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In comes Brosmer. His highlights show off accuracy, craftiness in the red zone with shovel passes and improvisations, and adequate mobility on the zone read play.
“You start with the intangibles — they’re through the roof,” Fleck said. “…You feel like he’s already been here for 30 years.”
Brosmer appears to lack a big arm, but so did Tanner Morgan, Fleck’s favored five-year starter. So do a lot of above-average quarterbacks on seven-win teams.
And Minnesota’s schedule — along with a defensive front seven full of old guys — put seven wins in reach. The Gophers play their first four games at home, including Big Ten opener Iowa. And they picked the right years to play at rebuilding Michigan and UCLA while hosting USC and Penn State.
Annually a name that pops up for open jobs, Fleck opted to remain at Minnesota instead of pursuing the Bruin job. He deflected the UCLA question when asked in March. Fleck, entering his eighth season, is now the Gophers’ second-longest-tenured head coach in the last 50 years. That stint includes a 6-1 record against Nebraska, and a five-game winning streak.
For the first year since NU joined the league, the Huskers-Gophers series goes on hiatus. It returns in 2025.
By then, Fleck’s level of patience at Minnesota may have more definition.
He’s bemoaned, at times, his program’s inability to prevent elite talent — like running back Bucky Irving — from transferring to places like Oregon. He’s created an NIL-donors-only practice this spring for those who contribute to the Dinkytown Athletes fund and chosen to forgo a public spring football game.
“I want to keep things inside the best I possibly can keep things inside,” Fleck said, “with the way college football is changing.”
No Brosmer for you, Big Ten Network subscriber. At least not until next September.
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Go Gophers!!
In comes Brosmer. His highlights show off accuracy, craftiness in the red zone with shovel passes and improvisations, and adequate mobility on the zone read play.
“You start with the intangibles — they’re through the roof,” Fleck said. “…You feel like he’s already been here for 30 years.”
Brosmer appears to lack a big arm, but so did Tanner Morgan, Fleck’s favored five-year starter. So do a lot of above-average quarterbacks on seven-win teams.
And Minnesota’s schedule — along with a defensive front seven full of old guys — put seven wins in reach. The Gophers play their first four games at home, including Big Ten opener Iowa. And they picked the right years to play at rebuilding Michigan and UCLA while hosting USC and Penn State.
Annually a name that pops up for open jobs, Fleck opted to remain at Minnesota instead of pursuing the Bruin job. He deflected the UCLA question when asked in March. Fleck, entering his eighth season, is now the Gophers’ second-longest-tenured head coach in the last 50 years. That stint includes a 6-1 record against Nebraska, and a five-game winning streak.
For the first year since NU joined the league, the Huskers-Gophers series goes on hiatus. It returns in 2025.
By then, Fleck’s level of patience at Minnesota may have more definition.
He’s bemoaned, at times, his program’s inability to prevent elite talent — like running back Bucky Irving — from transferring to places like Oregon. He’s created an NIL-donors-only practice this spring for those who contribute to the Dinkytown Athletes fund and chosen to forgo a public spring football game.
“I want to keep things inside the best I possibly can keep things inside,” Fleck said, “with the way college football is changing.”
No Brosmer for you, Big Ten Network subscriber. At least not until next September.
McKewon: P.J. Fleck has a sixth-year QB he loves at Minnesota — but you won't see him yet
After Minnesota lost its final four games of the regular season, coach P.J. Fleck wanted a change at QB, picked his guy and had the deal done before other power
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