Land-Grant Holy Land: No, Jerry Kill should not be Big Ten Coach of the Year

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Hey coach Kill, if you're reading this...uhm...shove their arrogant heads up their arrogant asses...O.K.?
 

The OSU bias detector blew up in my hand. Typical All things OSU bias. Must downgrade Kill in order to prove Meyer deserves this award. The award is coach of the year, meaning this year. The past has little to do with this year.

I'd like to see this writers take if Kill lead Gophers pull out the victory.
 

Without reading, Meyer, Andersen, Pelini, and Kill are the only options at this point.
 

This thread has a chance to get pretty entertaining
 


Guess I have to sign up to comment and it's not worth it. Maybe if Matt proofreads he'll gain some credibility. Typos by professional writers, especially when they're criticizing a coach or player, seems kinda like living in a glass house and tossing rocks. I will probably send him a note when we beat the Buckeyes Saturday, however.
 


Arrogant and entitled! I hope the Golden Gophers bash their teeth in!
 

A lot of Gopher fans already doing a good job in the comments explaining why this blog post is a little off base.
 



I have never heard anyone say before that Jerry Kill is over-rated.

Smack talk is great, but there needs to be a little truth to have a discussion. It leads me to believe that they are so self-absorbed that reality escapes them. Here's to hoping we see a Saturday beat-down on the Buckeyes courtesy of Minnesota's over-rated coach.
 

pride before the fall... is it saturday yet?
 

Since the article is all assertions here is some fact:

If Gophers win all three remaining games, Jerry will be coach of the year.
If Gophers win two of the three, Jerry will likely be coach of the year, though could lose to Meyer if tO$U is undefeated. I would bet on 6-2 Kill, though. These awards skew towards the underdog.
If Gophers win 1 of the last three, Jerry Kill will likely not be coach of the year but could be if other teams also stumble.
If Gophers lose all three, Jerry Kill will not win coach of the year.
 

If we'd beaten Illinois and won one of our last three games....it would've been possible.
 




Yes let us comment on who should be COY w/ 3 weeks left in the regular season. That makes a ton of sense. Because I mean there's no difference between going 11-1 and 8-4. Good call OSU guy
 

upnorthkid said:
Yes let us comment on who should be COY w/ 3 weeks left in the regular season. That makes a ton of sense. Because I mean there's no difference between going 11-1 and 8-4. Good call OSU guy
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And here I thought OSU had already won the national title.
 


Winnipegopher said:
Since the article is all assertions here is some fact:

If Gophers win all three remaining games, Jerry will be coach of the year.
If Gophers win two of the three, Jerry will likely be coach of the year, though could lose to Meyer if tO$U is undefeated. I would bet on 6-2 Kill, though. These awards skew towards the underdog.
If Gophers win 1 of the last three, Jerry Kill will likely not be coach of the year but could be if other teams also stumble.
If Gophers lose all three, Jerry Kill will not win coach of the year.
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Someone posted that from a conversation with a Gopher assistant coach that Meyer is unpopular among his peers, which gives JK a tie-breaker edge, I think.
 

There's a lot of nonsense throughout that post (like counter-intuitively using low recruiting class rankings as a strike against Kill), but this line bothered me most of all:

"It's not like Kill has dramatically raised the talent level at Minnesota or institutionally changed their ability to compete in the future."

Are you kidding me? No, Kill's not getting 5-stars in here, but where he has succeeded immensely is to raise the mean talent level in the football program, in that we actually have serviceable depth at most positions. Losing a Scott Epke or a Cody Poock in years past would have been devastating. No longer. Oh, and near as I can tell, having good depth makes it more likely that you can if fact compete in the future.
 

Gopher Bandanna Guy said:
There's a lot of nonsense throughout that post (like counter-intuitively using low recruiting class rankings as a strike against Kill), but this line bothered me most of all:

"It's not like Kill has dramatically raised the talent level at Minnesota or institutionally changed their ability to compete in the future."

Are you kidding me? No, Kill's not getting 5-stars in here, but where he has succeeded immensely is to raise the mean talent level in the football program, in that we actually have serviceable depth at most positions. Losing a Scott Epke or a Cody Poock in years past would have been devastating. No longer. Oh, and near as I can tell, having good depth makes it more likely that you can if fact compete in the future.
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I know those playing in the NFL isn't the only way to judge talent but just look at how few former players are in the NFL now. I wouldn't be surprised if that number doubles in the next few years.
 

I hope that he's not getting paid to write.......because that was pathetic.
 

How could he write that column without Eric Collins' favorite Coach Kill halftime stat?
 

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