By Rock Westfall The winds of college football change are impacting the head coach PJ Fleck’s Minnesota Golden Gophers. Fleck is the most successful Minnesota coach since the sport was fully integrated.
The Minnesota Gophers commits just keep rolling in for P.J. Fleck. On Saturday, while over 100 college football prospects were hearing their names called during the 2024 NFL Draft, the Gophers were busy adding talent too.
PJ Fleck and the Minnesota Gophers have had an interesting offseason of recruiting, as everyone everyone in the college football world tries to wrap their brains around how to best navigate the transfer portal NIL age of collegiate athletics.
The Minnesota Vikings scored big on Thursday night landing two top talents in the 2024 NFL Draft, one being their QB of the future JJ McCarthy, who they had to jump up to the No.
PJ Fleck and Minnesota Gophers football coaches have kept plenty busy this offseason, both on the recruiting trail and in the transfer portal. And it’s paid off because the high-caliber commitments continue to roll in.
P.J. Fleck has added former four-star linebacker Jaxon Howard in the spring transfer window. Howard confirmed that he's coming home to Minnesota, leaving LSU after just one year as a redshirt freshman.
P.J. Fleck and the Minnesota Gophers coaching staff have been on fire lately, really putting in the work and making the most of NIL opportunities. And they’ve been rewarded, landing multiple high-value commitments both in the portal and on the recruiting trail, in recent weeks (and even months).
It didn't take long for Andover's Cameron Begalle to say yes to P.J. Fleck. According to several recruiting insiders, Begalle, the No. 6 recruit in Minnesota according to 247Sports, committed almost immediately after receiving an offer from the Gophers. "Wow!
It’s 2024 and if you do not know how to successfully navigate the transfer portal as a division one college football head coach, your team will decay and you will eventually be fired.
Emmanuel Karmo, the top-ranked high school football player from Minnesota’s 2025 class and top-400 nationally (according to 247Sports composite ratings), is a 6’3” and 225 pound 4-star monster out of Robbinsdale Cooper.
P.J. Fleck and the Minnesota Gophers finished with a top-40 recruiting class in 2024, adding a ton of talent to their future offense with three- and four-star recruits at multiple spots.
The Minnesota Gophers have ended an incredibly busy day in Minnesota Sports with a bang, flipping massive 2025 3-star defensive lineman Torin Pettaway over the border.
Much of the 2024 Minnesota Gophers recruiting class is yet to enroll at the University, but that hasn’t stopped PJ Fleck and his coaching staff from shifting focus to the 2025 recruits.
The Minnesota Gophers have stepped up their NIL game in recent years and months. Pretty much since the middle of the season when head coach PJ Fleck pleaded
PJ Fleck's "love" of Minnesota is what, he says, was the tipping point for him to remain the Gophers head coach when UCLA came calling earlier this year. "I just love being in Minnesota," Fleck said at the team's spring practice press conference Wednesday. "I don't know if there's much to say after that.
Gophers football coach PJ Fleck is getting an amendment to his contract. It's certainly not as exciting as an extension but it's once again clear that the interest from the outside, this time UCLA, has caused the University of Minnesota to give Fleck more of what he wants.
University of Minnesota athletics director Mark Coyle said UCLA's interest in PJ Fleck following the sudden departure of head coach Chip Kelly "was real." Speaking on the Golden Gophers Podcast Thursday Coyle was candid about the interest being showed to the Gophers football coach.
The Minnesota Gophers football program was nearly hit by a proverbial bus on Friday, February 9, 2024 around 1 PM. Not even a bus. More like a semi-truck filled to the ceiling with dried concrete (more on that momentarily).
If P.J. Fleck and the Gophers are in search of bulletin board material, look no further than the over/under win totals for Big Ten football teams in 2024.
Gophers football coach P.J. Fleck dispelled rumors that he was on his way to UCLA on Saturday, taking to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to
Chip Kelly ran his most creative play yet last week, but it was a last-second end around out the door and to the east. 2200 miles to the east. UCLA’s athletic director put an expedited timeline on filling the still-warm chair, 96 hours.
A time-tested way to punch up a low-level college bowl game is leveraging outsized coaching egos and grievances. Beaten down fan bases and desperate television producers love grudge matches.
Hollywood couldn't write a better script than a 2023 bowl game between P.J. Fleck's Minnesota Gophers and Jerry Kill's New Mexico State Aggies. It could happen, at least in the predictive eyes of 247Sports, which in its Sunday bowl projections has the Gophers facing the Aggies in the New Mexico Bowl, a game that is set to be played at 4:45 p.m.
Being consistently good to great is not the expectation Gophers football fans should have, according to head coach P.J. Fleck, who on Monday – following a 37-3 drubbing at the hands of Ohio State on Saturday – compared the line of success for most college teams to the stock market. "The line of success...it is a jagged line.
Struggles be darned, University of Minnesota athletics director Mark Coyle is not prepared to move on from football coach P.J. Fleck, instead remaining aboard Fleck's boat with oar in hand, ready to navigate rough waters. “I’m absolutely convinced P.J.
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