You can't fault a kid like Nolan Brewster who chooses a national powerhouse program like Texas over a lesser-known, less-proven program. He's a heck of a player and is starting as a true freshman for Texas. Plus I think it would be tough to play for your dad as a coach, especially at the college level or higher. Clint Brewster wasn't as talented of a player. Clint and his dad both knew that he would never see the field with Weber's improvement and the addition of MarQueis a year later. Clint isn't even starting for Tennessee Tech.

It was no loss losing Clint. He didn't have enough talent and wasn't athletic enough to be switched to another position.

Well, cross Illinois off that list.....he can't even beat them.

Gophs program suffers 3rd arrest in last 30 days: Coach Brew handcuffed, booked for impersonating Div. I football coach.

-Dan Barrierro

Iowa lost to Northwestern today. The Hawkeyes must be BELOW mediocrity according to LMITOUT's great football mind!

Gophers have more national titles that Bucky does, do-dah, do-dah... We might as well change the name from Dinkytown to "Titletown"!!!

The Gophers defensive front four has not done a thing all year. They cannot rush the passer to save their lives. And Jeff Wills is too slow for the Division 1 game! He was burned so many times today, that Weber started looking like Aaron Rogers on his back against the Vikings. It's time for Wills to be benched.

Instead of pointing fingers at Iowa how about fixing the problems at home? Pointing fingers seem to be the M.O. for Minnesotans rather than realizing their own faults and correcting them. How about this....Fire Brewster and fire Maturi. That'd be a good start instead of deflecting the horrible play of the home squad at another team leading the Big 10, don't you think?

What an embarrassment for the Gophers, at home at that. It's obvious Brewster has got to go and this talk of extending his contract is laughable at best. Those pandering for this fool have to realize they're rearranging chairs on a sinking ship.

What's even more laughable is that the first thing mentioned is the Iowa loss. Apparently the only hope the Gophers have is that the other teams lose their games because they can't win their own.

What a joke.

Go Jackrabbits!!!!!!!

Gophers lost to the last place team with their backup quarterback! I'm not gonna blame any 1 particular player because the entire team was equally terrible! The team did not look ready to play at all...and that is the coaches' fault! This is brewster's 3rd season and there has been no signs of improvement...infact, the team is getting worse! Unfortunately he won't be fired, they'll just let his contract expire, so we get to have 2 more seasons of this [PoorWordUsage]!!!

He'll be fired or extended...and they'll do it at the end of this year. Other schools and recruiters would kill us if he's still here and not extended.

Bad loss today...can't comment on the game because I didn't see it but definately a step backwards.

I'm still in favor of extending him...I think he's got a long way to go as a coach but all the reports say he IS bringing in top notch players...not an easy thing to do here in Minnesota. Let it play out...he seems to be winning half the battle...let's hope the other half follows.

not at Navy or Army. you mess up,, and your gone from the team and the school.
Even more reasons to like Navy beating ND.

What's funny is that I wasn't actually pointing fingers at Iowa. My point is that every team loses games that they should win, even Iowa, even Penn State, even Notre Dame like yesterday. One loss doesn't make a team mediocre or below.

I asked our positive "pro staffer" to reply to the following questions before, but he didn't have an answer. Just more negativity. I'd be interested in other people's responses

1) If you were the head coach of the Gopher football team, how or what would you do to improve the team?
2) If Brewster is not the answer, then who would you have picked for a coach instead of him? Also, if he was to be canned after this year, who would you suggest as his replacement?
3) What would you do differently to bring in high caliber recruits?

Boy am I glad to be a Bama fan! Roll Tide!

I give brewster little to no credit on the recruiting...most of the credit goes to the new stadium. Mason couldn't get the best guys because none of them wanted to play in an off campus dome (can you blame them?), so he did the best he could with what he got.

These supposed 3 and 4 star recruits aren't showing much so far anyway, which doesn't matter anyway because a team can only be so good with a poor coach.

Weber looked terrible yesterday! Can anyone tell me why he wears a glove on his throwing hand? He was over throwing wide open receivers by a mile...it's ok if you do that once every so often, but when you do it 7 or 8 times in a game! COME ON! He's a good backup QB at best.

Also, I've been to 3 games so far this year (including yesterday), and I am getting sick of seeing the student section empty! They need to open that up to the general public. The U is missing out on lot's of money by letting those seats go to waste.

I think Brewster needs to step up as head coach and bench a few players after their performances this weekend. It starts with the offensive line. 50 yards rushing. 50! That's unacceptable, even with our running backs. Weber was also sacked seven times and most of those were because of the o-line getting beat. O-line coach Davis has said he prefers BIG lineman and touts his motto "Mass moves a__(backsides)". Well this o-line may be big but they are not moving anyone. We need o-lineman that are athletic, not just big. Brewster and Fisch also need to recognize when Weber is struggling and put the ball into Gray's hands more often. Gray's two or three fumbles aren't helping his chances, but Weber isn't getting it done. They coaches have only let Gray throw like two or three times this year. Only once in this weekend's game, and it was a completion. Defensively, Cosgrove needs to start rotating or trying out a couple more DE's or d-linemen. Only one sack this weekend, and that was because of a blitz.