Pat linked me to Tim Brewster's twitter feed
Holy crap, this stuff is hilarious.
# Do you love football?? I sure do!! What a great day. Young players really coming along! Off to the clinic. GO GOPHERS!!about 20 hours ago from web
# Very important practice today! "Pound the Rock"!! Check out www.Play4brew.com Also you can get me at brews034@umn.edu10:02 AM Apr 2nd from web
# Ice is out!! What a beautiful sight!!5:15 AM Apr 2nd from web
# If you have not read Uncommon by Tony Dungy please do. It is an amazing book! Go Gophers!!12:35 PM Apr 1st from web
# This is a fun team to coach!! They do things right on and OFF the field! GO GOPHERS!!9:58 AM Apr 1st from web
# By the end of the week you will be able to read the word Minnesota in the upper deck on one side of TCF Bank Stadium! Awesome sight6:47 PM Mar 31st from web
# Another great practice in today! We were in full pads and the guys really competed!6:45 PM Mar 31st from web
# Thx for all the positive emails about our twitter site! The Gopher Nation is a very special place! Go Gophers!!5:46 AM Mar 31st from web
# Cant hardly wait til tomorrow! Practice #4 and its in FULL PADS!! GO GOPHERS!!6:17 PM Mar 30th from web
# Lets all hope that Tubby stays a Gopher!! Together we will make Minnesota ROCK!!1:21 PM Mar 30th from web
# Players Play- TOUGH Players Win!!!!!!7:08 AM Mar 30th from web
# On a Sunday nite could there be anything better than Rudolphs barbeque? I say NO!!4:32 PM Mar 29th from web
# The Spartans looked great!! GO BIG TEN!!!3:17 PM Mar 29th from web
# TCF Bank Stadium WOWED recruits again on Friday!!10:08 AM Mar 29th from web
the best part about it
is that while other coaches started up Twitter accounts, should the NCAA look into it as a recruiting loophole, they could at least argue they are aiming their feed at updating students, alumni, and fans in addition to recruits.
Brewster on the other hand named his entire feed "Play4Brew". He's not even subtle that his only reason for doing this is to speak directly to recruits.
I think it might be a fun post to do a excitement!!! metric on the various coach twitter feeds. Read in the text and report back the number of exclamation marks and/or ALLCAPS as a percentage of total characters used.
No doubt Brewster will win HANDS DOWN!!!!!
OT: what's going on with the "fanhouse"
Is it dying a slow death? The ND updates are few and far between. And our buddy Cook is MIA.
I think they're re-aligning.
by domer.mq 
, Friday, April 03, 2009, 14:31 (6263 days ago) @ Jay
They haven't announced anything, but they've actually been pretty aggressive about picking up "talent" from newspapers and the like since the newspaper industry is dying.
I wont be surprised if they depart from using "bloggers" to, you know, do the blogging.
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