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Kansas is Claeys' home state. Kill is at KSU and their head coach is within a few years of retirement.
 

Cleays has a lot more to worry about than if he can team up with Jerry again. ****post.... /thread


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Jerry Kill is gone . Why is this topic even considered? Cleays is the head coach. Let's all get behind him and the 2016 Gophers.
 

I declare this thread officially dead.
 



Yup. When KSU is in the Missouri Valley no one will remember those heady days in the Big 8.
 

People will disagree, but not hiring Jerry was necessary, Coach Claeys, needs to be out from under Coach Kill's shadow.
 

The first chance he got, Claeys announced to the world that Jerry's offense stunk.
 




Jerry is a great guy and all but not being a coach I don't see him having a lot of impact.

Despite Synder's success KSU is hardly a hugely desirable job sitting in the wobbly Big 12 and with the real possibility that after the Big 12 falls apart KSU will be left out in the rain.
 



Costa Rican Gopher said:
I thought his health prevented him from coaching, which is why he quit mid-season?
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It was, but some people think that if he got healthy again and was offered, that he wouldn't be able to resist coaching again. I don't think his family would let him though.
 



Costa Rican Gopher said:
I thought his health prevented him from coaching, which is why he quit mid-season?
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I think it depends on how much he wants to work. If he can manage to head coach and manage his hours, AND take his meds, he probably would be fine.
 

A_Slab_of_Bacon said:
I think it depends on how much he wants to work. If he can manage to head coach and manage his hours, AND take his meds, he probably would be fine.
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I think its apparent that he can't though, since he got healthy and that's all he had to do to stay healthy.
 

I don't think so. Coach Kill would have been an asset to us in some other role so we are missing out there, but him going to KSU doesn't hurt us. I doubt they will hire him as coach.
 

As it stands now we don't have a liaison between coach and AD. It will be tough to compete for the West without that.


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Spoofin said:
As it stands now we don't have a liaison between coach and AD. It will be tough to compete for the West without that.


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Quite the opposite, we made the director of football operations a coach. Dan O'Brien is embedded now, you can't be more connected than that. A B1G Championship is all but assured.
 

A_Slab_of_Bacon said:
Quite the opposite, we made the director of football operations a coach. Dan O'Brien is embedded now, you can't be more connected than that. A B1G Championship is all but assured.
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I see your point, but with his coaching duties there is no way he can handle all the liaison duties that Kill wanted to take care of.


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I think the most ironic part of this whole conversation is that Coach Kill wanted to be the liaison between the AD and the head coach. But he wouldn't deal directly with Teague, thus he needed a liaison. What's to say he would have gotten along with Coyle? If not, would the U have had to hire a liaison to the liaison???

I guarantee if nothing else the U will not win less B1G Championships with Kill gone than they did with Kill here.

Honestly, this change may be a blessing in disguise*. I think there are very few people that don't agree a change was needed on offense, and I don't know anyone that thinks that would have happened under Coach Kill.

*Note - obviously I didn't want it to happen this way and want Coach Kill to live a long, seizure free life.

As far as him coaching at KSU, I just don't buy that it's realistic. If he finds medication that helps I could see them giving him a lower level position coaching job to see how he handles the stress, but I cannot imagine any FBS school hiring Jerry Kill as a head coach. And I don't buy for a second that Coach Kill will get KSU to hire Claeys away from Minnesota.

Besides, Jerry Kill has a one year deal at KSU. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he doesn't get re-upped. This was just a feel good headline grabber to boost KSU. I wouldn't be surprised if Coach Kill never shows up on campus.
 

Lakeville Goldy said:
Besides, Jerry Kill has a one year deal at KSU. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he doesn't get re-upped. This was just a feel good headline grabber to boost KSU. I wouldn't be surprised if Coach Kill never shows up on campus.
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I disagree with this! I think Jerry was hired to implement his documentation system of best practices that that Coach Claeys uses constantly. The last time Coach Snyder retired the transition did not go well. The ability of the Gophers to manage things in spite of Coach Kill's medical problems was regularly attributed to being able to refer to the binders of best practices he kept.
 

This whole topic of conversation kind of needs to die.

Local media obsesses over it far too much.

Jerry Kill did a good job rebuilding this program and getting it to the point where it is at least respectable again. But he was here for five years. Five. He wasn't here for 20 something years becoming the face of Gopher football. He was a nice coach and did a nice job. But c'mon. What other programs do this kind of thing?

I don't mean to be all negative on the bit but this just seems way too Minnesotan. It's okay for people to leave and do other things. We don't have to keep bringing them back or wanting them to come back. The program will be fine, or it won't under Claeys. Kill's part in it is at least on the surface level, over.
 


And with coach Kill not being in the Public Eye (as much, and at least not in MN), how do we know his health is great and he's seizure-free? I just think it's too big a risk for a program to take a chance at making him head coach. And as others have stated, that pressure-cooker can be too much for him.
 

GopherJack said:
And with coach Kill not being in the Public Eye (as much, and at least not in MN), how do we know his health is great and he's seizure-free? I just think it's too big a risk for a program to take a chance at making him head coach. And as others have stated, that pressure-cooker can be too much for him.
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Why in the world are we rehashing this? People please...
 

Spoofin said:
I see your point, but with his coaching duties there is no way he can handle all the liaison duties that Kill wanted to take care of.


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I'm sure they'll find someone to fill out the TPS reports. Maybe the new accountant?
 

What about the Penske File? Who's gonna manage that?!
 

PMWinSTP said:
Why in the world are we rehashing this? People please...
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No ****.

The linemen seem to be happy with the direction that Bart Miller is taking them.
Everyone here seems to be happy that Limey is no longer calling plays.
We were worried about Sawvel leaving to take a DC job somewhere.

Why isn't the question - Was Kill leaving a blessing?
 



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