Texas State looking at Brew as HC, an interview with Nadine

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Though according to Tom Dienhart:

"Dennis Franchione is top target at Texas State, according to published reports."

Go Gophers!!
 

I can not believe anyone is considering Brewster for a HCing position. I think he needs to be an offensive coordinator in order to develop an offensive philosophy before he becomes HC again.
 


Brew wasn't so bad. After all, he took the Gophers to two straight bowl games after four straight years of Mason's terrible recruiting classes (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007). I doubt if Mason could have gotten the Gophers into those two bowl games.
 


UpnorthGo4 said:
Brew wasn't so bad. After all, he took the Gophers to two straight bowl games after four straight years of Mason's terrible recruiting classes (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007). I doubt if Mason could have gotten the Gophers into those two bowl games.
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I'm going to pretend you were being sarcastic. Otherwise that statement would be laughable...
 

I think his point was probably that Brewster wasn't as completely inept as some people here make him out to be. Proof: he had back-to-back mediocre seasons. He'll find another job somewhere.
 

GO4INLALALAND said:
I can not believe anyone is considering Brewster for a HCing position. I think he needs to be an offensive coordinator in order to develop an offensive philosophy before he becomes HC again.
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He might actually be qualified for the HC position now. It is amazing what on the job training and fours years of developing a philosophy will do.
 

Brewster was extremely underqualified to be headcoach and needs to be a offensive coordinator who calls plays in his next job.
 



goldengophers said:
Brewster was extremely underqualified to be headcoach and needs to be a offensive coordinator who calls plays in his next job.
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Disagree. He was the head coach of a BCS program for 4 years (with average to really bad results) but the fact he did coach at the BCS level should be more than enough for him to get a 1AA job.
 

If I was the AD at Texas State I would not hire him.
 

may god have mercy on their soles if they go down that road
 

This would be a great hire for them. Anything Brew lacked going into the Gophers job he got (OJT) while on the Gophers dime.

Going into this year Brew had figured it out, unfortunately for him he ran out of time. What folks fail to realize is what happened this year was the result of something that happened in Brews first two years....he mismanaged his classes and had too many first year starters on defense.
 






Knute Rockne at his best would have had trouble winning with 11 new starters on defense.
 

[censored] said:
Wrong. And this is coming from a former Brewster supporter.

Franny or Brewster? Sadly, I think Texas State could do better than both.
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Please list who would be better because last time I checked this was TEXAS STATE we are talking about here.
 

Kuato Lives! said:
Please list who would be better because last time I checked this was TEXAS STATE we are talking about here.
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Yes, TEXAS STATE... the same TEXAS STATE that is moving up in classification.

Texas State is in a great location. 15 min south of Austin. Great recruiting base. And they are about to start pouring $$$ into the program. Texas State is primed to improve their program, so the TEXAS STATE you are talking about may not be the one I'm talking about.

I suppose you'd say Larry Coker is too good for UTSA as well. Yes, the UT in San Antonio.

Who would be better? For starters, a number of high school coaches from the state would be. And there are too many to list. But instead of getting into a debate with you, just know that if I were making the decisions for Texas State, those two would be on the "do not want" list.
 

[censored] said:
Yes, TEXAS STATE... the same TEXAS STATE that is moving up in classification.

Texas State is in a great location. 15 min south of Austin. Great recruiting base. And they are about to start pouring $$$ into the program. Texas State is primed to improve their program, so the TEXAS STATE you are talking about may not be the one I'm talking about.

I suppose you'd say Larry Coker is too good for UTSA as well. Yes, the UT in San Antonio.

Who would be better? For starters, a number of high school coaches from the state would be. And there are too many to list. But instead of getting into a debate with you, just know that if I were making the decisions for Texas State, those two would be on the "do not want" list.
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They moved up to a conference that lost all of the teams that were even worth half a sh*t. The WAC is absolutely decimated and has nothing going for it now and the additions of TSU and UTSA (among other superpowers) bring it down even further. The WAC is desperate. If people thought the WAC was bad (rep wise) before, just wait till they see it in the next year or two.

Larry Coker nearly ran Miami into the ground, that is why he is at UTSA and he is a good fit for a team that has yet to play a single football game.

The Bobbies would be absolutely foolish to hire a damn high school coach over a guy like Fran, a winner in the past (albeit sometimes shady) and a guy who has extensive connections recruiting Texas. Comparing their resumes would absolutely hilarious regardless if TSU was located 15 mins south of Austin or not.
 

[censored] said:
Yes, TEXAS STATE... the same TEXAS STATE that is moving up in classification.

Texas State is in a great location. 15 min south of Austin. Great recruiting base. And they are about to start pouring $$$ into the program. Texas State is primed to improve their program, so the TEXAS STATE you are talking about may not be the one I'm talking about.

I suppose you'd say Larry Coker is too good for UTSA as well. Yes, the UT in San Antonio.

Who would be better? For starters, a number of high school coaches from the state would be. And there are too many to list. But instead of getting into a debate with you, just know that if I were making the decisions for Texas State, those two would be on the "do not want" list.
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I agree with you that if I were them I would not consider Brewster. It will be interesting to see how there with th addition of the new Division 1 football program started just down the road at UTSA. Texas State has a reputation as a huge party school and is a refuge for those kids that cannot qualify academically at the other schools in state. San Marcos is a nice town however.
 


UpnorthGo4 said:
Brew wasn't so bad. After all, he took the Gophers to two straight bowl games after four straight years of Mason's terrible recruiting classes (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007). I doubt if Mason could have gotten the Gophers into those two bowl games.
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You were playing Mason's terrible recruits during that time Tim. The only talent you had was fooling people into thinking you could recruit. Yet your supposedly superior recruits couldn't save you from losses to recent DII schools, Tim. It's time to move on. The Gopher board is no place to vent your anger, Coach. Go back to counting the nice walking around money you received on the way out the door and count yourself lucky to have hit the Joel Maturi lottery.
 

Wasn't Brewster linked to the Northern Colorado job last month?

In my opinion this is how he should have started his head coaching career, at a much lower level like that and then worked his way up the ranks by virtue of accomplishment like practically everyone else on earth has to do. Instead, because of a masterful sell job to a gullible AD, he was handed the keys to the BCS kingdom straight off the bat, and we know how that worked out.
 

Pretty good interview. The only :confused: was this:

"We had fired Glen Mason, who brought us to medicocrity and made us a contender in the Big 10 .."

Glen did a little better then bringing the Gophers "to medicocrity", but he never made them a contender for the Big Ten title. He finished 4th three times. That's not mediocre, but it's not a contending for a title either.
 

Mason made us relevant again, but I would say he hardly made us into true contenders within this conference. We could tease and we could look and play like contenders for brief periods of time, but those were always just a precursor to an inevitable collapse, and often in the most wrenching or horrifying way possible. So that's not a contender there, that's a heart-breaker and a ball-buster.
 

Swede said:
Yet your supposedly superior recruits couldn't save you from losses to recent DII schools, Tim.
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Brewster never coached against (and thus never lost to) any DII schools.

Also, Brewster's oldest recruits (not counting the leftovers he was able to sign over the last two weeks in 2007) were juniors and RS sophomores this last season.

Just a stellar effort all-around on this post.
 

Seany said:
Wasn't Brewster linked to the Northern Colorado job last month?

In my opinion this is how he should have started his head coaching career, at a much lower level like that and then worked his way up the ranks by virtue of accomplishment like practically everyone else on earth has to do. Instead, because of a masterful sell job to a gullible AD, he was handed the keys to the BCS kingdom straight off the bat, and we know how that worked out.
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I'm not trying to say that he should get the job, but this is exactly the type of job that I think he could succeed at. Little to no pressure, develop and mature as a college head coach, then move onto a C-USA or Mountain West job.

Let's say he coached at TSU prior to Minnesota and had success there after 4 years or so, then got the Minnesota job (still not qualified enough in my book). Would people have given him a little more slack knowing that he's been a HC? Would his grandiose proclamations carry more weight in fans' eyes? Not that it matters now but I love me my hypotheticals.
 

Kuato Lives! said:
I'm not trying to say that he should get the job, but this is exactly the type of job that I think he could succeed at. Little to no pressure, develop and mature as a college head coach, then move onto a C-USA or Mountain West job.
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Yep, that's the traditional career arc that most coaches undergo, with the Jim Harbaugh type being the exception rather than the rule. You hone your skills at the lower levels, and then you progressively work your way upward as warranted. That's exactly what Kill has done, and that's just part of why I like him.

I look at the head coaches that have come out of schools like Miami of Ohio and Wyoming, after matriculating their way up to those levels, and later leaving when they made the big time of college ball, and there's an awful lot to be said for that traditional career path, where you advance because you've learned what you need to learn at that level and because you're ready to do so, and that's based on merit. You prove your readiness to move on by winning.
 


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