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per The Athletic:
P.J. Fleck doesn’t remember who told him this; maybe it was a former head coach, or maybe it was just someone on a staff of his. But what they said has stuck with him for years:
“Listen, I have great advice for you,” Fleck recalled the person saying to him. “Never, ever schedule Georgia Southern or that Paul Johnson guy.”
At the exact moment that Fleck told that story, “that Paul Johnson guy” sat right next to him as the two coaches participated in the official Quick Lane Bowl news conference Wednesday morning in Detroit.
Fleck said his teams played Georgia Southern twice while he was the head coach at Western Michigan, but Johnson was no longer with the Eagles. Now, Fleck will have the chance to finally face Johnson as Georgia Tech travels to Detroit to play Minnesota on Dec. 26 at Ford Field. While the advice was likely sound, fate would have it that Fleck didn’t get a chance to follow it, after all, and the...
https://theathletic.com/696470/2018...lden-gophers-and-the-quick-lane-bowl-matchup/
Go Gophers!!
P.J. Fleck doesn’t remember who told him this; maybe it was a former head coach, or maybe it was just someone on a staff of his. But what they said has stuck with him for years:
“Listen, I have great advice for you,” Fleck recalled the person saying to him. “Never, ever schedule Georgia Southern or that Paul Johnson guy.”
At the exact moment that Fleck told that story, “that Paul Johnson guy” sat right next to him as the two coaches participated in the official Quick Lane Bowl news conference Wednesday morning in Detroit.
Fleck said his teams played Georgia Southern twice while he was the head coach at Western Michigan, but Johnson was no longer with the Eagles. Now, Fleck will have the chance to finally face Johnson as Georgia Tech travels to Detroit to play Minnesota on Dec. 26 at Ford Field. While the advice was likely sound, fate would have it that Fleck didn’t get a chance to follow it, after all, and the...
https://theathletic.com/696470/2018...lden-gophers-and-the-quick-lane-bowl-matchup/
Go Gophers!!