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cincibuck
You kids stay off my lawn!
matcar;1796105; said:
Desperate times cause people to do desperate things -- like pick Rich Rod-- and Minnie has to be desperate as it took a mighty effort to get the new stadium and put an end to arena ball. So maybe they would look that way, but I continue to believe it would be a hard deal to sell.
Not that Minnie would be enticing to him, but I wonder why in previous years places like Tennessee, Notre Dame and Michigan didn't mention Oregon's Kelly. Could the Oregon job be that good? I think I heard that USC tried to get his predecessor and mentor, Mike Belotti.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Brewster buyout will cost U of M $775,000
MINNEAPOLIS -- Remember the sweet courting phase, when our relationship as Gopher football fans with our head coach Tim Brewster was new?
Back in January of 2007 when Brewster, on his first introduction, told us we would win Big Ten titles and go to the Rose Bowl, we thought we just might believe him.
And then, the wins didn't come.
The tale is over now.
Brewster is out taking his abysmal record of losses and wins with him.
Bitter to the fans is the reality that comes with firing a coach mid contract, he has to be paid out the $775,000 owed to him by the University of Minnesota.
Entire article: http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=877924
Minnesota to pay more for football coach
The University of Minnesota is about to find out. After firing Tim Brewster over the weekend, the university wants to hire a new coach who will turn the team around after years of losing seasons. University officials say they’re prepared to give the next coach a pay raise, but to find that money they’ll need to tap several sources. Brewster made $1 million a year as coach of the Golden Gophers football team, and that’s on the low side in the Big 10. Ohio State pays their coach $3.7 million. Iowa forks over $3 million. Michigan: $2.5 million. University of Minnesota Athletics Director Joel Maturi admits the next football coach won’t take home that kind of money. “We can’t compete with the $4 million coaches, we can’t compete with the $3 million institutions. We can’t go down that path, it’s not the right thing to do for any institution and certainly not for the University of Minnesota,” he said. Maturi says to attract the kind of coach who can turn the Gophers into a winning program, they will need to sweeten the deal. Maturi doesn’t have a starting salary down on paper, but thinks it should at least match what the university pays its head basketball coach. “We pay Tubby Smith about $1.8 million a year,” Maturi said. “If we can pay a head basketball coach that I’m assuming we can pay a head football coach that.”
Entire article: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/10/19/university-of-minnesota-football-coach-search
MINNEAPOLIS -- Remember the sweet courting phase, when our relationship as Gopher football fans with our head coach Tim Brewster was new?
Back in January of 2007 when Brewster, on his first introduction, told us we would win Big Ten titles and go to the Rose Bowl, we thought we just might believe him.
And then, the wins didn't come.
The tale is over now.
Brewster is out taking his abysmal record of losses and wins with him.
Bitter to the fans is the reality that comes with firing a coach mid contract, he has to be paid out the $775,000 owed to him by the University of Minnesota.
Entire article: http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=877924
Minnesota to pay more for football coach
The University of Minnesota is about to find out. After firing Tim Brewster over the weekend, the university wants to hire a new coach who will turn the team around after years of losing seasons. University officials say they’re prepared to give the next coach a pay raise, but to find that money they’ll need to tap several sources. Brewster made $1 million a year as coach of the Golden Gophers football team, and that’s on the low side in the Big 10. Ohio State pays their coach $3.7 million. Iowa forks over $3 million. Michigan: $2.5 million. University of Minnesota Athletics Director Joel Maturi admits the next football coach won’t take home that kind of money. “We can’t compete with the $4 million coaches, we can’t compete with the $3 million institutions. We can’t go down that path, it’s not the right thing to do for any institution and certainly not for the University of Minnesota,” he said. Maturi says to attract the kind of coach who can turn the Gophers into a winning program, they will need to sweeten the deal. Maturi doesn’t have a starting salary down on paper, but thinks it should at least match what the university pays its head basketball coach. “We pay Tubby Smith about $1.8 million a year,” Maturi said. “If we can pay a head basketball coach that I’m assuming we can pay a head football coach that.”
Entire article: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/10/19/university-of-minnesota-football-coach-search
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kn1f3party
Hall of Fame
ORD_Buckeye;1795323; said:
This. Minnesota has a lot of potential. I'm sure they can get someone in there to turn things around.
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buxfan4life
The future's so bright, I've gotta wear... shades.
ScriptOhio;1796133; said:
After all that I have read about this Maturi fellow, he seems to be somewhat of an dumbass. The AD really doesn't know if his athletic department can swing a $1.8M yearly salary for a new HC of football? He assumes they can? Wow. Sounds like Minny needs a new AD as bad as a new HC for football.
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Gollum22
Long Time Buckeye
Though I rarely (never) post, I must respond to the comments made about Joel Maturi. I appreciate what some of you think you know about Joel. It's not pleasant or easy for someone to fire anyone from any position, much less the head football coach at a Big Ten university. However, I have worked with and know Joel on a personal as well as a professional level. He is not a "dumbass" as you so eloquently put it. I'm sure that firing Tim Brewster was not a decision made lightly and/or quickly. Joel is a very intelligent man and an excellent athletic director. He cares not only for his coaches but also for the student athletes at every university he comes in contact with. Throwing darts at him because he made a tough decision (right or wrong) is uncalled for. Bill Martin, on the other hand........
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Bleed S & G;1795575; said:
I'm sure I'm in the minority, but actually I give them credit for firing Mason. He clearly had reached his ceiling there, and that team was going to basically go 7-5 and play Iowa State or Louisiana Tech in a lower tier bowl every year from then on. He had one good year in 2003 when they went 10-3, and after that he was 20-17 the last 3 years he was there. He was also 18-18 the 3 years before 2003. They decided that wasn't good enough and wanted to take the next step after building their new stadium, which I admire, because you can't jump up if you don't try. Now, they couldn't find the guy to take them there yet, they handled Mason crappily, and I doubt the same team of noodlenuts in charge will make a good hire this time, but they built that new stadium and wanted to make a jump...can't fault them for that in my opinion. Mason is great at taking a program from 2-10 to 7-5...he just doesn't seem to be able to go from 7-5 to 10-2 with any consistency.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
cincibuck;1796111; said:
We tried to get Belotti. It wouldn't be too crazy to think that Phil Knight will step up and keep any Oregon coach that he wants to stay.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Gollum22;1796385; said:Though I rarely (never) post, I must respond to the comments made about Joel Maturi. I appreciate what some of you think you know about Joel. It's not pleasant or easy for someone to fire anyone from any position, much less the head football coach at a Big Ten university. However, I have worked with and know Joel on a personal as well as a professional level. He is not a "dumbass" as you so eloquently put it. I'm sure that firing Tim Brewster was not a decision made lightly and/or quickly. Joel is a very intelligent man and an excellent athletic director. He cares not only for his coaches but also for the student athletes at every university he comes in contact with. Throwing darts at him because he made a tough decision (right or wrong) is uncalled for. Bill Martin, on the other hand........
That's all very fine and well, but I'm throwing darts at him because he's a dumbass. Whatever one thinks about Mason's potential ceiling at Minny, firing him and hiring Brewster is--in hindsight--very poor decision making. Hockey is stagnating by UM standards, and I give Maturi no credit for having Tubby Smith fall into his lap.
To top it all off, Maturi is acting like an ungrateful jackass in his responses to date regarding the Big Ten Hockey Conference...particularly in light of the recent history in Ohio State's, Michigan's and Penn State's magnanimous gesture of going all in for the Big Ten Network. I guess that's fine in his eyes when it's his university climbing on the gravy train that other conference schools are creating. The minute he's asked to be the one sacrificing (a pittance compared to what the above schools sacrificed I might add), I guess it's every school for itself.
Honestly, the man comes across to this outsider as highly unimpressive. I'll agree that sometimes personal knowledge of a person can give insight. It, however, can also cloud one's judgement and make an honest and subjective evaluation very difficult.
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buxfan4life;1796297; said:
What's the BTN bringing for every school? 20 mill a year?
Shit, what's the Bowl payout split up bring every school?
Here's the thing... I'm a little bit sick of the little sisters of the poor crying about money in the Big Ten. To ORD's point about Hockey $ vs. TV deals it's already a wealth redistribution situation.
I get that they built a stadium, good for them, and Indiana is throwing $ at their program lately, too.... but... crying over investing in strong big Ten Football needs to be met with serious questions by the rest of the conference.
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