First-year University of Minnesota head coach P.J. Fleck has the Gophers off to a 3-1 start heading into a Big Ten game against Purdue this weekend. Fleck led Western Michigan to a 13-1 season last year, which included a MAC Championship and a spot in the Cotton Bowl. He sat down with Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports to discuss his vision for the program at Minnesota.
By P.J. Fleck
Every day when I get to my office, I light a candle and pull out my iPhone. There’s a quote on there that I like to read each morning:”Nobody ever made a difference by being like everyone else.” That’s me, that’s my life and a good window into how I’ve started to establish the new culture here at the University of Minnesota.
There’s a rich history here at Minnesota that myself and my staff appreciate and respect. What we’re setting out to do is write a bold new chapter in that history, something that hasn’t been done in 50 years. We arrived here with the goal of building a program that’s going to win a Big Ten championship. I told athletic director Mark Coyle in my interview, “If you want this be an extension of what’s been done here, I’m not your guy. I’m a completely new and different culture.”
Now what does that mean? We’re not going to change the mascot to a squirrel. We’re not changing the school colors or move to a different stadium. What we’re doing here is embracing the past to create the future. I want to embrace our successes, failures, adversities and challenges, and use them as scars and
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