BleedGopher
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Per Tanick:
Fleck deemed the success of Indiana University, college football’s all-time most losing dormant, as an undefeated national championship this year “the greatest turnaround of an athletic team of all time” and “the greatest sports achievement in our lifetime.”
While the Gophers are “striving” to reach similar heights, Fleck said he is “striving to make it happen in a different way,” referring to a much greater emphasis on recruiting and developing high school athletes, who comprise about 80% of the roster, compared to 20% of players coming through the portal. Fleck de-emphasized the importance of the portal to the team’s fortunes, differentiating the heavy reliance on that device by Indiana whose mature players this season had an average age of 23.5 years old due to periodic portal transfers, a few years older than most other college teams.
Go Gophers!!
Fleck deemed the success of Indiana University, college football’s all-time most losing dormant, as an undefeated national championship this year “the greatest turnaround of an athletic team of all time” and “the greatest sports achievement in our lifetime.”
While the Gophers are “striving” to reach similar heights, Fleck said he is “striving to make it happen in a different way,” referring to a much greater emphasis on recruiting and developing high school athletes, who comprise about 80% of the roster, compared to 20% of players coming through the portal. Fleck de-emphasized the importance of the portal to the team’s fortunes, differentiating the heavy reliance on that device by Indiana whose mature players this season had an average age of 23.5 years old due to periodic portal transfers, a few years older than most other college teams.
Go Gophers!!
