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per Hlas:
In 1938, Harold Stassen was elected governor of Minnesota when he was 31. He went on to run for president nine times, never to win the Republican Party’s nomination.
Minnesota Golden Gophers football has been the Harold Stassen of the Big Ten. It sends a team into the conference campaign every year, but never becomes champion and seldom is taken seriously as a contender.
It’s been 50 years since the Gophers got as much as a share of the Big Ten title, and they haven’t been to the Rose Bowl since the 1961 season.
While neighbors Wisconsin and Iowa have enjoyed what new Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck calls “cultural sustainability” over the years, the Gophers have been faces in the Big Ten crowd. They have gone to bowls the last five years, but who remembers them?
Enter Fleck, a 36-year-old human exclamation point. I slowed my tape recorder to 75 percent speed to transcribe the comments Fleck made Tuesday at the Big Ten’s media day. It still sounded like he was at 150 percent.
This is a man hired to make Gophers football important in the Twin Cities and Minnesota, a tall order over the decades.
“We love that challenge,” Fleck said. “We love that chaos. We love the dirty water, we call it.”
Hey, Fleck is fighting more than Minnesota’s conference brethren. He’s trying to overcome a half-century of irrelevancy in an NFL market.
Being a dynamo probably is a good start. But ultimately, it will take a coach with both oars in the water.
http://www.thegazette.com/subject/sports/hlas-pj-fleck-is-minnesotas-new-reality-show-20170725
Go Gophers!!
In 1938, Harold Stassen was elected governor of Minnesota when he was 31. He went on to run for president nine times, never to win the Republican Party’s nomination.
Minnesota Golden Gophers football has been the Harold Stassen of the Big Ten. It sends a team into the conference campaign every year, but never becomes champion and seldom is taken seriously as a contender.
It’s been 50 years since the Gophers got as much as a share of the Big Ten title, and they haven’t been to the Rose Bowl since the 1961 season.
While neighbors Wisconsin and Iowa have enjoyed what new Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck calls “cultural sustainability” over the years, the Gophers have been faces in the Big Ten crowd. They have gone to bowls the last five years, but who remembers them?
Enter Fleck, a 36-year-old human exclamation point. I slowed my tape recorder to 75 percent speed to transcribe the comments Fleck made Tuesday at the Big Ten’s media day. It still sounded like he was at 150 percent.
This is a man hired to make Gophers football important in the Twin Cities and Minnesota, a tall order over the decades.
“We love that challenge,” Fleck said. “We love that chaos. We love the dirty water, we call it.”
Hey, Fleck is fighting more than Minnesota’s conference brethren. He’s trying to overcome a half-century of irrelevancy in an NFL market.
Being a dynamo probably is a good start. But ultimately, it will take a coach with both oars in the water.
http://www.thegazette.com/subject/sports/hlas-pj-fleck-is-minnesotas-new-reality-show-20170725
Go Gophers!!
