Sid Hartman: Jerry Kill has job on Michigan staff if he wants it

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per Sid:

Former Gophers football coach Jerry Kill was looking for a position making him a liaison between the president and the athletic director when he interviewed with University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler and interim athletic director Beth Goetz.

But he wasn’t offered that job, one that is so needed for a school that hasn’t won a football championship since it tied for a Big Ten title with Indiana and Purdue in 1967, hasn’t won a conference basketball title since 1982 and has recently seen the wrestling and men’s hockey programs go downhill.

And believe me, I am pretty well-informed about how the athletic department needed a guy such as Kill, who without a doubt was the most popular coach hired by the school in years, one who made more contacts with boosters and people who would help the program match the fundraising success of schools such as Wisconsin or Iowa. Kill would have been able to enlist the help of many top Fortune 500 CEOs in Minnesota and others who were interested in contributing financially to athletics.

Some donors who would have contributed won’t do so now that Kill is not a member of the department. A good example of the attitude of donors is T. Denny Sanford, who helped Kill in many respects, including contributing for a new locker room in the Bierman Building, but wouldn’t give to the facilities project.

http://www.startribune.com/gophers-botched-a-chance-to-utilize-jerry-kill-s-skills/370877491/

Go Gophers!!
 

and per Sid:

This week Kill spent time with his close friend, TCU coach Gary Patterson, and could wind up on his staff. Kill has always been close to Jack Harbaugh, father of Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh, and rumors around the Big Ten are that a job on the Wolverines staff is his if he wants it.

Go Gophers!!
 

BleedGopher said:
per Sid:

Former Gophers football coach Jerry Kill was looking for a position making him a liaison between the president and the athletic director when he interviewed with University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler and interim athletic director Beth Goetz.

But he wasn’t offered that job, one that is so needed for a school that hasn’t won a football championship since it tied for a Big Ten title with Indiana and Purdue in 1967, hasn’t won a conference basketball title since 1982 and has recently seen the wrestling and men’s hockey programs go downhill.

And believe me, I am pretty well-informed about how the athletic department needed a guy such as Kill, who without a doubt was the most popular coach hired by the school in years, one who made more contacts with boosters and people who would help the program match the fundraising success of schools such as Wisconsin or Iowa. Kill would have been able to enlist the help of many top Fortune 500 CEOs in Minnesota and others who were interested in contributing financially to athletics.

Some donors who would have contributed won’t do so now that Kill is not a member of the department. A good example of the attitude of donors is T. Denny Sanford, who helped Kill in many respects, including contributing for a new locker room in the Bierman Building, but wouldn’t give to the facilities project.

http://www.startribune.com/gophers-botched-a-chance-to-utilize-jerry-kill-s-skills/370877491/

Go Gophers!!
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:rolleyes:

Sid has been telling us about those "phantom donors" for months now. Much like Sid himself, none of them have been planning on writing a check for even longer than that.
 

BleedGopher said:
per Sid:

Former Gophers football coach Jerry Kill was looking for a position making him a liaison between the president and the athletic director when he interviewed with University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler and interim athletic director Beth Goetz.

But he wasn’t offered that job, one that is so needed for a school that hasn’t won a football championship since it tied for a Big Ten title with Indiana and Purdue in 1967, hasn’t won a conference basketball title since 1982 and has recently seen the wrestling and men’s hockey programs go downhill.

And believe me, I am pretty well-informed about how the athletic department needed a guy such as Kill, who without a doubt was the most popular coach hired by the school in years, one who made more contacts with boosters and people who would help the program match the fundraising success of schools such as Wisconsin or Iowa. Kill would have been able to enlist the help of many top Fortune 500 CEOs in Minnesota and others who were interested in contributing financially to athletics.

Some donors who would have contributed won’t do so now that Kill is not a member of the department. A good example of the attitude of donors is T. Denny Sanford, who helped Kill in many respects, including contributing for a new locker room in the Bierman Building, but wouldn’t give to the facilities project.

http://www.startribune.com/gophers-botched-a-chance-to-utilize-jerry-kill-s-skills/370877491/

Go Gophers!!
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What the department needs is a permanent athletic director not some ex-coach serving as some go-between, between the President and the AD. Not sure how exactly Sid thinks adding someone like Kill in this role would have magically solved all the issues in the athletic department.

I really hope Kill takes a job somewhere soon so that the media bobos can write one more column blasting the U for not giving Jerry everything he wanted and then Kill can disappear into the background for some other program and we won't have to hear about it anymore.

Kill did a solid job here but the way some people talk about him you would think the guy won multiple National Championships and found the solution for peace in the Middle East. It has been discussed in other threads, but the general consensus seems to be that the best thing for Claeys is Kill being out of the picture so that he can be free to make the program his own without Jerry's shadow looming over every decision.
 

Hey, if it doesn't work out at Michigan or TCU, Sid is lining a job up for Jerry in the NFL!

The Vikings’ Rick Spielman doesn’t need any suggestions from me, because he might be the most successful general manager in the NFL. :D But I’d bet Kill could be a great asset to the Vikings in calling college coaches who don’t allow NFL scouts into practices and convincing them to allow them in. And since he is one of the most popular coaches in the business, I would venture he would never get turned down. He also could gather scouting reports on college players headed for the NFL draft from all his close friends in coaching.
 



Iceland12 said:
Hey, if it doesn't work out at Michigan or TCU, Sid is lining a job up for Jerry in the NFL!

The Vikings’ Rick Spielman doesn’t need any suggestions from me, because he might be the most successful general manager in the NFL. :D But I’d bet Kill could be a great asset to the Vikings in calling college coaches who don’t allow NFL scouts into practices and convincing them to allow them in. And since he is one of the most popular coaches in the business, I would venture he would never get turned down. He also could gather scouting reports on college players headed for the NFL draft from all his close friends in coaching.
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Is Sid his manager now? I am sure Kill could just get teams to completely change their college scout policies just by using his ole country charm. Not to mention that, why bother paying your own scouting department when Jerry can just do it all for you. Think of all the money the Vikes could save by ditching their scouts and just hiring Kill to do it all. Sid has tossed some pretty crazy stuff out there but this one is right up there with the craziest. Is there still room in Dan Cole's preposterous statement contest, because if there is the quoted section above would seem like a really high seed that would be tough to beat.
 

Iceland12 said:
:rolleyes:

Sid has been telling us about those "phantom donors" for months now. Much like Sid himself, none of them have been planning on writing a check for even longer than that.
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In defense of Sid he did break the story a couple years back that the U would break ground on the new training facilities any day now and it eventually proved to be true.
 

A liaison between the AD and the President? What a crock that job would be.
 



Spoofin said:
A liaison between the AD and the President? What a crock that job would be.
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I don't even know what that kind of job would entail. So instead of the AD and President just emailing or calling each other directly, he can carry notes back and forth to them? Maybe he can pass the information back forth like a singing telegram.
 

Believe it or not, but Reusse actually wrote a really good article on this today.

http://www.startribune.com/thanks-t...ition-of-job-that-kill-wanted-at-u/370929201/

What I appreciate most with Sid’s column is that he finally laid out in a half-sentence what Kill was looking for as a job: He wanted a position making him a liaison between the president and the athletic director.

And with respect to ex-coach Kill, a guy I enjoyed in conversation, I have to say this:

If Kaler hires an athletic director who would require having a liaison to him, then once again the university president will have hired the wrong athletic director.
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The last sentence might be the best statement he's ever made. What would a liason do? Would it be like Tom Smykowski in Office Space? Take the specs from the customer and send them to the engineers?
 

Reasons why Jerry Kill was so popular -
1. he wasn't Tim Brewster
2. he wasn't Tim Brewster
3. he wasn't Tim Brewster
4. seriously - kill did return a sense of competency to Gopher FB, and he had an unvarnished, regular-guy persona that was well-received by Gopher fans after Brewster's BS and hot air.

But, while the on-field results were an improvement over Brewster, it wasn't like he rattled off a string of 10-win seasons and had the Gophers in contention for the conference title.

In the end, I think Kill's legacy will be in repairing the damage caused by Brewster - and the medical issues he had to deal with.

But the notion that he could somehow dictate to the U President and create some new job for himself is downright laughable. To me, it sounds like Kill started to believe he was bigger than the program. I think it may be time for him to move on down the road.
 

How exactly is a go between the pres and ad still working with the kids. Doesnt add up to me.
 




Lakeville Goldy said:
Believe it or not, but Reusse actually wrote a really good article on this today.

http://www.startribune.com/thanks-t...ition-of-job-that-kill-wanted-at-u/370929201/



The last sentence might be the best statement he's ever made. What would a liason do? Would it be like Tom Smykowski in Office Space? Take the specs from the customer and send them to the engineers?
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"If Kaler hires an athletic director who would require having a liaison to him, then once again the university president will have hired the wrong athletic director."
 

short ornery norwegian said:
Reasons why Jerry Kill was so popular -
1. he wasn't Tim Brewster
2. he wasn't Tim Brewster
3. he wasn't Tim Brewster
4. seriously - kill did return a sense of competency to Gopher FB, and he had an unvarnished, regular-guy persona that was well-received by Gopher fans after Brewster's BS and hot air.

But, while the on-field results were an improvement over Brewster, it wasn't like he rattled off a string of 10-win seasons and had the Gophers in contention for the conference title.
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I am not 100% sure so don't jump all over me if I am right or wrong, but I thought Kill's last full year when they were playing at Wisconsin with a chance to go to the Big Ten title game? Or was it a situation where, if we win, and X team loses, and Y team beats this team we go?

In my opinion Kill was every bit of the coach that Mason was. Best coach in the country? No, but definitely better than most of them. Kill was the absolute 100% perfect coach after Tim Brewster.
 

What's funny is how both Sid and Kill believe the President needs to get a better perspective form the athletics side. I would argue that athletics, at any major university, gets pretty much what it wants. The athletics people might be better served by a liaison who can explain how athletics fits into the whole university rather than the other way around.
 

MNfootballfan said:
I am not 100% sure so don't jump all over me if I am right or wrong, but I thought Kill's last full year when they were playing at Wisconsin with a chance to go to the Big Ten title game?
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You are correct. If we beat Wisconsin in Madison in 2014 (had a 17-3 lead in the first half:mad:) we would've won the right to get annihilated by Ohio St. in Indianapolis.
 

Sid: Jerry Kill is has been offered the Vice Presidency by both political parties.
 


"Nobody in the media was as close to Kill as I was. He was like a brother to me in our relationship."

Classic gem from Sid when a coach leaves town.
 

Gophfan22 said:
"Nobody in the media was as close to Kill as I was. He was like a son to me in our relationship."

Classic gem from Sid when a coach leaves town.
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FIFY.
 


dpodoll68 said:
You are correct. If we beat Wisconsin in Madison in 2014 (had a 17-3 lead in the first half:mad:) we would've won the right to get annihilated by Ohio St. in Indianapolis.
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Who would have ever thought losing to Wisconsin and a chance to win a share of the Big Ten would actually have been a good thing. The Ohio State game would have been right up there next to the '03 Michigan game, dropped punt vs. Wisconsin, Texas Tech, etc. I am not sure any team would have beat Ohio State that night... I never had soo much fun watching a 59-0 game as I did seeing Wisconsin get beat to death.
 

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Ol' Possum's up to somethin again. these stories come out in drips and drabs.
 



I have read Sid for over 50 years, but he should have retired at least 20 years ago. Is there some way we can make it happen? At least from radio and television? His mumbling of words when he speaks, his poor hearing that doesn't allow him to follow a conversation or train of thought....on the "highly rated Sports Show" on Sunday nights, he appears to be in need of a bib for drooling; he only argues and complains about not having enough time for his fabulous insights (that any 95 year old in a nursing home could give), and when he does get the opportunity, it takes him half the show to give.
 

Hotrod56425 said:
I have read Sid for over 50 years, but he should have retired at least 20 years ago. Is there some way we can make it happen? At least from radio and television? His mumbling of words when he speaks, his poor hearing that doesn't allow him to follow a conversation or train of thought....on the "highly rated Sports Show" on Sunday nights, he appears to be in need of a bib for drooling; he only argues and complains about not having enough time for his fabulous insights (that any 95 year old in a nursing home could give), and when he does get the opportunity, it takes him half the show to give.
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So don't listen to him. You must be getting up there in age too- surprising you don't have a bit of tolerance for him.



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MNGoldenGophers1 said:
In defense of Sid he did break the story a couple years back that the U would break ground on the new training facilities any day now and it eventually proved to be true.
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I can do that too. I predict that sometime in the future, the Twolves will say Target Center is too old and they need a new building. Wow, that's easy Sid.
 

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