BleedGopher
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per Pat:
As a player, you participate in the winter workout program, in spring football, in the summer workout program, and August practice, and then the new coach — completely for his aggrandizement and not yours — advertises this as Year Zero for his program.
Could anyone blame the upperclassmen, the players involved in the 9-4 record and bowl upset in 2016, from sitting around, having a beer and wondering why this self-promoter is implying they are Private Zeros, that Fleck has been put in position to start from the bottom?
Pete Thamel, now at Yahoo sports after a run at Sports Illustrated, became a fan of Fleck a few years back at Western Michigan. Recently, Thamel had a sitdown with Fleck and then turned it into a promotional essay for the coach.
It couldn’t have been more of a love fest if Phillip John had written it himself, which apparently he did, because the byline read: P.J. Fleck.
P.J. the author was very proud of P.J. the coach’s conduct in “a great teaching moment’’ early in his tenure with the Gophers.
Fleck saw a photo attachment on Twitter with one player holding an alcohol bottle, and several others with alcohol around them. And then he called a team meeting to ask:
“If I put a picture of my wife Heather and I posing with alcohol, what would happen to me if those got tweeted out?”
Apparently, to his face, the Gophers acted as if this was the always-coveted teaching moment. I’m guessing when they left the meeting, the juvenile nature of this comparison was worth a giant laugh.
Michigan State by 4. That’s not much, but then again it’s Year Zero, and Phillip John keeps telling us how great failure is for the future of his program.
HIS. Not the players’. They are just pawns in the Game of Being P.J.
http://m.startribune.com/gophers-co...wering-expectations/450454723/?section=sports
Go Gophers!!
As a player, you participate in the winter workout program, in spring football, in the summer workout program, and August practice, and then the new coach — completely for his aggrandizement and not yours — advertises this as Year Zero for his program.
Could anyone blame the upperclassmen, the players involved in the 9-4 record and bowl upset in 2016, from sitting around, having a beer and wondering why this self-promoter is implying they are Private Zeros, that Fleck has been put in position to start from the bottom?
Pete Thamel, now at Yahoo sports after a run at Sports Illustrated, became a fan of Fleck a few years back at Western Michigan. Recently, Thamel had a sitdown with Fleck and then turned it into a promotional essay for the coach.
It couldn’t have been more of a love fest if Phillip John had written it himself, which apparently he did, because the byline read: P.J. Fleck.
P.J. the author was very proud of P.J. the coach’s conduct in “a great teaching moment’’ early in his tenure with the Gophers.
Fleck saw a photo attachment on Twitter with one player holding an alcohol bottle, and several others with alcohol around them. And then he called a team meeting to ask:
“If I put a picture of my wife Heather and I posing with alcohol, what would happen to me if those got tweeted out?”
Apparently, to his face, the Gophers acted as if this was the always-coveted teaching moment. I’m guessing when they left the meeting, the juvenile nature of this comparison was worth a giant laugh.
Michigan State by 4. That’s not much, but then again it’s Year Zero, and Phillip John keeps telling us how great failure is for the future of his program.
HIS. Not the players’. They are just pawns in the Game of Being P.J.
http://m.startribune.com/gophers-co...wering-expectations/450454723/?section=sports
Go Gophers!!