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Tim Brewster's Record Mixup? "Taken Out of Context"

 

Yesterday Coach Brewster was presented a T-Shirt by a Star Tribune reporter for "winning" a contest with Timberwolf Brian Cardinal to see who could be the first to have 5,000 followers on Twitter.

See sweaty Brewster here:

http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/48294197.html?page=2&c=y

Brewster does take the opportunity to set everything straight about the recent blowup about his "coaching record" on www.brewcrewreport.com, which included the records of teams of which he was a tight ends coach or recruiting chief:

"I think that was an innocent deal that people made much more of than they should have. What we were trying to say is that I've been around some great coaches and programs. People like you and other people blew it up. ... It's unfortunate that it was taken out of context. ... I can also see where it can be misconstrued."

My quick thoughts, by sentence: (1) Probably, but probably not given your history of overstatement; (2) Fair point, and true; (3) "blew it up" = reported it? Will he claim the media "blew it up" if it reports on an upset over Cal this fall?; (4) the fallback sports and political cliche of the 21st century. In context (context also including incorrect spelling of "great coach" Mack Brown and recruit Chris Simms) it still said what it said and it was foolish. If it was correct in context, it wouldn't have been edited; (5) see previous sentence. No wonder you changed it.

Now you, Coach Brewster, go take a shower and beat Syracuse.


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it was foolish

you nailed that JG. Regardless of his intentions, it was foolish. And it was also overblown, but as you pointed out he has a history of saying foolish things so you can’t blame people for jumping all over this.

If he really was just intending to point out that he’s been around a number of outstanding coaches/programs he should have said so. Foolish and I’m moving on.

what you say here can, and will, be used against you

by GopherNation on Jun 18, 2009 1:49 PM CDT reply actions  

He looks stupid here, both in what he posted about his record and his reaction to it. Reporting something or commenting on it is not “blowing it up”. Oh well, go recruit Tim, that’s what we pay you for.

by Django Z on Jun 20, 2009 7:43 PM CDT reply actions  

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