MUST watch - Billy meets Jerry Kill....Kill tells Billy he's his idol...

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bring out the box of tissues. For those of you unfamiliar with Billy, he's the son of Wayne Drash who wrote this piece on CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/10/us/epilepsy-football-coach/index.html?sr=sharebar_twitter

They came for the game on Saturday, and this video shows their experience much better than anything I could say about it. What a remarkable boy and father. So touching...this is why I love my Gophers and Jerry Kill.

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MNGoldenGophers1 said:
Thanks GopherLady for posting this video.
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You're welcome. I really hope people take the time to watch it. I know bickering and arguing is much more popular and gets hits...but this is such an incredible story from Wayne's piece to this past week. What incredible people, all around :).
 


GopherLady said:
You're welcome. I really hope people take the time to watch it. I know bickering and arguing is much more popular and gets hits...but this is such an incredible story from Wayne's piece to this past week. What incredible people, all around :).
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You're right. Although 98% of my post are nonsense, I'm serious about this one. As we know, Kill is a class act. What is also touching are the quality young people he has brought in and that represent our great university. How can you not admire someone like David Cobb and how he reached out to Billy. When the media seems to focus primarily on all that is wrong with college football, the U of M is one of the few places that seems to being going every thing the right way. Thanks in large part to Coach Kill & Co., it makes me proud to be associated with this program. Like Billy says:

SKI-U-MAH and Go Gophers!
 


Yup. Good stuff, Nadine!
 


Thank you Nadine

You share great stuff Nadine. Wow! There is no doubt Jerry Kill is a great leader. He does make it possible to
love the Gophers. I always have loved the Gophers but Jerry makes it feel good to do so.

Like Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig promising kids in the hospital home runs and then going out and doing it. So the little guy
asks for 2 touchdowns and Cobb delivers 3. Very cool! And a no seizure weekend with a lot of excitement for Billy.

We keep getting better. Coach Kill and these players deserve some success here. They work hard and do things right. Let's see what happens these next two games.
 





Very cool. Coach Kill continues to impress. When he was hired and making the rounds around the state, he spoke in Owatonna, my dad who was 91 at the time went to meet him. Coach Kill ended up talking to my dad for half an hour and gave him an autographed football. A year later dad got to go to a game and spend a half in the press box with Darrel Thompson. Coach Kill had a hand in that also. He truly is a special coach.
 

Thanks so much for posting this. I read the article and teared up, now this video! Makes me teary as I watch my 8 month old son play on the floor while I watch it, so thankful for a healthy child and proud to root for a great coach, person, and a team that learns life and all its joys and sorrows from quality people. Let's beat the Huskers and Becky these next two weeks!
 

Fantastic video - thanks for sharing.

Ski-U-Mah Billy!

Go Gophers!!
 



Yep, thanks! Coach Kill takes his condition that's a negative and turns it into a positive. Not only for this family, but for others. The awareness and education created is invaluable.
 

Pretty great way to start the day. Thanks GL.
 


Great story...but the thread title really requires a Billy Idol tune... :D

 

Thanks Nadine. What really pisses me off is how much "good" this program does for the State of Minnesota and it is just totally ignored by the vast majority of football fans.
 



What a great story.

I'll just be over here chopping these onions up.
 




Nadine, thanks for posting! Now excuse while I get something out of my eye.
 

You're all very welcome. You have to watch Coach Kill's response to watching the video, and Billy's visit. LOVE this video:

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Just awesome. Coach Kill has a lot of love in him. I know this won't be popular, but I would like to suggest that the University of Minnesota give Kill a really, really long contract, allowing him to be the head coach until he decides he's done. It would remove all questions by recruits for many years, it would give Kill even more leeway to build the program in the best way for the long term and there would probably be other side benefits I can't think of. I suppose there's a risk that Kill and staff may get too "comfortable", but I personally wouldn't have any concern about that with Kill. Of course, he could still be removed for "cause" such as legal violations and such, but again I can't envision that with Kill. I can't imagine anyone better coming along who has the "WHOLE" package like Kill does. Anybody like that idea, or is it yet another stupid idea by moi?
 

This was really cool. So gald we have a coach and players that do this sort of thing and take them in as their own.
 

DoubleAlum said:
Just awesome. Coach Kill has a lot of love in him. I know this won't be popular, but I would like to suggest that the University of Minnesota give Kill a really, really long contract, allowing him to be the head coach until he decides he's done. It would remove all questions by recruits for many years, it would give Kill even more leeway to build the program in the best way for the long term and there would probably be other side benefits I can't think of. I suppose there's a risk that Kill and staff may get too "comfortable", but I personally wouldn't have any concern about that with Kill. Of course, he could still be removed for "cause" such as legal violations and such, but again I can't envision that with Kill. I can't imagine anyone better coming along who has the "WHOLE" package like Kill does. Anybody like that idea, or is it yet another stupid idea by moi?
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I completely agree with you! I think stability is becoming an underrated quality in college football, and fans are expecting coaches to turn programs into national champions after two seasons of coming into disasters. This program at the U is still rebuilding, and there is no greater person to continue doing that than Jerry Kill. In a world of college football filled with corrupt, self-absorbed coaches and staffs we are truly blessed to have Jerry Kill. I think he's happy here in Minnesota and I would legitimately probably shed tears if he got let go or took more money elsewhere. I have no problem signing him on for a long, long time.
 

He is not going anywhere. Momma Kill loves it here and will scream and scratch if she had to leave the Twin Cities.

The U is a really good fit for Coach Kill. He exemplifies everything that you want in a coach and program.

Someday, a bronze statue of him (and Momma Kill) may be standing tall in front of TCF Stadium.
 

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