Post Bulletin: If Gophers come out unprepared in bowl, Claeys hire a mistake

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Post Bulletin columnist going all in on a single game prep:

PHERSY: Definitely. I completely disagreed with naming Claeys head coach because I felt a proper search (due process) should have been conducted, but he's in charge now, so it's time to focus on what lies ahead. The bowl game does matter to me in one sense -- I want to see Claeys properly prepare his team. If they come out, after having nearly a month of practice to prepare for one game, and they look unprepared, well then it's officially safe to label the hiring as a mistake. If the Gophers look prepared, and Claeys handles in-game decisions in an acceptable manner, I'll feel better about next season.

http://www.postbulletin.com/sports/...cle_1b6aa90b-5f7d-53ff-9f66-bab4b61d5909.html

Go Gophers!!
 

What a dip****.
 

The gophers looked totally unprepared and slept through the majority of the bowl game vs Syracuse in 2013. A game they maybe weren't real excited about. Does that reflect on Kill? How about we let a season of football unwind before declaring failure.

This is a good example of someone looking for evidence to support their pre-determined narrative.

On game day, he is likely a combination of Sports Fan Type #9 and #10

9. THE PESSIMIST

This fan spends almost the entire game predicting that something terrible is about to happen. Long before it becomes clear that the game is going south, this fan will annoy everyone by coming up with increasingly negative scenarios that he insists are about to unfold. Eventually, his lamentations become a source of constant background noise, like a dripping faucet.

This will last until, inevitably, one of the other fans will threaten this person with physical violence if he doesn’t shut up immediately. It will probably be the “Punches the Wall” guy. Everyone else will nod silently.

10. THE FAN WHO SAYS “I KNEW IT”

Right after the game hits rock bottom and the outcome is no longer in doubt, this fan is there to tell you that he knew it was going to happen all along. This usually means he repeats the phrase “I knew it” in increasingly aggravated fashion, often to no one in particular. For some reason, this may also involve lots of agitated nodding.

By the way, this fan has no relation to The Pessimist, who at least gets credit for going negative early on. Instead, this fan’s post-disaster “I knew it” tirade will be the first and only indication he’s given all game long that he actually did know it.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-20-types-of-depressed-sports-fans/
 

Pompous Elitist said:
The gophers looked totally unprepared and slept through the majority of the bowl game vs Syracuse in 2013. A game they maybe weren't real excited about. Does that reflect on Kill? How about we let a season of football unwind before declaring failure.
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I would say it does. One of the big criticisms of Kill was his failure to win a bowl game, and losing to a Syracuse team we were favored over didn't do anything to help that. I'm not going to declare the sky is falling if we lay an egg, but this is still a B1G football team, with a B1G coaching staff, and (as discussed at length in another thread) the coaches are getting a bonus to coach this game, so I certainly hope they do their job and get the team ready to play their best football.
 

So one game defines a coach's career? Really.

If that's true, how about one stupid article defining a career. Pherson and Feldman, you're fired.
 


This is about as dumb of a take as you can get right here.
 


If Claeys goes 1-5 to start and Goetz is not hired at the AD, I think it's safe to say Claeys must go 8 wins or better to keep the job next year. (Remember 8 wins is 5-4 in the conference)

If you judge coaching on a bottom bowl game you're making a big mistake. You're asking a coaching staff to keep seniors interested after a 5-7 season. If the players aren't excited to be there, it's an up hill battle for the next two weeks.
 

BleedGopher said:
Post Bulletin columnist going all in on a single game prep:

PHERSY: Definitely. I completely disagreed with naming Claeys head coach because I felt a proper search (due process) should have been conducted, but he's in charge now, so it's time to focus on what lies ahead. The bowl game does matter to me in one sense -- I want to see Claeys properly prepare his team. If they come out, after having nearly a month of practice to prepare for one game, and they look unprepared, well then it's officially safe to label the hiring as a mistake. If the Gophers look prepared, and Claeys handles in-game decisions in an acceptable manner, I'll feel better about next season.

http://www.postbulletin.com/sports/...cle_1b6aa90b-5f7d-53ff-9f66-bab4b61d5909.html

Go Gophers!!
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Wait, so if they look bad it's "officially" a mistake...but if they look good, he'll "feel better about next season"? While I totally disagree with his premise, he should at least have the bal!s to go all-in on it. If one lower-tier bowl game matters this much, he should admit he was wrong and say the hire was the RIGHT decision if the team looks good.
 




Pompous Elitist said:
The gophers looked totally unprepared and slept through the majority of the bowl game vs Syracuse in 2013. A game they maybe weren't real excited about. Does that reflect on Kill? How about we let a season of football unwind before declaring failure.

This is a good example of someone looking for evidence to support their pre-determined narrative.

On game day, he is likely a combination of Sports Fan Type #9 and #10

9. THE PESSIMIST

This fan spends almost the entire game predicting that something terrible is about to happen. Long before it becomes clear that the game is going south, this fan will annoy everyone by coming up with increasingly negative scenarios that he insists are about to unfold. Eventually, his lamentations become a source of constant background noise, like a dripping faucet.

This will last until, inevitably, one of the other fans will threaten this person with physical violence if he doesn’t shut up immediately. It will probably be the “Punches the Wall” guy. Everyone else will nod silently.

10. THE FAN WHO SAYS “I KNEW IT”

Right after the game hits rock bottom and the outcome is no longer in doubt, this fan is there to tell you that he knew it was going to happen all along. This usually means he repeats the phrase “I knew it” in increasingly aggravated fashion, often to no one in particular. For some reason, this may also involve lots of agitated nodding.

By the way, this fan has no relation to The Pessimist, who at least gets credit for going negative early on. Instead, this fan’s post-disaster “I knew it” tirade will be the first and only indication he’s given all game long that he actually did know it.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-20-types-of-depressed-sports-fans/
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Man, I miss Grantland articles so much already!
 

Claeys will have a much easier schedule next year (no TCU, OSU, Michigan) to help him. Any coach should look better with that massive decrease in strength of schedule.
 

BleedGopher said:
Post Bulletin columnist going all in on a single game prep:

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so it's time to focus on what lies ahead. The bowl game does matter to me in one sense -- I want to see Claeys properly prepare his team. If they come out, after having nearly a month of practice to prepare for one game, and they look unprepared, well then it's officially safe to label the hiring as a mistake.
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He says he wants to focus on the future, but 2 sentences later he wants to dwell on the past.
 



BleedGopher said:
Post Bulletin columnist going all in on a single game prep:

PHERSY: Definitely. I completely disagreed with naming Claeys head coach because I felt a proper search (due process) should have been conducted, but he's in charge now, so it's time to focus on what lies ahead. The bowl game does matter to me in one sense -- I want to see Claeys properly prepare his team. If they come out, after having nearly a month of practice to prepare for one game, and they look unprepared, well then it's officially safe to label the hiring as a mistake. If the Gophers look prepared, and Claeys handles in-game decisions in an acceptable manner, I'll feel better about next season.

http://www.postbulletin.com/sports/...cle_1b6aa90b-5f7d-53ff-9f66-bab4b61d5909.html

Go Gophers!!
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What an unsupportive POS article...
 

Whatever. This guy just wants to get promoted to the Strib, and apparently has been paying attention.
 


We all know "looking prepared" (what a good measure) for one relatively meaningless games defines a career.
 

Seems to me we have been prepared for all of Claeys games so far. Wasn't the Badger game a lot more important the Central Michigan? Stupid take by Post Bulletin.
 

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