Chuck Filiaga and the other 6th and 5th year starters at Minnesota

Submitted by Ezekiels Creatures on September 15th, 2022 at 7:40 PM

 

PJ Fleck likes to start experienced players. So the 2020 eligibility waive rule is working very well to his advantage. 12 of the 22 starters on Minnesota's offense and defense are 5th and 6th year players. Chuck Filiaga is one of them. Chuck is in his 6th year. Of note: starting Minnesota RB, Mohamed Ibrahim, is in his 6th year, and is 24 years old. If ever there was a year for Minnesota with PJ Fleck to make a run at winning the BIG10 West, and getting to the BIG10 Championship, and possibly beyond, it's this year.

 

Here's a list of those 12 players:

 

https://twitter.com/PineNutPesto/status/1570546273446662147

 

https://twitter.com/PineNutPesto/status/1570551790684483587

 

https://twitter.com/PineNutPesto/status/1570551903293149186

 

Here's a side note on Terell Smith. So far this year, PFF is grading him as the #1 man coverage DB in college. The experience is paying off. And look who's at #2. Michigan's own, Will Johnson. Not bad for a true freshman!

 

https://twitter.com/PFF_College/status/1570519575271297024

 

 

https://twitter.com/PineNutPesto/status/1570552022478487552

 

https://twitter.com/PineNutPesto/status/1570551969156337665

 

https://twitter.com/PineNutPesto/status/1570550905275305986

 

PFF graded Minnesota TE, Brevyn Spann-Ford, the top TE for week 2. The experience is paying off.

 

https://twitter.com/PFF_College/status/1569432411565334531

 

 

Maybe we'll see Minnesota against Michigan on December 3, 2022, in the BIG10 Championship.

 

 

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WestQuad

September 16th, 2022 at 7:16 AM ^

I actually don't know that he isn't good at Xes and Os other than what people say on here.  I was excited for Western when he was there.  I think part of the animosity is that anyone who does well coaching at a directional Michigan school is considered as a potential Michigan coach.  I know people were talking about Brian Kelly before he went to Notre Dame.  After Brady Hoke refused to wear a headset our fan base was dubious of a guy clapping on the sidelines.  That and his record at Minnesota hasn't been great.  The row the boat thing is a cool story about dealing with grief of losing a child, but then he got divorced a year after having a fifth kid and married a woman the internet presumes was a stripper.  Probably a good coach, but a lot of red flags.

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1VaBlue1

September 16th, 2022 at 7:56 AM ^

"The row the boat thing is a cool story about dealing with grief of losing a child, but then he got divorced a year after having a fifth kid and married a woman the internet presumes was a stripper.  Probably a good coach, but a lot of red flags."

You don't know what the story is, but it's a "red flag" because he married a rumored stripper.  Nothing like passing moral judgement on a person you've never even seen in real life, let alone know personally.  Feel free to continue dealing with that giant stick in your ass, but spare the rest of us your 'moral' judgements...

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Kapitan Howard

September 16th, 2022 at 8:57 AM ^

I think it's perfectly fine to pass moral judgements on people you've never met. I don't want to go all Godwin, but you know what I would put here as an extreme example if I did. Of course, there's nothing immoral about being a stripper or marrying a stripper and I think that the other poster saw it as a red flag speaks a lot more to their moral character.

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CRISPed in the DIAG

September 16th, 2022 at 9:40 AM ^

1. 'Disingenuous' is an apt description. The whole running up the sideline thing. The slogan. Unproven hype. It's all in a pile of things that annoy me. And, yeah, I realize these are attributes that people assign Jim. But our head ball coach is a genuinely weird dude. Fleck is mostly show. All of that shit overshadows any legitimate coaching ability.

2. The way Western folks insisted he was staying in fucking Kalamazoo rather than jumping to a P5 job was annoying. 

3. IIRC, he left his family for a woman who....eh, I'm not going there. Life happens, but he got a lot of narrative about reportedly wanting to stay in Kalamazoo because of his family. Nothing bugs me more than the fam-uh-leee trope: don't claim to be the best dad/husband ever and then demand privacy when you screw it up.

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Vote_Crisler_1937

September 15th, 2022 at 7:50 PM ^

My favorite part of this post is that Will Johnson is doing well playing man coverage. 

 Good for Chuck Filiaga. 
 

Minnesota has a lot of 5th and 6th year players both home grown and transfers.  The rest is much more info than I needed to know about them. They do look like serious contenders in the West this year. 

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Blue@LSU

September 15th, 2022 at 8:15 PM ^

I think they just haven't updated these. Terell Smith's Linkedin page says 

I'm Currently a grad student at the University Of Minnesota I graduated in 3.5 with a degree in business and marketing education. Im currently in grad school working on my masters for human Resource development M Ed. Im also in my final year of Eligibility playing football at the University Of Minnesota

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Amazinblu

September 15th, 2022 at 9:09 PM ^

Blue, great news.  It looks like a problem with updating the player profile information on their web site.

I am sensitive to assume that Fleck doesn’t have Minny’s players focused on academics.  So, these 5th / 6th year players - working on their graduate degrees - I say.. Congratulations, have a great season.  

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Brhino

September 15th, 2022 at 8:26 PM ^

Glad to see our guys get recognition, but is anyone else confused by Will Johnson coming in 2nd in the nation?  I thought the evaluation on him through two games is basically "He's going to be really good, but he's having some of the issues you'd expect from a true freshmen playing in his first college games."

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SouthOfHeaven

September 15th, 2022 at 8:47 PM ^

Everyone remembers the one time he got beat for the TD, but what else? According to PFF, he's supposedly been a lock-down corner the rest of the time.

I'm guilty of this too, btw. I haven't paid him much mind, and that's probably a good thing because it means he's just doing his job and there's no bad moments.

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