Spring Practice A Waste Of Time

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After reading some of the posts on this board, I've come to the conclusion that the Gophers are totally wasting Spring practice with all of this competition nonsense. All Brewster needs to do is read this board, and he'll find plenty of posters telling him who should play and who shouldn't. Has a player gotten stronger in the weight room, gotten more comfortable with the playbook, really improved his technique? It doesn't matter! Players should always be judged on how they looked last year because it's common sense to know that they'll never get better. Take the poster child for this train of thought - Adam Weber. He stunk last year, so why bother with him anymore? It shouldn't matter if he can prove himself to be the best qb this Spring. Of course, Gray has fumbled in the past, so we might as well forget him as well. The same goes for all the other players who were given their shot at greatness and fell short. It's our job as loyal fans to dump on them and move on to the next shiny object. Sure, play the best players, but determine this by past performance only.
 

Spring practice......

On a more positive note, look at spring ball as a sort of tune-up for the fall. At least this gives the coaching staff some better ideas to who should be starting when the fall season arrives!

Anybody agree with me?:pig:

Go Gophers!!!:clap:
 

Duluthguy said:
After reading some of the posts on this board, I've come to the conclusion that the Gophers are totally wasting Spring practice with all of this competition nonsense. All Brewster needs to do is read this board, and he'll find plenty of posters telling him who should play and who shouldn't. Has a player gotten stronger in the weight room, gotten more comfortable with the playbook, really improved his technique? It doesn't matter! Players should always be judged on how they looked last year because it's common sense to know that they'll never get better. Take the poster child for this train of thought - Adam Weber. He stunk last year, so why bother with him anymore? It shouldn't matter if he can prove himself to be the best qb this Spring. Of course, Gray has fumbled in the past, so we might as well forget him as well. The same goes for all the other players who were given their shot at greatness and fell short. It's our job as loyal fans to dump on them and move on to the next shiny object. Sure, play the best players, but determine this by past performance only.
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Agree on all points
 

It's so much easier to think what you tell us to think.
 

Spring practice......

Hey Duluth guy!

Does that also mean every other school in the Big Ten/Nation are wasting their time?

Plus, the hype is kinda fun to follow.:cheer:
 


Duluthguy said:
After reading some of the posts on this board, I've come to the conclusion that the Gophers are totally wasting Spring practice with all of this competition nonsense. All Brewster needs to do is read this board, and he'll find plenty of posters telling him who should play and who shouldn't. Has a player gotten stronger in the weight room, gotten more comfortable with the playbook, really improved his technique? It doesn't matter! Players should always be judged on how they looked last year because it's common sense to know that they'll never get better. Take the poster child for this train of thought - Adam Weber. He stunk last year, so why bother with him anymore? It shouldn't matter if he can prove himself to be the best qb this Spring. Of course, Gray has fumbled in the past, so we might as well forget him as well. The same goes for all the other players who were given their shot at greatness and fell short. It's our job as loyal fans to dump on them and move on to the next shiny object. Sure, play the best players, but determine this by past performance only.
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I love calling Adam Weber's 38 career starts equivalent to MarQueis Gray's 0 career starts, 15 career passing attempts, and 47 career rushing attempts. Simply brilliant.

Of course, someone who has played the equivalent of 1-2 collegiate games doesn't have as much room to grow as someone who's already started the equivalent of most players' entire college careers. Good line of reasoning.

Furthermore, Adam Weber is magically going to turn into a good QB after 3 years of mostly mediocre-to-poor play, regardless of who was coordinating or not coordinating him. Again, your insight is astounding.
 

Oh, well. So much for my attempt at sarcasim. I'm really disagreeing with the many on this board who believe past performance is everything. I'm always hopeful every player will get better and that some will go on to prove us all wrong about them.

As far as the Weber/Gray debate goes, sure, Weber may suck again this year, and if he can't prove himself in practice and on the field, he shouldn't play. However, with all the adversity he has faced, who am I to write him off? Gray could be great, but some are already hard on him because of the fumbles. I would assume he too can grow and improve.

I guess all I'm saying is that I cringe when posters dump on players because of past performance. With Brewster on the hot seat, I assume we can be more sure than ever that he will start only those players that give us the best chance to win this year. If that's Weber, Gray, Alipate or my mother, I don't care. And, I really don't care how they played last year. I hope that I'm a different, better person than I was last year at this time and that people won't judge me because of my past failings. I'll give each and every player the same benefit of the doubt and trust the coaches on who to play. If whoever starts stinks, I'll blame Brewster, not the player who is trying his hardest to live his dream of playing for the Gophers.
 

That's what we do, we talk about the team. Past performance isn't everything, but it's what we have to go on. Weber could turn it around next year, or he might not. That's what we do this time of year, argue about what's going to happen next year. Then we argue about the games that are being played. Then we argue about recruiting.

And I say GOOD. It's what keeps the board going.

Now if you want to argue about something else Gopher-related, we can do that too.
 

Spring practice.....

Well said Rodent!

On to the next subject! Or will this thread go into a 2 page long deal?
Anyway, it's sure fun to debate this stuff. Really!:cool02:
 





DuluthGuy...""Oh, well. So much for my attempt at sarcasim. I'm really disagreeing with the many on this board who believe past performance is everything.""

Are you saying that millions2spare/missedlayup isn't really a jerkoff?
 

I know one group of fans that are pleased that the coaches hold a true competition and ignore the desires of the fans...Wisconsin. Tolzein was a distant 3rd last year in the hearts of the fans.

I'm with those who say let the coaches do their jobs. Horton has the experience to make the right choice.
 



badgergopher said:
I know one group of fans that are pleased that the coaches hold a true competition and ignore the desires of the fans...Wisconsin. Tolzein was a distant 3rd last year in the hearts of the fans.

I'm with those who say let the coaches do their jobs. Horton has the experience to make the right choice.
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That must be something "new" at Wisconsin, in the past the head coach would over rule his position and coordinator and name the starters. This would generally happen after he was influenced by players influential family members.

Of course this may have changed after said players started calling him names behind his back after he finally benched their no playing, sorry behinds. Believe it or not I was on Brets side on this one. He went out on a limb for them; he gave them every opportunity and they failed. They had no reason to be angry with him and do what they did.

Anyway you are correct, Tolzein is a good kid and player and deserved the starting spot; why he was ever in a competion with the bodybuilding transfer from Kansas remains a mystery.
 

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