BleedGopher
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per Greder:
How have you seen your players deal with this mentally?
Their worlds are being turned upside down. I’m not just saying their worlds, their parents’. Most of our players that I’ve talked to, a lot of them have had their parents already laid off. Not only that, they have younger siblings. Not only that, they have to home school their child. They want the value of education. … We have some people that have nine, 10 people in one house because there is nowhere else to go. It’s tragic.
When I say we are going to get to this new norm, the new norm is going to be very difficult for a while. But that is what our player are struggling with. That is why we are keeping up our end of making sure the mental, physical and emotional health is being trained and making sure our team meetings speak to their entire family. (Their family) can be motivated and inspired and help just to get through today by watching our team meeting, which before they never really had access to. Now they do because they can watch it with their son. …
The recruits we talk to, the same thing. Their whole families are involved in this, their whole families are now in their FaceTimes, where before it wasn’t. I feel an obligation and responsibility to help families find a way to get through this. Not just our players.
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How have you seen your players deal with this mentally?
Their worlds are being turned upside down. I’m not just saying their worlds, their parents’. Most of our players that I’ve talked to, a lot of them have had their parents already laid off. Not only that, they have younger siblings. Not only that, they have to home school their child. They want the value of education. … We have some people that have nine, 10 people in one house because there is nowhere else to go. It’s tragic.
When I say we are going to get to this new norm, the new norm is going to be very difficult for a while. But that is what our player are struggling with. That is why we are keeping up our end of making sure the mental, physical and emotional health is being trained and making sure our team meetings speak to their entire family. (Their family) can be motivated and inspired and help just to get through today by watching our team meeting, which before they never really had access to. Now they do because they can watch it with their son. …
The recruits we talk to, the same thing. Their whole families are involved in this, their whole families are now in their FaceTimes, where before it wasn’t. I feel an obligation and responsibility to help families find a way to get through this. Not just our players.
Q&A: Gophers’ P.J. Fleck on a ‘new normal,’ players’ parents losing jobs, and a source of joy
When the Gophers started spring football practices a month ago, head coach P.J. Fleck’s primary on-field concerns were which running backs and linebackers could start to fill vacancies for games th…
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