OMG...STOP WITH THE MASON CRAP!

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How much longer do we talk about and compare Mason with Brewster? Stop already, don't you people have anything else to say? Have your opinions of Brewster, Mason is GONE. There is no comparison to make.
 

Mason is the standard in which Brewster is to be compared to.......

It's like comparing your new girlfriend to your ex...it's gonna happen.......
 

Well, since Mason should have never been fired in the first place. the new coach should, at the very least, match him. Brewster has not. There is very little hope that he will in the future, either.
 

#1 Mason had to go. He helped revive the program, but his mediocrity, arrogance and regular meltdowns had worn their welcome.

#2 We took a chance on an inexperienced guy in Brewster with a reputation for recruiting. Three years in, Brewster tells us we have better talent, but these same players don't see the field. How do we know they are better? What we do know is that our team is unprepared, lacks dicipline and at times looks downright inept. I don't see anything that tells me that he will become a coaching genius over the next offseason. Why wait another year? Brewster needs to go.
 

That's ludicrous that Mason should have never been fired. Wow. Just wow. Part (not all) of the reason we are in this situation is that Mason was allowed to stick around too long.

What's really funny about it, is if Brewster can find a way to win next week, he finishes 4-4 in the conference. If not, he finishes at 3-5 which is Mason's average finish over a DECADE.

I am all for higher expectations, but I find it hilarious that anyone could call themself a Gopher fan and not be aware of the Mason era standards and results.
 


It's push. Mason was a master at duplicating Ohio State's famed running game but had no clue on defense. Brew has put together a competent defense but the offense has no identity.
 

Competent defense???? What team are you

GoForGold said:
It's push. Mason was a master at duplicating Ohio State's famed running game but had no clue on defense. Brew has put together a competent defense but the offense has no identity.
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watching? This team is near the bottom of the Big Ten in defense. It could not stop the run when it had to, could not stop a team on third and long, and gave up long plays with completely uncovered WRs 40 yards downfield at least three times.

This defense had more depth and better athletes, and still managed to suck just as much as every other year in recent history with the exception of '99.
 

I'll take Brewster's mediocrity over Mason's any day. Both make the season pretty painful, but at least Brewster makes me interested in the off-season with his recruiting. Mason was all boring all the time. Brewster makes me a fan all summer...sports are always more fun in the off-season anyway.
 

oak_street1981 said:
watching? This team is near the bottom of the Big Ten in defense.
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I would wager to say that if the offense would be out on the field more than three plays each possession our defense would have better statistics. They do give up way too many big plays on broken coverages though.
 



The worst qb I've seen in Minnesota since Jim Reese in 1958 played for SDSU and he doubled Weber's passing yards. Yet Brew keeps putting him out there. Gray does not have ONE f'in series all year. Not ONE. What is that?????

Aren't we still paying Mason? Bring him back. Or bring back Lou Holtz. At least we'd have some lisping fun
 

gopherjay said:
How much longer do we talk about and compare Mason with Brewster? Stop already, don't you people have anything else to say? Have your opinions of Brewster, Mason is GONE. There is no comparison to make.
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Save your energy for another thread...

Demanding that Holers stop comparing Brew to Mase is like asking them to stop expecting Brew to return to the GG Glory Years of the '60s...not going to happen.

You'll have better luck demanding that the Weather Gods prohibit snow in Minny this winter.
 

Folks who want Mason back really don't remember that Texas Tech bowl game very well. Or all those instances when Mason's Gophers snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the last 5 minutes of a game.

I agree the team has no offensive identity. I think it came into the year with one dependable WR & they've paid a price for it. I question the decision to scrap the spread; I've seen it run well and it is very capable of producing a dominant running game. Changing the system after two years means starting over - back to step #1 with assignments, reads, getting everyone on the same page, etc. I wonder why you recruit a kid who has the makings of a spread QB (Gray) and then change to an offensive system not as suited for his potential.

The greatest weakness of Mason's teams was that they were slow; the Gophers simply never had the horses at linebacker & defensive back to run with decent receivers - which is why, for example, they got torched by Texas Tech. That was not going to change, folks; Mason had plenty of years to recruit the necessary speed to the U and it didn't happen.

This isn't a defense of Brewster. As I've said, I don't understand scraping the spread & I don't believe the offense has been very well coached (for that matter, from what I saw last year, the spread wasn't being very well coached either).

With that said, there are two decisions here:

1) firing Mason;

2) hiring Brewster.

How the second turns out doesn't reflect on the 1st.
 

When Mason ran his mouth about the "drunk" students starting the "Fire Mason" chant, his days were numbered. It wasn't a matter of "if", it was a matter of "when". The fact that he had to gall to suggest that the students' actions were a result of alcohol and not the poor product on the field pretty much punched his ticket out of here.
 



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