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per Madison.com:
Minnesota hasn’t claimed a Big Ten Conference football title since 1967, and it has won 10 games in a season just once during the modern era.
The Golden Gophers haven’t beaten their biggest rival, the University of Wisconsin, in the past 13 tries. It’s a program that, for years and even decades, can’t break into the conversation with the rest of the conference’s top teams.
The project may be perfect for P.J. Fleck, Minnesota’s new coach with a unifying leadership style and energetic personality. Fleck led Western Michigan to a 13-1 record and a berth in the Cotton Bowl last season — a 24-16 loss to the University of Wisconsin — behind his “row-the-boat” mantra, and, if nothing else, has already garnered added attention for his new program before even coaching a game in Minneapolis. ESPNU is even airing a four-part documentary series called “Being P.J. Fleck” that premieres Aug. 2.
Fleck’s first step, before helping Minnesota evolve into a Big Ten contender, is simply making the program relevant again.
“You’re the front porch of the institution,” Fleck said Tuesday at Big Ten Media Days. “You’re not the most important thing on campus, but you’re the front porch of nationally what everybody sees, and you’re representing a ton of people.
“One thing I am hired to do is bring national exposure, national attention to the University of Minnesota. And that’s what we’re going to do.”
http://host.madison.com/wsj/sports/...cle_b8227984-e268-5eef-b847-0ba03535c3ac.html
Go Gophers!!
Minnesota hasn’t claimed a Big Ten Conference football title since 1967, and it has won 10 games in a season just once during the modern era.
The Golden Gophers haven’t beaten their biggest rival, the University of Wisconsin, in the past 13 tries. It’s a program that, for years and even decades, can’t break into the conversation with the rest of the conference’s top teams.
The project may be perfect for P.J. Fleck, Minnesota’s new coach with a unifying leadership style and energetic personality. Fleck led Western Michigan to a 13-1 record and a berth in the Cotton Bowl last season — a 24-16 loss to the University of Wisconsin — behind his “row-the-boat” mantra, and, if nothing else, has already garnered added attention for his new program before even coaching a game in Minneapolis. ESPNU is even airing a four-part documentary series called “Being P.J. Fleck” that premieres Aug. 2.
Fleck’s first step, before helping Minnesota evolve into a Big Ten contender, is simply making the program relevant again.
“You’re the front porch of the institution,” Fleck said Tuesday at Big Ten Media Days. “You’re not the most important thing on campus, but you’re the front porch of nationally what everybody sees, and you’re representing a ton of people.
“One thing I am hired to do is bring national exposure, national attention to the University of Minnesota. And that’s what we’re going to do.”
http://host.madison.com/wsj/sports/...cle_b8227984-e268-5eef-b847-0ba03535c3ac.html
Go Gophers!!