OT: Gopher football fans, look whats coming

I dont know how for real they are or not...For a college landscape devoid of winning for decades, you gotta take the good when it comes and just steep in it. 

Now if they beat Penn St? Then all of a sudden a lot of the doubt goes away. Thats a big if though. They get The Badgers at home too. 

Signed,
Just enjoying the ride

@"JimmyinSD" said: No offense to die hard gopher fans,  but this 8-0 start has some people over looking the schedule.  It could be argued that the best team that they played in those first 7 was SDSU.  Not to take away from the Jack's,  but the gophers could be considered the Patriots of CFB.

Looking at their remaining schedule they could easily end up 9-3,  still a very nice year and will get an invite to a nice bowl game,  but finishing the season 1-3 would leave a bad taste in the mouth would it not?  Especially with all the talk of throwing a bunch more money at the coach. 

I am sure he will get it,  and in comparisons to the rest of the big 10 he likely deserves it,  but where does the salary elevator stop?  What do you give him if he actually wins a major bowl game or some how gets the team into the BCS playoffs?  At some point he is just a public university football coach and not  a guy during cancer, no?

I guess this isnt so much about Fleck as it is the state of coaching salaries being paid from public universities coffers.  Especially if they start paying players more than they already do.

I don't think any Gopher fans have visions of getting into the CFP...  but this team is doing things it hasn't done since like 1960.  Honestly, I'm just looking at it compared to last season and Fleck's first season.  There is definitely tangible improvement with the football team.  Last year, we were blown out by Nebraska and Illinois before the Gophers found themselves later in the year and ripped off some impressive wins including annihilating Georgia Tech in their bowl game.

This year the script has been flipped.  The Gophers struggled a little against their non-conference teams, but have gotten better and better as the season has rolled along.  Instead of losing (and sometimes losing big) to the other teams in our conference, they are killing the teams they should beat.  We'll see what they do in the final 4 games.  This is the real test now.  If they win the Big 10 West, that's quite the accomplishment for Fleck and the football team in only his 3rd year.

I have no issue giving Fleck a salary boost that is more in line with his peers in the conference.  He's earned it IMO. The question you posed about how much a college football coach should be paid is a completely separate topic...

@"purplefaithful" said: I dont know how for real they are or not...For a college landscape devoid of winning for decades, you gotta take the good when it comes and just steep in it. 

Now if they beat Penn St? Then all of a sudden a lot of the doubt goes away. Thats a big if though. They get The Badgers at home too. 

Signed,
Just enjoying the ride

I am hoping that they can keep the momentum going,  the program deserves a nice year once in a while... and keep that fuggin axe!   Those are my favorite games to watch,  when the schools have a long and storied rivalry with a traveling trophy to play for.   How long has it been since Minny had both the jug and the axe in the trophy case at the same time? - 1986... keep the axe this year and get that jug back next year.

Fire up!

@"Vikergirl" said: Fire up!

https://twitter.com/GopherFootball/status/1190271448759373824?s=19

I see Corona beer commercials in his future. :p    he reminds me a lot of that old jets HC or of Gruden.

@"Vikergirl" said: Fire up!

https://twitter.com/GopherFootball/status/1190271448759373824?s=19

Meh. 

@"StickyBun" said:

@"Vikergirl" said: Fire up!

https://twitter.com/GopherFootball/status/1190271448759373824?s=19

Meh. 

@"Vikergirl" said: https://twitter.com/JessRMyers/status/1189264433136242688?s=19

hes in for an experience... i hope those kids take it easy on him or he may never be the same.  even with all that gear you still dont want to just be peppered.

I listened to Fleck at a corporate meeting my employer was having...

He spoke for about 45 minutes and I wanted to kill myself about 1/2 way through. 

Gophers, football coach P.J. Fleck nearing a contract extensionThe coach of the 8-0 Gophers signed an $18 million, five-year contract in 2016.

P.J. Fleck is about to be rewarded for leading the Gophers to their best start to a season in nearly 80 years.
A new deal for the Gophers coach is in the works, a source with knowledge of the situation said Monday evening, and is close to being done.
Fleck has taken the Gophers to 8-0 with a No. 13 ranking this year, on the precipice of their biggest game in decades when No. 5 Penn State visits Saturday. The coach, in his third season, signed an $18 million contract for five years in 2016. He garnered a one-year extension in November 2017 and another in December 2018 to keep him with the Gophers through 2023 for a total of $25.5 million.
Fleck's $3.6 million salary for this season ranks 37th among all 130 FBS coaches and 11th of 14 coaches in the Big Ten Conference, according to USA Today.
The source would not disclose specifics of the negotiations, just that Fleck and the Gophers have been in discussions for awhile and are quite far along in the process. Athletics director Mark Coyle could not be reached for comment. Fleck's agent, Bryan Harlan, declined to comment on the matter.
Purdue's new contract with coach Jeff Brohm ahead of this season could foretell what could be in store for Fleck. Brohm signed a similar deal to Fleck's when he took the job around the same time Fleck joined the Gophers, but he earned a new contract worth $36.8 million through 2025 ahead of this season.
Fleck has been a head coach for seven years, notably taking Western Michigan from 1-11 in 2013 to 13-1 by the time he left for the Gophers after the 2016 season. In three seasons here, he has taken the program from 5-7 to 7-6 to undefeated in 2019.
The Maryland victory was Fleck's 50th, making him at age 38 the second-youngest active FBS coach to reach that milestone. He's a hot commodity on the coaching market, especially with jobs already opening up. Florida State, for example, fired coach Willie Taggert on Sunday, leaving an attractive opening at the ACC powerhouse.
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-football-coach-p-j-fleck-nearing-a-contract-extension/564469462/

@"purplefaithful" said: I listened to Fleck at a corporate meeting my employer was having...

He spoke for about 45 minutes and I wanted to kill myself about 1/2 way through. 

That is my feeling about the guy. That kind of intensity and cliche-ridden syntax is such a freakin' eye roll for me. I've seen my share of motivational speakers in a corporate environment, I've been mentored by strong leaders and seen great ones in action and none of them acted like this. Its ridiculous and you tune it out quickly. My guess is people get caught up in his tactics when the credit should go to his coaching ability and staff because he's successful. He's obviously a good coach. But I wonder what how long he can sustain this with the kid's of today? 

I don't wish Fleck ill will at all and its nice to see the Minnesota program doing well. 

@"StickyBun" said:

@"purplefaithful" said: I listened to Fleck at a corporate meeting my employer was having...

He spoke for about 45 minutes and I wanted to kill myself about 1/2 way through. 

That is my feeling about the guy. That kind of intensity and cliche-ridden syntax is such a freakin' eye roll for me. I've seen my share of motivational speakers in a corporate environment, I've been mentored by strong leaders and seen great ones in action and none of them acted like this. Its ridiculous and you tune it out quickly. My guess is people get caught up in his tactics when the credit should go to his coaching ability and staff because he's successful. He's obviously a good coach. But I wonder what how long he can sustain this with the kid's of today? 

I don't wish Fleck ill will at all and its nice to see the Minnesota program doing well. 

Oh I think the kids buy into this...I think they eat it up like a dog at it's kibble. 

If they're winning? Becoming better people and citizens? I think its great. Good for Fleck in that regard, 

Not anything I'd personally want to have to hear day after day lol! 

all that matters is that the AD bought into it,  yard barker is reporting that PJ got his new deal,  7 years and a significant raise for himself and his staff.

As one schill reporter said, call it exclusively dating for the next 2-3 years...

Buyout is prohibitive 1st and 2nd year. After that? Pretty easy to walk.

Rare weekend in MN when the Gopher game is bigger than the Vikings one. 

@"purplefaithful" said: As one schill reporter said, call it exclusively dating for the next 2-3 years...

Buyout is prohibitive 1st and 2nd year. After that? Pretty easy to walk.

Rare weekend in MN when the Gopher game is bigger than the Vikings one. 

At the bold.. set up for another extension in two years if he keeps winning :)

@"mblack" said:

@"purplefaithful" said: As one schill reporter said, call it exclusively dating for the next 2-3 years...

Buyout is prohibitive 1st and 2nd year. After that? Pretty easy to walk.

Rare weekend in MN when the Gopher game is bigger than the Vikings one. 

At the bold.. set up for another extension in two years if he keeps winning :)

They did it Gophers Win 31-26, awesome!