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A couple of snippets:
And in comes Fleck, who’s sort of the anti-Kill/Claeys.
Fleck takes cheesy rhetoric to a whole other level, but he’s slick, young, brash, good-looking, and he knows he’s a star.
Turning 37 this season, he’s got the youthful energy to fly around at 1,000 miles per hour with his go-go-GO brand of coaching, but he also showed off the chops to take Western Michigan to a 13-0 regular season and the Cotton Bowl by building up the program that was sinking fast.
If he wins, he’s all of a sudden the Big Ten West’s biggest star and personality for a program that hasn’t known a whole lot of star power lately.
But how will the whole Fleck thing come across if Minnesota doesn’t win right away? The act will be fantastic theater if the Gophers become players in the West chase, and he’ll be a perfect lightning rod for opposing fan bases, but will it all wear thin when there’s a three-game losing streak?
It was a chance worth taking. He was the perfect hire at the perfect time for a program that needed to start fresh with a coach who somehow got through the offseason musical chair coaching search without a Power Five gig.
http://collegefootballnews.com/2017/preview-2017-minnesota-p-j-fleck-ready-to-row-to-a-big-ten-title
And in comes Fleck, who’s sort of the anti-Kill/Claeys.
Fleck takes cheesy rhetoric to a whole other level, but he’s slick, young, brash, good-looking, and he knows he’s a star.
Turning 37 this season, he’s got the youthful energy to fly around at 1,000 miles per hour with his go-go-GO brand of coaching, but he also showed off the chops to take Western Michigan to a 13-0 regular season and the Cotton Bowl by building up the program that was sinking fast.
If he wins, he’s all of a sudden the Big Ten West’s biggest star and personality for a program that hasn’t known a whole lot of star power lately.
But how will the whole Fleck thing come across if Minnesota doesn’t win right away? The act will be fantastic theater if the Gophers become players in the West chase, and he’ll be a perfect lightning rod for opposing fan bases, but will it all wear thin when there’s a three-game losing streak?
It was a chance worth taking. He was the perfect hire at the perfect time for a program that needed to start fresh with a coach who somehow got through the offseason musical chair coaching search without a Power Five gig.
http://collegefootballnews.com/2017/preview-2017-minnesota-p-j-fleck-ready-to-row-to-a-big-ten-title