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per Megan:
On Friday night ahead of the Gophers’ big game against Penn State, coach P.J. Fleck made his players write on chunks of coal about the pressures they have faced.
They then all threw their pieces into a bucket, and overnight that pile of carbon became a diamond.
That defies a couple of scientific laws and probably employed some behind-the-scenes movie magic from Fleck and his staff, but the exercise was all in an effort to show his players that pressure, while stressful, makes them into something brilliant.
That proved true when the Gophers, No. 17 in the College Football Playoff rankings, toppled No. 4 Penn State 31-26 on Saturday, improving to 9-0 for the first time in more than 100 years. On Sunday they received their best Associated Press ranking since 1962, No. 7. And the coal trick isn’t the only Fleck original from his three seasons with the Gophers that has gone from ploy to reality.
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-...ou-win-football-games/564729392/?refresh=true
Go Gophers!!
On Friday night ahead of the Gophers’ big game against Penn State, coach P.J. Fleck made his players write on chunks of coal about the pressures they have faced.
They then all threw their pieces into a bucket, and overnight that pile of carbon became a diamond.
That defies a couple of scientific laws and probably employed some behind-the-scenes movie magic from Fleck and his staff, but the exercise was all in an effort to show his players that pressure, while stressful, makes them into something brilliant.
That proved true when the Gophers, No. 17 in the College Football Playoff rankings, toppled No. 4 Penn State 31-26 on Saturday, improving to 9-0 for the first time in more than 100 years. On Sunday they received their best Associated Press ranking since 1962, No. 7. And the coal trick isn’t the only Fleck original from his three seasons with the Gophers that has gone from ploy to reality.
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-...ou-win-football-games/564729392/?refresh=true
Go Gophers!!