Brewster needs to be fired!

[pinkfloyd4ever]

The guy is full of hot air, I remember his rally when he first got here and him saying in 4 years you will see a Rose Bowl. I said to my buddy that Brew is an [PoorWordUsage], anyone with a TV can see a Rose Bowl every year!

Love how he and his supporters still hope for a bowl game, c'mon, how many more motor city or music city bowls do we want?

Where do I get my South Dakota State sweatshirt? He loses to him may as well shut down the whole operation

[JBMasterAngler]

Well we don't have to worry about the music city bowl, being that the big ten doesn't play in that bowl anymore. My buddy was on the gophers squad the year they beat alabama in the music city bowl (mason's greatest victory in my opinion), holy cow is the ring he received from that game nice!!! I can only imagine how awesome a rose bowl ring must be.

4 years and a rose bowl...hmmm, well this is year 3 and we might not even go to a bowl game...motor city bowl shouldn't even count, especially since we'll lose that game anyway. Next year there is a 0% chance of us going to bowl game. Last year was a fluke, somehow we managed to win 7 games! Trust me, that will go down as brewster's best season.

[harvey lee]

6 penatlies in less than a half so far. Man they are playing very sloppy. A 14-0 lead in the 1st quarter and they will more than likely lose.

[LMITOUT]

Michigan St. is handing this one to them on a silver platter.

[harvey lee]

But it is not over.

[harvey lee]

I realize I will hear they won it but it was pitiful. 17 penalties. At least the Brewster crew holds one record.

[elkrivermn]

a football team is only as good as its players play. Quit recruiting Minnesota kids and go after quality players from Texas and Oklahoma!

[PierBridge]

I would think he'd have at least 3 more years before we would seriously condsider firing him!

[harvey lee]

a football team is only as good as its players play. Quit recruiting Minnesota kids and go after quality players from Texas and Oklahoma!

Why would a stud FB player come to Mn ?

[JBMasterAngler]

I would consider most 2 star recruits from texas better than most 4 star recruits from minnesota.

Anyway, after watching the game, my conclusion is...I have never been so disgusted in a winning effort in my whole life! How the heck did michigan state manage to lose this game? 17 penalties for over 150 yards?!?!?! Are you kidding me? It's not like this is new either, the gophers (especially on offense) are giving up penalties left and right. Players need to be benched! Of course brewster would never do anything like that, after all...he's so proud of how the team played

Now we're in a 3 way tie for the bottom of the barrel of bowl eligibility with northwestern and michigan sporting 5-4 records as well. Who wants the motor city bowl the most?

[harvey lee]

I said to my wife during the game, bench some of those guys and give another a chance.

Not Brewster.

[CJH]

Brewster can recruit, that's why I say give him another year or two. Here's one of those Texas 4 Star recruits committing yesterday!! And a possible 4 star WR as well!

By the way, Weber played alot better this week. He was just staring down Decker too much. He has to spread the ball around now, and that should help his development.

Brewster picks up a four-star RB

By Marcus Fuller on October 31, 2009 3:03 PM

One key area in which the Gophers need to upgrade their talent level is running back. They added a possible future starter today in four-star senior Josh Huff of Aldine Nimitz High School (Texas), according to GopherIllustrated.com.

The 5-foot-10, 185-pound Huff had been orally committed to Utah until last week. He made the switch after making an official visit to Minnesota this season.

Gophers coach Tim Brewster could return his entire backfield next season with sophomores Duane Bennett and DeLeon Eskridge and redshirt freshman Kevin Whaley. He has three backs committed in the 2010 class with Woodbury's LaMonte Edwards, Florida's Donnell Kirkwood and Huff, who has 4.4 speed in the 40-yard dash.

The 6-2, 220-pound Edwards, also a four-star prospect by Rivals.com, could move to linebacker, but he was told by Minnesota he could compete for playing time at running back.

-- Scout.com reported Friday that four-star Florida wide receiver James Louis would be visiting the Gophers today. Louis is currently committed to Ohio State, but he is Kirkwood's high school teammate at Delray Beach Florida Atlantic.

[delta dude]

Nice to have the skill players but it all starts with the off. line. So far I have not heard of any top lineman coming here. The line we have now is c- at best. Can't block can't run or throw.

[CJH]

That's not correct, they have some good OL coming in. One four star and two three star recruits: (Four star in Bold, the rest are threes)

Minnesota Football Recruiting

Highest Rated Commitments/Signees

Name Pos Ht/Wt Stars RR

Lamonte Edwards ATH 6-2/215 5.8

Jimmy Gjere OL 6-7/275 5.8

Josh Huff RB 5-10/185 5.8

Josh Allen OL 6-2/256 5.7

Chris Hawkins WR 6-2/175 5.7

Tom Parish QB 6-3/200 5.7

Marquise Hill ATH 6-0/165 5.6

Donnell Kirkwood RB 5-10/197 5.6

Mark Lenkiewicz OL 6-5/250 5.6

Jabari Price DB 5-10/171 5.6

[LMITOUT]

We heard the same fluff last year about these supposed all-American recruits signed to come here. The problem is they have to go to school and be academically eligible to play. Oops, Brewster must have forgotten to tell them that on his recruiting visit.

[Snag]

I went to my first game in the new stadium and it turned out to be awesome. That's what college football is all about.

I think Weber was better because Decker was out and he had to look at other reads and the fact that everyone was calling for Gray to start. I loved the "These Refs Suck" chant and corresponding boos for the whole MSU drive. They seemed to call makeup calls in the 4th quarter.

Way to go Maturi for the stadium. Hope it helps recruiting. If they ever field a great Big 10 team, it will be one of the hardest tickets in town. Just one Rose Bowl in my lifetime would be nice.

[CJH]

He definitely needs to grow as a coach, but the recruiting is waaaaaay better than when Mason was here. Remember his big recruits are coming next year, are Freshman or Sophmores.

[so haaad]

I agree that some of those players should be riding the pine until they can prove they belong on the field. I was also at the game and the fans were really letting some of those players (and refs) have it after some of those bonehead mistakes.

I gotta say that I really didn't expect Weber to throw for 416 yards last night, especially in that weather. Maybe the Decker injury is going to be a blessing.

They still can play themselves into a bowl game this year. Illinois just destroyed Michigan which is a shocker, but the next two games are at home so they should win both. At Iowa to wrap things up.

[Farley]

Some of those calls were B.S. Loved the chant. Wasnt as cold in there as I thought it would be either but maybee that was the pep schapps in the hot chocolate.

[JBMasterAngler]

If yesterday's gophers play yesterday's illinois next week, then the gophers may be in big trouble. The good news for the gophers is I'll probably be at the game, and they are 2-0 while I'm in attendance this year, so they got that going for them

[Big Dave2]

Some of those calls were B.S. Loved the chant. Wasnt as cold in there as I thought it would be either but maybee that was the pep schapps in the hot chocolate.

Yeah but,.......two of the biggest [PoorWordUsage] calls went in the Gophers FAVOR.

[lots of luck]

Dump this coach and do it now.

Everyone wants to string this out, but in a few years the program won't be any better than it is now with this coach and his slick willy dog and pony show. The players aren't buying it anymore either. When you've lost the players you're just rearranging chairs on a sinking ship and that's what he's doing. The sales job can only last so long before you need to start showing results, but he has not shown anything to this point that indicates the program is going in the right direction.

I guess if you love the mediocrity, beating bottom dwelling teams like Indiana, Purdue, Northwestern, and Illinios year after year, then by all means lock him up for a life contract because that's all you're going to get out of this guy. For some reason people here like mediocrity, so it doesn't surprise me to hear support for "Brew". Sad is what it is.

As a 2001 Purdue graduate you may want to revist your statement about beating us year after year. You may want to look at the last 12 years or so and the outcomes of those games.

Granted we suck now.

I don't have faith in Brewster. Purdue had a 12 year consecutine losing streak from 1984 to 1996, then a coach by the name of Joe Tiller showed up and we proceeded to play in 10 bowl games in the 12 years he coached there.

New coach and find a few diamonds in the rough like we did, Drew Brees, born in Austin, undefeated as H.S. QB and was passed up by all the Texas schools, and you may find yourself competing.

When it happens get ready to enjoy the ride, it was a blast being on campus from 96-01.

[LMITOUT]

He definitely needs to grow as a coach, but the recruiting is waaaaaay better than when Mason was here. Remember his big recruits are coming next year, are Freshman or Sophmores.

Like the one Freshman arrested last night?

[JBMasterAngler]

I never like seeing purdue on our schedule. I think we've beaten them the last 2 times, but before that they beat us like 10 years in a row. Even the year mason got us an 8-3 record, we lost to purdue like 55 to 45 I'll be cheering for purdue next week against michigan.

[so haaad]

Like the one Freshman arrested last night?

I don't think a freshman with an alcohol-related offense comes as a surprise to anyone, nor should it be representative of the coach. But if you think it is, then here's a few of my favorites from back when a "quality" coach was in charge:

The University of Wisconsin suspended 26 football players -- nearly a quarter of the team -- for one to three games on Thursday for accepting hundreds of dollars in discounts in violation of NCAA rules.

Former Wisconsin running back P.J. Hill has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and leading police on a chase. Police gave chase until the car crashed into a retaining wall. Hill was arrested at gunpoint.

The University of Wisconsin football program suffered another ugly hit Wednesday when for the second time in less than a week tailback Booker Stanley was arrested of a violent incident for beating and choking a 20-year-old woman. Stanley's arrest came less than 12 hours before he was to appear in Dane County Circuit Court for a plea hearing related to his alleged involvement in a fight last April. Stanley faced four misdemeanor charges for that incident, two counts of battery, one count of disorderly conduct and one count of resisting arrest.