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Is there a backstory behind the dislike between Fleck and Fickell? There was definitely no love during that handshake.
 

By far the biggest game of the year, every year. So a win today pretty much makes the season for me. The mini axe that travels between my dirty Wisconsinite in-laws and myself will now be proudly displayed on my mantle for the next year!
 

Why did the tradition change of the winning team getting the axe from the sideline? I saw some red hoodie guy hand it over.
 

Spaulding!No! said:
Why did the tradition change of the winning team getting the axe from the sideline? I saw some red hoodie guy hand it over.
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Adding insult, the old way and I believe perhaps tensions rise a bit when the opposing team storms your bench.
 



Gold Vision said:
Is there a backstory behind the dislike between Fleck and Fickell? There was definitely no love during that handshake.
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Noticed that too. Don't really recall much of any sort of public feud but that handshake could not have been shorter and is certainly very different than the handshake Fleck usually shares after a game with the other coach.
 

MNVCGUY said:
Noticed that too. Don't really recall much of any sort of public feud but that handshake could not have been shorter and is certainly very different than the handshake Fleck usually shares after a game with the other coach.
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Our staff thought they recruited a few of our already committed kids when Fickell first arrived, I can’t recall which players. We called them out on it.

Love that Fleck took some shots at MN playing for each other and others playing for “streaks” - sports rivalries are fun.

Go Gophers!!
 

BleedGopher said:
Our staff thought they recruited a few of our already committed kids when Fickell first arrived, I can’t recall which players. We called them out on it.

Love that Fleck took some shots at MN playing for each other and others playing for “streaks” - sports rivalries are fun.

Go Gophers!!
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Has PJ ever recruited a guy already committed to another school? 🤔
 

Gold Vision said:
Is there a backstory behind the dislike between Fleck and Fickell? There was definitely no love during that handshake.
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Could be they were at Ohio State at the same time and something happened?
 



#2Gopher said:
Adding insult, the old way and I believe perhaps tensions rise a bit when the opposing team storms your bench.
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Thanks for the response! The run across the field is/ was fun…sorry to see it gone.
 

Gold Vision said:
Is there a backstory behind the dislike between Fleck and Fickell? There was definitely no love during that handshake.
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Negative recruiting - Here's a blurb from a 2022 article:

One Gophers football commitment, Prior Lake defensive lineman Martin Owusu, received a scholarship offer from Wisconsin just before the early-signing period opened this week. The Badgers trying to flip a pledge late in the recruiting cycle was only the start of it, according to head coach P.J. Fleck.

“(Owusu) showed me all the text messages on them doing everything they can to negative recruit, negative recruit, negative recruit to flip us, and it didn’t work,” Fleck said during his signing-day news conference Wednesday. “So, we Axed it.

“… That’s what’s great; you get to see all the text messages.” Fleck continued. “That’s the best part of negative recruiting. You get to see all these grown men negative recruit in text messages. It’s beautiful. Appreciate everybody sharing those with us because we don’t negative recruit, and it’s really interesting to see that.”

Owusu tweeted about the Badgers’ scholarship offer on Tuesday, but then deleted it. He followed it up with a clarifying tweet. “Ya, no sorry about that,” Owusu wrote. “… I’m a Gopher no matter what.”

Owusu, a three-star prospect, signed a national letter of intent Wednesday as one of 21 high school prospects in the Gophers’ 2023 recruiting class. Listed at 6-foot-3 and 290 pounds, he had 30 scholarship offers, including Kansas State, Iowa State, Washington, Washington State and California.

New Badgers coach Luke Fickell responded to Fleck’s accusations Wednesday. “I won’t negative recruit,” the former Cincinnati coach said in a video posted by 247 Sports. “I’m not saying that somebody didn’t call. I know we maybe reached out to somebody. But I wouldn’t think that we would have said anything negative about a guy going anywhere. We’ve got plenty positive to say about what we do.”
 

Spaulding!No! said:
Thanks for the response! The run across the field is/ was fun…sorry to see it gone.
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Miss the sprint across the field as well but it makes sense to have the trophy down in the endzone. Less chance for issues like what took place at the end of the Mich/OSU game today.
 





Watching the replay again. Just noticed 2 dudes in the stands with gray sweatshirts saying "PUNTS" after another shitty shitsconsin throw that lead to a punt.

I want these guys at my next keg party.
 

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