I remember Tim Brewster all too well. (If you don’t, I envy you.)
I remember all of the bluster about winning a Big Ten championship and leading Gopher Nation to Pasadena. (The patch of Rose Bowl turf was a nice touch.)
I remember his repeated and excessive abuse of the word “tremendous.” (I counted six in total during his introductory press conference.)
I remember the Insight Bowl meltdown that led to the firing of Glen Mason, and the feeling that the program had grown stagnant with him at the helm. There was this sense that Mason had reached his ceiling at Minnesota, and that the program needed a new leader to reach the next level.