BleedGopher
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per Pat:
We have been informed that Phillip John Fleck performed quite an amazing feat by putting together a 25-player recruiting class in the four weeks after being hired as the Gophers football coach.
The amazement factor should be lessened by the fact Fleck stole nine of those players from his former school, Western Michigan, where he had been recruiting those players and getting commitments for months, maybe a couple of years.
For all the bravado, the Gophers wound up 12th in the Big Ten, beating out only Purdue and Indiana.
Purdue has become a Big Ten bottom feeder in recent times and had a new coach in Jeff Brohm from Western Kentucky. Indiana has been a traditional bottom feeder, and went spiraling downward again when it fired Kevin Wilson, a strong recruiter, and replaced him with defensive coordinator Tom Allen in December.
The Gophers wound up rated 57th nationally, one spot above Memphis, the first non-Power 5 team to appear in the rankings.
This isn’t a rebuild. There’s a base of talent here. Even without 10 suspended players, it’s a team that impressively won a bowl game, much to the dismay of a university president and athletic director who knew that night in San Diego they were going to fire Claeys and bring in Fleck after Western Michigan played in the Cotton Bowl.
The other day, I heard Phillip John in a radio interview spouting that failure was growth. If that's the case, his first Gophers result is definitely growth -- since finishing 12th in the Big Ten and four notches below the Mendoza Line nationally in recruiting is failure.
http://www.startribune.com/fleck-sa...ere-s-growth-in-his-first-u-result/412533013/
Go Gophers!!
We have been informed that Phillip John Fleck performed quite an amazing feat by putting together a 25-player recruiting class in the four weeks after being hired as the Gophers football coach.
The amazement factor should be lessened by the fact Fleck stole nine of those players from his former school, Western Michigan, where he had been recruiting those players and getting commitments for months, maybe a couple of years.
For all the bravado, the Gophers wound up 12th in the Big Ten, beating out only Purdue and Indiana.
Purdue has become a Big Ten bottom feeder in recent times and had a new coach in Jeff Brohm from Western Kentucky. Indiana has been a traditional bottom feeder, and went spiraling downward again when it fired Kevin Wilson, a strong recruiter, and replaced him with defensive coordinator Tom Allen in December.
The Gophers wound up rated 57th nationally, one spot above Memphis, the first non-Power 5 team to appear in the rankings.
This isn’t a rebuild. There’s a base of talent here. Even without 10 suspended players, it’s a team that impressively won a bowl game, much to the dismay of a university president and athletic director who knew that night in San Diego they were going to fire Claeys and bring in Fleck after Western Michigan played in the Cotton Bowl.
The other day, I heard Phillip John in a radio interview spouting that failure was growth. If that's the case, his first Gophers result is definitely growth -- since finishing 12th in the Big Ten and four notches below the Mendoza Line nationally in recruiting is failure.
http://www.startribune.com/fleck-sa...ere-s-growth-in-his-first-u-result/412533013/
Go Gophers!!