We will be in the Rose Bowl within 4 years

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This hire was another sneaky good pick by Maturi, just like Tubby...I know some people close to N. Ill football and they know they lost a great football coach. Good things to come to U of MN football. Give it 4 years and we will be a dominant team in the Big 10.
 

Please

Please don't start with this. I can't have Brewster hype again. Lets just let the guy coach and see what happens.
 


Yeahhhhhh, Tubby like hire! You are delusional along with all those UNI supporters. Becky and Pigeye fans are breathing a sigh of relief.
 

Look, we cannot condemn the guy, he deserves a shot so lets give him one. He deserves it. This guy is purely a winner. He has won everywhere he has coached. He may not be a big name but he is a big winner and that will stand on its own. He wont predict a Rose Bowl win, hes humble, but he will lead us there just before he gets hired by a bigger football school...
 


strokemonster said:
Becky and Pigeye fans are breathing a sigh of relief.
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Let them breath a sigh of relief. I think this coach Kill is a sleeper hire and will surprise a lot of B10 teams. I feel better that we hired a HC with actual coaching experience and a proven track record. People are acting like we hired a HC that never had any HCing experience.
 

I don't know if we will be in a Rose Bowl in 4 years, but I do think this is a better hire then most.

The only difference between me and most on these boards is that I accept the fact that most of the top candidates chose not to come here.

As long as Maturi did his homework, contacted everyone, interviewed everyone he should have and Kill was the best that is all we can ask for. As I mentioned in past threads, we don't need to feel all that awful. Most of our top candidates turned down other positions as well.

Now we can be upset that Leach was never contacted or interviewed. That is my beef.
 

Well, in order for it to be a Tubby like hire all Coach Kill will have to do is finish better than 6th in the B10 and win a bowl game.

He could do that next year with a few lucky bounces...
 




Ok, for better or worse, lets stop with the Brewster comparisons.

It is not fair to Jerry Kill. Kill is 100 times the coach Brewster was and there is no argument against that.
 

This guy is not Brewster....Don't expect that. He is a humble guy like Tubby and Childress. This guy has huge upside, and I mean huge.
 

This guy is a diamond in the rough....He has proven to be great everywhere he has been.
 

Coach Kill kind of reminds me of Andy Reid. He kind of looks like him, has similar mannerisms and appear to have similar coaching styles.
 





Actually, He reminds me of Bum Phillips. Very similar style with that type of success as well. Minus the Cowboy hat and a gall bladder...
 

Art,

I mean he was doing the right things for the right reasons even at NIU, and in that conference, with that talent, that is GREAT! He overachieved. Like Gardy and Burnsie, he gets the most out of his players
 


Art thinks we should have hired Nick Saban
 

Art, Come on, lets get real. THis is a crappy coaching job and we hired a gem...
 



--Difficult to get enthused about this. Minnnesota, a member of a BCS conference, has hired yet another coach with zero BCS head coaching experience. Kill's winning "at every level of football" is irrelevant because he has zero experience at this level. Does winning a high school state championship decades ago mean anything in the Big Ten? Does beating a Tim Brewster team qualify someone to lead Minnesota's program?
--More importantly, the critical objective of the program--to fill the stadium--is not advanced with this hire. Minnesota football looks increasingly like a Mickey Mouse operation.
 

knuckles said:
--Difficult to get enthused about this. Minnnesota, a member of a BCS conference, has hired yet another coach with zero BCS head coaching experience. Kill's winning "at every level of football" is irrelevant because he has zero experience at this level. Does winning a high school state championship decades ago mean anything in the Big Ten? Does beating a Tim Brewster team qualify someone to lead Minnesota's program?
--More importantly, the critical objective of the program--to fill the stadium--is not advanced with this hire. Minnesota football looks increasingly like a Mickey Mouse operation.
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Kill may take this team to the top. This is a big gamble by Maturi but a good one.
 

Four years is too pessimistic. I do not like all this negativity.
 


I agree 100%

knuckles said:
--Difficult to get enthused about this. Minnnesota, a member of a BCS conference, has hired yet another coach with zero BCS head coaching experience. Kill's winning "at every level of football" is irrelevant because he has zero experience at this level. Does winning a high school state championship decades ago mean anything in the Big Ten? Does beating a Tim Brewster team qualify someone to lead Minnesota's program?
--More importantly, the critical objective of the program--to fill the stadium--is not advanced with this hire. Minnesota football looks increasingly like a Mickey Mouse operation.
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I am not trying to put Kill down, but we need to be realistic here. Being successful in the MIAA and the Missouri Valley Football Conference is not the same as the Big Ten. Even the MAC is very questionable. When you combine that with the fact that he never played or coached in any big time program there are real questions to be asked. Like the old expression, "you can throw the records out the window" when it comes to predicting how he will do in the Big Ten. I thought that Bruininks understood that they needed to hire someone with big time coaching experience. Even an assistant who had big program experience would have been preferred.

My biggest concern is recruiting. The type of player that you need to succeed in the Big Ten has a lot of choices, unlike the players who go to the MAC. Simply telling them that the coach has been a winner in the MIAA is probably not going to cut it. What do you say to these players who have a choice between signing with Bielema or Ferentz or Tressle or JoPa or Pelini or Mac Brown or Stoops et al. and Kill? Seems to be a tough, if not impossible, sale to me.

Your point about attendance is well taken. I would guess that after the third home game next fall, things will start looking a little grim unless we have been dominating the opposition. And as for the prediction that the Gophers being in the Rose Bowl in four years, I would guess that might be true if they order their tickets now.
 

Missed-layup said:
On what grounds? Give him a chance. Like I said earlier, he is like a modern day Bum Phillips
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I will give the guy a chance but have pretty low expectations. He may be a great coach, but the big 10 has plenty of great coaches who also have and will be able to get better athletes than Minnesota and Kill imo. This is just a reality check to how poorly this job is viewed nationally by coaches.
 

What's done is done

We are not Ohio St but Tressell was not a sure thing coming in and he has done alright. Kill has won throughout his career. It would seem he'll continue to win if he can figure out how to recruit at a higher level and in a broader area (the whole USA) than he has ever experienced.

The assistant coaches he hires are going to be pretty important. They will determine his legacy.
If he just brings his present staff, we are doomed, in my opinion.

Hopefully he is cheap. Hopefully we get a new president and new athletic director and they are forced to give Kill a new contract. If that isn't how it works, we'll be in a better position to do it right in a couple years.
 

Wheaton said:
Ok, for better or worse, lets stop with the Brewster comparisons.
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Haha! You know that won't happen! I would even bet that the Mason comparisons stick around for a while too.
 

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