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per Matt:
Who could have seen all this coming? Fleck, for one. His unyielding belief in being able to do what no one before him has done is as distinct as ever. At Western Michigan, that meant making good on a bucket list item drawn up when he was all of 23 or 24 years old: Be the youngest head coach in Division I-A. He did just that when he was hired in Kalamazoo as a 32-year-old with no coordinator experience. He had another item on that list, too: Become a head coach at a major BCS program. By the time he shared that note for public consumption, back in 2016, there was already a checkmark next to it: He had written next to the goal that Western Michigan was becoming major.
The Broncos were only 7-0 then, just halfway through what turned out to be a 13-1 campaign.
Again, who could have seen that coming?
Those Broncos, like these Gophers, made it out of nonconference play by the skin of their teeth, thanks to Northwestern coughing the ball into the end zone as the Wildcats were going in for the late lead. Minnesota’s pre-Big Ten slate this year featured three games in which the Gophers trailed late in the fourth quarter or overtime.
theathletic.com
Go Gophers!!
Who could have seen all this coming? Fleck, for one. His unyielding belief in being able to do what no one before him has done is as distinct as ever. At Western Michigan, that meant making good on a bucket list item drawn up when he was all of 23 or 24 years old: Be the youngest head coach in Division I-A. He did just that when he was hired in Kalamazoo as a 32-year-old with no coordinator experience. He had another item on that list, too: Become a head coach at a major BCS program. By the time he shared that note for public consumption, back in 2016, there was already a checkmark next to it: He had written next to the goal that Western Michigan was becoming major.
The Broncos were only 7-0 then, just halfway through what turned out to be a 13-1 campaign.
Again, who could have seen that coming?
Those Broncos, like these Gophers, made it out of nonconference play by the skin of their teeth, thanks to Northwestern coughing the ball into the end zone as the Wildcats were going in for the late lead. Minnesota’s pre-Big Ten slate this year featured three games in which the Gophers trailed late in the fourth quarter or overtime.
Why Minnesota’s surprise run under P.J. Fleck should feel familiar
After a win at Northwestern, the Golden Gophers continue to share a lot in common with Fleck’s charmed 2016 team at Western Michigan.
theathletic.com
Go Gophers!!