Posts Tagged ‘Minnesota’
For Some, A College Football Christmas
By Paul Myerberg // Dec 29, 2011
I’ve been sick as a dog all week, so like North Carolina in the Independence Bowl, I just didn’t show up. But regularly scheduled programming begins anew starting right… about… now. Earlier in the week, before the virus climbed inside my body and started wreaking havoc, I asked you to send in your college football-related Christmas gifts — I probably should have said holiday gifts, which was an oversight. If your Hanukkah haul included anything interesting, please send it along. In the effort of brevity, and because there’s much to get to after a four-day break, I’m including a small handful from Twitter, email and the comment field.
Tags: Christmas, Cincinnati, Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, Minnesota, Northwestern, Oregon, Texas, Virginia Tech
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P.S.R. 1-120: Week 10 Re-Ranking
By Paul Myerberg // Oct 31, 2011
With the weekend in the books, here’s a look at how the country ranks — using the original rankings as the starting point, with the season’s results as rationale for any movement. The top 25 teams land a one-sentence breakdown. The rest? Not so much. Part of the perks of being one of the best. Think your team is too low? Feel another team deserves more credit, less credit? Let’s hear it below. It’s a delicate ranking process, but with nearly two months in the books, things are growing clearer.
Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Boise State, California, Iowa, L.S.U., Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Stanford, Texas Tech, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wyoming
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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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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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No. 92: Minnesota
By Paul Myerberg // May 30, 2011
Good coaches can be found anywhere, from high school through the N.F.L., in the F.C.S., the F.B.S. and anywhere in between. Case in point: Jerry Kill, late of Northern Illinois, now of Minnesota. Just where did this guy come from? Kill’s in Minneapolis via DeKalb, via Southern Illinois, via Emporia State via Saginaw Valley State — the one in Michigan. No, he’s never been a coordinator for a national champion. He’s not a Nick Saban disciple. He hasn’t even — my goodness, can this be true? — coached a day in the N.F.L., for goodness’ sake. Kill’s just a football coach, no flash, few frills. Just like his teams. I think he’ll be popular.
Tags: Big Ten, Brandon Kirksey, Brendan Beal, Da'Jon McKnight, Gary Tinsley, Jerry Kill, Kim Royston, MarQueis Gray, Minnesota, Troy Stoudermire
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A Grab Bag of Quarterback Depth
By Paul Myerberg // Apr 25, 2011
It was never a fair comparison: Iowa and Wisconsin both lost a senior quarterback, but the Hawkeyes have had a succession plan in place since 2009, while Wisconsin — prior to losing Curt Phillips — wanted Jon Budmayr to win the job, not have it handed to him. When Wisconsin revealed late last week that Phillips had suffered a setback in his recovery from a knee injury, it became clear that Budmayr’s time is officially now, even if this is how the quarterback competition might have eventually played out. As noted last week, however, this hurts the Badgers’ depth at the position.
Tags: Big Ten, Dan Persa, Denard Robinson, Devin Gardner, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, James Vandenberg, Jon Budmayr, MarQueis Gray, Matt McGloin, Michigan, Minnesota, Nathan Scheelhaase, Northwestern, Paul Petrino, Penn State, Purdue, Wisconsin
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Grading Minnesota’s Coaching Move
By Paul Myerberg // Jan 20, 2011
Minnesota athletic director Joel Maturi put it best: in a parting shot to Tim Brewster, fired in mid-October, Maturi told the gathered media and any coaches interested in the newly vacant position that “you’re not following Vince Lombardi here.” In so many words, Maturi dumped a plateful of frustration on Brewster’s lap while laying the expectations quite low for his eventual successor, though his full-time replacement wouldn’t be named until two months later. Maturi’s choice? Northern Illinois’ Jerry Kill, whose appearance belies his coaching philosophy: Kill likes to run the ball, then run it again, perhaps run it a third time, and takes extreme pleasure in getting pressure on the quarterback. This system might work in the Big Ten.
Tags: Jerry Kill, Minnesota, Tim Brewster
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Minnesota Chooses Wisely
By Paul Myerberg // Dec 6, 2010
No, he’s not flashy. No, he doesn’t quite look like a football coach: he looks more like an insurance salesman, perhaps, or a high school science teacher. Jerry Kill is a football coach, however, and a good one at that — and at a critical juncture in the program’s history, Minnesota made a wise choice in opting for substance first, style second. If we recall, the last time Minnesota changed coaches the program went with the latter at the expense of the former; Minnesota couldn’t afford to make the same mistake twice.
Tags: Jerry Kill, Minnesota, Northern Illinois, Tim Brewster
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