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per the AP:
Minnesota’s P.J. Fleck sees the rampant coaching turnover going on this season and feels grateful about his relative security.
“There are a lot of things going on around the country, coaches who had great years last year that don’t have jobs now a year later,” said Fleck, who owns a 33-23 record in five seasons coaching the Gophers.
Coaches across the Big Ten have reason to feel thankful on this holiday week.
The Big Ten is the only Power Five conference that hasn’t had at least one head coaching change already this season. That follows an offseason in which only one Big Ten school fired a coach, with Illinois hiring Bret Bielema after Lovie Smith went 17-39 in five seasons. Penn State announced a 10-year deal for coach James Franklin.
“I think there’s a little bit of an old-school mentality from the administration at a lot of these universities,” ESPN analyst and former Ohio State quarterback Kirk Herbstreit said. “I think that they pride themselves on prioritizing the importance of athletics. And they’re obviously very, very important, but people can roll their eyes all they want, but how a guy runs his program, is he graduating his players, are they good citizens, those things add up.”
Go Gophers!!
Minnesota’s P.J. Fleck sees the rampant coaching turnover going on this season and feels grateful about his relative security.
“There are a lot of things going on around the country, coaches who had great years last year that don’t have jobs now a year later,” said Fleck, who owns a 33-23 record in five seasons coaching the Gophers.
Coaches across the Big Ten have reason to feel thankful on this holiday week.
The Big Ten is the only Power Five conference that hasn’t had at least one head coaching change already this season. That follows an offseason in which only one Big Ten school fired a coach, with Illinois hiring Bret Bielema after Lovie Smith went 17-39 in five seasons. Penn State announced a 10-year deal for coach James Franklin.
“I think there’s a little bit of an old-school mentality from the administration at a lot of these universities,” ESPN analyst and former Ohio State quarterback Kirk Herbstreit said. “I think that they pride themselves on prioritizing the importance of athletics. And they’re obviously very, very important, but people can roll their eyes all they want, but how a guy runs his program, is he graduating his players, are they good citizens, those things add up.”
Go Gophers!!