The Tim Brewster watch is finally over at Minnesota.
Not many coaches get fired in mid-season, but a change was necessary. The bleeding wouldn’t stop. So instead of having a lame duck coach for the rest of the year, Brewster is gone.
Brewster received a nice going away package—reportedly $600,000. Not bad for a coach who won one game this season and couldn’t beat teams like North Dakota State and South Dakota.
Brewster will be fine. He will resurface as an assistant coach somewhere. That is the usual former head coach route.
But the Golden Gophers are in trouble. This season is pretty much a wash. The coaches and athletic director will say all the right public relations things, but it will be tough to salvage this season.
Right now, Minnesota clings to basically two positive things: a beautiful, fairly new stadium and money from the Big Ten Network.
Minnesota need a wow hire as its next football coach. No, Glen Mason or Brewsters this time around. The Gophers need to spend money on a name coach or a so-called can’t miss rising young star.
Two guys who jump out are Mike Leach and Skip Holtz. Leach had his well-documented problems at Texas Tech but would bring some excitement to the Gophers with a high-scoring offense. Holtz keeps winning at East Carolina and might want to jump to Minnesota if asked. His famous dad, Lou had a short stint with the Gophers.
The bottom line is things cannot become much worse with the Minnesota football program. The selling hope program gets old.
The Gophers simply need results. And soon.
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