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When P.J. Fleck first became a head football coach, a colleague pulled him aside.
“He said, ‘I’ve got great advice for you,’ ” Fleck recalled Wednesday. ” ‘You never, ever play Georgia Southern, or that Paul Johnson guy.’ And here I am.”
Fleck was sitting beside Johnson at Ford Field in Detroit on Wednesday as the first official business of the Quick Lane Bowl, which will pit Fleck’s Gophers (6-6) against Johnson’s Georgia Tech (7-5) in a 3:15 p.m. kickoff Dec. 26.
Johnson, the longtime coach at Navy and Georgia Tech whose first head coaching job was at Georgia Southern, has remained true to his increasingly rare triple-option attack, which the Gophers will have to solve in their first bowl game under Fleck, hired to replace Tracy Claeys in January 2017.
Fleck also has scheduled Georgia Southern twice, once at Western Michigan and on next year’s Gophers schedule, so drawing the Yellow Jackets is a timely turn of events.
“We’ve started to practice,” Fleck told reporters. “Playing Georgia Tech is a challenge, especially on offense; not only because of the players and the coaches they have, but the system and the style is different. You change a little bit of your defense to be able to stop that type of scheme.”...
https://www.twincities.com/2018/12/05/gophers-getting-head-start-on-quick-lane-bowl-and-next-season/
When P.J. Fleck first became a head football coach, a colleague pulled him aside.
“He said, ‘I’ve got great advice for you,’ ” Fleck recalled Wednesday. ” ‘You never, ever play Georgia Southern, or that Paul Johnson guy.’ And here I am.”
Fleck was sitting beside Johnson at Ford Field in Detroit on Wednesday as the first official business of the Quick Lane Bowl, which will pit Fleck’s Gophers (6-6) against Johnson’s Georgia Tech (7-5) in a 3:15 p.m. kickoff Dec. 26.
Johnson, the longtime coach at Navy and Georgia Tech whose first head coaching job was at Georgia Southern, has remained true to his increasingly rare triple-option attack, which the Gophers will have to solve in their first bowl game under Fleck, hired to replace Tracy Claeys in January 2017.
Fleck also has scheduled Georgia Southern twice, once at Western Michigan and on next year’s Gophers schedule, so drawing the Yellow Jackets is a timely turn of events.
“We’ve started to practice,” Fleck told reporters. “Playing Georgia Tech is a challenge, especially on offense; not only because of the players and the coaches they have, but the system and the style is different. You change a little bit of your defense to be able to stop that type of scheme.”...
