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per the Chicago Tribune:
PJ Fleck went 5-7 in Year 1 of his Minnesota tenure. Or did he?
“I call this Year 1,” Fleck said Monday at Big Ten media days. “The way I look at a program, last year was Year Zero. I know everybody’s like: What do you mean by that? Is that just to get a contract extension or delay the process? No, that’s reality.”
As Fleck put it: “Year Zero, everybody’s learning and getting to know each other. We took over a very tumultuous time and had players leave, players stay. It was a transitional time.”
Fleck, the former Kaneland and Northern Illinois receiver who led Western Michigan to an undefeated regular season in 2016, is playing the long game.
“It goes back to the greatest lesson I learned from Greg Schiano (whom Fleck worked for at Rutgers and with the Buccaneers): Never sacrifice what you really want down the road for what you want right now.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...nesota-big-ten-media-days-20180723-story.html
Go Gophers!!
PJ Fleck went 5-7 in Year 1 of his Minnesota tenure. Or did he?
“I call this Year 1,” Fleck said Monday at Big Ten media days. “The way I look at a program, last year was Year Zero. I know everybody’s like: What do you mean by that? Is that just to get a contract extension or delay the process? No, that’s reality.”
As Fleck put it: “Year Zero, everybody’s learning and getting to know each other. We took over a very tumultuous time and had players leave, players stay. It was a transitional time.”
Fleck, the former Kaneland and Northern Illinois receiver who led Western Michigan to an undefeated regular season in 2016, is playing the long game.
“It goes back to the greatest lesson I learned from Greg Schiano (whom Fleck worked for at Rutgers and with the Buccaneers): Never sacrifice what you really want down the road for what you want right now.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...nesota-big-ten-media-days-20180723-story.html
Go Gophers!!