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Hot Seat Magic Number: So You're Telling Me There's a Chance. Yeah!

Despite entering a challenging Big Ten schedule with a 1-3 record, there is still a chance that the Gophers can recover and save Tim Brewster's job.  A likely chance?  I wouldn't go that far.  Welcome to the second edition of the Hot Seat Magic Number.  By the way, I'm counting the number of wins Brewster will need to keep his job, and not the number of losses to lose it.

If the team could recover to have a 6-6 record, such improvement would require a 5-3 Big Ten record.  I'll go as far as to say that a 5-7 record, with 4 wins against the right teams, could also save his job.

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"So You're Telling Me There's a Chance." - Lloyd Christmas, Dumb and Dumber

At this point, a 5-3 record would require drastic improvement regardless of whom the victories come against.  It wouldn't be possible without winning at least one game against Iowa, Wisconsin, Penn State, or Ohio State.  So, for this week, the magic number remains at 5.

A 4-4 Big Ten record would, in my opinion, only save his job if he wins a few big games.  And a 5-7 overall record should only be acceptable if the team shows drastic, continuous improvement as the season progresses.  Here's how last week's hot seat magic number chart, which can be viewed at this link, looks now:


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The list has definitely gotten shorter, and tougher.  So what do you think?


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Brewster needs to beat Iowa, Wisconsin, go to a bowl

and win it. Anything else and he should be fired.

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by Ted Glover on Sep 28, 2010 10:21 AM CDT reply actions  

I really don't see this team winning another game.

They have been over-matched by every team they’ve faced this year,save for a squad missing their starting QB. Oh,and that includes moral victories,too. Gophers will not finish a game within 10 points of any opponent remaining on the schedule,barring a monsoon or blizzard. Lack of talent combined with high school (or tight end) level coaching equals,well,the 2010 Minnesota Gophers. That said,I can’t see Brewster having a prayer for returning in 2011. He has caused enough damage.

by mahogma66 on Sep 28, 2010 11:49 AM CDT reply actions  

Well, Purdue is pretty terribly bad too. That should be a close game with a nontrivial chance of a win.

by Erik T on Sep 28, 2010 12:10 PM CDT up reply actions  

Purdue is VERY beatable right now

With their top QB, RB, and WR all hurt, the Boilers can be had. Of course, that would still mean we’d have to have a coaching staff that could prepare a team to win on the road. We’ve seen it once this year, so lightning could strike twice.

by Jeffrick on Sep 28, 2010 12:10 PM CDT up reply actions  

That would be ironic

Only win 2 games and both on the road. Gophers hate TCF Stadium.

by DJL44 on Sep 28, 2010 12:40 PM CDT up reply actions  

New guy here

And no disrespect, but Brewster had all off season to prepare for Middle Tennessee State, he’ll have only one week for the Boilermakers. Personally, I don’t see it happening.

by goferfan on Sep 28, 2010 3:04 PM CDT up reply actions  

But the Gophers could have been 4-0!

At least they could have in Brewster’s world.

by DJL44 on Sep 29, 2010 8:56 AM CDT up reply actions  

Nursing a small hangover...

I’m going to bring a half full glass of optimism up in this bitch. Let’s look at the Gophers as the potential college equivalent of the Bears!!!!!! As a Bears fan, I was disgusted at the pre season. There was zero promise. Nothing to look forward to. The best of the best of Bears fans wrote the team off for dead. There was no potential.

Sound familiar? I’ve said each of those things about the Gophers after their “pre-season”.

OK, so we don’t have a pro-bowl QB, excellent linebacking corp, hall of fame defensive linemen, one of the best field goal kickers of all time….and the list goes on and on…but as you say above, mathematically there is a chance.

And besides, per Pat Fitzgerald in the Chicago Tribune today, the Gophers are filled with top knotch athletes and are one of the best coached teams in the country! Yes, we are one of the best coached teams in the entire COUNTRY!!!! I did not know that, so that was such a pleasant surprise as I rode to work today. I suddenly felt blessed to be so fortunate!

OK, I’ll leave well enough alone….we suck balls….and that’s being generous. We are a horse’s ass who won’t win another game…but for the next couple days, at least I can use my Bears analogy to maintain my interest in the season.

Cheers!

Da Gophers Fan

by jimipig on Sep 28, 2010 12:15 PM CDT reply actions  

Tribune Link

The numbers say Minnesota is lousy. So, apparently, do the majority of Golden Gophers fans.

Under the headline “[Tim] Brewster’s in all-out survival mode,” a Monday Minneapolis Star Tribune story reported that “a sizable portion of Gopher Nation … is demanding a drastic change.”

Northwestern’s Pat Fitzgerald could not see it more differently, and his acclaim for Brewster goes well beyond the typical blind praise that college coaches reserve for embattled colleagues.

Fitzgerald called Minnesota “one of the best-coached teams in the country.”

Full article here… http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-spt-0928-northwestern-football—20100927,0,4294278.story

by jimipig on Sep 28, 2010 12:49 PM CDT reply actions  

When I read this, I actually laughed out loud. I know that coachspeak has very little intersection with the real world, but there’s still got to be a line in the sand somewhere.

by Erik T on Sep 28, 2010 12:55 PM CDT up reply actions  

Of COURSE he's gonna say that!!!

Brewster @ Minnesota = 1 more guaranteed Wildcat victory/season.

by mahogma66 on Sep 28, 2010 12:59 PM CDT up reply actions  

Here in Chicago we did a double take too at his description of the Gophers

Fitz’s coach speak is laden with a ton of optimism, and he almost always ends his sentences with “Go Cats!”. We shouldn’t have lost to you last year, and its going to be an easier game this year with Eric Decker gone. I wish I could go to Minnesota to see your nice new stadium.

It would be really nice if Brewster were retained for another year. He’s such a TREMENDOUS coach.

by LincolnParkWildcat on Sep 28, 2010 3:29 PM CDT up reply actions  

And from Chicago Now

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/big-ten-guru/2010/09/when-will-joel-maturi-fire-tim-brewster.html

This is the type of shit that opens me up for mockery among my fellow Big 10 colleagues….when is it my turn?

by jimipig on Sep 28, 2010 12:51 PM CDT reply actions  

If that’s the level of investigative reporting from that outlet, you probably don’t need to waste your time. It’s the worst-kept secret in the world that this “extension” was really a setup for firing, reducing the buyout cost by a factor of two.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4891587

by Erik T on Sep 28, 2010 12:58 PM CDT up reply actions  

Agree it's crap...

…but funny that it’s in some small Chicago publication how crappy Brewster is and the issues with Maturi and general Minnesota mediocrity….

by jimipig on Sep 28, 2010 1:01 PM CDT up reply actions  

I laughed that the Tribune was essentially mocking Fitzgerald’s take as being exactly that, “coachspeak”….but I can’t imagine the room full of reporters as a passionate Fitzgerald is saying “guys, this is one of the best coached teams in the entire country”…ha ha ha!

by jimipig on Sep 28, 2010 1:00 PM CDT reply actions  

Trestman?

Let’s talk Trestman…and vow never to speak of Dungy again on here because it’s a waste of time. But Trestman…that intrigues me a great deal.

by jimipig on Sep 28, 2010 1:05 PM CDT reply actions  

You and me both. Sold, no; intrigued, yes.

by Erik T on Sep 28, 2010 1:19 PM CDT up reply actions  

I'm intrigued as well

Ted Glover brought him up on OTE, and I gotta say, I’m interested as well. He’s not my #1 candidate right now, but he’s definitely on the list.

by Jeffrick on Sep 28, 2010 2:11 PM CDT up reply actions  

I can't take credit for that

I actually read it from Charlie Walters. And yeah, I could get behind Trestman. The only thing that I would have reservations about, now that I’ve thought about it, is pro to college transition, and what kind of a recruiter would he be?

But he couldn’t be worse than Brewster, could he?

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by Ted Glover on Sep 28, 2010 4:47 PM CDT up reply actions  

If Mark can scrounge up a bonafide recruiting whiz to tag along with him,maybe..

And I mean someone legitimate,not another overcaffinated used car salesman .. But I’d still prefer a candidate with a D1 track record as a head coach.

by mahogma66 on Sep 28, 2010 5:13 PM CDT up reply actions  

New Coach

Don’t forget Leach! He is odd and bright enough to possibly find a way to win here.

by bobbyspringfield on Sep 28, 2010 4:58 PM CDT reply actions  

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