The Gazette: P.J. Fleck brings Minnesota to Iowa amid culture change

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per The Gazette:

Lots of coaches will tell you about building culture, and that being an essential part of a successful football program.

It’s an undeniable tenet. Belief in a system, belief in an approach and belief in a mentality all are part of the culture a given coach tries to instill.

Iowa welcomes Minnesota to Kinnick Stadium on Saturday as the Hawkeyes and Gophers will battle once again for the Floyd of Rosedale trophy. On one side is a culture well-established — with roots more than 30 years old — and on the other is one in its infancy.

Coach P.J. Fleck is in his first season leading a Minnesota program that has had three different head coaches the last three years and five head coaches since 2007. Fleck looked across the proverbial field Tuesday during the Big Ten coaches teleconference while talking about what he’s trying to build in Minneapolis.

“They’ve had two head coaches in 40-some years,” Fleck said of Iowa. “That’s called cultural sustainability, where you don’t rebuild, you just reload. Hopefully the University of Minnesota, we get to that point some time, where we’re just reloading.”

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/s...innesota-to-iowa-amid-culture-change-20171026

Go Gophers!!

 

[grumps]

I think this is the piece that plagued us and has plagued Michigan, and it's killing Nebraska.

Rather than worry about keeping some continuity, and building an established program where you don't have to re-invest your whole football curriculum every 3-5 years, you could do worse than be patient to let the coach work through things and look to change the program other ways to help a coach succeed.

When you have Michigan getting impatient with Harbaugh during his third year, you need to kind of wonder if coach is the only issue you have.