesn't make him a bad coach but there is plenty of room to question the decision to sit on the ball in a situation where you had time and time outs to move into field goal range in a game you were trailing. Had they had the lead at the time I could understand sitting on it but when you are behind every possession counts.
 

Touchy, touchy.

I thought the sequence before halftime was bullish*t.

Coach knows he got worked today.
 

The only amusing thing about it was the reaction of Mitch. He seemed very irritated and expressed himself verbally as, and after, the clock ran down on that 1st Half.
 



Sid Hartman said:
You have a QB who was throwing the ball about as well as he ever had, 3 timeouts and around the 40...he should absolutely be criticized. No one is saying he is a bad coach, but in this situation the moment became to big for him and showed he had no faith in his offense to actually do anything positive.

Karma bit him in the butt with his reasoning of being conservative was that he got the ball to start the 2nd half...how did that turn out Jerry?
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I agree with your statement. And as another poster mentioned before, he's playing the sore loser card and his emotional anger is showing when he mentions that he must not be a good coach then by running out the clock.

It has nothing to do with his overall coaching ability, rather one coaching decision he made that some people are questioning and criticizing. It just happened to backfire on him after his special teams unit blundered the 2nd half kickoff.
 

This is my problem with the staff, they are so conservative and stubborn I don't have faith in them making the changes they need to make to win against top teams.
 

Wasn't that concerned with that in particular. Not being prepared for the onside kick after the half was a bigger deal.


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I think we should start the whole Jerry Kill deserves a raise discussion again.
 



If twitter had more than 140 characters, we would have learned that he said that with tears in his eyes.
 

Iceland12 said:
The only amusing thing about it was the reaction of Mitch. He seemed very irritated and expressed himself verbally as, and after, the clock ran down on that 1st Half.
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Cobb as well. He unsnapped his helmet with double-extra gusto. Those guys were pissed.

Source: eleventh row view
 

kill sounds like tubby. tubby used to say "well maybe I'm not a good coach" when an inkling of criticism was thrown his way. its a passive aggressive way of deflecting something that was fair criticism.
 

Wow...a lot of bashing here. I didn't think this was going to happen today.
 


Go4 said:
kill sounds like tubby. tubby used to say "well maybe I'm not a good coach" when an inkling of criticism was thrown his way. its a passive aggressive way of deflecting something that was fair criticism.
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First time I've seen this kind of sour grapes response from Kill, but yeah, it is very Tubby-esque. Sorry coach, you can expect tough questions and second guessing after a game like this one.
 

sonnygarcia said:
This is my problem with the staff, they are so conservative and stubborn I don't have faith in them making the changes they need to make to win against top teams.
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They should be watching the Oregon coaching philosophy
 


#2Gopher said:
Wow...a lot of bashing here. I didn't think this was going to happen today.
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this isn't "bashing." people in minnesota are so sensitive! we didn't play well today. people are pointing that out. this is a stupid comment from kill, people are pointing that out. you want "bashing" you should have gone to UW board during and after 59-0, go to Noles site now, just went there, that's bashing.
 


I thought Kill was a little defensive and quick to point at the mistakes by the players during the radio interview after the game, too. In the past, he has been more upfront taking responsibility for the problems. I think he was a little embarrassed today, and he should've been. It might take him a Day or two to come to grips with how poorly this game was managed by he and his staff. Or, maybe he really does drink a lot of his own Kool-Aid. The best thing that could happen from today would be if he and his staff actually come to grips with the fact that their normal game plan might just not work against the more elite type teams.
 

Personally, I would like to see some context before judging a 15 word quote in a vacuum.
 

DocfromDarwin said:
They should be watching the Oregon coaching philosophy
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They should, Scott Frost played in the conservative Nebraska system and is now the coordinator of one of the most innovative offenses in college football.
 

In that situation, I run out the clock every time. To move the ball into field goal range you generally need lots of quick strikes to WR's. Have we completed consecutive passes to WR's all season? Criticize the coaching staff for not preparing for situations like this earlier in the season all you want, but that was not the time to have Leidner slinging it all over. I've seen plenty of bad things happen trying to score in that situation.
 

For those who want Oregon offense - the Gophers should run Oregon's offense for just 1 quarter sometime - that would be comedy hour.
 

M&G BUSt said:
In that situation, I run out the clock every time. To move the ball into field goal range you generally need lots of quick strikes to WR's. Have we completed consecutive passes to WR's all season? Criticize the coaching staff for not preparing for situations like this earlier in the season all you want, but that was not the time to have Leidner slinging it all over. I've seen plenty of bad things happen trying to score in that situation.
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Not with as much time as there was, coupled with 3 time outs.
 

He should tone down the melodrama. He is in a high profile position, and he made a very questionable and unconventional decision which both the Gopher faithful and a neutral commentator disagreed with. Of course it is going to get scrutinized, especially when the team played as bad as we did. A lot of mental mistakes, and I don't know if it was preparedness or focus or what, but you don't lose games this sloppy and avoid criticism and second guessing.
 

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