Big Ten Endzone

- Tim Brewster’s positive mentality may have some Gopher fans thinking he’s nuts and a joke.  He talked of winning the Big Ten and playing in the Rose Bowl.  Then they lost 11 of 12 games. 

“I don’t know that was an overhype at all,” Brewster said. “This is who I am, so I’ve got to be who I am. What I wanted to do was raise the level of expectations of the fans and people of this state. I wanted the people of this state to think, ‘hey, yes, we can; yes, we will.’ I think they’ve lost that some. I think people in this state, people who backed the Gophers, had really lost a little bit of their optimism toward winning a championship and taking the Gophers to Pasadena. So I wanted to re-establish that as, hey, this is the mind-set.

Charley Walters of Twin Cities Pioneer Press has a good column about it.

- I know I promised not to talk about recruiting on this site too much, but this is a huge pick up for Michigan State and Mark Dantonio.  Spartanmag.com and the Free Press are reporting that Patrick White (not that Pat White) of Pickerington (Ohio) High School committed to MSU.  He was a hot receiver, kind of that “sexy” recruit so to speak and had offers from Oregon, Louisville, and Kansas.