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Fleck: "We want multi-sport athletes...I want athletes that play multiple positions.”
per the Charleston Gazette-Mail:
P.J. Fleck seems like a pretty bright guy. After all, 36-year-old coaches don’t normally take the reins of a Big Ten football program like Minnesota (and lead Western Michigan to the 2016 Cotton Bowl, which made him attractive to a program like Minnesota) by being a dim bulb.
So if he offers up a strategy, chances are it’s a pretty good one. The latest one he mentioned looks like one of those pretty good ones.
During his weekly appearance on a Minneapolis sports radio station, Fleck discussed his preference for recruiting multi-sport athletes.
“Ninety percent of the people that we recruit, we want to play multiple sports,” Fleck said on 100.3-FM. “There are times where we won’t recruit a kid, just because he doesn’t play another sport.
“We want multi-sport athletes. I’m not saying we won’t — a lot of quarterbacks specialize these days, I get that — but again, I want athletes that play multiple positions.”
That’s a refreshing opinion concerning a youth sports world that, more often than not these days, sees kids throwing all their eggs into one sport’s basket. It’s no longer enough to play baseball during baseball season or soccer during soccer season. There are travel teams and all-star teams and offseason workouts, all focused on one specific set of skills.
https://www.wvgazettemail.com/sport...cle_d3833337-38ca-53cc-93de-39440e44aef9.html
Go Gophers!!
per the Charleston Gazette-Mail:
P.J. Fleck seems like a pretty bright guy. After all, 36-year-old coaches don’t normally take the reins of a Big Ten football program like Minnesota (and lead Western Michigan to the 2016 Cotton Bowl, which made him attractive to a program like Minnesota) by being a dim bulb.
So if he offers up a strategy, chances are it’s a pretty good one. The latest one he mentioned looks like one of those pretty good ones.
During his weekly appearance on a Minneapolis sports radio station, Fleck discussed his preference for recruiting multi-sport athletes.
“Ninety percent of the people that we recruit, we want to play multiple sports,” Fleck said on 100.3-FM. “There are times where we won’t recruit a kid, just because he doesn’t play another sport.
“We want multi-sport athletes. I’m not saying we won’t — a lot of quarterbacks specialize these days, I get that — but again, I want athletes that play multiple positions.”
That’s a refreshing opinion concerning a youth sports world that, more often than not these days, sees kids throwing all their eggs into one sport’s basket. It’s no longer enough to play baseball during baseball season or soccer during soccer season. There are travel teams and all-star teams and offseason workouts, all focused on one specific set of skills.
https://www.wvgazettemail.com/sport...cle_d3833337-38ca-53cc-93de-39440e44aef9.html
Go Gophers!!