Thursday practice update
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 – 6:40 PMBy Kent Youngblood
Greetings.
Well, imagine my surprise when I walked into the start of practice Thursday and saw Adam Weber fielding grounders and playing catch with a baseball. No, he’s not going to join Eric Decker on the Gophers’ baseball team. It’s all about working on Decker’s throwing motion. I wrote about it for tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Weber, usually long-haired and bearded, is temporarily clean-shaven. Why? Team pictures. ‘’I might have to get a haircut, too,’’ he reports.
Coach Tim Brewster is still looking for more consistency with his offense. With Saturday’s scrimmage looming, Brewster said the defense is still well ahead of the offense. Not surprising, really. While Kevin Cosgrove has kept much of the defensive scheme used last season, Jedd Fisch is implementing a new offense, and that will take some time to learn.
‘’We’re making explosive plays for sure, but there are inconsistencies,’’ Brewster said of his offense. ‘’ But I like what we’re doing running the football.’’
One thing I’ve noticed is fullback Jon Hoese, who has added 15 pounds from last season. He is moving very well and Brewster said he’s doing well as a lead blocker. Hoese, who is now 6-2, 235, can even get bigger, Brewster said.
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You guys flatter me with your impersonation of me in the previous blog. It is obvious that Derek has the infatuation with me and not vice versa. Jon Hoense??? another walkon from the previous staff. You would think by now that one of those brilliant stars that has been recruited by this staff would be worth mentioning. The students should be let in for free to the games. Penn State must be the only Big Ten school that still lets them in for next to nothing. Without the students vote to increase their fees the staduim would have been DOA at the state house. We have know idea what our football team will be able to do until game 4 next season. If you think we are just going to show up at Syracuse and win that game you have another think coming. By the way, we have played Syracuse and Cal in the not so near past. I thought we were going to be so much better that these games would be easily won.
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So Bud, when will you be enlightening us with the head count information from this week’s coach’s clinics?
I must give very high marks to the seat selection process for season ticket holders at the new TCF.
You can pick your seat to the actual seat. You can also see the view from your section and can see what seats are going in what order, day after day.
Very clear, seems very fair. I’m sure there will be “boo boos”, but it sure give a clear picture of what is available.
Welcome to America, Loon!!! That technology is only about 10 years old.
Texas Gopher says:
April 1st, 2009 at 7:57 am
Kent–welcome back. I challenge you to be the Joe Dimaggio of sportswriters. Break his 56 games record and try and post 57 straight days.(dated 3-31)
Executive decision—Kent, your streak is still intact (3days). You posted twice on 3-31 which will give you credit for 4-1 and now this 4-2. Seriously, good to have you back.
Bud says— We have know idea what our football team will be able to do until game 4 next season
What?? you don’t think games 1,2,3 will be an indicator??
Tex, we will definitely have an indication of what this team will be able to do with the first 3 games. The Cal game for sure will be a real measuring stick.
I like what I,m hearing about the running game. The play action will definitely help out Weber and the receivers. Sounds like Fisch and Davis have a very good working relationship. I’m glad Cosgrove isn’t totally revamping the D. With alot of returning players we should be able to continue improving.
“Bud says— We have know idea what our football team will be able to do until game 4 next season”
According to the bashers, nothing matters except Big Ten wins. They’re already preparing for a strong start…the art of bashing is all about perception. If they can minimize wins, they can still continue on with their senseless posting.
Bottom line, the bashers are worried about this year. Success makes them irrelevant.
Perhaps the bashers are used to the Mason era of outside conference games.
Let’s take a look at 2002: Southwest Texas State, Louisiana-Lafayette, Toledo, and Buffalo.
2003: Tulsa, Troy State, Louisiana-Lafayette (could Mason have been trying to get a rivalry going by scheduling them?), and Ohio
2004: Toledo, Illinois State, Colorado State
If we had a schedule like that, there would be some credibility to what Bud says. But once again, Bud gets smacked down.
Come on Bud….what are your clients saying?
Bud says,
“We will have KNOW idea about this team until sometime during the season when Loon, Wrenbawlbabyblabbers and I decide. All wins will be meaningless. Only losses will indicate what we NO about this team.”
“Only losses will indicate what we NO about this team.”
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LOL! Good one dac.
Tex … The somewhat dubious executive decision has been noted although the ghost of Joltin’ Joe is muttering.
Bud says,
“Jon Hoense??? another walkon from the previous staff. You would think by now that one of those brilliant stars that has been recruited by this staff would be worth mentioning.”
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Bud keeps fighting the good fight to divide Gopher fans into two groups and tear down the team. Good job, Gopher hater.
What kind of sick logic infers that the success of a “walkon from the previous staff” somehow means failure on the part of recruits of the current staff?
When are you haters going to wake up and understand Gopher football is about ‘team’? Every player and every coach wearing maroon and gold are one and the same.
Jon Hoese could be a big story for our team this year. Let’s wish him the best just as we do for every one of our guys.
Who was it awhile back said Hayo would not get in? Sid says he is coming in fall. b4 is was summer…b4 that spring..whud up? why the continued push back?
DAC–well said 8:22 post.
What the heck kind of team will the Cues field this year????? They are going to be BAAAAAAAAD….very BAD. You know that. I know that. SDSU????? How are they going to be????? Cal????? Who knows????? Maybe their star RB will be out for the game. Air Force????? Come on people…with out a comfortable win in that game it’s going to be a LONG year.
The Big Ten schedule will balance out. MSU and PSU come back on the schedule.
Look at the Big Ten portion of the schedule is the ONLY portiion of the schedule that will tell u anything. You brewstr apologists can throw the ooc schedule out the window. You never know, youmight be able to discount one or two brewster losses with my generous…very generous offer to you and your camp of dirty trick dudes and dudettes. You had better take the offer while you can…because two losses in that ooc schedule would really put the media and the “fair and balanced” more casual Gopher Fans through out the state who never buy season tickets or even a ticket once in a while will really start calling out this brewster IF he loses two ooc games to the likes of SDSU, Syarcuse, The Air Force Acadamy and Cal. He might get by with a loss to Cal IF Cal has their running back playing.
I’m telling you brewster dirty tricksters and apologists that it will be how this brewster does in Big Ten play that will dictate how the media and the general fan base scattered through out the metro/hinter and everywhere in between scattered through out the state of Minnesota that will determine how the 2009 season…and perhaps this brewster character will be remembered by the masses in Minnesota.
And, just in case, it is time to ditch this maturi NOW!
I seem to recall being real impressed with Hoese during the first couple of drives in the Insight Bowl. If he has added 15 pounds of muscle and not lost any speed, that is an impressive looking FB.
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What the heck kind of team will the Cues field this year????? They are going to be BAAAAAAAAD….very BAD. You know that. I know that. SDSU????? How are they going to be????? Cal????? Who knows????? Maybe their star RB will be out for the game. Air Force????? Come on people…with out a comfortable win in that game it’s going to be a LONG year.
The Big Ten schedule will balance out. MSU and PSU come back on the schedule and Indiana and Michigan go off the schedule.
Looking at the Big Ten portion of the schedule is the ONLY portiion of the schedule that will tell you anything. You brewster apologists can throw the ooc schedule out the window. You never know, you might be able to discount one or two brewster losses with my generous…very generous offer to you and your camp of dirty trick dudes and dudettes. You had better take the offer while you can…because two losses in that ooc schedule would really put the media and the “fair and balanced” more casual Gopher Fans through out the state who never buy season tickets or even a ticket once in a while in a foul mood. They will really start calling out this brewster IF he loses two ooc games to the likes of SDSU, Syarcuse, The Air Force Acadamy and Cal. He might get by with a loss to Cal IF Cal has their running back playing.
I’m telling you brewster dirty tricksters and apologists that it will be how this brewster does in Big Ten play that will dictate how the media and the general fan base scattered through out the metro/hinter and everywhere in between scattered through out the state of Minnesota that will determine how the 2009 season…and perhaps this brewster character will be remembered by the masses in Minnesota.
And, just in case, it is time to ditch this maturi NOW!
Renegade—no need to correct yourself. I seriously doubt anyone went back and compared the two posts.
david_allen_coe are you sure wren doen’t live in Montana? He sounds a lot like the Unabomber with his anti gopher manifesto. The hatred he has of the gophers isn’t much different than Ted Kaczynski’s. Hopefully he never gets hold of anything stonger than dumbnamite.
“Renegade—no need to correct yourself. I seriously doubt anyone went back and compared the two posts.”
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ROTFLMAO!!!!!!! About as likely as making a scholarly comparison of the writings of Charles Manson or the Unibomber.
Translation …. Isn’t it amazing we both simultaneously associated the crazed babbling of the drug-infested fool to Ted Kacznski?
55 to zilch…a disaster…a no-show…the WORST Big Ten effort of a gm/recruiter who is supposed to be in charge in the history of the Big Ten history of the University of Minnesota THAT is the last Big Ten effort turned out by this brewster character. And you sad, sick suckers unibomb yourselves into the gutter…right along with that pathetic coaching effort against iowa that this brewster and his staff turned in. This “brewsterbomber…” and you cultists who apologize for this brewster have got a LOT of explaining to do. You also defended that pathetic dunbar and his spreadsy, wedsy cute little lack of an offense. You sound just like a picture of your name-sake looks d_a_c-off.
Big Ten losses are going to kill the career of this brewster character…and you and your ilk make pathetic excuses and try not to look at the history of this brewster character during his 25 games at Minnesota. 25 games of this brewsterball has seemed like an eternity in many ways.
Message to this brewster: WIN Big Ten football games…a LOT of Big Ten football games during the 2009 season.
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david_allen_coe says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:49 am
Translation …. Isn’t it amazing we both simultaneously associated the crazed babbling of the drug-infested fool to Ted Kacznski?
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Amazing but scary. This man is truly obsessed per the e-mail above. The problem is that he destroys any real football conversation that occurs on this blog.
No, translation: I talk about the facts of life of Big Ten Football. You and this d_a_c-off with the hideous scars and the hole in his head speak of bombers. Certainly you must admit that that 55 to nothing nuke-out that this brewster took at the hands of that ferentz character last November was THE prime example of the “brewsterbomber” at work.
Don’t try to blame me for what YOU do.
I will continue to remind this brewster that he MUST win Big Ten Football games in very significant numbers or he will be gone…mo-rikety-skosh, big time and in a big hurry. And if he is gone because he couldn’t win even a minimal number of Big Ten games…well…that’s the way the brewster bombs out…
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Thanks wren - You continue to make my point.
There is a window with each new coach whereby they show real ability to improve the program over the previous coach or the window closes and his days are over.
The fans, in their great wisdom said that the previous coach, even with a new stadium would never win more than five (5) Big Ten games in one season. With a new $300 million dollar stadium, this coach will certainly need to win six (6) or more.
It was really too bad he decided that he needed to waste two years with Dunbar’s East-West, pitch and catch, run with the quarterback, punt every fourth play offense.
I just see no way that the fans are going to sit still for a bunch of home losses this year. If the idiot Badger coach and the Maturi invited Badger Band come in here and maul our Brewster coached team in early October, the poo poo will hit the fan.
I agree with wren that their is no way five (5) Big Ten losses this year will float. You guys can blame Mason, Weber, injuries, the weather, me, Wren, Bud, Mother Teresa, Bush/Obama or anyone/anything you want. In the end, the window closes and the honeymoon is over. The virgin stadium opens and the fans start to look for the “winner” promised.
The clock ticks.
Nice job guys of ripping Bud apart before I could get here. Time for him to go into hidding again until Kent’s next item.
I’m still concerned about the Oline. Rumors are Wills hasn’t looked all that great at RT. We still need improvement at tackle and center.
So, translation, you do not agree that this brewster needs to win a heck of a lot of Big Ten games in a short period of time????????? You don’t think Big Ten games are the be all, end all criteria for canning a supposed Big Ten gm/recruiter-tyupe??????
You are helping to drive this program right into the ground then, because without a LOT of Big Ten wins…NOTHING will have changed except for the stadium and THAT is not going to go very far for very long without LOTS and LOTS of Big Ten football wins.
The window of opportunity is HERE and the window of opportunity is HERE NOW! It will NOT last for very long.
Even the students with their cheap tickets will not support a coach/program that does NOT will a LOT of Big Ten football games. They have proved that over the decades.
IF this brewster only wins one…two or even 3 Big Ten games in 2009, thesame old groan will go up and the same sick feeling of “…here we go again…” will overwhelm any momentum moving back on campus might have given this program. It is NOW or NEVER for this brewster character to step up and drop this stupid gm/recruiter image he has embraced and to finally to start becoming a real, honest to goodness HEAD FOOTBALL COACH. Up to now he has just acted the part of a common, run of the mill, travelling salesman who can’t for the life of him seem to win many Big Ten football games. Without a lot of Big Ten Football Wins in 2009 we just may witness the beginning of the final scene of “Death of a travelling Big Ten wannabe salesman…” And…if that’s the way it goes down…he will only have himself…and his apologists to blame. :0 )
Derek,
If Wills is struggling right now, which I have not heard, I would attribute that to learning a new system and playing against stonger competition. I think having him anchored next to Carufel will benefit him greatly. I’ve also heard he is very athletic and moves well for someone his size. I have a lot of faith that Coach Davis will be able to get him to perform at a high quality Big Ten level.
Go Gophs!!
I apologize for comparing Ted Kacznski to Wren. I now realize that Wren is much crazier. Unfortunately, I am very serious about this. I just hope that he is not as dangerous as Ted. Please get help Wren
Look at the record translation, you pathetic apologist and random sick-o. 3-13 in Big Ten play. THAT is this brewster’s resume. That is a .1875 Big Ten winning%. Do you believe THAT? How pathetic. That is NOT acceptable.
bisker,basker,bisher,basher: you have a lot of faith in coach davis? Why? Maybe he will be ok. Maybe he will be like many other position coaches who have come and gone. We really won’t know until we start seeing some Big Ten games.
I wish the young student athlete the very best.
The coach? Time will tell. He gets paid a lot of money, so I don’t worry much about him until I can see the results of his work on Big Ten game day Saturdays! I don’t have much faith in any coach until I see what happens in Big Ten play. You may be exeriencing a lot of “fantasy” position coach ranking wishful-type thinking bisker, basker, bisher, basher. ;0(
Wren - Do you really believe you can change a football program by making demands as to what must be done. That is truly insanity. It takes hard work, planning, cooperation and team work, and time, not the ranting of a crazy person who probaly has never implemented any real change in his life. Get a life Wren or find a new windmill.
Translation says,
“The problem is that he destroys any real football conversation that occurs on this blog.”
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That is the intent of the demented, drug-addled hater. Pure and simple.
What we know about Wills:
He’s 6′7 and around 350 pounds.
Alabama was interested in him.
What we’ve heard about Wills:
He’s athletic for a big man.
He has quick feet.
Add up the knowns and the reports and you have a guaranteed upgrade in the offensive line.
DAC - It appears that you are right that Wren’s intention is to stop any real discussion of Gopher football other than own personal agenda. It would be nice if we could have him committed, but that would require us to prove that he is a danger to himself and/or others. He is clearly a “danger” to this blog but I don’t think that this blog would qualify as a person in a court of law. Probably the best option is just to total ignore him. Any ideas?
DAC - Sorry - I did not see your last post. I didn’t want to interrupt a real football conversation.
That’s OK, T-lation. Without benefit of ever seeing the man play football, I just have a hunch Wills is going to be good, especially next to Carufel.
I have a hunch that we will know a lot more about Willis and Carufel after we see them play in a few games.
I have another hunch that all the hype about either is just talk.
Have fun.
Loon when is the “Group Hug”?
The ultimate phrase that tells it all. He moves well for a big man. That is code for we do not know if he moves well enough to block Big Ten defensive lineman. What should be coming out of the Gopher Hole is he is a dynamic player. We are not hearing that are we. Good thing we got Stommes in the correct postion finally. Only took them 2 years and a new o-line coach to figure that one out. We will not know just how good or bad we could be after the first 3 games because of the new schemes and coaches. Live picks 03/04 non conference games. How about 07/08 Live, it does not look much diferent and the Cal game was scheduled before Brewster got named the head coach. So with him in control we hand picked a 1-11 Syracuse team going through a haed coaching change and SDSU. That leaves Air Force as the game that makes this schedule so tough? During the Wacker years we played K-ST and Syracuse, Pitt. and Colorado, SDSU (when Faulk and Scott were there). Mason had Huston, Baylor, CSU(which beat Air Force), and Cal. Push that schedule towards Whackers time here and I say the results will be the same. We will have a new coach in two years.
Bud … You are a complete moron, pure and simple.
“He moves well for a big man” is not code for anything. It means what it says.
It’s like saying “Bud moves slow for a greasy fat sloth.” It means what it says.
I wonder why Bud and the buffloonatic are now working overtime to play down the strength of our 2009 non-conference schedule?
Could it be both the miserable little haters are messing their pants in fear we might win those games?
You pathetic little whimpy Gopher haters are so transparent in your children agenda it is a joke.
The little Canadian hater says,
“I have a hunch that we will know a lot more about Willis … ”
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And we should take seriously the comments of a moron who doesn’t even know the player’s name? ROTFLMAO!!!!!
wren, you moron. Coach Davis has quite the proven track record in developing offensive linemen. Don’t be such a complete idiot ALL OF THE TIME.
david_allen_coe says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 pm
“Bud … You are a complete moron, pure and simple.”
“He moves well for a big man” is not code for anything. It means what it says.
It’s like saying “Bud moves slow for a greasy fat sloth.” It means what it says.
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David - I don’t know how you can make it any clearer for Bud than that!
bisker,basker,bisher,basher: you are the MORON caller by trade and you “…know MORE ON LESS subjects than anyone else around. Being called a “moron” by you is an extreme compliment. ; 0 )
You know a LOT of position coaches who were “supposed” to be quite the little coaching units (and sure fire future head coach material) came in to Minnesota and didn’t do a darn thing. (This brewster even brought in a few big dollar coordinators in that dunbar and that withers who were freaking BAAADDDD coaches at Minnesota.)
This davis is nobody to me and hasn’t made much of a mark as far as it looks to me. IF he is ANY good, it will show up in Big Ten wins. IF he is average or below average, it will show up in continued Big Ten losses. THAT is how you tell these things your low-rent character who likes to try to call other people MORON…The Big Ten wins and the Big Ten losses will tell us the entire story. 2009 is a “do it or lose it…” year for this brewster character. Ditch this maturi NOW! Get ready for big changes within a couple of years!
Wren - If you think being called a moron is a compliment, no wonder you continue to say the same things over an over. You just love all the “compliments”. Here one more day brightener for - You are a truly a moron. Have a good day
Wren - If you think being called a moron is a compliment, no wonder you continue to say the same things over an over. You just love all the “compliments”. Here one more day brightener for - You are truly a moron. Have a good day
translation: or, shall I say leeks or mc drunk or which ever incredibly low-rent type you may be, your little moron name calling binge is pretty pathetic.
Regardless of what you try to do to draw attention away from the fact that this brewster apparently can not coach and losses to all Big Ten teams except really bad and struggling Big Ten teams you fall flat on your low-rent mouth. The three teams in the Big Ten that he has beaten were Illinois, Indiana and Purdue all in a year in which none of the three qualified for a bowl game. This brewster had his head caved in by that ferentz character from iowa. And, that ferentz character showed this brewster NO mercy and NO respect. He was still having his qb try to throw long bombs late in the 4th quarter. That was about humiliation. That was about destroying the other coach. That was all about the fact that this brewster was totally woodshedded by that ferentz character. That was only last November. That is kind of disheartening…to think that our program is supposedly run by someone who helplessly took that kind of a beating in a Big Ten game. His players quit on him. His coaches quit on him. He laid down and died that ugly night. 55 to NOTHING. This brewster should have at least offered to give up his job on the spot.
And you, translation are a horse-bleep apologist for this brewster. You may very well be this brewster himself.
for the one and only time, I walked out of the dome early in the 3rd quarter. I could not stand to watch players who had quit, coaches who had quit and a gm/recruiter standing there on the sidelines getting his brains beaten in the way he took that beating from that farentz character. And the obnoxious iowa fans were drunk on their butts. It was the LAST game at the damn dome…”THE LAST WALTZ…” at the inadequate palace called the damn dome so to speak. THAT was the saddest moment in Golden Gopher Football I have EVER seen. That was UNFORGIVABLE. This brewster is the UNFORGIVEN gm/recruiter because he never really showed up that night. And all you can do, translation your low-rend clown is to try to call someone a moron. Buzz off translation…you are dismissed.
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Why is it that the ones with the least to say always seem to take up the most space on here.
My bad, I meant the ONE with the least to say. I dont like to be critical of anyone else’ opinion, but does’nt it ever get old putting the same stuff on here every day. I quit reading those very long comments a long time ago. It’s just that it takes time to scroll past them everyday.
You like that 55-zip game brainfreeze????
You are pretty lazy brainfreeze…just keep scrolling. That seems like something a brainfreeze would kind of like to do.
I heard about that 55-zip score about 3000 times. The last 2,901 from you. Please get a new schtick, you’re starting to sound like the afternoon guy on KFAN.
Brainfreeze says:
“I heard about that 55-zip score about 3000 times. The last 2,901 from you. Please get a new schtick, you’re starting to sound like the afternoon guy on KFAN.”
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Thanks for pointing out how irritating wren’s repetive comments are. Unfortunately, all he does when you point this out to him is to retype the same babble in his response to you. The bad news is that he may appear to be as dumb as a rock, but not as silent as a rock. Probably the best solution to this is to just scroll down past his postings and go onto the next post.
But, you dudes and/or dudettes, which ever the case may be are still talking about the message that this brewster needs to win a heck of a lot of Big Ten football games in 2009. If he doesn’t it will be time to start putting the heat on him.
You brewster apologists spend a lot of your time trying to dis me…but…the thing is that I am getting the message out there that it is key and essential for this brewster to graduate ever increasing numbers of football players, to run a completely clean football program and to win a LOT of Big Ten Football games. Nothing else matters brewster apologists. It is ALWAYS about getting the Big Ten wins. I NEVER get tire of calling for more Big Ten wins! THAT is the reason they play the games and that is the reason that they keep score in the games. This brewster is 3-13 in Big Ten play. He has GOT to pick up the pace. Dump maturi NOW! ; 0 )
Translation. Good point, I will be quiet, and keep my opinion( as far as that goes anyway ) to myself.
WARNING! The posting above is armed with dumbnanite and is considered to be dangerous. Do not respond to it. If you do, you could be overwhelmed by babble and incoherent thoughts. This is a test of the emergency wrenbabble warning system. We are not responsible for any wrenbabble that this message may start.
Brainfreeze - I didn’t even follow my own advice with the posting of a wrenbabble warning above. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
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