Minnesota Finds Their Man

On the same day that the Big Ten teams that have a postseason learn their fate the Minnesota Gophers are announcing their future. Mainly with the announcement that Northern Illinois' Jerry Kill will become their next head coach.

During his tenure at Northern Illinois Kill led the Huskies to three bowl games, but will not coach in the final one. After being formally introduced as the next head coach of the Gophers on Monday morning.

Before heading to Northern Illinois Kill was the head coach at Southern Illinois. Where he helped rebuild the Saluki's program that made consist ant in the FCS playoffs. But it might be what happened to Kill's health at SIU that challenged him more than being the head football coach.

In a game against Illinois State back in 2005 coach Kill suddenly suffered what appeared to be a seizure. After a set of examinations Kill was diagnosed with cancer, but he never missed a game.

Following the season Kill went under the knife, and had part of his kidney removed. Then just four days later he was back on the recruiting trail, and signing players to come to Southern Illinois.

His cancer would go into remission, and Kill would move on to become the head coach at Northern Illinois. That is until today when he accepted the job at Minnesota, and just days after his Huskies lost the MAC Conference Championship.