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per Greder:
It’s no surprise the phrase “Row the Boat” covers walls and T-shirts throughout the Gophers’ new Larson Football Performance Center.
But a more mundane number is posted alongside coach P.J. Fleck’s mantra on the walls at the outdoor practice field and inside the team meeting room: 78 percent.
It’s the Gophers’ boiled-down figure on what it takes to win games.
Fleck said it is based on studies from the NFL and college football over the past 50 years, as well as the U’s internal analysis of how teams win.
It’s a number that for the most part has eluded the Gophers during a 3-4 start that includes four consecutive losses beginning Big Ten Conference play heading into Friday night’s game against Indiana (4-4, 1-4) at TCF Bank Stadium.
“Take culture out of it. Take team out of it. Take schedule out of it,” Fleck said. “Lets just talk strictly facts about football.”
There are four legs to this chair: 1. turnover margin; 2. margin between your offensive players breaking tackles against your defenders missing them; 3. accruing more explosive plays (25 yards or more for the offense, 20 yards or more for defense); 4. both teams punting from within their own 4-yard line.
“If you win all four (categories), which we have, we’ve won games,” Fleck said. “We’ve lost all four and lost games. You can have a mixture and then the 22 percent is how hard you play.”
http://www.brainerddispatch.com/sports/football/4519472-numbers-game-has-been-killing-gophers
Go Gophers!!
It’s no surprise the phrase “Row the Boat” covers walls and T-shirts throughout the Gophers’ new Larson Football Performance Center.
But a more mundane number is posted alongside coach P.J. Fleck’s mantra on the walls at the outdoor practice field and inside the team meeting room: 78 percent.
It’s the Gophers’ boiled-down figure on what it takes to win games.
Fleck said it is based on studies from the NFL and college football over the past 50 years, as well as the U’s internal analysis of how teams win.
It’s a number that for the most part has eluded the Gophers during a 3-4 start that includes four consecutive losses beginning Big Ten Conference play heading into Friday night’s game against Indiana (4-4, 1-4) at TCF Bank Stadium.
“Take culture out of it. Take team out of it. Take schedule out of it,” Fleck said. “Lets just talk strictly facts about football.”
There are four legs to this chair: 1. turnover margin; 2. margin between your offensive players breaking tackles against your defenders missing them; 3. accruing more explosive plays (25 yards or more for the offense, 20 yards or more for defense); 4. both teams punting from within their own 4-yard line.
“If you win all four (categories), which we have, we’ve won games,” Fleck said. “We’ve lost all four and lost games. You can have a mixture and then the 22 percent is how hard you play.”
http://www.brainerddispatch.com/sports/football/4519472-numbers-game-has-been-killing-gophers
Go Gophers!!
