Reusse names U Men's Athletics its Turkey of the Year

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MaxyJR1 said:
He mocks the school and conference for putting the players in the situation and has for some time.


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You mean the players are forced to go and play there? What's his solution? Just quit?
 

XMan said:
Reusse is just too negative and sometimes slaps down things that may sound like he is telling it like it is but I read t as lazy negative stuff. Easiest thing to do is be a critic when you just record stats and spout them off. How about actually paying attention and talking about player development, recruiting, upcoming expectations with new training facility?
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Negative? In the same column he lauds the accomplishments of Women’s Athletics. Reusse used to say that women's sports were unwatchable. Either he has changed his opinion on women's sports or the men's sports really are worse than he indicates.

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XMan said:
Reusse is just too negative and sometimes slaps down things that may sound like he is telling it like it is but I read t as lazy negative stuff. Easiest thing to do is be a critic when you just record stats and spout them off. How about actually paying attention and talking about player development, recruiting, upcoming expectations with new training facility?
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How about journalism is more that propagating marketing drivel?

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westcoastgopher11 said:
reusse isnt a journalist
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By modern internet news dissemination standards, he is a journalist. Anyone who has worked in print news answering to an editor and covering a newsbeat prior to being a columnist is definitely a journslist.

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Yes, Reusse takes shots at the Gophers. He does it to try and get a rise out of people. When you get mad, Reusse wins. If you read his stuff, you know that he tries to agitate people.

You have a right to disagree with Reusse. But, just because you disagree does not make him a bad writer. If you are familiar with Reusse, he has two types of columns. His feature columns about town team baseball, D3 sports and HS sports are typically well-written and entertaining. He has also become a big booster of Gopher Women's volleyball. That is the "good" Reusse.

Then, there is his other half - the guy who likes to poke you in the eye with a stick. That is the guy who goes after team owners and team management when he perceives them to be less than honest. That is also the version of Reusse that shoots zingers at Gopher Sports, and sits back and chuckles when the Gopher "rubes" get bent out of shape.

For what it's worth: My brother-in-law is a huge Badgers fan. He reads Gopher Hole once in a while, and he always asks me why people get so bent out of shape on this board. Just saying......
 

short ornery norwegian said:
Yes, Reusse takes shots at the Gophers. He does it to try and get a rise out of people. When you get mad, Reusse wins. If you read his stuff, you know that he tries to agitate people.

You have a right to disagree with Reusse. But, just because you disagree does not make him a bad writer. If you are familiar with Reusse, he has two types of columns. His feature columns about town team baseball, D3 sports and HS sports are typically well-written and entertaining. He has also become a big booster of Gopher Women's volleyball. That is the "good" Reusse.

Then, there is his other half - the guy who likes to poke you in the eye with a stick. That is the guy who goes after team owners and team management when he perceives them to be less than honest. That is also the version of Reusse that shoots zingers at Gopher Sports, and sits back and chuckles when the Gopher "rubes" get bent out of shape.

For what it's worth: My brother-in-law is a huge Badgers fan. He reads Gopher Hole once in a while, and he always asks me why people get so bent out of shape on this board. Just saying......
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Agree 100% SON. Can't understand why people get worked up over a sports columnist and article. Also, you can argue there are better TOY choices, but there is no debating the Gopher Men's Athletic Dept. was a Sh!t show in 2016. A historically bad BB team, the wrestling debacle, Mega-Tongue, multiple Sex-gates, to name a few of the embarrassments.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
Yes, Reusse takes shots at the Gophers. He does it to try and get a rise out of people. When you get mad, Reusse wins. If you read his stuff, you know that he tries to agitate people.

You have a right to disagree with Reusse. But, just because you disagree does not make him a bad writer. If you are familiar with Reusse, he has two types of columns. His feature columns about town team baseball, D3 sports and HS sports are typically well-written and entertaining. He has also become a big booster of Gopher Women's volleyball. That is the "good" Reusse.

Then, there is his other half - the guy who likes to poke you in the eye with a stick. That is the guy who goes after team owners and team management when he perceives them to be less than honest. That is also the version of Reusse that shoots zingers at Gopher Sports, and sits back and chuckles when the Gopher "rubes" get bent out of shape.

For what it's worth: My brother-in-law is a huge Badgers fan. He reads Gopher Hole once in a while, and he always asks me why people get so bent out of shape on this board. Just saying......
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I'm guessing this place would be a bit different if we were having the same success the Badgers have had. It's easy for him to say that when his teams win a lot.
 

Iceland12 said:
As per your request:

Norwood Teague and Eric Kaler

• Norwood Teague, resigned athletic director, and Eric Kaler, University of Minnesota president.
The Chairman: “You’re right, faithful committee. It’s an impressive combined Turkey contender — a serial sexual harasser and a boss who didn’t want to know the truth about the AD he hired.

“Then again, Norwood did buy $20 worth of Girl Scout cookies from me to assist a relative new to the cookie business, so I’m going to pass on making him the Turkey.’’

With that, the committee washed its hands of the process and left it to the Chairman to reveal his choice for Grand Gobbler.

Here it is: Death.

The Grim Reaper. The Dark Angel. Death.

For Turkey of the Year?

You betcha. Death has given us a horrible year in sports. Death can kiss my … grits, I guess.

Flip Saunders. You have to be kidding — Flip, at 60, he’s on the phone to The Chairman in mid-August, saying we’ll talk at length after the last chemo treatment in a few days, and then you hear he’s in crisis, and then he’s gone.

Flip was a co-winner of Turkey of the Year (with Kevin McHale) in 2002, and took it in the good humor that was intended.

There’s no humor intended this time. Not with Death, which was at its awful worst in sports over the past year.

Freddie McNeill, the outstanding Vikings linebacker, gone at 63, due to ALS and dementia. Very classy, Death — giving Freddie, a good and intelligent man, a double dose.

Verne Gagne and Nick Bockwinkel … of that age, but was the Alzheimer’s necessary?

J.P. Parise in January, only a couple of months after his pal Muzz Oliver — two of hockey’s best guys, bang, bang.

Ernie Banks doesn’t even get to stick around to see the big summer from his Cubs? And how about that 19-year-old basketball player, Lauren Hill, the warrior against brain cancer who played a moment for Mount St. Joseph last season, and then passed away in April?

This is no attempt at a complete list. This is just a partial indictment against Death.

Flip, for goodness sakes.

Take this Turkey award, and try to get lost for a while, Death.


And previous winners:


PREVIOUS TURKEYS OF THE YEAR

In the Star Tribune (28)

2015: The Grim Reaper

2014: 25 Years of the Timberwolves

2013: Terry Ryan, Twins

2012: Tubby Smith, Gophers

2011: Zygi Wilf, Vikings

2010: Brett Favre, Vikings

2009: Tim Brewster, Gophers

2008: Marian Gaborik, Wild

2007: Charlie Weis, Notre Dame

2006: Pam Borton, Gophers

2005: Bob Naegele, Wild

2004: Red McCombs, Vikings

2003: Glen Mason, Gophers

2002: Kevin McHale/ Flip Saunders, Wolves

2001: Randy Moss/ Cris Carter, Vikings

2000: Jesse Ventura, Minn. governor

1999: Clem Haskins, Gophers

1998: Carl Pohlad, Twins

1997: Dennis Green, Vikings

1996: Kerri Strug, Olympian

1995: Warren Moon, Vikings

1994: Jack McCloskey, Wolves

1993: Norm Green, N. Stars

1992: 25 Years of Gophers football

1991: Chris Doleman, Vikings

1990: Kent Hrbek, Twins

1989: Mike Lynn, Vikings

1988: Lou Nanne, North Stars


In the Pioneer Press (10)

1987: Carl Pohlad, Twins

1986: Dr. Kenneth Keller, University of Minnesota president

1985: Lou Holtz, Gophers

1984: Les Steckel, Vikings

1983: Paul Giel, Gophers

1982: Billy Martin, A’s/Yankees

1981: George Steinbrenner, Yankees

1980: Bobby Knight, Indiana Hoosiers

1979: Pete Rozelle (NFL)/Bowie Kuhn (MLB), commissioners

1978: Woody Hayes, Ohio St.
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So totals are:
Gophers: 10
Vikings: 9
Other: 9
North Stars/Wild: 4
Twins: 4
Timberwolves: 3
 




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