BleedGopher
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per Wetzel:
If a guy like Fleck can see a promising path via Minneapolis – and eventually deliver on it – then that’s quite the upgrade. Fleck is a tour de force personality who rowed the boat at Western Michigan to unimaginable heights. He’s college football’s first millennial coach, a completely different type than those who usually pace Big Ten sidelines. With the Gophers, he inherits a good program courtesy of Jerry Kill and Tracy Claeys.
Where others have seen recruiting challenges from weak instate talent and brutal weather, Fleck obviously sees a great city, vibrant campus and a beautiful new on-campus outdoor stadium that anyone would love to play in.
Whether he is successful remains to be seen. In the past, guys like him might not have even tried, choosing to ride out another year in Kalamazoo while looking for a place with more recent success and better recruiting dynamics.
Not anymore. The Big Ten had one of its most exciting seasons in years, and while its 3-7 bowl record and the Buckeyes’ dreadful semifinal performance may have shown that declaring it the best league in America was premature, we’re a long way from Bielema rushing off to Fayetteville.
Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State and Wisconsin should all begin next season in the top 10.
Meanwhile the hottest young coach in America will be perched in the Twin Cities trying to figure out how to beat them.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-minn...-fleck-is-good-for-the-big-ten-202844417.html
Go Gophers!!
If a guy like Fleck can see a promising path via Minneapolis – and eventually deliver on it – then that’s quite the upgrade. Fleck is a tour de force personality who rowed the boat at Western Michigan to unimaginable heights. He’s college football’s first millennial coach, a completely different type than those who usually pace Big Ten sidelines. With the Gophers, he inherits a good program courtesy of Jerry Kill and Tracy Claeys.
Where others have seen recruiting challenges from weak instate talent and brutal weather, Fleck obviously sees a great city, vibrant campus and a beautiful new on-campus outdoor stadium that anyone would love to play in.
Whether he is successful remains to be seen. In the past, guys like him might not have even tried, choosing to ride out another year in Kalamazoo while looking for a place with more recent success and better recruiting dynamics.
Not anymore. The Big Ten had one of its most exciting seasons in years, and while its 3-7 bowl record and the Buckeyes’ dreadful semifinal performance may have shown that declaring it the best league in America was premature, we’re a long way from Bielema rushing off to Fayetteville.
Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State and Wisconsin should all begin next season in the top 10.
Meanwhile the hottest young coach in America will be perched in the Twin Cities trying to figure out how to beat them.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-minn...-fleck-is-good-for-the-big-ten-202844417.html
Go Gophers!!