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In conducting his normal start-of-game-week press conference on Monday morning, Rutgers interim head coach Nunzio Campanile fielded 11 questions without having the next opponent, Minnesota, or its head coach, PJ Fleck, come up.
At that point, a Rutgers official gently asked the assembled media if there were any Minnesota questions. Only then did Fleck's name come up, and Campanile is certainly in a position to offer an opinion.
Campanile was the head coach at perennial North Jersey parochial heavyweight Bergen Catholic from 2010-17. Fleck served as Rutgers wide receivers from 2010-11. Their paths crossed in those days, and Campanile hasn't forgotten.
"I think he's been really impressive," Campanile said Monday. "I first came to practice and watched him. I was like, "Wow, this guy, he's a thousand miles an hour." Can't be real. I guess as I got to know him, seems to be exactly who he is.
"He's exactly -- he seems to bring that energy every day. I haven't been around him a lot in the last five or six years, but when he was here, I was super-impressed every time I came to practice that he was able to be that energetic, that positive and that competitive at all times, and obviously in the two programs he's had the opportunity to coach, he's done a great job of instilling that culture, and he clearly, that is what they are building their team on."
Fleck returns to Rutgers on Saturday afternoon, and he is bringing a 6-0, 20th-ranked Minnesota team with him (3:30 p.m., Big Ten Network). No matter what you thought about this matchup on paper in July and August, you were wrong. Just know that.
https://www.app.com/story/sports/co...a-golden-gophers-rutgers-football/3983389002/
Go Gophers!!
In conducting his normal start-of-game-week press conference on Monday morning, Rutgers interim head coach Nunzio Campanile fielded 11 questions without having the next opponent, Minnesota, or its head coach, PJ Fleck, come up.
At that point, a Rutgers official gently asked the assembled media if there were any Minnesota questions. Only then did Fleck's name come up, and Campanile is certainly in a position to offer an opinion.
Campanile was the head coach at perennial North Jersey parochial heavyweight Bergen Catholic from 2010-17. Fleck served as Rutgers wide receivers from 2010-11. Their paths crossed in those days, and Campanile hasn't forgotten.
"I think he's been really impressive," Campanile said Monday. "I first came to practice and watched him. I was like, "Wow, this guy, he's a thousand miles an hour." Can't be real. I guess as I got to know him, seems to be exactly who he is.
"He's exactly -- he seems to bring that energy every day. I haven't been around him a lot in the last five or six years, but when he was here, I was super-impressed every time I came to practice that he was able to be that energetic, that positive and that competitive at all times, and obviously in the two programs he's had the opportunity to coach, he's done a great job of instilling that culture, and he clearly, that is what they are building their team on."
Fleck returns to Rutgers on Saturday afternoon, and he is bringing a 6-0, 20th-ranked Minnesota team with him (3:30 p.m., Big Ten Network). No matter what you thought about this matchup on paper in July and August, you were wrong. Just know that.
https://www.app.com/story/sports/co...a-golden-gophers-rutgers-football/3983389002/
Go Gophers!!