11 Wins is a Big Deal

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PJ Fleck and his staff deliver 11 wins in their 3rd year at the helm. For comparison...

Barry Alvarez did this one time in 15 years.
Kirk Ferentz did this three times in 21 years.
Jim Harbaugh has never done this in 5 years at Michigan. Michigan has only two 11 win seasons in their past 22.
Nebraska has not done this in 18 years.
 

fmlizard said:
PJ Fleck and his staff deliver 11 wins in their 3rd year at the helm. For comparison...

Barry Alvarez did this one time in 15 years.
Kirk Ferentz did this three times in 21 years.
Jim Harbaugh has never done this in 5 years at Michigan.
Nebraska has not done this in 18 years.
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Thanks for that. Nice to put it in perspective.
 

fmlizard said:
PJ Fleck and his staff deliver 11 wins in their 3rd year at the helm. For comparison...

Barry Alvarez did this one time in 15 years.
Kirk Ferentz did this three times in 21 years.
Jim Harbaugh has never done this in 5 years at Michigan. Michigan has only two 11 win seasons in their past 22.
Nebraska has not done this in 18 years.
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Also, playing 9 Big Ten games makes this tougher than in the past when teams could rack up 4 easy non-conference wins.
 

fmlizard said:
PJ Fleck and his staff deliver 11 wins in their 3rd year at the helm. For comparison...

Barry Alvarez did this one time in 15 years.
Kirk Ferentz did this three times in 21 years.
Jim Harbaugh has never done this in 5 years at Michigan. Michigan has only two 11 win seasons in their past 22.
Nebraska has not done this in 18 years.
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Thanks for the stats. Awesome.
 

fmlizard said:
PJ Fleck and his staff deliver 11 wins in their 3rd year at the helm. For comparison...

Barry Alvarez did this one time in 15 years.
Kirk Ferentz did this three times in 21 years.
Jim Harbaugh has never done this in 5 years at Michigan. Michigan has only two 11 win seasons in their past 22.
Nebraska has not done this in 18 years.
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GREAT post!
 


fmlizard said:
PJ Fleck and his staff deliver 11 wins in their 3rd year at the helm. For comparison...

Barry Alvarez did this one time in 15 years.
Kirk Ferentz did this three times in 21 years.
Jim Harbaugh has never done this in 5 years at Michigan. Michigan has only two 11 win seasons in their past 22.
Nebraska has not done this in 18 years.
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Elite post!!

Go Gophers!!
 

fmlizard said:
PJ Fleck and his staff deliver 11 wins in their 3rd year at the helm. For comparison...

Barry Alvarez did this one time in 15 years.
Kirk Ferentz did this three times in 21 years.
Jim Harbaugh has never done this in 5 years at Michigan. Michigan has only two 11 win seasons in their past 22.
Nebraska has not done this in 18 years.
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Awesome! Ski-U-Mah, Row the Boat, Go Gophers!
 

fmlizard said:
PJ Fleck and his staff deliver 11 wins in their 3rd year at the helm. For comparison...

Barry Alvarez did this one time in 15 years.
Kirk Ferentz did this three times in 21 years.
Jim Harbaugh has never done this in 5 years at Michigan. Michigan has only two 11 win seasons in their past 22.
Nebraska has not done this in 18 years.
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While I was hoping for the best this year, I would have never predicted a 11 win season. Then to look at the stats of other coaches, this is awesome!
 

Before the season started, a buddy of mine (a Michigan State fan) came up and asked me if he was right in putting a bet (~$100) on the Gophers to break 7 wins this season. I scoured the schedule, compared their late-season performances last year to what I expected of them this year, shrugged my shoulders and said, yeah, I think so. I thought we had a strong chance at 8 or 9 wins. This, though...this - even with the heartbreak at Iowa and the late-game letdown vs. Wisconsin - was beyond anything I'd have imagined; especially as we struggled to get going in the first three OOC games. But after passing those tests, even barely, this squad cruised through the B1G season, with a couple of bumps along the way, like no other has in my lifetime.

And while I've been a hardened Gopher fan for decades, I know of a whole lot of other closet Gopher fans who woke up this year. It's a good time to be a Gopher football fan.
 



GoForGold said:
Also, playing 9 Big Ten games makes this tougher than in the past when teams could rack up 4 easy non-conference wins.
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A little. Rutgers was honestly the worst team on the schedule though.
 

Great win, congrats to all! Now it starts getting harder... you will not be sneaking up on anyone next year, they know what's coming. All part of building a program.
 


GoForGold said:
You've got a point. Normally, the conference schedule doesn't include a team like that.
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Yeah it’s strange.
we also have to keep in mind that 12game schedules weren’t regular things until around 2000
 



An even more interesting comparison to me is that Joe Tiller never even won 10 games in a season at Purdue.
 

The 11 wins is especially compared to what a loss would have been like. Had we lost we would have lost 3 of the last 4, would have had the same 10-3 record that Mason had in 2003 and we would have have had only one quality win with three quality losses. The 11 win total is a real record for any 12 game season we have played. Well done.
 


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