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napoleon bonaparte
lou costello
pablo picasso
chico and harpo marx
ludwig von beathoven
oompa loompas
and the mayor of munchkin city.
 

mnboiler said:
Any shred of credibility you might have had is gone. Saying only Minnesota kids can win on a national level in college football is like the French can beat America in a war.
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Never said that we only need to recruit MN kids, but MN kids should be a priority. MN, WI, IA, SD, and ND kids can play. We don't have to go to the same high school in Texas to find to WR when we can find an Eric Decker in our own back yard. Please remind me how well the program has been doing since the great recruiter Tim Brewster arrived. That's right we just got our ass handed to us by USD. We have been told for years that MN kids can't compete, that we need to go to elsewhere to get big name recruits. Just, take a little look back at who are studs have been over the last few years and I'll bet you'll find most of them came from MN or very close by.

And Josh087, Is the pot calling the kettle black? Calling someone out on grammar like you're some genius. Read one of your own posts before you say anything about anyone else. Yeah, you had one good post a while ago, but your time has passed. Chime out.
 

Sparlimb said:
I did wait for next year. And we sucked that year too. There is no doubt Brewster is having trouble recruiting because we suck, and we suck because he and his staff are terrible coaches. I just want a team that can execute and look competent. We just aren't. It was the same with Monson and Tubby. You saw what a good coach can do with mediocre talent. Tubby's first year he didn't have any better talent than Monson's last year. I expect that could happen here as soon as next year with the right hire. And I know, making the right hire is not easy...

I do like the idea of Belotti. He didn't build Oregon from scratch, but he recruited very well there.
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I'm with you all the way. I can live with Belotti. Coaching and recruiting go hand in hand. If you want the big time recruits you need to win games. If you want to win games you better be able to coach.
 

HavaGo4 said:
Again, look at what the Dakota schools have done against the gophers. And the Dakota schools did it with Minnesota's leftovers. It all comes down to coaching.
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Our new template for success is the Dakotas. Write it down, kids!

FYI: There were a whopping 16 kids from the Dakotas on South Dakota's team. A full third of their players are from where? Florida, California and Illinois. Not exactly what you'd consider to be SoDak's breadbasket, eh?

Tell you what: if coaching is the only thing that matters, why don't we assemble a bunch of us from Gopherhole and pay the UMD coach a few grand to work with our fat asses for a few months. Then we'll play the Gophers in a scrimmage. Given the UMD coach's superior abilities, we should crush the Gophs, yes?

If we are the stupidest fans in college football, then you are our god and king.
 

yeah, there is not alot of brain work going on this last week. A lot of yapping and hating, but not much depth of thought.
 


If we are the stupidest fans in college football, then you are our god and king.[/QUOTE]

About time you realized this. Look at Willie Powell, remember him #17, he torched our much more talented DB's all day. He has to be from Texas or Florida. Nope, Souix Falls SD. MBA, all you do is make look smarter and smarter. Look at the stat line and see who actually played. Their QB was from IL, another high school football hotbed.

Did you read the Strib article where their QB came out and said we knew we could move the ball at will because they could not stop us. It's all coaching.
 

Have you ever heard of the French as a nuclear power. Of course they could kick our ass. Just one of their nuc subs could do it. People are so pathetically naive.
 


PapaHawk21 said:
I am confident Les Miles could do just fine at Minnesota. Look at the progress he made at Oklahoma State and then ultimately won a national title at LSU.

What is wrong with Tubby? Two straight tournament appearances and a big10 title game appearance. Is that enough progress from a team that was at rock bottom before he arrived? This board amazes me sometimes.
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Tubby has never been better than 6th in the conference either [same as Brewster] though... Now granted a lot went wrong off the court last season, especially for a Tubby Smith team, but still. It isn't like he has blown us all away with recruiting feats, top in-state talent retention, or immediately gotten us beyond first round NCAA appearances so it is hardly an unmitigated success three years in.

That being said I love him...
 



HavaGo4 said:
This program can win with MN kids, we don't need to go Texas, Flordia, or Ohio to pick up there left overs.
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PS 1)
HavaGo4;260049 said:
Their QB was from IL, another high school football hotbed.
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FWIW Illinois would be considered a recruiting hotbed by Midwestern standards

2) Obviously the entire college recruiting industry, and the Big Ten coaching staffs as whole, are wrong and all the good talent in this fair nation lies north of I-90 :rolleyes:

3) While some Minnesota recruits are under-scouted/recruited, plenty aren't and are recognized far and wide as legitimate potential like a McNeal, a Henderson, or a Floyd. Let's try keeping some of those kids home before we go beating the bushes north of Bemidji.

I'll concede I think there are plenty of great kids in Minnesota, including the outstate. Tyler Marz is an under-recruited type I wished we'd pursued sooner that will likely end up over one of our borders. Looking forward Joe Mollberg is generating plenty of buzz... but anybody who thinks a squad full of Minnesota kids is destined for Big Ten glory is absolutely delusional [and in that ridiculously Minnesotan provincial sense of pride sort of way way].
 

My short list:

Mack Brown
Urban Meyer
Bob Stoops
Nick Saban
Joe Mauer
1987 world series Twins
Midas well throw myself in here
and you cant forget "Current TE coach of the Denver Broncos"
 

Funniest thread ever. Who is going to c9ome to the graveyard of CFB coaches where there is no football budget? That's right. Another Brewster. The U has to be fixed before we get a coach that can do anything here. Oh, BTW, look at the new Big Ten division they will walk into.

Brewster isn't the answer. We can't get the answer. Not until the U commits to winning CFB and that hasn't happened. I think a lot of us were fooled by getting the new stadium. Fool's Gold.

We need to demand more from the Board of Regents and the U's president before we can demand more from a coach and get results. I doubt that all 7 of us will have much impact though.
 




ulfr said:
Tubby has never been better than 6th in the conference either [same as Brewster] though... Now granted a lot went wrong off the court last season, especially for a Tubby Smith team, but still. It isn't like he has blown us all away with recruiting feats, top in-state talent retention, or immediately gotten us beyond first round NCAA appearances so it is hardly an unmitigated success three years in.

That being said I love him...
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At least Tubby has beaten Wisconsin.
 

my short list...

danny devito...
Alf...
webster...
arnold...
Go4 ...
any smurf...

I hlike Belotti, really interested though? think he can bring some NIKE $$$?
 

mnsports1 said:
I hlike Belotti, really interested though? think he can bring some NIKE $$$?
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No Belotti won't be able to bring in the Nike money. Phil Knight, who is the founder of Nike is an Oregon Alum and basically bank rolls the entire program, just like how FedEx bankrolls Memphis basketball. The Nike money will be at Oregon until Phil Knight dies. Besides Minnesota is already a Nike school, if Maturi hired Belotti it would just make Minnesota more likely to resign with Nike instead of going to Adidas.
 

thanks purdue,

but I wasn't really serious, and am well aware of phil knight.

hlike=like (dumb fat fingers)
 

apologies to schnoodler

sorry, didn't see you beat me to the short list thing...

I am obviously new to the board, but absolutely love it. I enjoy keeping up on MN and gophs here even though I am stuck out in whiskey...

keep up the great work everybody,

Go Gophs

I am going to have to play around a little to see how you guys do all the fancy stuff
 

My short list:

Vince Lombardi
Jesus of Nazareth
Herman Boone
Chuck Norris
Beeker (press conferences would be awesome)
 


diehard said:
Funniest thread ever. Who is going to c9ome to the graveyard of CFB coaches where there is no football budget? That's right. Another Brewster. The U has to be fixed before we get a coach that can do anything here. Oh, BTW, look at the new Big Ten division they will walk into.

Brewster isn't the answer. We can't get the answer. Not until the U commits to winning CFB and that hasn't happened. I think a lot of us were fooled by getting the new stadium. Fool's Gold.

We need to demand more from the Board of Regents and the U's president before we can demand more from a coach and get results. I doubt that all 7 of us will have much impact though.
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Right, but maybe this new Brewster will be able to coach.
 

diehard said:
Funniest thread ever. Who is going to c9ome to the graveyard of CFB coaches where there is no football budget? That's right. Another Brewster. The U has to be fixed before we get a coach that can do anything here. Oh, BTW, look at the new Big Ten division they will walk into.

Brewster isn't the answer. We can't get the answer. Not until the U commits to winning CFB and that hasn't happened. I think a lot of us were fooled by getting the new stadium. Fool's Gold.
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You talk about the budget, and then say we are "fooled" by the new stadium. First of all, what does that even mean? Secondly, the new stadium brings in a LOT more revenue then we get from the dome, this DIRECTLY addressing the concerns about the budget. Let's see, we're making little money at the dome, so we build a new stadium that brings in money, and that is getting "fooled"?
 

oompa loompas baby.

oompa loompas,

just saying. If they can build a chocolate factory, they can build a football program.

Think about it,

oompa loompas.
 

Schnoodler said:
oompa loompas baby.

oompa loompas,

just saying. If they can build a chocolate factory, they can build a football program.

Think about it,

oompa loompas.
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Oh man my son was introduced to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory this summer. Read the book, went to a play, and watched the movie. We role play it, we sing it, we talk about why he is Charlie since he is a good boy.

So.. in honor here is his favorite of the songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJFskZ4Z-lw (embedding is disabled)
 

There will be a lot of coaches to choose from. We can eliminate stealing a "big name coach" from a major school. That's a lateral move at best. We don't want to hire a "big name" coach who is washed up, whose skills are out of date, or who coasted on the system. We want a coach who has at least had experience as a OC or a DC, preferably as a HC.

Look, there's risks in every hiring decision. There is no choice that will allow us to avoid the risks. I think we will probably have to hire a coach from the I-AA or the non-BCS ranks. Someone who knows how to get the most out of the talent available. Someone who prioritizes defense. Flashy offenses are fun, but sooner or later they will fail.
 

That was spectacular.

I take back my nomination. Oompa loompas are a bit creepy.
 

RodentRampage said:
There will be a lot of coaches to choose from. We can eliminate stealing a "big name coach" from a major school. That's a lateral move at best. We don't want to hire a "big name" coach who is washed up, whose skills are out of date, or who coasted on the system. We want a coach who has at least had experience as a OC or a DC, preferably as a HC.

Look, there's risks in every hiring decision. There is no choice that will allow us to avoid the risks. I think we will probably have to hire a coach from the I-AA or the non-BCS ranks. Someone who knows how to get the most out of the talent available. Someone who prioritizes defense. Flashy offenses are fun, but sooner or later they will fail.
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It'll be a lot cooler to have all the fans singing and dancing in sync, then trying to do sky-u-mah. I'm on board!
 

RodentRampage said:
There will be a lot of coaches to choose from. We can eliminate stealing a "big name coach" from a major school. That's a lateral move at best. We don't want to hire a "big name" coach who is washed up, whose skills are out of date, or who coasted on the system. We want a coach who has at least had experience as a OC or a DC, preferably as a HC.

Look, there's risks in every hiring decision. There is no choice that will allow us to avoid the risks. I think we will probably have to hire a coach from the I-AA or the non-BCS ranks. Someone who knows how to get the most out of the talent available. Someone who prioritizes defense. Flashy offenses are fun, but sooner or later they will fail.
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This is right on.
Folks we are probably not going to get a name anyone has ever heard of.
We are probably not going to get the sexy coordinator or non BCS coach everyone wants.
We DO have a shot at a top coordinator or a former top coordinator now a lower non BCS HC.
We have a stadium, we are a Big Ten team, those are the main things we have going for us.
 


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