4 star recruit still thinks the M&M boys should be leading the U's two most prominent sports. He liked the status quo, the U accepting being mediocre at best. Glen Mason did many positive things here (unlike Dan Monson), making the football program respectable, but the bottom line is his time had come and gone. The programs were either growing stale (football) and/or downright sinking into the abyss (basketball).
I'm glad Joel Maturi decided to make changes in both sports. I'm anxious to see how both coaching changes will be viewed by the general public in April of 2011, after both Tubby and Brew have completed their fourth seasons. We should know by then about both hires, good, bad or indifferent. But until then, at least we know 4 star will continue to worship Glen.
Oh, selectionsunday: Do I need to remind you that Monson was here to atone for the many and horrible sins of one clem haskins? It is clem haskins who ruined a decade of Gopher Basketball with his academic fraud crimes against the University of Minnesota, the Big Ten and the NCAA. Monson helped basketball to stay alive at Minnesota and with the NCAA imposed "near death" sanctions and penalties, do you honestly think Tubby Smith would have taken the Minnesota job?
So, you brought that sordid haskin's affair up by wanting to crucify Monson for the sins of haskins. It was haskins who did the deeds that made Minnesota a nearly executed, rouge, cheating institution in the eyes of the NCAA Infractions Committee.
It was this prexy b who extended Monson and Mason and then bought out their contracts at the cost of Millions and millions of money that prexy b had to borrow from the General Fund of the University of Minnesota.
I blame Maturi and prexy b for first letting Mason's contract run down to nothing and then NOT letting him go at a cost of nothing to the University. Instead, they blew their mission by needing him to get the naming rights deal finalized with Mr. Cooper at TCF BANK and they needed his help to ramrod the passage of the stadium bill through the legislature. Pogemiller was just chomping at the bit to blow the whole deal into a million little pieces. So, prexy b and maturi extended Mason's contract. But Mason had them by the short ones, so, they were forced to sign him to a long term extension. The next year, when they bought him out, they had to borrow millions and millions of dollars from the General Fund of the U of M. Mason got the money! They then went out and tried to replace Mason on the cheap and we have what we have. There was no Tubby Smith, just looking for an easy out from the pressure at Kentucky available to take over the Football Program at the cost of over 2 million a season. In fact, there was no one that anyone had ever heard of to take over the Football Program.
So, after one 1-11 season, (0-8) in Big Ten play, one five game losing streak to end year number two, 3 defensive coordinaotors, 2 offensive coordinators and now a co-offensive coordinaotor combination deal, we are ready to launch the new stadium that played such a large role in the maturi/prexy b handling of the Mason fiasco. Headed into this season, the new coach has an overall record of 8-17, 3-13 in Big Ten play coming off 55 to 0 defeats at the hands of iowa and a 42-21 drubbing at the hands of Kansas. That's right, outscored by a total of 97 to 21 in the last two games.
But, I am a more than fair fan. All I want is a lot of Big Ten wins in 2009 for the kids playing on the team. I WANT brewster to stay in place as the coach until maturi has been replaced as the ad. Then brewster will have had many, many seasons to prove what ever it is that he will prove. I want a new AD in place to assess the situation.
And, yes, I do think Gopher Fans have deserved brewster-ball. The biggest argument I have had with brewster was that he picked entirely the wrong offensive coordinator in dunbar and he stuck with dunbar for two full seasons before spending lots of money to buy out the contract of the high priced dunbar. I did NOT appreciate dunbar's offense. I believe that dunbar's offense basically insured that the 2007 seson would be a total throw away season.
brewster must develope an offensive line, run the ball and stop the run. IF he does that, he may achieve the kind of success that Mason achieved. He might be able to knock a pretty good to very good program off once in a while. He SHOULD be able to get the Gophers to a bowl game seventy five to eighty percent of the time.
Will he ever do better than Mason? ONLY if he wins six or more Big Ten games in a single season. Big Ten wins are the ultimate report card on this brewster. The number of Big Ten wins vs. the number of Big Ten losses will tell us if brewster is a good recruiter or just an average recruiter recruiting to a Big Ten University that has a history of below average results for a very long period of time. You can not "spin" it any other way. Big Ten wins vs. Big Ten losses tells us the ultimate truth about what kind of recruiter and what kind of coach brewster is.
May brewster stay here ten season! We all deserve brewster...win or lose. I hope he wins a heck of a lot of Big Ten games, because the kids on the team deserve a LOT of Big Ten wins and we fans even deserve a LOT of Big Ten wins. I hope he stays here at least one year longer than prexy b and maturi, in fact. The University of Minnesota is in NO position to even consider replacing brewster as long as the current administration is in place. So, if they are here three more years, I hope brewster is here at least four more years. It's fine. We are the University of Minnesota Golden Gopher Football Fan Base. We deserve brewsterball! So, I sure hope he wins at least six Big Ten Football Games in 2009! I want better than what he has shown us in 2007 and 2008, that's for sure. But, dumping dunbar was a very good thing!
So, selectionsunday: there you have it. That is exactly what I think. Now you won't have to speculate! IF you want to know what I think, just ask me. I won't be shy about letting you know. But, please don't try to speculate about what you want to tell others that you think I think. You don't do a very good job of that selectionsunday. The odds of you getting it right aren't very good... ; 0 )
