False. Holtz, Wacker and Mason all recruited really good skill players. Wacker and Mason overlooked that you had to play defense, too.
Lantz was a huge miss. Our recruiting classes haven’t been good enough to not take a chance on a kid like that.
This topic has been beat to death. Trey wanted to be a QB and he was not a good QB prospect at all. To his credit he found a school willing to give him a chance to play QB but he had to drop all the way to the FCS level to find that school.
Literally no one else offered from the FBS, so pretty tough to blast Fleck for that miss.
The TV video of the play does not support the idea that he reached forward.
Maybe didn’t reach forward, but I also don’t buy that he couldn’t hold onto the ball because he was too tired, that sounds ridiculous to me. Too much arm fatigue? Come on.
I disagree with your analysis of the video
Well, if you can point to which frames show his arm reaching out past his body with the football, I'll take a look.
He starts to put the ball in front of him and gets hit by a guy he doesn’t see. If the ball is in his chest he doesn’t fumble (but it’s 4th and 1-2)
I can buy this.
Potts has never been the same since his injury - he did not have a good year this year and ff he is our #1 next year you better get used to a lot of 2-3 yard gains.Potts was leading the B10 in rushing after Mo’s OSU injury last year before he went down against Purdue.
Very serviceable
You could even include Gutey, too. He recruited some good WR's as well as Darrell Thompson, too.
He was GREAT in 2019. Outside of that she had been average. But he had the best season ever by a gopher QB
3 from Iowa this year was the same but his home school offered him. No other FBS offers. It’s not that Lantz wasn’t a good prospect if I recall Armstrong had committed here so PJ wouldn’t take him as a QB.
3? Cooper DeJean? He committed to Iowa early on, that’s the only reason he didn’t have other offers. I don’t know why you want to give Iowa props for offering DeJean when they could have just as easily offered Lance as well. It’s not like Fleck has never found a diamond either, for example Mafe.
Don’t confuse people with what actually has occurred in the universe
And don't include the context that the vast majority of those yards were gained against backup players for terrible defenses like NMSU, Western Illinois, Rutgers and NW.
I was immediately suspicious when you gave the simplest possible stat, aggregating the entire season to date.
| Rk | Date | School | Opponent | Att | Yds | Avg | TD | Rec | Yds | Avg | TD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2022-09-01 | Minnesota | New Mexico State | W | 17 | 89 | 5.2 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 14.0 | 0 | |
| 2 | 2022-09-10 | Minnesota | Western Illinois | W | 10 | 79 | 7.9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 3 | 2022-09-17 | Minnesota | Colorado | W | 13 | 51 | 3.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 4 | 2022-09-24 | Minnesota | @ | Michigan State | W | 13 | 72 | 5.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0 |
| 5 | 2022-10-01 | Minnesota | Purdue | L | 9 | 10 | 1.1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 0 | |
| 6 | 2022-10-22 | Minnesota | @ | Penn State | L | 5 | 7 | 1.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 | 2022-10-29 | Minnesota | Rutgers | W | 6 | 57 | 9.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 8 | 2022-11-05 | Minnesota | @ | Nebraska | W | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 9 | 2022-11-12 | Minnesota | Northwestern | W | 10 | 63 | 6.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 10 | 2022-11-19 | Minnesota | Iowa | L | 5 | 13 | 2.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 10 Games | 90 | 442 | 4.9 | 3 |
Also a back issue kept him out of the Illinois game. Might have also impacted his effectiveness before/after (ie Purdue).
Seemed fine vs Rutgers and NW?