A lot has been written about what happens in a programs third season at the helm. The New York Times wrote a piece in 2016 that explains the phenomenon well enough at the elite level. Bill Connelly explored if coaches overachieve after their second or third year (they don’t). So it seems sensible to see the 2019 Gophers season as a harbinger of what will come in future seasons under PJ Fleck.
Since I’m interested in using the past to glimpse the future, I looked at 13 Gopher coaches third years to see how things worked out.