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P.J. Fleck stops spring game to surprise Minnesota walk-on with scholarship

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Surprise scholarships never get old.

Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck stopped Thursday's spring game to award walk-on defensive end Sam Renner with a scholarship in front of the TCF Bank Stadium crowd. Fleck set up the surprise by calling for a video replay after a fumble, but instead of the replay, his message to Renner appeared on the scoreboard, according to The Daily Gopher.

Fleck has pulled off a number of creative scholarship announcements in the past. He used an Easter Egg hunt to surprise walk-on linebacker Blake Cashman last year, and awarded kicker Justin Juenemann a scholarship from a T-shirt cannon.

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