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per Marcus:
P.J. Fleck took a different path than Richard Pitino to get to the highest level of college coaching, but the two now hold the shared distinction as the youngest football and basketball head coaches in major college sports.
Fleck, 36, is now the youngest head football coach among Power Five schools. Pitino, 34 and in his fourth Gophers season, has been the youngest among major conference basketball coaches since he was hired at 30 years old in 2013.
“I’m fired up about the hiring of Coach Fleck,” Pitino said Friday. “I really admired the job he did at Western Michigan. He built it from the ground up and did it the right way. His energy and enthusiasm are infectious. It’s a fun time to be a Gopher football fan.”
The last time two Big Ten head coaches in basketball and football were in their 30s at the same school was in 2013 when Northwestern hired 38-year-old Chris Collins, who was the same age as Wildcats football coach Pat Fitzgerald. Northwestern faithful even jokingly called Collins their “Basketball Fitz.”
http://www.startribune.com/with-p-j...o-gophers-have-youth-on-their-side/409952395/
Go Gophers!!
P.J. Fleck took a different path than Richard Pitino to get to the highest level of college coaching, but the two now hold the shared distinction as the youngest football and basketball head coaches in major college sports.
Fleck, 36, is now the youngest head football coach among Power Five schools. Pitino, 34 and in his fourth Gophers season, has been the youngest among major conference basketball coaches since he was hired at 30 years old in 2013.
“I’m fired up about the hiring of Coach Fleck,” Pitino said Friday. “I really admired the job he did at Western Michigan. He built it from the ground up and did it the right way. His energy and enthusiasm are infectious. It’s a fun time to be a Gopher football fan.”
The last time two Big Ten head coaches in basketball and football were in their 30s at the same school was in 2013 when Northwestern hired 38-year-old Chris Collins, who was the same age as Wildcats football coach Pat Fitzgerald. Northwestern faithful even jokingly called Collins their “Basketball Fitz.”
http://www.startribune.com/with-p-j...o-gophers-have-youth-on-their-side/409952395/
Go Gophers!!