Fleck's Good Wins at Minnesota

[caliGopher]

Oregon, Michigan, Ohio st and Penn St are somebody… beat one of those teams and you have a chance to take the next step and be relevant.. What is our record against those teams? 1-7 vs Iowa? Beat Iowa at least we would be champs of the 5 state area.. what is the best non conference win? Not bowl win!

Fleck has done a good job time to be better and be relevant… They have had chances to step up and pissed it away.. if I could get credit for a win for every time I have heard… “ This one is on me “… I would have 10 wins..

Soooooo beating #5 Penn State isn't relevant?

 

[Roland Brooks]

Soooooo beating #5 Penn State isn't relevant?

Yes. Wasn’t fun to be relevant?

 

[caliGopher]

And sub .500 seasons for most of the 80's and 90's.

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And yet we have a respectable list of upsets and great wins starting in the last 80's and throughout the '90s that helped to get the program to where it is today.

The history of Gopher football post 1961 is rough, I agree, but we turned a corner with the hiring of Holtz, no matter how much people still hate him for leaving. Beginning in the '00s, we've built up and stabilized as a respectable football opponent in terms of results, with 63% of our regular seasons being at .500 or better. Put another way, the kids coming to college now in the '20s (born in the '00s) have known more winning than losing seasons from the Gophers in their lifetime. Something that hasn't been true since a kid born in the '40s.

The percentage of winning seasons by decade from the '60s on
'60s - 70% Warmath
'70s - 40% Warmath, Salem
'80s - 40% Salem, Holtz, and Gutekunst
'90s - 10% Gutey, Wacker, and Mason
'00s - 80% Mason, and the first few years of Brewster
'10s - 50% Brewster/Horton, Kill/Claeys, Claeys and Fleck
'20s (so far) - 60% Fleck

We turned the corner under Holtz and Gutey, took a massive step back with Wacker, then recovered and stabilized with Mason. Even though Maturi attempted to sabotage the program with the Brewster hire, Kill/Claeys and Claeys were able to reverse the academic decline under Brewster, which Fleck has driven even further. Football-wise, we are very stable at the Mason/Kill/Claeys/Fleck level.

Can we take the next step?

Percentage of winning seasons since Salem:
Holtz 50% - 2 seasons
Gutekunst: 67% - 6 seasons
Wacker: 0% - 5 seasons
Mason: 70% - 10 seasons
Brewster: 50% - 4 seasons
Kill/Claeys: 60% - 5 seasons
Claeys: 100% - 1 season
Fleck: 63% including 2020, 71% without