It was mid-October in 2010 when Tim Brewster was finally relieved of his duties as the head coach of our Golden Gophers. Coach Horton stepped in to finish out the season as interim (to be emphatically endorsed by Sid Hartman after beating Iowa!) and eventually Jerry Kill was selected to lead the program. Hired on December 6th, 2010, Kill was not left with nearly enough time to recruit the class of athletes he needed. It was a mad scramble to add a few key pieces and keep the current commits.
Quickly looking over the 2011 class it is pretty remarkable the number of kids brought in by Kill in just a handful of weeks who are not at least significant contributors to the team.