Denver Broncos Brewster To Be Head Coach of Minnesota Gophers
By Michael Williams (2/9/2007)
Tim Brewter, Denver Bronco tight ends coach, is all set to become the new head coach at Minnesota. He will replace the fired Glen Mason. According to associate athletic director Time Wistrcill, Brewster is the person for them.
Brewster, who is 46 years old, spent the last two season with Bronco. This was after three years as tight ends coach for San Diego Chargers. Prior to this, he was an assistant at Texas and North Carolina.
Glen Mason was fired two day after Texas Tech rallied from a 38-7 deficit to complete the biggest ever comeback in major college bowl history. Texas Tech defeated Minnesota Gophers 44-41 in the Insight Bowl.
Mason was hired by Minnesota Gophers in 1997 to take over a program that was at the bottom of the Big Ten. He was selected as the head coach as he had proved himself at Kent State and Kansas.
Compared to Mason, Brewster has never been a head coach at collegiate or professional level. Brewster started his coaching careers as a graduate assistant at Purdue in 1986 before becoming the head coach at Central Catholic High School in Lafayette, Indiana. He was the head coach there for two seasons.
Then, Brewster spent nine years as tight ends coach, special teams coach and recruiting coordinator at North Carolina. He then decided to follow head coach Mack Brown to Texas and was there from 1998 to 2001.
Brewster helped Longhorns become one of the top recruiting teams in the country . He managed to get quarterback Chris Simms and all the talent that built the 2005 national championship team which includes quarterback Vince Young.
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