BleedGopher
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per Rand Ball:
There’s no clear-cut answer as to who will be the starting quarterback for the Gophers football team next season. Recruiting is a giant question mark after a January coaching change. And we still don’t know the entire fallout from the various entanglements related to the alleged sexual assault (and administrative response) that dominated discussion this past season.
All that said: a case could be made that the next head coach — P.J. Fleck? Someone else? — will inherit the best Gophers football job in 75 years.
The convergence of a new AD in Mark Coyle and the aforementioned off-field problems led to Claeys’ demise, leading the Gophers into rare territory: being able to hire a coach from a position of program strength. The Gophers have been in the Big Ten title discussion three of the past four seasons and are coming off a year in which they won nine games — most in the Kill/Claeys era and most overall since 2003. Yeah, the schedule was forgiving but the Gophers have done far worse against easy slates.
There will be players who transfer during the transition, but I’ll be shocked if it’s more than a handful. It’s not a program that feels stalled or stuck in the past. It’s a team playing in a nice stadium with new facilities on the way that can legitimately take a step forward into greater prominence with the right hire. And that new hire should look at this as a very attractive job.
http://www.startribune.com/the-next...t-gophers-football-job-in-75-years/409794145/
Go Gophers!!
There’s no clear-cut answer as to who will be the starting quarterback for the Gophers football team next season. Recruiting is a giant question mark after a January coaching change. And we still don’t know the entire fallout from the various entanglements related to the alleged sexual assault (and administrative response) that dominated discussion this past season.
All that said: a case could be made that the next head coach — P.J. Fleck? Someone else? — will inherit the best Gophers football job in 75 years.
The convergence of a new AD in Mark Coyle and the aforementioned off-field problems led to Claeys’ demise, leading the Gophers into rare territory: being able to hire a coach from a position of program strength. The Gophers have been in the Big Ten title discussion three of the past four seasons and are coming off a year in which they won nine games — most in the Kill/Claeys era and most overall since 2003. Yeah, the schedule was forgiving but the Gophers have done far worse against easy slates.
There will be players who transfer during the transition, but I’ll be shocked if it’s more than a handful. It’s not a program that feels stalled or stuck in the past. It’s a team playing in a nice stadium with new facilities on the way that can legitimately take a step forward into greater prominence with the right hire. And that new hire should look at this as a very attractive job.
http://www.startribune.com/the-next...t-gophers-football-job-in-75-years/409794145/
Go Gophers!!
