Minnesota coach P. J. Fleck brought his team role models for a soccer season that begins in October, November, December or January, he said on the latest episode of the Amway Coaches Poll podcast.
“We’ve been told the Big Ten that those are valid times that, in all likelihood, we can start,” Fleck said.
Keeping the Golden Gophers motivated without providing a start date set in stone is challenging, he admitted. A similar scene is positioned in the Big Ten shows, as painting groups with limited education time to stay on the brink of gambling a rebooted season. sometime this fall or winter.
“We said, whatever happens, football happens,” Fleck said. “It’s like ‘winter is coming. ‘ Football is coming. We know. We don’t know when. But we know what happens. So whoever can make this age of uncertainty bigger for the longest will have the most productive advantage. “
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Meanwhile, Fleck has spent the first week of the 2020 school football season in an unfamiliar place: on his couch.
Rather than coach the Golden Gophers in the scheduled opening of the Michigan State opposing team, Fleck and his wife spent Labor Day watching Brigham Young beat Navy.
“This is the first time in 25 years that I’ve been out of Labor Day, let alone watch a school football game that we don’t play,” Fleck said. “So it’s very exclusive, very different. But it’s a very exclusive moment this pandemic. “
The Golden Gophers’ fourth-year coach went 11-2 last season, setting a new record for a winning schedule in a season in the fashion era. By the time Fleck had won 11 or more games, joining a 13-1 mark at Western Michigan in 2016.
In addition to a verbal exchange with Fleck, the episode breaks down the effects of Week 1, adds an investigation of BYU’s odds of going undefeated, and features upcoming games from a Week 2 roster that includes ACC groups and Big 12. .