The Daily Gopher Takes Offense to MGOBLOG
The folks over at The Daily Gopher (www.thedailygopher.com) have taken offense at Brian's comment yesterday, in his "voracity" post, that Minnesota's current coach (Tim Brewster) isn't recruiting much better than the previous coach (Glen Mason). It turns into a "Brian doesn't know what he's talking about" post, which is comical, and it looks at empirical analysis as to how much better of a recruiter Brewster is at Minnesota.
Of course, when one looks at Brewster's current class (2 four stars, 13 three stars), it looks nowhere near as good as Michigan's current class (13 four stars, etc.) So, I'm not sure Minnesota should be waxing ecstatic about Brewster's recruiting prowess. But, the fact that The Daily Gopher has to defend Brewster's recruiting, when that is the only reason he was hired, raises questions to me (as a Minnesota grad) as to whether that guy should even be in his job.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:32 AM ^
I usually agree with Brian's posts, but I hate to say it I think the Little Gopher is right if his stats are true he has listed. Can't bleieve Mason still can't get a job if he wanted 1. To get Minn and Kansas to respectibility was a tremendous achievement. Not saying he is Bo but teams like Iowa St, Indiana and, Miss St could do worse. Been saying this for years, but seeing the success of P. Johnson at G. Tech I wonder if we will see some teams that can't recruit big time talent go back to the option football I love to make them competitive.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:38 AM ^
post, 2nd comment I believe. Essentially, Brewster was hired based on his performance as a recruiter, and should be bringing in better players than Mason.
What it didn't touch on is something you have alluded to; that Mason arrived to a much worse situation than did Brewster. Minnesota was going to bowls under Mason! That was not the case when he arrived.
Thus the recruiting must have been a little easier when Brewster arrived than when Mason did, helping to inflate Brewster's class rankings and surpressing Mason's.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:45 AM ^
Didn't Brewster have a great class last year?
I would think that the presence of so many young starters on the team would defer new recruits somewhat.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:02 PM ^
Have you looked at his class from last year? 7 4 stars, not bad for Minny, but 2 were WRs and 2 were DBs. The year before there was 1 4 star. That's enough young talent to dissuade 2009 recruits?
Doubt it.
December 16th, 2008 at 10:01 AM ^
Brian was comparing this year's Brewster class to Mason. Given that, the 2009 class (although they have a way to go to get to ~20 or so) looks like Mason's 2003 class (2 4*, 13 3*, and a bunch more kids to go). Looks similar to me.
December 16th, 2008 at 12:54 PM ^
Firing Mason over that one game was such a pathetic move. Alright, yes they always ended up in crappy December bowls... but 10-3 at Minnesota is still 10-3 at Minnesota, even if it's the fakest record ever.