TWIS Ammo for Brian

I just feel sorry for Minnesota.

OSU tears are delicious

But how do they turn it around. They have a very little recruiting base and it seems all of the top players that do have, they go ND or somewhere else...

That first quote from 11W has forever changed my perspective on Nerf balls. 

does not support football.

It is just like the Lions under GM Matt Millen.

Minnesota must change their University President before they can change their Athletic Director, then their coach.

I laughed several times reading this...my favorite was the tatoo comment

What a game! I can't say enough about all the great coaching these guys are getting. Watching our defense strip the ball over and over again in games is so much fun. I would say that the turnovers we create will help us win a couple games we shouldn't on the rest of the schedule.

I giggled like a school girl watching that collapse last night.

has been mediocre.

Jerry Kill is a good coach. Minny AD made a fatal mistake hiring a career TE position coach (not an HC, not a coordinator) in Tim Brewster.  Recruiting suffered.  Kill will turn them around over time.

Mason did a great job for Minny, but he's too old to coach now.

Gutekunst did a nice job with Holtz's recruits and wishbone methodology.

Other than that you'd have to go back to Cal Stoll's last few teams (Wendell Avery, Marion Barber I) and Murray Warmath for anything decent. Minnesota is an average Big Ten football team.

So while I understand the sadness of Gopher fans right now, things will get better under Kill. First years typically do suck badly.

I liked this resigned foreshadowing from the OSU thread:

"I'm sorry, but if we can't corral Taylor Martinez, who can only run and throws like a 7th grader, then we have ZERO chance of containing Denard."

Kenny Guiton (and whatever other backups they have) must be just horrible if they continue to put Bauserman in

is only about the B1G. I'm sure Florida State and Texas fans are a bit unhappy this morning as well.

I want to know how many hours Brian puts into TWIS.  I would imagine that visiting all these message boards just to find a couple "money quotes" is quite time-consuming; then he has to add his witty remarks, which are so fluid that they seem off-the-cuff, but undoubtedly also take a good amount of time to perfect.

... I'm kinda over TWIS.  At first I thought it was funny, but then I started feeling like it was quite petty of me to take joy in other people's suffering.  I'm to the point where all I want is for Michigan to win.  I don't care what happens to other teams, because if Michigan wins all their games, it frankly doesn't matter.

Besides, I can't help but feel that half the comments on those boards are trolls trying to further upset people, and that's such a vindictive thing to do, it could only be perpetrated by people who really have little joy in life.   

That second Buckeye fan sounds almost exactly like me after the 08 OSU game when I said I never want to see Nick Sheridan start another game at Michigan again.  But this is long overdue karma for that fanbase. 

Florida State...I loved seeing them lose for the 3rd straight time.  I've always hated the Seminoles.  And I said all September it was insane to rank them #5 in the nation.  They have not beat a legit top 10 team in several years and have been bad to medicore in the crappy ACC conference during that time as well.  I never understood why they were getting so much hype. 

Can't laugh at Minnesota.  Losing to a crappy ass Purdue team has to sting (it stung for us in 08 and 09).  That's a team that should be rewarded with some more happiness, except when they play Michigan.

That second Northwestern fan, VERY harsh.  When you get that angry and start sounding like a Buckeye fan, that's about as low as you can go.