Reusse: Is P.J. Fleck the answer to lift the Gophers out of mediocrity?

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Per Pat:

How the over-amped coach body surfing across his players in a winning locker room over a then-ranked Nebraska team can become a complete whuppin’ in Iowa City eight days later is anyone’s guess, including Fleck’s?

And, yes, Fleck did offer the traditional explanation while digesting an extra-bad defeat. The quote is always, “It’s all on me,” which is nothing in meaning or sincerity.

How could a coach with a 37-38 record in the Big Ten (he’ll get even again Saturday against lowly Michigan State) with his belief in bringing in players with strong character go from $3.5 million annually when hired to more than double that in under a decade if he actually believed it was his coaching that causes defeats such as last Saturday’s?

We aren’t buying the it’s-all-on-me hogwash, Coach Fleck, although your devotion to switch to “prevent offense” late on a bad Saturday has become a tradition worth a laugh.

www.startribune.com

Reusse: Over 8.5 seasons as the Gophers head coach, Fleck has led them to a sub-.500 Big Ten record — is he the right man for the job?

Since being hired as the head coach of the Gophers in 2017, P.J. Fleck has led Minnesota to a 37-38 record in the Big Ten and is still searching for consistency within the program.
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I heard him on the radio today saying everyone has to take accountability for the loss, he said he takes the most, but everyone needs to be held accountable.
 







btowngopher said:
I heard him on the radio today saying everyone has to take accountability for the loss, he said he takes the most, but everyone needs to be held accountable.
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I'm sure he's feeling accountable as he deposits his millions in the bank.

1-8 record against Iowa, but still makes millions. "Held accountable"
 



uggh Cignetti is the exception to the rule that program ascension doesn't happen over night. Look at Nebraska, Look at Wisconsin, Look at us post Mason. It took us 20 years to get back to middle of the pack in the big ten. We are finally filling up the stadium on a regular basis. The students finally give a damn. I don't like losing to Iowa all the time either but at least our stadium isn't Kinnick North anymore when they come to town. The greed and impatience of the casual fan is so annoying. Glen Mason's best teams had several heartbreaking, embarrassing losses at home. At least PJ's are on the road. Kills teams would lose bowl games to G5 teams every year.
 

TurfGopher said:
uggh Cignetti is the exception to the rule that program ascension doesn't happen over night. Look at Nebraska, Look at Wisconsin, Look at us post Mason. It took us 20 years to get back to middle of the pack in the big ten. We are finally filling up the stadium on a regular basis. The students finally give a damn. I don't like losing to Iowa all the time either but at least our stadium isn't Kinnick North anymore when they come to town. The greed and impatience of the casual fan is so annoying. Glen Mason's best teams had several heartbreaking, embarrassing losses at home. At least PJ's are on the road. Kills teams would lose bowl games to G5 teams every year.
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We are not finally filling up the stadium on a regular basis, in fact if you look at attendance records we have yet to achieve the attendance levels of Jerry Kill's teams. It's a disgrace, full stop.
 

TurfGopher said:
. . . We are finally filling up the stadium on a regular basis. . . .
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Is this true? In 2023 the Gophers averaged 38,321 in actual attendance (scanned tickets), with 5 of the 7 home games below 40,000. Has actual attendance materially increased since 2023?
 

I guess I'm wrong about attendance, I was using the esoteric approach.
 

Here are the yearly averages at the new stadium, according to the U. (Announced, not scanned tickets.) 2015 was the year after the Citrus Bowl, with the extra seats for the Vikings. The first scholarship seating requirement came after that year and the second came in 2017. That killed us.

YearAvg.
200950,805
201049,513
201147,714
201246,637
201347,797
201447,865
201552,355
201643,814
201744,358
201837,915
201946,190
2020651
202146,140
202245,018
202348,452
202447,467
 


gopherguy said:
We are not finally filling up the stadium on a regular basis, in fact if you look at attendance records we have yet to achieve the attendance levels of Jerry Kill's teams. It's a disgrace, full stop.
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Gonna be hard to ever beat the 2015 attendance record considering the stadium doesn’t fit that much.

Number of tickets sold doesn’t really matter. Ticket revenue matters.
They don’t price the tickets to sell out, they price tickets to maximize revenue.
I’m sure that’s information that would be made public upon request in terms of ticket revenue per season. But I don’t care to request it.



The point is, I don’t negatively judge any coach for not filling up a stadium when the pricing model isn’t a model with the goal of a sellout.


Perhaps the data would say we have more ticket revenue than the Kill years. Perhaps it would say we have less. But that’s the number that actually matters.
 


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