Bielema leads the pack of recent BR head coaches

[Bayfieldgopher]

Eight new hires in the past four years in the BT. Here are their cummulative records: Bielima is 19-11 and won 63% of BT games and 72% overall; Dontanio 12-10/55%/58%; Fitzgerald 13-17/43%/53% Zook 10-22/31%/37%; Brewster 6-17/26%/37%, Lynch 5-17/23%/40%; RR 3-11/21%/36% and Hope 3-3/50%/40%.

The incumbents are Tressel 27-3/90%/84; JoePa 20-10/67%/76% and Ferentz 16-14/53%/63%

Shows how much improvement is needed to get the Gophers in the top tier of the BT.

 

[NewEngland_Gold]

Eight new hires in the past four years in the BT. Here are their cummulative records: Bielima is 19-11 and won 63% of BT games and 72% overall; Dontanio 12-10/55%/58%; Fitzgerald 13-17/43%/53% Zook 10-22/31%/37%; Brewster 6-17/26%/37%, Lynch 5-17/23%/40%; RR 3-11/21%/36% and Hope 3-3/50%/40%.

The incumbents are Tressel 27-3/90%/84; JoePa 20-10/67%/76% and Ferentz 16-14/53%/63%

Shows how much improvement is needed to get the Gophers in the top tier of the BT.

Agreed. Not going to be easy or happen overnight.

 

[Art Vandelay]

After yesterday, Danny Hope at Purdue has now beaten both OSU and Michigan in his 1st year. Brewster is 0-5 vs. those teams with 5 blowouts, however, Brewster is 1-0 vs. Hope.

I work with a gal who is married to a Purdue fan so I'll have to ask him about their fanbase expectations....

 

[mnboiler]

I think Danny Hope expectations going into this year wasn't really a won-loss thing but how the team played and there overall attitude and energy. At the end of the Joe Tiller era many fans thought the team quit at the first sign of trouble and would come out flat at both big and small games.

What people really wanted to see is a new energy and the team never giving up even if things aren't going there way. Overall I think he has past the test and people seem willing to give him some extra slack with Tiller mediocare recuiting the past few years.

 

[GVBadger]

Thanks for posting this. I guess the Badgers program is not in decline. Those numbers look pretty good to me.

Maybe this thread won't be deleted because I didn't start it.

 

[MaxyJR1]

As a Gopher fan I don't know how one can say the Badgers are in decline other than to get under the skin of their fans. I would take the possibility of going 10-2 and being said to be on the decline.

 

[MNBadgerGuy]

As a Gopher fan I don't know how one can say the Badgers are in decline other than to get under the skin of their fans. I would take the possibility of going 10-2 and being said to be on the decline.

See, this is the type of stuff that I would be fine dealing with. Of course rival fan bases are going to talk smack about the opposing team. The thing that does kind of get under my skin, as a Badger fan, is the blind conviction MANY gopher fans have that it is a certainty that the Badgers are just falling down the drain right now.

I just like to remind people that it isn't necessary for the Badger program to be in heavy decline for the Gopher program to be on the rise. The Badgers can still be in pretty good shape while the Gophs are on the rise. And I think a chance at 10-2 should prove that.