Pitino learned from Fleck, says Lobos are entering "year one" after a "year zero"

[BleedGopher]

per Will:

When the University of New Mexico’s Richard Pitino was still the men’s basketball coach at Minnesota, he’d give Gophers football coach P.J. Fleck at hard time about referring to a program’s first year under new leadership as “Year Zero.”

It referred to a coach trying to pick up the pieces from the old regime and trying to build toward a brighter future without missing a beat. That first year was, in Fleck’s eyes, merely planting one’s stakes in the ground and establishing a presence.

The real work, he’d tell Pitino, wouldn’t start for a good 12 months. All the progress made in that first year wouldn’t start to make an impact until the second season — or, in Fleck’s mind, Year One.

Pitino entering what he refers to as 'Year One' with Lobos

From Richard Pitino's perspective, with one season under his belt with the Lobos, now the real work begins.

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Go Gophers!!

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

 

[MaxyJR1]

With the Transfer Portal it is year zero or 1 for coaches every year.

 

[MNVCGUY]

*sigh* this year zero BS just refuses to die. If you ask Fleck now what season this is he will say Year 6. So even though he used the year zero thing, it wasn't for long and he hasn't used it since that I am aware of.....at least not in any meaningful way to try and imply that this should just be year 5 or something along those lines.

Some people take things way to literally.....they can't grasp the concept of what is meant by saying year zero with a program during those first 12 months.

 

[short ornery norwegian]

Panic in Year Zero! (a.k.a. End of the World) is a 1962 American black-and-white survival science fiction film from American International Pictures, produced by Arnold Houghland and Lou Rusoff, directed by Ray Milland, who also stars with Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Mary Mitchel, and Joan Freeman. The original music score was composed by Les Baxter. The screenplay was written by John Morton and Jay Simms.[2] The film was released by AIP in 1962 as a double feature with Tales of Terror.

I have actually seen this movie. it's not too bad. A 'typical American family' on a camping trip finds themselves trying to survive the outbreak of a nuclear war.

 

[PMWinSTP]

So he has a chance at 9 years there before they fire him?

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

Panic in Year Zero! (a.k.a. End of the World) is a 1962 American black-and-white survival science fiction film from American International Pictures, produced by Arnold Houghland and Lou Rusoff, directed by Ray Milland, who also stars with Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Mary Mitchel, and Joan Freeman. The original music score was composed by Les Baxter. The screenplay was written by John Morton and Jay Simms.[2] The film was released by AIP in 1962 as a double feature with Tales of Terror.

I have actually seen this movie. it's not too bad. A 'typical American family' on a camping trip finds themselves trying to survive the outbreak of a nuclear war.

Oh man last weekend was bad...

Once we got to our car we realized nothing had actually happened and we ate those other campers for nothing ... but stuff happens in the wild.

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

With the Transfer Portal it is year zero or 1 for coaches every year.

I think this concept might break some folks...

 

[GO4INLALALAND]

So does that mean he didn't get paid last season since it was year zero?

 

[MRJ]

The difference being Fleck has actually achieved something notable at the power-five level following his "year zero". Pitino? We'll see...

 

[Word]

With the Transfer Portal it is year zero or 1 for coaches every year.

Especially in basketball.

 

[Spaulding!No!]

Ben said on kfan that A previous MN head coach in bball was lazy. Nice