Big Ten Media Days commenced this morning at the Marriott Downtown in Chicago. Minnesota Golden Gophers head coach P.J. Fleck offered an opening statement and answered questions from the gathered media members (including yours truly).
In a classy touch, Fleck opened his statement by extending thoughts and prayers to the family of late Minnesota Vikings offensive line coach Tony Sparano, who died Sunday.
The race to “MAHturity”
If there was a central theme to Fleck’s comments from this morning, it was that Gopher fans should expect some growing pains this season.
He stressed that the Gophers are talented but young and inexperienced, with only nine scholarship seniors and 14 scholarship juniors on offense and defense.