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per GopherSports.com:
Winning the turnover battle is something Fleck has been pushing since day one. That’s why he had the turnover margin chart – which features all 14 teams in the Big Ten – installed in the team meeting room. It’s one of the first things that the team sees every day and it stresses the importance of the ball. After a neutral turnover margin last week, Fleck stressed the need to cause some disruption.
“We dropped two last week that we should have had two more interceptions,” Fleck said. “Those are all the coulda, woulda, shouldas. That's why we kept that chart right there. The difference between really good and elite teams is this much. On the defensive side, it's getting the ball and getting the takeaways.”
Turnovers – like what happened on Saturday night – often turn games around.
“If you can do that, you are going to win a lot of games,” Fleck said. “I showed everybody that statistic when I first got here, when we were 117th in the country in turnover margin, you are one and 11. When you are number one in the country, you are 13 and 0. It is the number one stat in football.”
And after the second week of football, the Gophers are trending in the right direction.
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Go Gophers!!
Winning the turnover battle is something Fleck has been pushing since day one. That’s why he had the turnover margin chart – which features all 14 teams in the Big Ten – installed in the team meeting room. It’s one of the first things that the team sees every day and it stresses the importance of the ball. After a neutral turnover margin last week, Fleck stressed the need to cause some disruption.
“We dropped two last week that we should have had two more interceptions,” Fleck said. “Those are all the coulda, woulda, shouldas. That's why we kept that chart right there. The difference between really good and elite teams is this much. On the defensive side, it's getting the ball and getting the takeaways.”
Turnovers – like what happened on Saturday night – often turn games around.
“If you can do that, you are going to win a lot of games,” Fleck said. “I showed everybody that statistic when I first got here, when we were 117th in the country in turnover margin, you are one and 11. When you are number one in the country, you are 13 and 0. It is the number one stat in football.”
And after the second week of football, the Gophers are trending in the right direction.
http://www.gophersports.com/sports/...tm_content=headlines&utm_campaign=GopherDaily
Go Gophers!!