BleedGopher
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Penn writer on Fleck: "That, my friends, is not a BS dispenser. That is a BS artist."
per PennLive.com reporter David Jones: Ranking Big Ten football coaches at the Media Days microphone
11. P.J. Fleck (Minnesota)
I’m pretty sure I bought 25 super-absorbent towels from this guy. He was wearing a head mic at the York Fair and he targeted me walking by and wouldn't leave me alone. So, I just eventually bought his product so he'd stop talking. Who knew he'd become the Minnesota head football coach?
Look, I love enthusiasm. It's enthusiastic duplicity I can't stand. You know it as "BS." And this guy deals in it. He's a slicker version of Tim Beckman who can also coach a little, so there's no telling how far he can go in this biz.
My favorite part of Fleck's spiel as the opening act on Tuesday morning (yes, the audience was accosted with this at 8 a.m. CDT) wasn't his pretending to tell one of his four kids not to hit his sister through the TV screen (cute) or his honoring of Jim Tressel as his role model (perfect) or the detailing of legal acquisition of his "Row The Boat" mantra from his prior stop at Western Michigan (it was an honor to bring it to Minnesota) or his explanation of why he's having ESPNU do a reality show on the season (it was their idea).
No, my favorite part was his description of how delighted his old offensive line coach from WMU was when he learned he'd been demoted to tight ends coach -- because he'd hired Ed Warinner who was just cut loose by Urban Meyer at Ohio State. See, the holdover guy's "eyes lit up" when he learned that he could learn from the incoming vet. That's just the sort of selflessness he has on his staff.
That, my friends, is not a BS dispenser. That is a BS artist.
http://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefootball/index.ssf/2017/07/big_ten_football_media_days_20.html
Go Gophers!!
per PennLive.com reporter David Jones: Ranking Big Ten football coaches at the Media Days microphone
11. P.J. Fleck (Minnesota)
I’m pretty sure I bought 25 super-absorbent towels from this guy. He was wearing a head mic at the York Fair and he targeted me walking by and wouldn't leave me alone. So, I just eventually bought his product so he'd stop talking. Who knew he'd become the Minnesota head football coach?
Look, I love enthusiasm. It's enthusiastic duplicity I can't stand. You know it as "BS." And this guy deals in it. He's a slicker version of Tim Beckman who can also coach a little, so there's no telling how far he can go in this biz.
My favorite part of Fleck's spiel as the opening act on Tuesday morning (yes, the audience was accosted with this at 8 a.m. CDT) wasn't his pretending to tell one of his four kids not to hit his sister through the TV screen (cute) or his honoring of Jim Tressel as his role model (perfect) or the detailing of legal acquisition of his "Row The Boat" mantra from his prior stop at Western Michigan (it was an honor to bring it to Minnesota) or his explanation of why he's having ESPNU do a reality show on the season (it was their idea).
No, my favorite part was his description of how delighted his old offensive line coach from WMU was when he learned he'd been demoted to tight ends coach -- because he'd hired Ed Warinner who was just cut loose by Urban Meyer at Ohio State. See, the holdover guy's "eyes lit up" when he learned that he could learn from the incoming vet. That's just the sort of selflessness he has on his staff.
That, my friends, is not a BS dispenser. That is a BS artist.
http://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefootball/index.ssf/2017/07/big_ten_football_media_days_20.html
Go Gophers!!