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per the Daily:
Minnesota's football team and the rest of the Big Ten west division were in the spotlight Monday as day one of the annual Big Ten Media days in kicked off in Chicago over one month before the start to the season.
The two-day convention began the chatter around the Big Ten, but for the Gophers, the focus was on the youth of the team.
“We have a very youthful, very young, very inexperienced football team which does not necessarily mean we can’t win,” head coach P.J. Fleck said. “We have a very talented football team, just incredibly young.”
This year the Gophers are so young that only 23 of the 85 scholarships awarded were to upperclassmen, according to Fleck.
Junior linebacker Carter Coughlin said youth is not an issue.
“The young guys are really, really talented. I think some of them are going to just shock everyone,” Coughlin said.
To combat the youth and inexperience of the team, the coaching staff introduced a motto of maturity.
“Our whole model for this year is 'race to maturity' and [we define maturity] as when doing what you have to do becomes doing what you want to do,” Fleck said.
http://www.mndaily.com/article/2018...es-the-importance-of-this-years-underclassmen
Go Gophers!!
Minnesota's football team and the rest of the Big Ten west division were in the spotlight Monday as day one of the annual Big Ten Media days in kicked off in Chicago over one month before the start to the season.
The two-day convention began the chatter around the Big Ten, but for the Gophers, the focus was on the youth of the team.
“We have a very youthful, very young, very inexperienced football team which does not necessarily mean we can’t win,” head coach P.J. Fleck said. “We have a very talented football team, just incredibly young.”
This year the Gophers are so young that only 23 of the 85 scholarships awarded were to upperclassmen, according to Fleck.
Junior linebacker Carter Coughlin said youth is not an issue.
“The young guys are really, really talented. I think some of them are going to just shock everyone,” Coughlin said.
To combat the youth and inexperience of the team, the coaching staff introduced a motto of maturity.
“Our whole model for this year is 'race to maturity' and [we define maturity] as when doing what you have to do becomes doing what you want to do,” Fleck said.
http://www.mndaily.com/article/2018...es-the-importance-of-this-years-underclassmen
Go Gophers!!