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per Sid:
Maturi said he told University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks at the time that “we weren’t going to win the press conference” when Kill’s appointment was announced, “but that Kill is the best coach for Minnesota.”
“I knew there was a lot of heat on me, because obviously Coach [Tim] Brewster did not succeed and, in fact, the program took a step backwards,” Maturi said. “There were many people that thought that I should not be involved in the decision-making. I just believed we needed to hire somebody that had a history of building programs, which is something that needed to be done here, somebody who was compliant with the rules and the philosophy and someone who could bring it from the ground up and who made people better.”
Kill had done just that every place he had coached, and now he has done the same at Minnesota.
“He doesn’t recruit four- and five-star athletes; in many ways, he couldn’t in the places that he was,” Maturi said. “He just made people better. He made them competitive. I loved the stability of his staff, which was obviously something Coach Brewster did not have. You look at certain strengths that the new coach will hopefully have that the past coach did not have. Jerry was not a flashy name, he was not a flashy person. As I said to President Bruininks, he’s not going to win the press conference, but in my heart I believe he’s the best coach for Minnesota. And then he won the press conference.”
Now that Kill has turned the program around, no doubt he’s the most popular coach in the area today.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/284044071.html
Go Gophers!!
Maturi said he told University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks at the time that “we weren’t going to win the press conference” when Kill’s appointment was announced, “but that Kill is the best coach for Minnesota.”
“I knew there was a lot of heat on me, because obviously Coach [Tim] Brewster did not succeed and, in fact, the program took a step backwards,” Maturi said. “There were many people that thought that I should not be involved in the decision-making. I just believed we needed to hire somebody that had a history of building programs, which is something that needed to be done here, somebody who was compliant with the rules and the philosophy and someone who could bring it from the ground up and who made people better.”
Kill had done just that every place he had coached, and now he has done the same at Minnesota.
“He doesn’t recruit four- and five-star athletes; in many ways, he couldn’t in the places that he was,” Maturi said. “He just made people better. He made them competitive. I loved the stability of his staff, which was obviously something Coach Brewster did not have. You look at certain strengths that the new coach will hopefully have that the past coach did not have. Jerry was not a flashy name, he was not a flashy person. As I said to President Bruininks, he’s not going to win the press conference, but in my heart I believe he’s the best coach for Minnesota. And then he won the press conference.”
Now that Kill has turned the program around, no doubt he’s the most popular coach in the area today.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/284044071.html
Go Gophers!!