Duck Dive: Minnesota Football 2025 Preview

Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty ImagesSpecial thanks to Max Oelerking of Ski U Pod for joining me on this week’s podcast to discuss Minnesota’s roster:

In many ways Minnesota’s 2024 season was tantalizing for Gophers — in the original, mythical sense of the word — for having made noticeable but not quite sufficient progress on a number of fronts that fans had been demanding of Coach Fleck’s arguably too conservative staff. Last year seemed to confirm that better results had always been available, and perhaps they had the opportunity for an even better season against what turned out to be a remarkably soft schedule if they’d gone farther. There’s always a paradox in evaluating such a staff and…