Maturi on KFAN

[BigGopherFan]

Joel Maturi was on KFAN yesterday and made some interesting comments. He said that the the football program needs to go after 3/4 star prospects and "coach them up." Wasn't the whole point of hiring Tim Brewster to make a splash in recruiting? Puzzling...
He also said Brewster is learning how to coach. WTF?! The Big Ten is no place to learn how to coach. What a frickin' disaster....
Also, SEVERAL players signed for next season didn't receive scholarships from other BCS schools! That's bad. I thought we were supposed to compete with power programs for recruits.

 

[Dr.Don]

BGF... over and over and over again. You are consistent.

 

[GopherChris1970]

Why not go after 5 star prospects?

 

[BigGopherFan]

BGF... over and over and over again. You are consistent.

Instead of the stupid smiley animations, try to generate a well-formed response. I'm seeing some empty promises and glaring inconsistencies with the statements Brewster made when he signed. I was under the impression that he was going to make a splash with recruiting, and he hasn't. If this program wants to become one that develops talent, then so-be-it. Just hire a coach that fits the systen. Brewster is an assistant coach with a recruiting personality, not a great football mind. Period. Stop going out of your way to insult...

 

[Gold Rush]

Joel Maturi was on KFAN yesterday and made some interesting comments. He said that the the football program needs to go after 3/4 star prospects and "coach them up." Wasn't the whole point of hiring Tim Brewster to make a splash in recruiting? Puzzling...
He also said Brewster is learning how to coach. WTF?! The Big Ten is no place to learn how to coach. What a frickin' disaster....
Also, SEVERAL players signed for next season didn't receive scholarships from other BCS schools! That's bad. I thought we were supposed to compete with power programs for recruits.

These comments are not out of line. I would agree with Maturi's comments that we need to sign the 3-4 star prospects and coach them up. That is how you win championships. I think Brewster has done a good job in recruiting, but it is put up or shut up time for him starting right now. He is already finding it tougher to recruit the blue chip kids and if he turns in a mediocre to bad season, that job will get even tougher. If you ask anyone the good points about Brewster, undoubtedly they will say, well he is a good recruiter. If you take that away from him, then why would you keep him as a head coach any longer??? Game planning skills? Tactician? Ability to pull out the close, tough games or rivalry games??? I don't think so.

I STRONGLY AGREE with you that the Big Ten is no place to learn how to coach. You can't really blame Brewster for that, though. Brewster put in his resume when he learned of the coaching vacancy and obviously did a great job convincing Maturi at the interview that he was the right man for the job. This 100 per cent goes back on Maturi if Brewster doesn't pan out because he was the one who hired a guy with no collegiate or pro head coaching experience with virtually zero coaching network that wanted to be coordinators for him. Most guys who have served as head coaches bring a few assistants with them that know the system they want to run. Brewster never had that on either offense or defense. I bet Maturi didn't think about that one.....

Now that Brewster has been here a few years, we are committed to giving him every chance to succeed but we also have to be ready to pull the plug if he fails. This program is slowly getting better on defense and has some good young players who are the next level up, in my opinion. Unfortunately this offense reached rock bottom by the end of last season and was nothing short of a disaster over the last several games. I don't think the offensive coordinator coaching change can hurt us as I do not think it could possibly get any worse than it was under Fisch. I have a feeling just about anyone (including me, you or the drunk in row 25) would have done a better job than Fisch did with that offense and I do not think anyone could defend his performance as the offense got worse and worse as the season went on. Just horrible.

It was stupid to schedule USC next season and I do not think anyone should say, "Well we lost to USC - you have to throw that game out because they are a tough team." Nope -- if we lose - that one IS on Brewster because he scheduled them even though he knew we weren't even close to being with them talent-wise. If we manage to win this game where we will probably be anywhere from 17-21 point dogs then Brewster looks pretty darn good. I will believe that one when I see it, though....

 

[AhliBobwa]

II was under the impression that he was going to make a splash with recruiting, and he hasn't.

http://collegefootball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=772485
'Minnesota lacks Notre Dame's tradition and doesn't have Miami's wealth of local talent. But in his first full recruiting season at Minnesota, coach Tim Brewster persuaded seven four-star prospects to sign with a team that won once last season.

The Gophers' 17th-place finish in the Rivals.com recruiting rankings is even more impressive when you realize that the state of Minnesota produced one five-star prospect (wide receiver Michael Floyd) and two four-star recruits (defensive end Willie Mobley and linebacker Sam Maresh). Maresh was the only player in that trio to stay at Minnesota ? Floyd signed with Notre Dame, and Mobley ended up at Ohio State ? but Brewster made up for the lack of home-grown talent by recruiting nationally.'

This class is chock full of athletes far more gifted (particularly on defense) than any at Minnesota during my short life span. Moreover, most of those guys are just entering the prime of their careers--Cooper, Kirksey, Edwards, Green, Carter, Stoudemire, Wilhite, McKnight, and that's not even mentioning the contributions of JUCOS from that class like SL.

the 2009 class was ranked 39th, and features a lot of stellar athletes including Michael Carter, a good player as a freshmen with the potential to be the bast D-back at Minnesota since Tyrone Carter.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/footballrec...innesota-31;_ylt=AqMy1Uw40jXC20r2GcwGtnBJPZB4

In contrast, Mason was a good gameday coach, had an eye for talent, but couldn't recruit to save his job.
'The 2003 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team was ranked 17th in the final USA Today/AFCA Coaches poll and 20th in the final Associated Press poll.'
2004 Gopher class was ranked 58th, 8 spots lower than this year's class http://rivals.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/teamrank/2004/all/all

BGF--Say what you want about Brewster but don't try to change the facts. Brewster is a fantastic recruiter and there's just no question about that. Before you you respond to this post bring up please read the link posted below.

--A http://fringebowlteam.blogspot.com/2010/03/has-recruiting-under-brewster-plateaued.html#more

 

[The Ghost of Bierman]

Joel Maturi was on KFAN yesterday and made some interesting comments. He said that the the football program needs to go after 3/4 star prospects and "coach them up." Wasn't the whole point of hiring Tim Brewster to make a splash in recruiting? Puzzling...
He also said Brewster is learning how to coach. WTF?! The Big Ten is no place to learn how to coach. What a frickin' disaster....
Also, SEVERAL players signed for next season didn't receive scholarships from other BCS schools! That's bad. I thought we were supposed to compete with power programs for recruits.

man, you really are some kind of internet joke! do you take all "your" posts directly from the mouth of d-bag dan barreiro and put them to computer screen as your own?!

"your" lame anti-brewster rant is literally verbatim what that d-bag barreiro and j-bag ioweee hogeye fan justin gaard said on barreiro's failing show (ratings are taking a hit)......after he hung up with maturi of course.

at least grow a pair bigdumbfan and post your own original thoughts instead of taking others ill-conceived rants as "your own".

 

[The Ghost of Bierman]

These comments are not out of line. I would agree with Maturi's comments that we need to sign the 3-4 star prospects and coach them up. That is how you win championships. I think Brewster has done a good job in recruiting, but it is put up or shut up time for him starting right now. He is already finding it tougher to recruit the blue chip kids and if he turns in a mediocre to bad season, that job will get even tougher. If you ask anyone the good points about Brewster, undoubtedly they will say, well he is a good recruiter. If you take that away from him, then why would you keep him as a head coach any longer??? Game planning skills? Tactician? Ability to pull out the close, tough games or rivalry games??? I don't think so.

I STRONGLY AGREE with you that the Big Ten is no place to learn how to coach. You can't really blame Brewster for that, though. Brewster put in his resume when he learned of the coaching vacancy and obviously did a great job convincing Maturi at the interview that he was the right man for the job. This 100 per cent goes back on Maturi if Brewster doesn't pan out because he was the one who hired a guy with no collegiate or pro head coaching experience with virtually zero coaching network that wanted to be coordinators for him. Most guys who have served as head coaches bring a few assistants with them that know the system they want to run. Brewster never had that on either offense or defense. I bet Maturi didn't think about that one.....

Now that Brewster has been here a few years, we are committed to giving him every chance to succeed but we also have to be ready to pull the plug if he fails. This program is slowly getting better on defense and has some good young players who are the next level up, in my opinion. Unfortunately this offense reached rock bottom by the end of last season and was nothing short of a disaster over the last several games. I don't think the offensive coordinator coaching change can hurt us as I do not think it could possibly get any worse than it was under Fisch. I have a feeling just about anyone (including me, you or the drunk in row 25) would have done a better job than Fisch did with that offense and I do not think anyone could defend his performance as the offense got worse and worse as the season went on. Just horrible.

It was stupid to schedule USC next season and I do not think anyone should say, "Well we lost to USC - you have to throw that game out because they are a tough team." Nope -- if we lose - that one IS on Brewster because he scheduled them even though he knew we weren't even close to being with them talent-wise. If we manage to win this game where we will probably be anywhere from 17-21 point dogs then Brewster looks pretty darn good. I will believe that one when I see it, though....

that last one has to be the lamest-most-wishy-washy-i-refuse-to-take-an-actual-position paragraph i have ever read. please grow a pair! with that kind of defeatist attitude you really aren't one who should be dispesing head coaching advice or analysis of head coaches.

 

[Gold Rush]

that last one has to be the lamest-most-wishy-washy-i-refuse-to-take-an-actual-position paragraph i have ever read. please grow a pair! with that kind of defeatist attitude you really aren't one who should be dispesing head coaching advice or analysis of head coaches.

LOL..........I have already read posts on here saying this very thing and I don't want Brewster to get a free ride for losing this game, which he most likely will. You schedule a game like this when you are ready to compete with this team, not when you struggle and lose to the likes of Illinois and Iowa St. If we were Ohio St. then this game makes sense because it is a game that we might have a good chance to win and gives us good exposure. In the end I just hope we don't get a few players injured because we aren't very deep right now.

Glen Mason was smart enough to realize this and so was Lou Holtz and I think both probably know a lot more about football than you do. I have no problem scheduling these teams when we are ready for them but right now we simply aren't. To be honest, I just hope we can beat Middle Tennessee St because that will be a lot tougher game than people realize.

The funny thing is, after the USC game I wonder how many people will be on here saying, "Well that was pretty stupid to schedule them. We weren't ready for this game."

And I will be right. Again.

 

[BigGopherFan]

man, you really are some kind of internet joke! do you take all "your" posts directly from the mouth of d-bag dan barreiro and put them to computer screen as your own?!

"your" lame anti-brewster rant is literally verbatim what that d-bag barreiro and j-bag ioweee hogeye fan justin gaard said on barreiro's failing show (ratings are taking a hit)......after he hung up with maturi of course.

at least grow a pair bigdumbfan and post your own original thoughts instead of taking others ill-conceived rants as "your own".

I happened to agree with Dan B and Justin. You are correct, this is exactly what these two discussed afterwards. Fine, there you go. I will give them 100 percent credit.

 

[STPGopher]

Why not go after 5 star prospects?

Ever heard of Seantrel Henderson? I think the only thing Brewster didn't try while pursuing Seantrel was offering him an NFL type contract or an Escalade. Seeing that's against the rules, I can see why he didn't.

 

[STPGopher]

LOL..........I have already read posts on here saying this very thing and I don't want Brewster to get a free ride for losing this game, which he most likely will. You schedule a game like this when you are ready to compete with this team, not when you struggle and lose to the likes of Illinois and Iowa St. If we were Ohio St. then this game makes sense because it is a game that we might have a good chance to win and gives us good exposure. In the end I just hope we don't get a few players injured because we aren't very deep right now.

Glen Mason was smart enough to realize this and so was Lou Holtz and I think both probably know a lot more about football than you do. I have no problem scheduling these teams when we are ready for them but right now we simply aren't. To be honest, I just hope we can beat Middle Tennessee St because that will be a lot tougher game than people realize.

The funny thing is, after the USC game I wonder how many people will be on here saying, "Well that was pretty stupid to schedule them. We weren't ready for this game."

And I will be right. Again.

Ummm, didn't the Holtz lead Gophers take Oklahoma to the wire and alter the future of two programs since Troy Aikeman was benched for IIRC JC Watts? Sometimes players play to the level of their competition. NDSU comes to mind........

 

[The Ghost of Bierman]

yaaaaawn!

anyways, keep digging your little hole. i truly can't stand supposed "fans" who act the way you seem to. people that take pathetically weak positions on the tough program decisions that have to be made. people that have a defeatist attitude when it comes to just about anything. people who use the "take-both-sides-of-every-argument-so-you-can-always-claim-that-you-were-right" approach. they are often very tiring and borish folks when it comes to supporting a sports program. hopefully, i have pegged you incorrectly!

sorry! just my two cents.

 

[The Ghost of Bierman]

I happened to agree with Dan B and Justin. You are correct, this is exactly what these two discussed afterwards. Fine, there you go. I will give them 100 percent credit.

yeah, that's a big surprise.

 

[Firejumper]

Ummm, didn't the Holtz lead Gophers take Oklahoma to the wire and alter the future of two programs since Troy Aikeman was benched for IIRC JC Watts? Sometimes players play to the level of their competition. NDSU comes to mind........

Just a technicality here, but Aikman wasn't benched per se, he broke his leg in the game. Agree with the premise, except NDSU would not be the best example, since they had as much talent or more than we had in the first place.

 

[Ole]

Joel Maturi was on KFAN yesterday and made some interesting comments. He said that the the football program needs to go after 3/4 star prospects and "coach them up." Wasn't the whole point of hiring Tim Brewster to make a splash in recruiting? Puzzling...
He also said Brewster is learning how to coach. WTF?! The Big Ten is no place to learn how to coach. What a frickin' disaster....
Also, SEVERAL players signed for next season didn't receive scholarships from other BCS schools! That's bad. I thought we were supposed to compete with power programs for recruits.

Yay, another random Brewster sucks post. And one inspired by KFAN stupidity, AND one inspired by hawkeye fans who work at KFAN. Yay. Here goes. Again.

I would hope the expectation is to go after "3-5 star" players, whatever the crap that means, and coach them up. Should we expect our coaches here to do anything else?
Go after "2 four-leaf clover" players and not coach them up?

A major point of hiring Brewster was to make a splash recruiting after years of terrible recruiting, nothing really puzzling about that. He made a huge splash with the 08 class, added quite a few very talented players in 09, and missed on a few top talents this year but still came through with a solid class in 2010.

Brewster is still learning to coach. WTF?! would you expect?
Again, his major skills when hired were recruiting(which he's done very well at), and selling the program. If Maturi thought he'd be a gameplan or playcalling phenom, then your beef is with Maturi, not Brewster. I'm under the impression he really is learning, which is a good sign and indicates an attitude of adjustment and self improvement versus thinking he knows everything.
BTW disaster is a very strong word for a coach coming off consecutive bowl games, even crappy ones.
You can say that getting players without other BCS offers is a bad thing, in general I think you're right. However, if there is logical reasoning behind the lesser heralded recruits, I'm ok with it.
We offered a few fringe guys from powerhouse HS programs around the country late. We picked up a legacy. We took a few guys as backup plans to top recruits. My issue with offering guys without other BCS offers is when it's done as dogma due to laziness or simply being defeatist in recruiting. Neither are the case here.
Take a chill pill, shut off KFAN, and enjoy the spring weather, football season will be here before you know it, and you'll either be without a doubt proven wrong, or without a doubt proven right. My guess is somewhere in the middle, and we can read more threads like in march 2011.

 

[wait!what?]

SO, in the 2009 season talent got us 6 wins and coaching got us 6 losses? or is it the other way around. The 2009 gophs had a .500 season which is what I expected.
I am hoping for a big 2010.

 

[jovs]

Quote:
Originally Posted by GopherChris1970
Why not go after 5 star prospects?



Ever heard of Seantrel Henderson? I think the only thing Brewster didn't try while pursuing Seantrel was offering him an NFL type contract or an Escalade. Seeing that's against the rules, I can see why he didn't.

Well there were 26 five start recruits for 2010 on Rivals. About twenty percent of them, five will sign with USC.

 

[Dr.Don]

At least he is going after them. Can't win if ya don't enter.

 

[Hates Monikers]

LOL..........I have already read posts on here saying this very thing and I don't want Brewster to get a free ride for losing this game, which he most likely will. You schedule a game like this when you are ready to compete with this team, not when you struggle and lose to the likes of Illinois and Iowa St. If we were Ohio St. then this game makes sense because it is a game that we might have a good chance to win and gives us good exposure. In the end I just hope we don't get a few players injured because we aren't very deep right now.

Glen Mason was smart enough to realize this and so was Lou Holtz and I think both probably know a lot more about football than you do. I have no problem scheduling these teams when we are ready for them but right now we simply aren't. To be honest, I just hope we can beat Middle Tennessee St because that will be a lot tougher game than people realize.

The funny thing is, after the USC game I wonder how many people will be on here saying, "Well that was pretty stupid to schedule them. We weren't ready for this game."

And I will be right. Again.

Wrong. Glen Mason didn't avoid these kind of games because he was smart. It's because he was scared. He knew that with 3-5 conference record he HAD to schedule four hyphenated schools in the non-conference season in order to reach a bowl game. His goal was 7 wins and a bowl game. Period.

Brewster's willingness to schedule games against top programs is the opposite. Coaching suicide, perhaps. But he has higher goals than Mason. He believes the best players want to play against the best teams. He thinks fans want to go to games to see the best teams. He thinks attracting better athletes and support are necessary to get beyond the 7-win seasons that we have become accustomed to. I happen to agree with him.

It doesn't mean we're going to win these games. And in the end it may help cost Brewster his job. But I guarantee you that most true Gohper fans prefer to play USC than Middle Tennessee St.

 

[Ole]

Wrong. Glen Mason didn't avoid these kind of games because he was smart. It's because he was scared. He knew that with 3-5 conference record he HAD to schedule four hyphenated schools in the non-conference season in order to reach a bowl game. His goal was 7 wins and a bowl game. Period.

Brewster's willingness to schedule games against top programs is the opposite. Coaching suicide, perhaps. But he has higher goals than Mason. He believes the best players want to play against the best teams. He thinks fans want to go to games to see the best teams. He thinks attracting better athletes and support are necessary to get beyond the 7-win seasons that we have become accustomed to. I happen to agree with him.

It doesn't mean we're going to win these games. And in the end it may help cost Brewster his job. But I guarantee you that most true Gohper fans prefer to play USC than Middle Tennessee St.

Exactly, for all of Brewster's flaws, and there are some big ones, he is going for something bigger than the status quo 7 win season and a bowl. He literally is going for a Rose Bowl or Bust.
You have to give him credit for risking his first major head coaching gig. He may never get a second chance if it doesn't work out here.
People need to look at the strong non-conference schedule not as an obstacle to a bowl season, but as an opportunity for something huge, something unique. Just what happens if we win against USC? I don't really know, I really don't, but it would be an amazing moment for a program that's been far too complacent for a very long time.

 

[dpodoll68]

Wrong. Glen Mason didn't avoid these kind of games because he was smart. It's because he was scared. He knew that with 3-5 conference record he HAD to schedule four hyphenated schools in the non-conference season in order to reach a bowl game. His goal was 7 wins and a bowl game. Period.

Brewster's willingness to schedule games against top programs is the opposite. Coaching suicide, perhaps. But he has higher goals than Mason. He believes the best players want to play against the best teams. He thinks fans want to go to games to see the best teams. He thinks attracting better athletes and support are necessary to get beyond the 7-win seasons that we have become accustomed to. I happen to agree with him.

It doesn't mean we're going to win these games. And in the end it may help cost Brewster his job. But I guarantee you that most true Gohper fans prefer to play USC than Middle Tennessee St.

The thing that a lot of people fail to realize is that Mason was after wins, at any cost, no matter how he could get them. He would've scheduled 4 I-AA schools in the noncon if he were allowed. He didn't care what recruits thought of his schedule, because he didn't care about recruiting.

Brewster is just the opposite. He wants to win, of course, but his goals aren't to get to 6 wins by any means necessary and play in the micronpc.com Toilet Bowl every year. He knows that to get the best players who want to win championships, you have to be playing a strong schedule, because there is no way Minnesota is going to be allowed a chance at a national title by playing a noncon slate of directional schools every year.

Is he putting the cart before the horse by scheduling the strong teams before he has the horses? It's a classic chicken-or-egg debate. I think he probably did the right thing by making stronger schedules as soon as possible, because he may not have had a chance to coach against the likes of USC, Texas, UNC, etc. if he waited too long. And he may never have a chance to play the rest (aside from USC) if Maturi listens to dimwits who can't see that Brewster is building a program. If it were so easy, and without some bumps in the road, it wouldn't be worth doing.

 

[Monty519]

Well said dpodoll. I was hoping for a smoother ride to some real BT and bowl success, but obviously that hasn't happened yet. But for those who try to sit there and act like Brewster is ruining the program or has shown zero signs of making progress with this program have to either be delusional, or just refuse to accept him because of his personality. This could all blow up into a 3-9 record this year, but I think there's actually more evidence this could blow up into a 9-3 record than visa versa. Talent is growing in this program and it takes time for all of those things to come together, and yes, there is a chance it may not, but you can't cut the chord before allowing the chance for that growth to take place.

 

[WilliamsArenaGuy]

LOL..........I have already read posts on here saying this very thing and I don't want Brewster to get a free ride for losing this game, which he most likely will. You schedule a game like this when you are ready to compete with this team, not when you struggle and lose to the likes of Illinois and Iowa St. If we were Ohio St. then this game makes sense because it is a game that we might have a good chance to win and gives us good exposure. In the end I just hope we don't get a few players injured because we aren't very deep right now.

Glen Mason was smart enough to realize this and so was Lou Holtz and I think both probably know a lot more about football than you do. I have no problem scheduling these teams when we are ready for them but right now we simply aren't. To be honest, I just hope we can beat Middle Tennessee St because that will be a lot tougher game than people realize.

The funny thing is, after the USC game I wonder how many people will be on here saying, "Well that was pretty stupid to schedule them. We weren't ready for this game."

And I will be right. Again.

So we can't even dream of competing with a team that lost to Washington last year, lost to Arizona at home, and lost by 27 and 34 to Oregon and Stanford?

 

[Ole]

So we can't even dream of competing with a team that lost to Washington last year, lost to Arizona at home, and lost by 27 and 34 to Oregon and Stanford?

Of course not! Geez don't you know Brewster's a terrible coach, and he's been a disaster?
We have no business playing a BCS team from another conference, we need MAC teams and plenty of them, the only thing we can hope and dream about is a nice 3-5 conference record and an annual blowout of Lousiana-Podunk A&I tech State. That's it, nothing better will ever happen.

 

[BigGopherFan]

Yay, another random Brewster sucks post. And one inspired by KFAN stupidity, AND one inspired by hawkeye fans who work at KFAN. Yay. Here goes. Again.

I would hope the expectation is to go after "3-5 star" players, whatever the crap that means, and coach them up. Should we expect our coaches here to do anything else?
Go after "2 four-leaf clover" players and not coach them up?

A major point of hiring Brewster was to make a splash recruiting after years of terrible recruiting, nothing really puzzling about that. He made a huge splash with the 08 class, added quite a few very talented players in 09, and missed on a few top talents this year but still came through with a solid class in 2010.

Brewster is still learning to coach. WTF?! would you expect?
Again, his major skills when hired were recruiting(which he's done very well at), and selling the program. If Maturi thought he'd be a gameplan or playcalling phenom, then your beef is with Maturi, not Brewster. I'm under the impression he really is learning, which is a good sign and indicates an attitude of adjustment and self improvement versus thinking he knows everything.
BTW disaster is a very strong word for a coach coming off consecutive bowl games, even crappy ones.
You can say that getting players without other BCS offers is a bad thing, in general I think you're right. However, if there is logical reasoning behind the lesser heralded recruits, I'm ok with it.
We offered a few fringe guys from powerhouse HS programs around the country late. We picked up a legacy. We took a few guys as backup plans to top recruits. My issue with offering guys without other BCS offers is when it's done as dogma due to laziness or simply being defeatist in recruiting. Neither are the case here.
Take a chill pill, shut off KFAN, and enjoy the spring weather, football season will be here before you know it, and you'll either be without a doubt proven wrong, or without a doubt proven right. My guess is somewhere in the middle, and we can read more threads like in march 2011.

why? why? why? why are you trapped into the thought that Brewster is some type of recruiting wizard!?! how weak is that! his classes have gone down in rankings EVERY season (you said it yourself) and he had NEVER plucked the best player from the state in his tenure. if he was such a creative recruiter who gets such great talent, why does the team toil a notch below mediocraty? Huh? if he signed all these great players, why aren't they making an impact. it's college sports, underclassmen can make an impact!!!
IF YOU COACH IN THE BIG TEN, YOU SHOULD NOT BE LEARNING ON THE FLY. PERIOD.

 

[dpodoll68]

why? why? why? why are you trapped into the thought that Brewster is some type of recruiting wizard!?! how weak is that! his classes have gone down in rankings EVERY season (you said it yourself) and he had NEVER plucked the best player from the state in his tenure. if he was such a creative recruiter who gets such great talent, why does the team toil a notch below mediocraty? Huh? if he signed all these great players, why aren't they making an impact. it's college sports, underclassmen can make an impact!!!

You're showing your ignorance more and more with each post. Go get even a basic, elementary understanding of how college football recruiting works, and then get back to me.

Also, making bowls every year is "below mediocraty"? (Nice spelling, by the way.) Perhaps you should look up the definition of "mediocrity".

IF YOU COACH IN THE BIG TEN, YOU SHOULD NOT BE LEARNING ON THE FLY. PERIOD.

This is a valid point. However, if you look at the history of the last four decades of Gopher football, experienced, well-established coaches (Stoll, Salem, Holtz, Wacker, Mason) didn't exactly set the world afire. The only coach with a profile similar to Brewster's that we've had in 40 years is Gutekunst, and I don't recall anyone ever lauding his magnificent recruiting skills. My guess is Maturi knew this, and perhaps thought that something different would work. At any rate, blame Maturi for the University of Minnesota's football coach lacking experience, not Brewster.

And you're also trying to belittle Brewster by bemoaning his lack of experience. It's not about experience, it's about being the right guy for the right place at the right time. Sure, having experience helps make the right guy better, but all the experience in the world isn't going to make you or me a Division I-caliber football coach. Is Brewster the right guy? Time will tell, but at this point, you don't know, I don't know, and nobody else knows either. Anyone who says they do is LYING. College football is the LAST sport on earth on which you could make this determination after three years.

 

[SMU GOPHS FAN]

I'm not saying, but I'm just saying that Rich Rod has a TON of experience as a D-1 head coach and everything seems to be going swimmingly for him at Michigan.

I'm like the majority of fans on here, I don't know if Brewster is the answer. Time will tell on that. With that said, he has done a lot of good things for this program and some not so good things. But he is daring to dream big, which is more than I can say about some of the more recent coaches they have had. I at least give the guy credit for going all in rather than always complaining about how hard it is to win here.

 

[Ole]

why? why? why? why are you trapped into the thought that Brewster is some type of recruiting wizard!?! how weak is that! his classes have gone down in rankings EVERY season (you said it yourself) and he had NEVER plucked the best player from the state in his tenure. if he was such a creative recruiter who gets such great talent, why does the team toil a notch below mediocraty? Huh? if he signed all these great players, why aren't they making an impact. it's college sports, underclassmen can make an impact!!!
IF YOU COACH IN THE BIG TEN, YOU SHOULD NOT BE LEARNING ON THE FLY. PERIOD.

You can't discount his accomplishments in recruiting, he's gotten high profile players every year he's been here. Guys like Cooper, Gray, Carter didn't sniff Minnesota before he showed up. He's got a track record in this domain, he can recruit period. In state recruiting has improved, the top talent he's missed on has more to do with the general local attitude towards this program than his lack of recruiting prowess, and he's still landed top instate guys, 09 was almost a clean sweep.

The idea that underclassmen talent can elevate a program's winning in 1 or 2 years is laughable.
Some college sports can be impacted immediately be talented underclassmen, college football is a different animal. You need solid upperclassmen to have a foundation for success. It's just that simple. Nuances, technique, strength, savvy, and experience are all critical to the makeup of an elite football player, you don't gain these things overnight. No matter who you are.
Underclassmen CAN make an impact, but they can't win games by themselves. Look at almost any top impactful underclassmen Fr, RSFr, or So and they probably play on a team with a good solid upperclassmen foundation.
I agree that learning how to coach on the fly has no place in the Big Ten, but Maturi's choice was to go with an inexperienced but energetic guy that can recruit and has been around winning programs. That's on Maturi not Brewster, but like dpdoll68 said it's about the right guy coming to the right situation. This may turn out to be a nice fit, it may crash and burn, but quit acting like the program went from a national power to a disgrace after 3 years. Get on the ride.
Enjoy the highs, feel the suckerpunch of the lows, but don't dwell on either too long.

 

[AhliBobwa]

I think it's funny that BGF cherry picks which post he will respond to. Posts like mine which destroyed his claims through logic and evidence are completely ignored. Clearly, his biases stand no chance against the facts.