New Gopher FB Coach

Gopher Alum myself and if he’s anything like Mack Brown he’ll give Minnesota a shot. He was Mack Brown’s Recruiting Guru at NC and Texas for awhile.

I once took a former Nebraska AD fishing and he spoke very very highly of Mack Brown and his staff, in fact, he said that if Nebraska staff wasn’t in place (this is back in the final Osborne years) he’d want Mack Brown.

I hope it works!!!

MINNEAPOLIS — Denver Broncos tight ends coach Tim Brewster will become the new head coach at Minnesota, replacing the fired Glen Mason.

Tim Brewster: Coaching Highlights

• 2005-2006: Tight ends coach for the Denver Broncos.
• 2002-2004: Tight ends coach for the San Diego Chargers. Assistant head coach in 2004.

• 1998-2001: Tight ends coach at Texas.

• 1989-1997: Tight ends coach, special teams coach, and recruiting coordinator at North Carolina.

• 1987-1988: Head coach at Central Catholic High School in Lafayette, Ind.

• 1986: Graduate assistant at Purdue.

Gophers players were told of the hiring early Tuesday. The university scheduled a news conference for Wednesday.

“He is the guy,” associate athletic director Tom Wistrcill said Tuesday.

ESPN’s Joe Schad first reported the hiring Monday night.

The 46-year-old Brewster spent the last two seasons with the Broncos, after three years as tight ends coach for the San Diego Chargers. Before that, he was an assistant at Texas and North Carolina.

Mason was fired Dec. 31, two days after Texas Tech rallied from a 38-7 deficit to complete the biggest comeback in major college bowl history with a 44-41 victory over Minnesota in the Insight Bowl.

When the Gophers hired Mason to take over a program that was at the bottom of the Big Ten after Jim Wacker’s disastrous tenure, they chose a proven head coach who had also succeeded at Kent State and Kansas.

Brewster, 46, has never been a head coach at the collegiate or professional level. His coaching career started as a graduate assistant at Purdue in 1986 before he became the head coach at Central Catholic High School in Lafayette, Ind., for two seasons.

Brewster then spent nine years as tight ends coach, special teams coach and recruiting coordinator at North Carolina before following head coach Mack Brown to Texas from 1998-2001.

Brewster helped the Longhorns become one of the top recruiting teams in the country during his stay there, luring quarterback Chris Simms and the talent that built the 2005 national championship team, including star quarterback Vince Young.

He left for a tight ends position with the San Diego Chargers from 2002-04, where he helped develop Antonio Gates into one of the premier tight ends in football before spending the last two seasons in Denver.

Enthusiastic and energetic, Brewster comes to a school that needs a salesman. The university is set to open a new on-campus football stadium in 2009, but still needs to raise plenty of money to support that effort.

The Gophers have also consistently lost top recruits to other schools in the Midwest, with the most notable recent defection being Wayzata linebacker James Laurinaitis, who won the Bronko Nagurski Award this season as the nation’s best defensive player at Ohio State.

Mason was often criticized for his reluctance to get out and sell the program, both to the state’s high school coaches and to boosters and fans.

Support for the team has waned in recent seasons, with fans growing weary of one third-tier bowl appearance after another.

When Maturi announced Mason’s firing on Dec. 31, he said the program “needed that new vision, new voice and new leadership for us to attain the championship that we all aspire to.”

That means Brewster will be charged not only with building on the progress made under Mason, but also reinvigorating a detached fan base.

“How positive can it be? Are students going to be behind us? Are fans going to be behind us? Are we going to have the energy that’s necessary that we would like to move forward?” Maturi asked then. “All of those kinds of things add to the decision that was made.”

a good hire by the gophers. ace recruiters with pro coaching backgrounds usually equal success as college coaches.
brewster was a stud player and captain of the illinois team that played in the 84 rose bowl. he was a finalist 2 years ago for the illinois head coaching job.
he also has a son who is a standout quarterback who had committed to illinois. still says he is going to illinois, but that could change.

As long as Mason is gone, Should be a good fit!!!

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Am I just a cynic or do I equate this with the U being cheap again? I doubt if you’d ever see Alabama or Florida State or Notre Dame hire somebody’s tight end coach. I think they took this guy becasue they’re broke after paying off Mason and Monson.

After 40 years of frustration with Gopher football I sure hope I’m wrong.

Rootski

The U didnt pay mason off a unnamed alumni volunteered to pay off mason whish is why they decided to buy his contract out in the first place…Mason will make a fine coach somewhere else I believe he was able to bring us up a step from where the program was at ten+ years ago but I hope the recruiting style he learned will carry overto the U cause I feel he could be a good oen to have around for sure…glad they didnt bring in that cazy guy from Miami and his bus full of whack jobs!!! here we come 07’……..sky-u-mah

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I think they took this guy becasue they’re broke after paying off Mason and Monson.

After 40 years of frustration with Gopher football I sure hope I’m wrong.

Rootski

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I do too, but I doubt you are!

I think they should look at their athletic director. He should have put more effort into a known name especially with their stadium issues.

I think they should have gotten the Boise State coach!!! Ok, maybe he wouldn’t have come but…

I was hoping for Lane Kiffin/USC or Bo Pelini/LSU. Both are going to be a special head coaches someday.

From ESPN Nsider

Brewster brings energy to Minnesotaby: Tom Luginbill
posted: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 | Print Entry
filed under: Minnesota Golden Gophers, Illinois Fighting Illini

Well, if the Minnesota Golden Gophers wanted youth, enthusiasm and a guy who has coached at the NFL and collegiate level, Tim Brewster is the perfect fit. My father, Al Luginbill, evaluates pro personnel for the Broncos, where Brewster has coached tight ends the last two seasons, and Tim’s son Clint Brewster is one of the top quarterbacks in the 2007 class, so I have gotten to know Tim a little bit during the recruiting process. I can tell you he will bring the Gophers an energetic approach and an ability to relate to the younger student-athlete.
Brewster’s long history in the game includes stints at the high school level as well, where he was the head coach at Central Catholic High School in Lafayette, Ind. from 1987-1988, directing a wide-open offense that won 15 of 23 games in a two year period. He developed the state of Indiana’s passing leader in both of his seasons as head coach. He began his coaching career in 1986 at Purdue University, where he coached tight ends and offensive tackles as a graduate assistant.

Perhaps Brewster’s most attractive trait is his experience as a recruiting coordinator while at North Carolina under Mack Brown. He then moved on to Texas with Brown and has extensive experience building a winner at both universities. The groundwork has been laid by Glen Mason, and this job is very similar to North Carolina when Brewster arrived with Brown in 1989. While Brewster has not been a coordinator on either offense or defense at the collegiate or professional levels, keep in mind that neither Andy Reid nor Steve Marriucci had been coordinators before they got the call to be head coaches.

The biggest question that still looms is what will Clint Brewster do now? Will he remain committed to Illinois, which has a young Juice Williams already at the helm, or will he defect and become a Golden Gopher with his dad? I can tell you from first-hand experience that it can be very special for a father and son to be part of the same football team. I did not have the opportunity to play for my father, but I did get to coach with him on two occasions. Expect Clint to make the move with his dad. I will be very surprised if he doesn’t. Keep in mind that Tim’s youngest son, Nolan, is going to be top safety in the 2008 class, as well.

OK, drop the pom poms.

Lets look at the U of M job for what it is. This is a stepping stone for bigger and better jobs or, it’s a place to set up camp and collect a big check until retirement. There are no national titles anywhere in our future in football. Not going to happen, not in my lifetime.

The guy maybe able to recruit, so what. If successful why should he stick around? His job is simply this, don’t get blown out by Ohio State and Michigan. Play Iowa and Wisconsin tough, even beat them once in a while. Go to a bowl game every year. Heck you need to really suck not to get invited with the horrible pre-season schedules they allow.

Finally, sell tickets to our pretty new stadium and convince us you are a above average coach.

Oh, need national titles? Walk over and watch a Hockey game.

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OK, drop the pom poms.

Lets look at the U of M job for what it is. This is a stepping stone for bigger and better jobs or, it’s a place to set up camp and collect a big check until retirement. There are no national titles anywhere in our future in football. Not going to happen, not in my lifetime.

The guy maybe able to recruit, so what. If successful why should he stick around? His job is simply this, don’t get blown out by Ohio State and Michigan. Play Iowa and Wisconsin tough, even beat them once in a while. Go to a bowl game every year. Heck you need to really suck not to get invited with the horrible pre-season schedules they allow.

Finally, sell tickets to our pretty new stadium and convince us you are a above average coach.

Oh, need national titles? Walk over and watch a Hockey game.

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I am in total disagreement with you on this one. As bad as Minnesota is they are still a Big Ten school. One of the most revered leagues in college football. If he can put a team together that can consistently win games the stadium issues and everything else will take a backseat. There is very little in college footbal more respected than winning against Big Ten teams. If he can put together a good solid program why would he want to leave?

Mason lost a lot of games on bad luck and Badger fan will miss him. The new guy could certainly win a championship. all you need is good defense and an offense that doesn’t make mistakes. If players think they can win there recruiting will become easier. If I am not mistaken the Gophers ran on pretty much everyone they wanted to the last few years. Nobody had ever heard of Barry Alvarez when he came to Wisconsin.

Badger fans will miss him LOL thats is true and Gopher fans will never for get that game!!!!

I hope things go well, but all I can say is who ever gets his first head coaching job of any kind at a Big Ten school? Wow, you don’t hear of that too often. I hope he is good because they went the cheap way out again.