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Turns out P.J. Fleck as a student teacher at Clinton Rosette Middle School in DeKalb, Ill., isn’t much different than P.J. Fleck as the head coach at the University of Minnesota.
“Well you’re always competing, right,” Fleck said while appearing on 247Sports’ Social Distance video series. “I still remember I was a student teacher at the time and I was student teaching and I had a wonderful, wonderful teacher that allowed me to actually teach during my student-teaching time. Like almost the entire time. And I remember I wanted to be the best teacher in that building. I mean, even when I was student-teaching.
“I always said I wanted people to be able to look in our classroom and say, ‘I want to be in Mr. Fleck’s class. They’re learning but, boy, are they having fun doing it.’”
“When you’re in elementary education you have to find 36 ways to teach 36 sixth-graders Ancient Rome, which creates I think the program we have today at the University of Minnesota,” Fleck said. “It’s an exciting, positive, energetic, passionate, purposeful culture that teaches life and football.”
No longer a middle school student teacher, the 39-year-old Fleck is 23-15 in three seasons at Minnesota, including a 2019 season in which the Golden Gophers went 11-2, were the toast of college football for a few weeks at least and beat Auburn in the Outback Bowl. The 11 wins were the program’s most since 1904 and Minnesota accordingly locked Fleck up with a new seven-year deal, bumping his salary up to $4.6 million through the 2026 season.
247sports.com
Go Gophers!!
Turns out P.J. Fleck as a student teacher at Clinton Rosette Middle School in DeKalb, Ill., isn’t much different than P.J. Fleck as the head coach at the University of Minnesota.
“Well you’re always competing, right,” Fleck said while appearing on 247Sports’ Social Distance video series. “I still remember I was a student teacher at the time and I was student teaching and I had a wonderful, wonderful teacher that allowed me to actually teach during my student-teaching time. Like almost the entire time. And I remember I wanted to be the best teacher in that building. I mean, even when I was student-teaching.
“I always said I wanted people to be able to look in our classroom and say, ‘I want to be in Mr. Fleck’s class. They’re learning but, boy, are they having fun doing it.’”
“When you’re in elementary education you have to find 36 ways to teach 36 sixth-graders Ancient Rome, which creates I think the program we have today at the University of Minnesota,” Fleck said. “It’s an exciting, positive, energetic, passionate, purposeful culture that teaches life and football.”
No longer a middle school student teacher, the 39-year-old Fleck is 23-15 in three seasons at Minnesota, including a 2019 season in which the Golden Gophers went 11-2, were the toast of college football for a few weeks at least and beat Auburn in the Outback Bowl. The 11 wins were the program’s most since 1904 and Minnesota accordingly locked Fleck up with a new seven-year deal, bumping his salary up to $4.6 million through the 2026 season.
Social Distance: P.J. Fleck on how teaching shaped him
Turns out P.J. Fleck as a student teacher at Clinton Rosette Middle School in DeKalb, Ill., isn’t much different than P.J. Fleck as the head coach at the University of
247sports.com
Go Gophers!!