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per Randy:
West Lafayette, Ind. – There were no reports of chairs being thrown. Of tables being tipped over. Of walls being punched.
No, after the Gophers’ 31-24 loss to Maryland last week — the first defeat for P.J. Fleck as Minnesota’s coach — any anger was quickly channeled toward purpose.
“When you don’t win, the coach is going to be mad,” sophomore wide receiver Tyler Johnson said, “but then again, he just told us that our ‘how’ wasn’t really there. The coaches knew, and we’ve just got to learn from this.”
For the Gophers (3-1, 1-0 Big Ten), learning from the loss means fixing the issues that doomed them against the Terrapins. And they must do so quickly, with Saturday’s game at Purdue (2-2, 0-1) taking on added importance because of a conference schedule that turns nasty later in October.
“This is a first that we get to see how the program responds to a loss, and everyone was incredibly focused,” Fleck said earlier this week. “They understood why we lost and how we lost. Again, the result is not what I focused on. It was the step-by-step process of how we played. We played significantly worse in this game than we did the other ones, and the result showed.”
http://www.startribune.com/how-will-p-j-fleck-s-gophers-respond-after-first-loss/449790673/
Go Gophers!!
West Lafayette, Ind. – There were no reports of chairs being thrown. Of tables being tipped over. Of walls being punched.
No, after the Gophers’ 31-24 loss to Maryland last week — the first defeat for P.J. Fleck as Minnesota’s coach — any anger was quickly channeled toward purpose.
“When you don’t win, the coach is going to be mad,” sophomore wide receiver Tyler Johnson said, “but then again, he just told us that our ‘how’ wasn’t really there. The coaches knew, and we’ve just got to learn from this.”
For the Gophers (3-1, 1-0 Big Ten), learning from the loss means fixing the issues that doomed them against the Terrapins. And they must do so quickly, with Saturday’s game at Purdue (2-2, 0-1) taking on added importance because of a conference schedule that turns nasty later in October.
“This is a first that we get to see how the program responds to a loss, and everyone was incredibly focused,” Fleck said earlier this week. “They understood why we lost and how we lost. Again, the result is not what I focused on. It was the step-by-step process of how we played. We played significantly worse in this game than we did the other ones, and the result showed.”
http://www.startribune.com/how-will-p-j-fleck-s-gophers-respond-after-first-loss/449790673/
Go Gophers!!