BleedGopher
Well-known member
- Joined
- Nov 11, 2008
- Messages
- 60,726
- Reaction score
- 16,004
- Points
- 113
per Greder:
A pair of hardcover copies of an influential book on P.J. Fleck’s coaching philosophy rested on a high shelf in the upstairs Purple Room in the enormous Powell’s City of Books in downtown Portland.
While Minnesota beat Oregon State 48-14 about 85 miles to the south on Saturday night, the book “It’s Your Ship” has insights and parallels to the culture Fleck’s instilling in the Gophers during his debut season.
Captain D. Michael Abrashoff’s best-selling book, published in 2002, depicts how he turned the USS Benford, a guided missile destroyer, into one of the highest-performing ships in the U.S. Navy, and empowered its crew of 310 men and women.
“A captain took one of the worst ships in the Navy and flipped it, just like you do with (football) programs,” Fleck said at Big Ten media days in July. “It was outstanding because what was really valuable and important to show was they could think differently.
“They changed the food and the celebrated a little bit more,” Fleck explained. “They made it really important and they wanted people on the ship to have that connectedness and that camaraderie and to think that ship can do it. … Your players have to think they can do it before anything.”
http://www.twincities.com/2017/09/0...an-influential-book-on-p-j-flecks-philosophy/
Go Gophers!!
A pair of hardcover copies of an influential book on P.J. Fleck’s coaching philosophy rested on a high shelf in the upstairs Purple Room in the enormous Powell’s City of Books in downtown Portland.
While Minnesota beat Oregon State 48-14 about 85 miles to the south on Saturday night, the book “It’s Your Ship” has insights and parallels to the culture Fleck’s instilling in the Gophers during his debut season.
Captain D. Michael Abrashoff’s best-selling book, published in 2002, depicts how he turned the USS Benford, a guided missile destroyer, into one of the highest-performing ships in the U.S. Navy, and empowered its crew of 310 men and women.
“A captain took one of the worst ships in the Navy and flipped it, just like you do with (football) programs,” Fleck said at Big Ten media days in July. “It was outstanding because what was really valuable and important to show was they could think differently.
“They changed the food and the celebrated a little bit more,” Fleck explained. “They made it really important and they wanted people on the ship to have that connectedness and that camaraderie and to think that ship can do it. … Your players have to think they can do it before anything.”
http://www.twincities.com/2017/09/0...an-influential-book-on-p-j-flecks-philosophy/
Go Gophers!!
