Sooooooo...Horton beats a Rival, a Ranked Team & gets a Trophy?

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College Football is the greatest sport in the world...

Hats off to Weber...
 

In his fifth game no less. Just goes to show how bad Brewster really was.

GREAT GAME GOPHS!!!!
 


Makes me wonder how this team would've been the last couple years with a real HC...
 

What if...

thailleagle said:
Makes me wonder how this team would've been the last couple years with a real HC...
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How about this?

What if Horton was hired a year earlier, instead of Fisch, and Roof never left?

Where would the Rodents be then?
 


Heck of an audition for a new coach.

Thank you Coach Horton
 


The last few weeks have shown me that Brewster simply wasn't ready--especially in terms of maturity--to be a head coach for a major program. He came here not knowing what he would ever do if given the opportunity and it clearly showed. If he would have hired the set of offensive assistants he has now and listened to them from day one, his tenure may have turned out differently.
 

I think that Brewster's tenure at MN will hurt him in his endeavor to obtain a job beyond a positions coach in light of the fact that this team started winning tough games AFTER he was fired. We did not beat a rank team until after Brewster was fired. What does that tell you about Brewster's coaching ability?
 



I think Brewster would be best at either scouting in the pros or being a recruiting coordinator in college. I think he has some ability at grading and evaluating talent, but he just couldn't seem to get the coaching part of the job down at all.
 

My guess is that Brewster will quietly go back to being a position coach unless he wants to prove that he can be a HC by taking a job at a much lower level. The spread was just too much of a radical change from Mason's offense, and then he dumped the spread. I would have kept the offense, and phased it out, and focused on the defense, it would have worked out better.

If the team that we saw the last two weeks had been there all year long, this team might be bowling. I'm optimistic about next year.
 

I would've never said this while he was still coach, but do you think Brewster was too serious? I'm starting to question if Brew didn't take the role of head coach too seriously and was almost playing a role of disciplinarian.

Since taking over, Horton has visibly made the sideline less disciplined, there's more emotion, jumping around, etc. They have music playing during practices and his press conferences aren't nearly as stiff as Brew's were.

We didn't exactly shut out Auburn tonight, but Horton's results with Brewster's players have to mean something... or no?
 

Plus there is no way Gray would have had those big bruising runs had Brewster been coach. At least they put the ball in Gray's hands when he could do some damage.
 



wels0081 said:
I would've never said this while he was still coach, but do you think Brewster was too serious? I'm starting to question if Brew didn't take the role of head coach too seriously and was almost playing a role of disciplinarian.

Since taking over, Horton has visibly made the sideline less disciplined, there's more emotion, jumping around, etc. They have music playing during practices and his press conferences aren't nearly as stiff as Brew's were.

We didn't exactly shut out Auburn tonight, but Horton's results with Brewster's players have to mean something... or no?
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I was thinking this too...the vibe under Brewster may have been too much pressure on the players unnecessarily...

Horton seems a lot more loose & easier to play for...
 

I agree. Brewster turned things too mechanical and took the emotion away from his team. I think Brewster did this in an effort to minimize emotion fueled penalties such as personal fouls and unsportmanlike conducts that hampered the team early in his tenure. While a good idea, he managed to eliminate all the positive emotions as well. The result was a team that looked not only unprepared but uninterested.

Note: I am not taking a shot at Brewster as I believe he worked his hardest everyday as the UofM head coach, he just didnt have the knowledge base to pull from to be successful.
 

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