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per the Grand Island Independent:
P.J. Fleck could put a sunny spin on Chernobyl, so the Minnesota coach is the right guy to stump for the Big Ten’s current alignment of East and West divisions.
“The West is getting a lot better,” Fleck said. “All due respect with that comment. I think the coaches in the West are dynamic coaches, and you can see it in games that are considered ‘upsets.’ I don’t think those are going to be ‘upsets’ in the next few years. I like the way the conference is aligned.”
You’d think East coaches would like a divisional setup that has resulted in that division winning every league title since the two divisions came into existence.
But they don’t because the divisional imbalance may have hurt the Big Ten’s chances in making the last two College Football Playoff.
“When you’re left out of the playoffs for two years in a row, I think there needs to be discussions,” Penn State coach James Franklin said. Franklin doesn’t always have a filter, but he’s a thinker, and honest.
The Big Ten East is strong, much like the SEC West, Franklin said.
“So I think we’ve got to at least have a discussion,” Franklin said of realigning divisions. “Not necessarily saying we need to make any changes, but we need to have a discussion.”
https://www.theindependent.com/spor...cle_df311476-af38-11e9-9c1d-5bc5d4625f79.html
Go Gophers!!
P.J. Fleck could put a sunny spin on Chernobyl, so the Minnesota coach is the right guy to stump for the Big Ten’s current alignment of East and West divisions.
“The West is getting a lot better,” Fleck said. “All due respect with that comment. I think the coaches in the West are dynamic coaches, and you can see it in games that are considered ‘upsets.’ I don’t think those are going to be ‘upsets’ in the next few years. I like the way the conference is aligned.”
You’d think East coaches would like a divisional setup that has resulted in that division winning every league title since the two divisions came into existence.
But they don’t because the divisional imbalance may have hurt the Big Ten’s chances in making the last two College Football Playoff.
“When you’re left out of the playoffs for two years in a row, I think there needs to be discussions,” Penn State coach James Franklin said. Franklin doesn’t always have a filter, but he’s a thinker, and honest.
The Big Ten East is strong, much like the SEC West, Franklin said.
“So I think we’ve got to at least have a discussion,” Franklin said of realigning divisions. “Not necessarily saying we need to make any changes, but we need to have a discussion.”
https://www.theindependent.com/spor...cle_df311476-af38-11e9-9c1d-5bc5d4625f79.html
Go Gophers!!