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per Shipley:
The Gophers (8-0) will have their hands full with Penn State (8-0), which comes with quality victories over Michigan, Iowa and Pittsburgh. But while Minnesota has yet to play an, uh, elite team this season, remember that the Gophers closed last year with convincing victories at Wisconsin and against Georgia Tech in a bowl game.
It’s impossible to overestimate last year’s 37-15 victory in Madison. Kill’s teams had victories over Michigan, Nebraska, Penn State and Iowa — the “helmet teams,” as former defensive coordinator and interim head coach Tracy Claeys called them — but the Badgers were Minnesota’s Kryptonite, winners of the previous 14 games dating to 2003.
Without beating Wisconsin, the Gophers would never be whole again.
Fleck’s name had been popping up in coaching-search stories the way it had come up after he had Western Michigan undefeated and in the Cotton Bowl in 2016, but he said Tuesday his new deal had been in the works “for a while” — the guess here is since the day after that win at Wisconsin.
Win or lose Saturday, Fleck has the Gophers on the right track, and if he’s a little enthusiastically earnest, well, there are much worse things to be.
https://www.postbulletin.com/sports...cle_9cc4b734-0030-11ea-8f7b-f356ef77f902.html
Go Gophers!!
The Gophers (8-0) will have their hands full with Penn State (8-0), which comes with quality victories over Michigan, Iowa and Pittsburgh. But while Minnesota has yet to play an, uh, elite team this season, remember that the Gophers closed last year with convincing victories at Wisconsin and against Georgia Tech in a bowl game.
It’s impossible to overestimate last year’s 37-15 victory in Madison. Kill’s teams had victories over Michigan, Nebraska, Penn State and Iowa — the “helmet teams,” as former defensive coordinator and interim head coach Tracy Claeys called them — but the Badgers were Minnesota’s Kryptonite, winners of the previous 14 games dating to 2003.
Without beating Wisconsin, the Gophers would never be whole again.
Fleck’s name had been popping up in coaching-search stories the way it had come up after he had Western Michigan undefeated and in the Cotton Bowl in 2016, but he said Tuesday his new deal had been in the works “for a while” — the guess here is since the day after that win at Wisconsin.
Win or lose Saturday, Fleck has the Gophers on the right track, and if he’s a little enthusiastically earnest, well, there are much worse things to be.
https://www.postbulletin.com/sports...cle_9cc4b734-0030-11ea-8f7b-f356ef77f902.html
Go Gophers!!