What To Expect From The Gophers This Year

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Brewster ended up hiring his friend Kevin Cosgrove. Cosgrove earlier in his career had great success at Wisconsin, leading The Badger D to several Rose Bowl appearances. However, he did not have great success with Nebraska from 2004-2007. Part of his problem there was trying to stop more of the modern spread offences. During his time off in 2008 Cosgrove has claimed to have studied the more modern styles of offences to improve his knowledge and be a better coach. So you can't tell how much different he will be from Roof but expect to see the same physical D as last season.

On the offensive side of the ball Mike Dunbar, the offensive coordinator has left and so has his spread offense and his replacement is Jedd Fisch who has a more original style of play.

Towards the end of the 2008 season the gophers offense started to change when the OL was not doing it's job neither blocking nor passing. So following the end of that season, brewster replaced OL coach Phil Meyer and replaced him with a respected coach in Tim Davis.

So this spring expect the majority of the work to be getting the players familiar with the new offense, and trying to establish the identity of the offensive line.

Those are all of the changes they have made and that is everything you should expect for the Gophers this season. Note that coach Tim Brewster will be under a lot of pressure going into his third season with and improving team. Expect them to be a better team than we've seen in the previous years. So that's all you'll have to watch out for and expect in this coming year.

This year Gopher fans have fun with the new stadium. It will be a ton of fun watching the Gophers play and I won't miss anything this season. Go Gophers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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