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The Gophers football team’s 7-0 start, its nine-game winning streak and its No. 17 ranking in the Associated Press poll are all signs that P.J. Fleck’s promise he could change the culture at the University of Minnesota is working.
He did the same thing at Western Michigan, turning a 1-11 record his first year in 2013 into a 13-1 record and Cotton Bowl appearance in his final year in 2016.
And while it took four seasons to turn that program around, Fleck really got the Gophers going in the right direction in the middle of his second season, when they won four of their final six games, including winning at Wisconsin for the first time in 24 years and beating Georgia Tech 34-10 in the Quick Lane Bowl.
The Gophers’ nine-game winning streak is their longest since 1942.
Did Fleck believe this kind of success was possible so soon? “That is the vision. That is the plan,” he said. “Whatever the [ranking] is, that’s the [ranking]. We want to do everything we can to win every game we play. That is the whole mission, the whole goal — run a really successful program, a life program, and find a way to be better than we were yesterday.”
The Gophers haven’t had a club like this in decades, and Fleck said the really fun part is watching how the team continues to grow each week.
The Gophers have won their past three Big Ten games by a combined score of 116-31.
http://www.startribune.com/p-j-fleck-has-delivered-on-his-promise-at-minnesota/563829392/
Go Gophers!!
The Gophers football team’s 7-0 start, its nine-game winning streak and its No. 17 ranking in the Associated Press poll are all signs that P.J. Fleck’s promise he could change the culture at the University of Minnesota is working.
He did the same thing at Western Michigan, turning a 1-11 record his first year in 2013 into a 13-1 record and Cotton Bowl appearance in his final year in 2016.
And while it took four seasons to turn that program around, Fleck really got the Gophers going in the right direction in the middle of his second season, when they won four of their final six games, including winning at Wisconsin for the first time in 24 years and beating Georgia Tech 34-10 in the Quick Lane Bowl.
The Gophers’ nine-game winning streak is their longest since 1942.
Did Fleck believe this kind of success was possible so soon? “That is the vision. That is the plan,” he said. “Whatever the [ranking] is, that’s the [ranking]. We want to do everything we can to win every game we play. That is the whole mission, the whole goal — run a really successful program, a life program, and find a way to be better than we were yesterday.”
The Gophers haven’t had a club like this in decades, and Fleck said the really fun part is watching how the team continues to grow each week.
The Gophers have won their past three Big Ten games by a combined score of 116-31.
http://www.startribune.com/p-j-fleck-has-delivered-on-his-promise-at-minnesota/563829392/
Go Gophers!!