Posts Tagged ‘Jerry Kill’
Minnesota Has the Scheme, Needs Talent
By Paul Myerberg // Jun 8, 2012
Minnesota’s big-picture problem lies more with the Jimmies and the Joes, less with the X’s and the O’s. In terms of overall talent, Jerry Kill had much more to work with at Northern Illinois — Chandler Harnish, Chad Spann, Jasmin Hopkins and Martel Moore, among others — than he currently does with the Gophers, who are still bringing in the sort of athletes needed to run Kill’s system.
The Huskies had the players and the scheme; the Gophers are still learning the scheme. Even if the system was in place, this team lacks the weapons to run the offense at full capacity.
Tags: Big Ten, Indiana, James Gillum, Jerry Kill, MarQueis Gray, Martel Moore, Minnesota, Nick Davidson, Northern Illinois, Stephen Houston
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No. 84: Minnesota
By Paul Myerberg // Jun 8, 2012
At their best, Jerry Kill-coached teams will make you wish you’d just stayed at home. At their worst, Kill’s teams will have opponents lining up at the door waiting impatiently for their turn, as more than a few Big Ten teams did a season ago. So this we know after Kill’s uneven debut: Minnesota will be less like Northern Illinois, more like Southern Illinois. In DeKalb, Kill took a two-win team and quickly turned it into the MAC’s biggest bully, reaching three straight bowl games before leaping to the top spot with the Golden Gophers. In Carbondale, home of the Salukis, it took Kill one painful season and a second middling finish before the program began its dominating run through the Gateway Conference. More Southern, less Northern. For the efforts of this comparison, let’s leave Saginaw Valley State out of the conversation. But even that small-school stop merits a mention: Kill won there too. Kill’s won everywhere, if not from the start then down the road – and always, Kill has won big.
Tags: Ben Perry, Big Ten, Brandon Green, Brock Vereen, D.L. Wilhite, Devin Crawford-Tufts, Donell Kirkwood, Ed Olson, James Gillum, Jerry Kill, Jimmy Gjere, Marcus Jones, MarQueis Gray, Martez Shabazz, Mike Rallis, Minnesota, Ra'Shede Hageman, Roland Johnson, Troy Stoudermire
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Comparing Lembo to MAC’s Recent Past
By Paul Myerberg // May 10, 2012
A brief history of the MAC. As it pertains to quick turnarounds, to be more specific. Pete Lembo went 6-6 in his first season at Ball State, matching the Cardinals’ combined win total over the previous two years — a period otherwise known as the Stan Parrish era. If this sort of development continues, it stands to reason that Ball State will at least make a strong challenge for the MAC West title in 2012. But rarely does this sort of progression occur in the MAC; instead, it often takes at least two full seasons before a once-moribund program can surpass the rest of the pack.
Tags: Al Golden, Brady Hoke, Brian Kelly, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Frank Solich, Jerry Kill, MAC, Northern Illinois, Ohio, Pete Lembo, Temple
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Tigers Go as Far as Fuente Takes Them
By Paul Myerberg // Apr 18, 2012
Memphis isn’t the only team looking to reverse a recent slide heading into 2012, and the Tigers certainly aren’t the only team that has attempted to do so over the last five years. Last fall, 13 teams lost 10 or more games; of the 13, seven made a coaching change either during last season or shortly thereafter. At least 10 teams have suffered double-digit losses in each of the last five years, including six – Memphis, U.N.L.V., New Mexico, North Texas, Washington State and Idaho – who have done so at least three times. So Justin Fuente and Memphis aren’t alone.
Tags: Brady Hoke, Dave Doeren, Iowa State, Jerry Kill, June Jones, Justin Fuente, Memphis, Northern Illinois, Paul Rhoads, S.M.U., San Diego State
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Ranking the Big Ten’s Class of Quarterbacks
By Paul Myerberg // Mar 30, 2012
Another Wisconsin-themed hypothetical question: Where would you have ranked the Badgers’ quarterbacks against the rest of the Big Ten if Danny O’Brien had instead opted for, say, Penn State? If Wisconsin had gone into 2012 with options like Joe Brennan and Jon Budmayr, it would have joined Michigan State as the only two teams in the conference to not return a quarterback with at least one career start under his belt. So consider the toppling dominoes: O’Brien should start, which should push Brennan into a more fitting role as his backup, which will allow Budmayr to heal and former walk-on Joel Stave to develop.
Tags: Al Borges, Andrew Maxwell, Big Ten, Bill O'Brien, Braxton Miller, Brion Carnes, Caleb TerBush, Cameron Coffman, Cody Sokol, Connor Cook, Danny O'Brien, Denard Robinson, Devin Gardner, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Jake Rudock, James Vandenberg, Jerry Kill, Joe Brennan, Jon Budmayr, Kain Colter, Kenny Guiton, Kevin Wilson, MarQueis Gray, Matt McGloin, Max Shortell, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nathan Scheelhaase, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Paul Jones, Penn State, Peter Badovinac, Purdue, Reilly O'Toole, Rob Bolden, Rob Henry, Robert Marve, Taylor Martinez, Tim Beckman, Tre Roberson, Trevor Siemian, Urban Meyer, Wisconsin
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Using Simple Math, Minnesota Adds Two
By Paul Myerberg // Oct 26, 2011
You can look before you leap, but there’s no way to truly know what sort of situation you’ve walked into until there are boots on the ground. Jerry Kill knew that Minnesota was in trouble, thanks to Tim Brewster’s woeful mishandling of the program over his four-year watch, but Kill severely underestimated just how difficult it would be to take the Golden Gophers back into Big Ten contention. So when it became time to finally put his signature on his contract with the university, which had sat languishing in the details since he was hired 10 months ago, Kill and Minnesota athletic director Joel Maturi opted to make a significant change in the bottom line.
Tags: Jerry Kill, Minnesota
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Midseason Grades for the New Guys
By Paul Myerberg // Oct 13, 2011
There are 24 first-year head coaches doing work on the F.B.S. level, not counting the three interim coaches keeping seats warm at Arizona, New Mexico and North Carolina. It’s hard to imagine a scenario where that trio — Tim Kish, George Barlow and Everett Withers — become full-time replacements in 2012, though the way Withers has kept U.N.C. afloat through the first half of the regular season certainly bodes well for his future coaching opportunities, whether with the Tar Heels or otherwise. So how are the new faces doing at their new stops? Let’s hand out some midseason grades for the new hires, and include the grade each coach received over the winter’s hiring recap.
Tags: Al Golden, Bill Blankenship, Brady Hoke, Dan McCarney, Dana Holgorsen, Darrell Hazell, Dave Doeren, David Shaw, Don Treadwell, Huge Freeze, James Franklin, Jerry Kill, Jon Embree, Kevin Wilson, Mark Hudspeth, Paul Pasqualoni, Pete Lembo, Randy Edsall, Rocky Long, Steve Addazio, Todd Graham, Will Muschamp
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A Big Ten Blueprint: B.C.S. Themes
By Paul Myerberg // Sep 13, 2011
The blueprint is out on how to beat Nebraska, and the rest of the Big Ten is taking notes. The Cornhuskers were the conference’s biggest unknown heading into September, which makes sense, seeing that the conference has been seeing each other on an annual basis for a century. Now, after Fresno State went blow-for-blow with Nebraska for the wide majority of 60 minutes, teams like Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio State and others have a simple, foolproof game plan for defeating the undefeated Cornhuskers: run right at ‘em. Then do it again, again and again. Touching on that and other major themes from Saturday’s B.C.S. conference action:
Tags: A.C.C., Arizona State, Big East, Case McCoy, Cincinnati, Dana Holgorsen, Florida State, Fresno State, Garrett Gilbert, Jerry Kill, Minnesota, Nebraska, Pac-12, Tennessee, Texas, Tyler Bray, U.C.L.A., West Virginia
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