[NU Sports] Gopher Football - Sun-Times stupidity

[cherron604 at aol.com]

Radio talkers up here in the Twin Cities have been going pretty hard on Gopher coach Tim Brewster the last few days.  A good bit of news for the rest of the conference was that top-rated lineman Seantrel Henderson, from Cretin - Derham Hall in St Paul chose Southern Cal.

 http://wcco.com/sports/Cretin.Derham.Hall.2.1468466.html 

Some local radio types had kept repeating that the Gophers were a possibility  (but are the Gophers ever really a possibility when the other two schools mentioned are USC and OSU ?)  The locals (mostly Mike Morris on KFAN sports talk) kept predicting that Henderson might pick UM, and open the recruiting floodgates for Brewster.

Instead, the talk a day later is that perhaps Brewster's contract extension was a little too soon, and maybe Glen Mason wasn't as bad a coach as everybody thought.  He regularly went to bowls, and Brewster doesn't appear to be taking the Gophers to that next level... 

A less pleasant moment came when some anonymous Sun-Times staffer chose to use a picture of Fitz

http://www.suntimes.com/index.html

to illustrate a link to todays movie critic Rich Roeper column.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/roeper/2028624,CST-NWS-roep04.article

a disjointed column discussing the craziness of elevating National Signing Day into another sports holiday,  as well as the fact that NFL games have a lot of commercials, and the fact that only a small percentage of the 60 minutes played consists of real 'action'.  Oh, and a short gripe that College football is really minor leagues for the NFL (very original observation, Mr Roeper).  Why Pat Fitzgerald should be used to illustrate this fairly worthless column is not clear.  A more apt illustration might have been some network executive counting a stack of money, but the Sun-Times must not have had that picture in their archives.

Was Jim Odonnell at the editors desk this morning ?

Chuck Herron   Tech '85