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Coach Kill is a Fan's Coach

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April 20th, 2013 at 7:59 PM
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Coach Kill is a Fan's Coach

I was looking at Minnesota's spring info a little bit (as well as their recruiting. Only 1 2014 guy so far, but he's a 4-star RB with a really nice highlight real. That's all we need is for Minny to go back to the school of no name guys with an RB that owns everyone). Anyhow, I came across this little gem through their twitter feed. Sometimes, it makes me regret that Michigan has such a huge fanbase that things like this are impossible.

 

Kill just screamed to bring all 200/300 fans at practice on to the field to put "pressure" on the FG unit. Classic twitter.com/NSandell/statu…

— Nate Sandell (@NSandell) April 20, 2013

 

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April 20th, 2013 at 8:01 PM
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April 20th, 2013 at 8:05 PM
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Always

Always essential.

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April 20th, 2013 at 8:15 PM
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Iirc didn't Urban Meyer do

Iirc didn't Urban Meyer do this too? I know for a fact plenty of teams do similar things, I don't think Minessota"s "small" fanbase (which I think you are underestimating) has as much to do with it as Kill and other coaches being more open with their practice than Hoke.

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April 20th, 2013 at 8:18 PM
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What I mean is

You couldn't just shout for the fans in attendance to come on the practice field at a Michigan practice. It'd be no less than 1,000, methinks. It would have to be more organized.

Maybe I'm wrong about that, but I like the move either way. I really like Kill. I think he's a very genuine guy. I hope he can find some Glen Mason style success at Minny.

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April 20th, 2013 at 10:53 PM
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JK has always stuck me as a

JK has always stuck me as a top-notch kind of guy as well. I have no problems rooting for him whenever we're not playing him, because he seems to genuinely care about the players and the school. I wish him (almost) all the best.

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April 20th, 2013 at 8:26 PM
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No,  Urban Meyer did

No,  Urban Meyer did something way more awesome and intense and SEC-like.

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April 20th, 2013 at 8:30 PM
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what did he do?

what did he do?

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April 20th, 2013 at 8:51 PM
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The details aren't important.

The details aren't important. He's Urban Meyer.

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April 20th, 2013 at 9:25 PM
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He was just being awesome.

He was just being awesome. Because, you know, he's Urban fucking Meyer. The man who's going to put Nick Saban out of a job or whatever crap they're telling themselves down in Columbus.



You probably wouldn't have been able to tell what he was doing anyway, as it was running at a fast-paced, SEC speed.

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April 21st, 2013 at 9:05 AM
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Listen

Listen Bro, we would tell you but Urban would have already told you if you were worth knowing.

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April 21st, 2013 at 1:46 PM
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Minnesota does have a small

Minnesota does have a small fanbase, at least if you look at how many people go to the games.  TCF Bank Stadium seats 50,000, and they did not sell out every game last year.  

I think most coaches dislike open practices, for the simple fact that they don't want to reveal too much.  But at a school like Minnesota, where they're trying to build fan support, it may be necessary.  If Kill were at Michigan, I bet he wouldn't bother.

 

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April 20th, 2013 at 8:37 PM
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That's all we need is for

That's all we need is for Minny to go back to the school of no name guys with an RB that owns everyone).

They had good backs under Mason, but the real key to their offense was their small-but-agile line that excelled at cut blocking.

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April 20th, 2013 at 9:15 PM
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That is the most in depth

That is the most in depth analysis I have ever heard on Minnesota football

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April 20th, 2013 at 8:43 PM
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I hope Minnesota can get back

I hope Minnesota can get back on their feet and build up a decent program. Anything the B1G can do to add depth in the conference is a good thing. The gauntlet our basketball team went through this year definitely helped us make a postseason run; with football going to playoffs, the more quality opponents the better. Besides, one of the last good Minnesota teams I remember is 2003, and that was one of the most fun 4th quarters I've seen.

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April 21st, 2013 at 8:36 PM
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Yes the B1G competition was

Yes the B1G competition was good for the bball team but I truly believe that the biggest factor in them making it all the way (outside of the team itself) was the fact they were no longer playing by B1G rules. Teams weren't allowed to be as physical as Wisconsin and Indiana were.

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April 20th, 2013 at 9:30 PM
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I get Hoke's Fort

I get Hoke's Fort Schembechler mentality, and he doesn't want any outside distractions, but I wish there were ways to get our students involved like this in practices.

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April 20th, 2013 at 11:01 PM
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Obligatory: "students dont

Obligatory:

"students dont show up for games, why would they show up for practice? We should just shrink the student section. Get off my lawn"

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April 21st, 2013 at 11:03 AM
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priorities

students have their own life to exist in and watching another student practice a sport is somewhat comical. 

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April 21st, 2013 at 8:38 PM
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Well going by your twisted

Well going by your twisted thinking isn't it more comical that grown men are watching these kids practice??

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April 21st, 2013 at 12:57 AM
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That's kind of cool.

That's kind of cool.

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April 21st, 2013 at 8:04 AM
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Very Nice Gesture...

I wil lsay that Kill has done quite a bit to make the Minnesota program accessible to its fans, from what I hear. I believe that all spring practices have been open to the public for his tenure to date, which I am sure they enjoy. It's another way of creating a family atmosphere around a program really. 

That, and having 200-300 people staring down the FG unit is definitely one way to practice working under pressure, I would think. 

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April 21st, 2013 at 11:21 AM
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If they're in the West division...

We'll only see them twice a decade or so.  It's almost a moot point what goes on over there now.

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April 21st, 2013 at 11:50 AM
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When we go to a nine-game

When we go to a nine-game schedule in 2016, we'll then play three of the seven teams in the West every year.  That works out to playing Minnesota about 43% of the time, but it will be slightly more than that because we won't face Purdue that often (due to its protected game with Indiana). Hopefully they'll find a way for every school to play everyone else at least once in a four-year span.

If we just would have stayed as a 12-team league and gone with geography, it would have been simple: with an eight-game schedule, you'd play your five divisional opponents and three of the six in the other division each year.  With a nine-game schedule you'd play four of the six in the other division each year.  But no, we had to have non-geographic divisions and protected cross-division games.  

 

 

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April 21st, 2013 at 1:12 PM
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Hoke

More evidence that Kill was a "better hire" than Hoke, at least in the mind of Minnesota's AD.

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April 21st, 2013 at 4:25 PM
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Watch out.  A little more

Watch out.  A little more Global Warming and Minny is going to be a national power again.

 

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April 21st, 2013 at 4:44 PM
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AKA

Climate Change.

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