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Per Randy:
P.J. Fleck took his Gophers football team to Huntington Bank Stadium on Sunday night for practice, a detour from the usual routine at the Athletes Village. The goal for the coach was to reintroduce his team to a gamelike urgency after going through its first of two bye weeks last week.
The Gophers last played Oct. 12 when they beat UCLA 21-17 at Rose Bowl Stadium, improving to 4-3 overall, running their win streak to two games and completing a California two-step with wins over the Bruins and then-No. 11 USC to get the season pointed in a positive direction.
Fleck welcomed the week off as a chance for banged-up players to heal and for he and his staff to do a deep look at how they can improve the team in all three phases – offense, defense and special teams.
“When you get to the bye week, the No. 1 thing for a team is to get healthy,” Fleck said. “… The No. 2 objective was to get better at the things we’re not very good at, and then to keep mastering the things we are. … And then No. 3 was obviously to get out recruiting and to self-scout. We were able to do that.”
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Go Gophers!!
P.J. Fleck took his Gophers football team to Huntington Bank Stadium on Sunday night for practice, a detour from the usual routine at the Athletes Village. The goal for the coach was to reintroduce his team to a gamelike urgency after going through its first of two bye weeks last week.
The Gophers last played Oct. 12 when they beat UCLA 21-17 at Rose Bowl Stadium, improving to 4-3 overall, running their win streak to two games and completing a California two-step with wins over the Bruins and then-No. 11 USC to get the season pointed in a positive direction.
Fleck welcomed the week off as a chance for banged-up players to heal and for he and his staff to do a deep look at how they can improve the team in all three phases – offense, defense and special teams.
“When you get to the bye week, the No. 1 thing for a team is to get healthy,” Fleck said. “… The No. 2 objective was to get better at the things we’re not very good at, and then to keep mastering the things we are. … And then No. 3 was obviously to get out recruiting and to self-scout. We were able to do that.”
Gophers take inward look during bye week, stress need to get greedy
Improving the run game, stuffing the run and creating more takeaways are on coach P.J. Fleck’s to-do list.
www.startribune.com
Go Gophers!!