Hot Seat Magic Number: So You're Telling Me There's a Chance. Yeah!
by Buck Bravo on Sep 28, 2010 10:00 AM CDT
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PrintDespite 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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Brewster needs to beat Iowa, Wisconsin, go to a bowl
and win it. Anything else and he should be fired.
"A parent's only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel Prize but the other gets robbed by a hooker, you failed."
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.
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.
That would be ironic
Only win 2 games and both on the road. Gophers hate TCF Stadium.
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.
But the Gophers could have been 4-0!
At least they could have in Brewster’s world.
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
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
Of COURSE he's gonna say that!!!
Brewster @ Minnesota = 1 more guaranteed Wildcat victory/season.
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?
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.
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….
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.
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.
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?
"A parent's only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel Prize but the other gets robbed by a hooker, you failed."
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.
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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