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MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Max Brosmer threw his first pass with the University of Minnesota football team at spring practice on Thursday, but he had won over P.J. Fleck and his teammates long before that.
Fleck and the Gophers learned shortly after their loss to Wisconsin to end the regular season 5-7 that they would need a new quarterback. Athan Kaliakmanis announced he was entering the transfer portal after an inconsistent season, averaging 153 yards per game while throwing for 14 touchdowns and nine interceptions.
He ended up at Rutgers. Fleck turned to the portal himself, and found Brosmer. The New Hampshire grad transfer was a finalist for the Walter Payton Award last season, the Heisman Trophy of FCS. He threw for 3,449 yards and 29 touchdowns last season. He had 8,000 yards in 31 career games. Once he got in the portal, Minnesota showed immediate interest.
“I’ll just say the transfer portal is a wild new world. I was kind of warned going into the portal about how crazy it gets, and I don’t think I really understood the true depth of it until I got in,” Brosmer said. “You’ve got to figure out who actually wants you and who doesn’t. You want to go to a school that wants you the same way that you want to go to that program as well. We aligned pretty well pretty quickly, that had a lot of weight for me. I wanted to get in an out of the portal as quickly as I could, as long as I was going to the school that fit me the best. Minnesota ended up being that school for me.”
Fleck knew after his first conversation with Brosmer he wanted him at Minnesota.
“You start with the intangibles, they’re through the roof. That’s the first thing you see when you meet him. You feel like he’s already been here for 30 years, I’ve never seen a person walk into a situation, maybe more uncomfortable of a situation because…
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Publish date : 2024-03-21 19:19:51
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