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Thanks for having my back Buddylee853! I got yours!
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You can do that for any RSS feed. My workday has gotten a whole lot better since I figured this RSS thing out. If you are a Twins fan, you can get Joe C's, LaVelle's, and Howards blogs all delivered to your inbox. So anytime the twins don't trade anyone, you will be the first to know.
Thanks for having my back Buddylee853! I got yours!
thanks but I forgot to add we use Lotus Notes for work. I've been trying to figure out how to do it with Notes but I can't. Is an RSS feed a strictly Microsoft thing?
I hope this is a joke.
caliGopher and Rotundo reflect one of the major problems we have in society....we want what we want and we want it NOW! No one has the patience to build anything any more. Have you guys ever heard of the saying "Rome wasn't built in a day."? Well neither will the Gopher's return to national prominence. It starts with recruiting. So far I think we can say Brewster is on his way to bringing in higher caliber players than the previous regime and ones we can say are better than we might expect given the last 40 years of Gopher football history. Some times you have to tear it down to rebuild it better than what you previously had. I am fine with saying the jury is still on Brewster long term. But give it a rest! How can you judge him and say he cannot deliver the whole package when he has had 2 years on the job. That is a joke! But then again, these guys probably know more than the rest of us schmucks that are okay with giving Coach Brew some time before we indicted, sentence and convict him! That is why people like them lose me at HELLO.
I have to agree with Caligopher. The big talk does nothing for me. It does annoy me and makes me question the intelligence of our head coach. A lot of you seem to like hearing about hot chilli, never ending tremendousness, and rosebowl trips followed by 1-11 seasons. I don't.
This year I expect the best gopher team since 2003. I am concerned that we will be outmatched on the sidelines but I hope I am wrong. Exactly what good did all that rosebowl talk do? Talking is easy, meaningless and has proven quite hollow to this point. This year the wins/losses will matter far more than all the upbeat talk.
I'd prefer a guy that doesn't just dream big, he delivers:
On signing day.
When the players show up.
In Stemming attrition of his own recruits for whatever reason (academics, playing time, etc). When hiring a staff.
In game preparation.
On the sidelines on game day.
So far, Brewster is 1.5 for 6. Minnesota needs someone who can deliver 6 of 6.
That's a pretty big accusation, and jumping to conclusions on my thoughts and approach are exactly why people like you never get to Hello with me.
On one thing we can agree, the jury is still out on Brewster. I will be the first to apologize if and when he shows he can coach.
Rome, it is true was not built in a day, but it also was not built 40-50% of the way by the good people of Rome (guys like Matt Spaeth, Ben Hamilton, Tyrone Carter, MBIII, Ben Utecht, Eslinger, Setterstrom, Lloyd, Ellerson, etc) only for someone without any experience building a city coming in and raising the city and then trying to build it back up without a plan that would work and without an idea of what he was doing. You're o.k. with that, I'm not.
Two years later, we're restarting the rebuilding process again from a system and philosophy perspective. Oddly, the system is getting closer to what was "not going to work" and gone is the talk that the only way we'll be successful is if we run the spread offense. At least there are better players on the defensive side of the ball at this point for sure which hopefully will prevent another disasterous season like 2007.
As for your rush to judgment that I my expectations were unrealistic. You're right, I want one of the best O lines in the country again. I would settle for signs of improvement over the course of the 2008 season so I could hang my hat on the fact that we have young players developing, and forming the foundation of an O-line that can live up to the standard of the past several years.
I'm disappointed in Brewster because the staff he put together apparently can only coach 4 and 5 star Seniors to do well. It certainly helps the situation to have that kind of experience, but with a good coach, you see the fundamentals, the discipline and the evolution of players into what they can become. With Brewster, we just have to be patient until we have all his players in place. The only problem with that is that we are now five years away again, since we are no longer a spread coast offense and I can only assume we were recruiting the right players for our previous system. Will it work? In 2007 I was assured there would be no problems with the O-line. That ended up not being the case, and last year speaks for itself.
Brewster has done a much better job of recruiting than any of the coaches in the past. I was adamant that he needed to deliver on that from day one much to the chagrin of a number of people on this board, yet he delivered in a few weeks. The only complaint from his first few weeks was the inability to hold onto Greg Jones. Last years class was great on paper, and now nearly all of the players are on the team. He slipped in recruiting this past year, but no one seems to be concerned about that. I was expecting a top 25 team on signing day and he fell short on signing day and when the team reports.
What I haven't seen is competent game day coaching. Even with sub-standard players that can be evident as the philosophy translates into the play of the team on the field -- although the execution may be lacking due to the caliber of the players. They should be in position to make the play even if they aren't able to. That certainly didn't happen in 2007 and I applaud Roof for finding ways to mask the holes through on D via good coaching. I wish he was still here. But the retread job of Cosgrove will be just fine regardless of how poorly he performed the last time he was employed, I am assured by folks on this board.
What I haven't seen is discipline. We've had way to many stupid penalties. In 2007, we had way to many people lining up incorrectly, particularly on D, nearly every play.
What I haven't seen is player development. If anything, our execution, particularly on offense was in steady decline for the past two years.
What I haven't seen is keeping players on the roster. The players Brewster recruits. Way too many of them have disappeared. Of course the easy brush off is "they weren't good enough" but if we haven't had the players on the roster to even fill the position, can we really afford to watch depth walk off the team each year to be replaced by true freshman that "need time to develop" thus self fulfilling the need to "give Brewster a chance"?
Brewster will get his time regardless of what I think. Again, if he ends up delivering, fantastic. I'll apologize to everyone here over and over again. I will take my crow with a side of BBQ sauce. If it doesn't go that way, at least the next coach we have will have a better ranked recruiting class worth of players on the roster, so we can count the Brewster hire as sheer genius, assuming we hire someone who can coach next time around.
I will not ask all of the people who have closed their eyes to what is going on in the program to apologize to me. I'll hope we make a better hire and go into the future with a real chance to rebuild the program. I will hope that some learn when you gamble on a hire, like we did with Brewster, the leash is a bit shorter. A bit tighter unless and until he proves himself.
But I'm just an idiot who wants everything now. If there is any glaring problem with society right now its the over willingness to ignore problems when "change" is happening. Change for changes sake doesn't do much for us, particularly when the change was going to happen anyway, what we really needed was a competent choice to deliver change.
As long as Brewster is the coach, I will continue to plunk down dollars in support of my beloved Gophers and hope that all of the evidence is wrong, or that if it isn't, we make a better hire from day one next time around. I was a Gopher long before Brewster showed up, and will be one long after he's gone.
Rome, it is true was not built in a day, but it also was not built 40-50% of the way by the good people of Rome (guys like Matt Spaeth, Ben Hamilton, Tyrone Carter, MBIII, Ben Utecht, Eslinger, Setterstrom, Lloyd, Ellerson, etc) only for someone without any experience building a city coming in and raising the city and then trying to build it back up without a plan that would work and without an idea of what he was doing. You're o.k. with that, I'm not.
Two years later, we're restarting the rebuilding process again from a system and philosophy perspective. Oddly, the system is getting closer to what was "not going to work" and gone is the talk that the only way we'll be successful is if we run the spread offense. At least there are better players on the defensive side of the ball at this point for sure which hopefully will prevent another disasterous season like 2007.
I'm disappointed in Brewster because the staff he put together apparently can only coach 4 and 5 star Seniors to do well. It certainly helps the situation to have that kind of experience, but with a good coach, you see the fundamentals, the discipline and the evolution of players into what they can become. With Brewster, we just have to be patient until we have all his players in place. The only problem with that is that we are now five years away again, since we are no longer a spread coast offense and I can only assume we were recruiting the right players for our previous system. Will it work? In 2007 I was assured there would be no problems with the O-line. That ended up not being the case, and last year speaks for itself.
Brewster has done a much better job of recruiting than any of the coaches in the past. I was adamant that he needed to deliver on that from day one much to the chagrin of a number of people on this board, yet he delivered in a few weeks. The only complaint from his first few weeks was the inability to hold onto Greg Jones. Last years class was great on paper, and now nearly all of the players are on the team. He slipped in recruiting this past year, but no one seems to be concerned about that. I was expecting a top 25 team on signing day and he fell short on signing day and when the team reports.
What I haven't seen is discipline. We've had way to many stupid penalties. In 2007, we had way to many people lining up incorrectly, particularly on D, nearly every play.
What I haven't seen is player development. If anything, our execution, particularly on offense was in steady decline for the past two years.
What I haven't seen is keeping players on the roster. The players Brewster recruits. Way too many of them have disappeared. Of course the easy brush off is "they weren't good enough" but if we haven't had the players on the roster to even fill the position, can we really afford to watch depth walk off the team each year to be replaced by true freshman that "need time to develop" thus self fulfilling the need to "give Brewster a chance"?
If it doesn't go that way, at least the next coach we have will have a better ranked recruiting class worth of players on the roster, so we can count the Brewster hire as sheer genius, assuming we hire someone who can coach next time around.
I've seen a much different team than you, apparently. I've seen pretty good gameday coaching and preperation. Last year this team was in position to beat NW and Wisky and lost due to bad breaks and youth. Say what you want but the truth is way too many of our 1st and 2nd string players last year were in their first year of D1 ball and that's a recipe for disaster. We came out flat against Iowa and Michigan but that was mainly due to a complete failure in our OL and a lack of competent WRs on the outside. Tell me how many of our offensive skill position guys would've seen any PT for any of the top 5 teams in the B10 last year. The only real answer is Weber and Decker. The rest were guys who should've been on the bench or taking a red shirt. I guess you wanted Brewster to have those guys making big plays all year long. Guess what though? They played admirably. OUr frosh fumbled away a Wisconsin win and we got a Gopher bounce against NW. A 9 win season would look a lot better than a 7 win one. Brewsters young squad played Pat Fitzgerald to a draw and same with Bielema. He handled Zook and Tiller and showed well against Tressel.
That's a pretty big accusation, and jumping to conclusions on my thoughts and approach are exactly why people like you never get to Hello with me.
On one thing we can agree, the jury is still out on Brewster. I will be the first to apologize if and when he shows he can coach.
Rome, it is true was not built in a day, but it also was not built 40-50% of the way by the good people of Rome (guys like Matt Spaeth, Ben Hamilton, Tyrone Carter, MBIII, Ben Utecht, Eslinger, Setterstrom, Lloyd, Ellerson, etc) only for someone without any experience building a city coming in and raising the city and then trying to build it back up without a plan that would work and without an idea of what he was doing. You're o.k. with that, I'm not.
Two years later, we're restarting the rebuilding process again from a system and philosophy perspective. Oddly, the system is getting closer to what was "not going to work" and gone is the talk that the only way we'll be successful is if we run the spread offense. At least there are better players on the defensive side of the ball at this point for sure which hopefully will prevent another disasterous season like 2007.
As for your rush to judgment that I my expectations were unrealistic. You're right, I want one of the best O lines in the country again. I would settle for signs of improvement over the course of the 2008 season so I could hang my hat on the fact that we have young players developing, and forming the foundation of an O-line that can live up to the standard of the past several years.
I'm disappointed in Brewster because the staff he put together apparently can only coach 4 and 5 star Seniors to do well. It certainly helps the situation to have that kind of experience, but with a good coach, you see the fundamentals, the discipline and the evolution of players into what they can become. With Brewster, we just have to be patient until we have all his players in place. The only problem with that is that we are now five years away again, since we are no longer a spread coast offense and I can only assume we were recruiting the right players for our previous system. Will it work? In 2007 I was assured there would be no problems with the O-line. That ended up not being the case, and last year speaks for itself.
Brewster has done a much better job of recruiting than any of the coaches in the past. I was adamant that he needed to deliver on that from day one much to the chagrin of a number of people on this board, yet he delivered in a few weeks. The only complaint from his first few weeks was the inability to hold onto Greg Jones. Last years class was great on paper, and now nearly all of the players are on the team. He slipped in recruiting this past year, but no one seems to be concerned about that. I was expecting a top 25 team on signing day and he fell short on signing day and when the team reports.
What I haven't seen is competent game day coaching. Even with sub-standard players that can be evident as the philosophy translates into the play of the team on the field -- although the execution may be lacking due to the caliber of the players. They should be in position to make the play even if they aren't able to. That certainly didn't happen in 2007 and I applaud Roof for finding ways to mask the holes through on D via good coaching. I wish he was still here. But the retread job of Cosgrove will be just fine regardless of how poorly he performed the last time he was employed, I am assured by folks on this board.
What I haven't seen is discipline. We've had way to many stupid penalties. In 2007, we had way to many people lining up incorrectly, particularly on D, nearly every play.
What I haven't seen is player development. If anything, our execution, particularly on offense was in steady decline for the past two years.
What I haven't seen is keeping players on the roster. The players Brewster recruits. Way too many of them have disappeared. Of course the easy brush off is "they weren't good enough" but if we haven't had the players on the roster to even fill the position, can we really afford to watch depth walk off the team each year to be replaced by true freshman that "need time to develop" thus self fulfilling the need to "give Brewster a chance"?
Brewster will get his time regardless of what I think. Again, if he ends up delivering, fantastic. I'll apologize to everyone here over and over again. I will take my crow with a side of BBQ sauce. If it doesn't go that way, at least the next coach we have will have a better ranked recruiting class worth of players on the roster, so we can count the Brewster hire as sheer genius, assuming we hire someone who can coach next time around.
I will not ask all of the people who have closed their eyes to what is going on in the program to apologize to me. I'll hope we make a better hire and go into the future with a real chance to rebuild the program. I will hope that some learn when you gamble on a hire, like we did with Brewster, the leash is a bit shorter. A bit tighter unless and until he proves himself.
But I'm just an idiot who wants everything now. If there is any glaring problem with society right now its the over willingness to ignore problems when "change" is happening. Change for changes sake doesn't do much for us, particularly when the change was going to happen anyway, what we really needed was a competent choice to deliver change.
As long as Brewster is the coach, I will continue to plunk down dollars in support of my beloved Gophers and hope that all of the evidence is wrong, or that if it isn't, we make a better hire from day one next time around. I was a Gopher long before Brewster showed up, and will be one long after he's gone.
And I thought we lost to NW, not a draw. The team was completely unprepared for the Iowa game and put up a terrible showing against a average Kansas team after having a month to gameplan for that game, that falls on the coaches and ultimately on the head coach who has the final say.
And we should agree with your assessment that Kansas was an average team that we should beat because.....??? How did we do at Illinois this past year?? Yeah....want to ignore that one huh? Can't have your cake and eat it too....d-bag!!
Rome, it is true was not built in a day, but it also was not built 40-50% of the way by the good people of Rome (guys like Matt Spaeth, Ben Hamilton, Tyrone Carter, MBIII, Ben Utecht, Eslinger, Setterstrom, Lloyd, Ellerson, etc) only for someone without any experience building a city coming in and raising the city and then trying to build it back up without a plan that would work and without an idea of what he was doing. You're o.k. with that, I'm not. HEY let us not forget Nero, or any number of crazy Caesars
Two years later, we're restarting the rebuilding process again from a system and philosophy perspective. Oddly, the system is getting closer to what was "not going to work" and gone is the talk that the only way we'll be successful is if we run the spread offense. At least there are better players on the defensive side of the ball at this point for sure which hopefully will prevent another disasterous season like 2007.
Then you must realize that the U of M has been in thte TWILIGHT ZONE since 1960...almost 50 years
And if you figure that out, you may realize that 50 years of ineptness is not solved/resolved overnight
Brewster didn't say we were going to the Rose Bowl in 2007.
He can't really tell the existing players that the cupboard is bare, but in reality, it was pretty bare. And it got a lot more bare in April of 2007 when a few defensive starters were kicked off the team.
Lets drop this now because it isn't going anywhere. You're still pissed about 2007 and other people are able to get over it and look at where we were more realistically and choose to look at the future more optimistically.
We did have players and playmakers on Offense. Only "hole" on the offensive side of the team was depth at reciever, although since Dunbar apparently didn't realize that Jack Simmons was something of a good player so seemed to mostly ignore him for two years (as bad, if not worse than what Elliot Uzelak did to Corey Sauter in Mason's first year).
It's easy to forget we had those players, I know because the D was so bad, but the players (and we did have them) on offense didn't get much help from the coaching staff in year one and relying on a red shirt QB with the need for the O to outscore everyone because we the D coaching staff gave up on August 1 was a recipe for disaster.