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per Greder:
P.J. Fleck carried one pot of regular coffee and another with decaf as he went around Ohio State staff meetings filing the cups of assistant coaches during the 2006 season.
He juggled the need to provide decaf to the one coach who drank it, while making sure he had enough regular joe to fill all the other mugs.
When Fleck's pots ran dry, some on the Buckeyes would call out the 25-year-old graduate assistant. That memory was one of many Fleck shared Monday, Oct. 8, as a rite of passage through his first year of coaching college football.
Fleck will return to Columbus for the first time as Minnesota's head coach Saturday when the Gophers (3-2, 0-2 Big Ten) face the third-ranked Buckeyes (6-0, 3-0) at Ohio Stadium.
"I learned how to grind, how to do a lot of the grunt work," said Fleck, who moved on to be the receivers coach at his alma mater, Northern Illinois, in 2007. "I learned how every one of those things that you see on the game day takes everybody, not just the head coach. It goes all the way down to the GAs work."
Fleck also learned to keep his mouth shut. The Buckeyes were ranked No. 1 in the nation with a 7-0 start to 2006 when a mediocre Indiana team came to the Horseshoe that October.
One of Fleck's duties as the offensive/special teams GA was to wrangle Buckeyes players on the punt team. When the offense faced a third down and it looked possible that the special team's unit could be called on, Fleck would count up the players and relay instructions.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sp...gophers-fleck-got-his-coaching-start-buckeyes
Go Gophers!!
P.J. Fleck carried one pot of regular coffee and another with decaf as he went around Ohio State staff meetings filing the cups of assistant coaches during the 2006 season.
He juggled the need to provide decaf to the one coach who drank it, while making sure he had enough regular joe to fill all the other mugs.
When Fleck's pots ran dry, some on the Buckeyes would call out the 25-year-old graduate assistant. That memory was one of many Fleck shared Monday, Oct. 8, as a rite of passage through his first year of coaching college football.
Fleck will return to Columbus for the first time as Minnesota's head coach Saturday when the Gophers (3-2, 0-2 Big Ten) face the third-ranked Buckeyes (6-0, 3-0) at Ohio Stadium.
"I learned how to grind, how to do a lot of the grunt work," said Fleck, who moved on to be the receivers coach at his alma mater, Northern Illinois, in 2007. "I learned how every one of those things that you see on the game day takes everybody, not just the head coach. It goes all the way down to the GAs work."
Fleck also learned to keep his mouth shut. The Buckeyes were ranked No. 1 in the nation with a 7-0 start to 2006 when a mediocre Indiana team came to the Horseshoe that October.
One of Fleck's duties as the offensive/special teams GA was to wrangle Buckeyes players on the punt team. When the offense faced a third down and it looked possible that the special team's unit could be called on, Fleck would count up the players and relay instructions.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sp...gophers-fleck-got-his-coaching-start-buckeyes
Go Gophers!!