August 20th, 2015 at 2:12 PM ^
August 20th, 2015 at 2:42 PM ^
I see your chicken and raise you a Thanksgiving Turkey!. That was insanely cool right there! Congrats to that walk on!
August 20th, 2015 at 4:03 PM ^
August 20th, 2015 at 2:48 PM ^
That is really cool.
August 20th, 2015 at 2:51 PM ^
Fucking awesome. Thanks for posting that.
August 20th, 2015 at 2:52 PM ^
August 20th, 2015 at 3:50 PM ^
Totally impressed. He seems to be building a program at Western.
August 20th, 2015 at 3:33 PM ^
Fleck seems like a solid coach. He's recruiting circles around the rest of the MAC too. Won't be long till he's got a P5 job.
August 20th, 2015 at 3:52 PM ^
I know you are correct, but as a WMU alum I hope he stays for a long time! Won't happen, but nice thought!
Not sure how we were able to get Sparty to play at Waldo Stadium, but DAMN!
My cousin is neighbors with Chance Stewart and says he loves playing for PJ. Chance should be the starting QB next year! Chance was a 4* when he committed to Wisky, but only a 3* after he flipped to WMU. Interesting??
August 20th, 2015 at 4:10 PM ^
Chance Stewart transferred to Hillsdale so he couldn't have loved him that much. I personally think he is a good coach.
August 20th, 2015 at 7:43 PM ^
He likes PJ and liked playing for him, but they wanted to make him a TE. He wanted to play QB so he went DII to not have to sit out another year after redshirting.
August 20th, 2015 at 2:10 PM ^
That was really cool. Always nice to see when teams do this, especially when you have teams oversigning left and right.
August 20th, 2015 at 2:09 PM ^
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August 20th, 2015 at 2:11 PM ^
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August 20th, 2015 at 2:14 PM ^
Congrats to the player, the coach and the program. That's how it is supposed to be.
August 20th, 2015 at 2:14 PM ^
Nice. Made me smile. If tears were shed they were manly football shaped tears.
August 20th, 2015 at 3:09 PM ^
Agreed! Mich_hockey_6 why did you feel the need to downvote? Do you not like WMU or the OP or the kid or the coach or life in general?
August 20th, 2015 at 2:15 PM ^
Definitely a fan of what PJ Fleck is doing in KZoo.
August 20th, 2015 at 2:16 PM ^
Wow good thing that guy recovered it. Would suck if the scholarship went to someone else...
August 20th, 2015 at 2:25 PM ^
was obviously in on it.
August 20th, 2015 at 2:36 PM ^
*woosh*
August 20th, 2015 at 2:18 PM ^
on the radio and he's one impressive sounding coach. He's going to land a major school job sometime in the near future I'd guess. But, this was just a very cool thing to do.
August 20th, 2015 at 2:30 PM ^
He had a rough start his first year when WMU went 1-11, but last year they improved to 8-5. although they lost to all the good teams they faced. This year will be a big test. At 34-years-old, he's still a bit young to be offered a major job somewhere in the near future. If he does well, he could have a Tressell/Brian Kelly type career trajectory, where he's at a small school for a decade or so and does well there then gets a power 5 offer.
August 20th, 2015 at 6:07 PM ^
August 20th, 2015 at 2:18 PM ^
Why we like PJ? I mean, he coached agasint us for Tressel in 2006 and worked for Schiano.
August 20th, 2015 at 2:25 PM ^
Because he's a guy that does stuff like this for his players.
August 20th, 2015 at 2:29 PM ^
One of Fleck's first actions as head coach was to rescind scholarship offers to incoming players who had verbally committed to Western Michigan. The withdraws occurred weeks before the national signing day, and left players unable to arrange other Division I scholarships as slots were already filled at other schools
August 20th, 2015 at 2:42 PM ^
He's also known for giving surprise scholarships to most of his walk ons...
Like this video where he gives 4 other walk ons surprise schollies too.
August 20th, 2015 at 3:00 PM ^
for screwing those other kids out of their scholarships, right? Also, he fucked his own alma mater by taking a job with Tampa Bay ONE DAY after agreeing to be the OC for his old team.
Come to think of it, this might have been the thinking behind the "Oakland is still in play" reporting, since it had happened before.
August 20th, 2015 at 3:10 PM ^
Where did I say it makes up for it? I said he's known for this sholarship surprise stuff.
On that topic...
Quite frankly I'm not surprised that a new incoming head coach would sever ties with prior verbal commits. Especially on a squad that was rubbish prior to his arrival. It happens every year and Fleck's case was, what, 3 years ago now? Very well could have changed once he got his program swinging.
August 20th, 2015 at 3:15 PM ^
It just seems like he might not be this great guy that everyone seems to be making him out to be. I don't hate him or anything; I just think there's more to him than rowing the boat and handing out scholarships.
He'll probably be the head of a 5P program sooner rather than later as he's a good coach and obviously very ambitious (the alma mater thing).
August 20th, 2015 at 3:21 PM ^
who happens to be the preeminent program in the MAC. I think they did just fine without him.
Oh and it's also the NFL. I can't blame him for doing that.
August 20th, 2015 at 3:44 PM ^
if Harbaugh went to Oakland on December 31st, one day after agreeing to be the Michigan coach? Because that's exactly what he did to NIU.
August 20th, 2015 at 4:16 PM ^
Taking a NFL position coach job is a great boost to his resume. Much more so than an OC position at a MAC school. Harbaugh was already an established head coach. He didn't need any job. He could select from many suitors if he so choose. Comparing Harbaugh's situation to that of Fleck is like comparing the Big House to Saline's football field. Superfically they are both stadiums, but one is jusssstttt a little more impressive than the other.
August 21st, 2015 at 6:02 AM ^
I'm not sure, but what I think you're trying to say is that Brady Hoke's decision to build a house closer to Saline "stadium" than to the Big House should've been a red flag indicating his questionable judgment in appraising impressiveness, hence the great weeks in practice, the best running back by a mile sitting on the bench until he was the only one left, etc.
By this yardstick we can already see how much better Harbaugh will be than Hoke just by looking at the map and comparing the relative distances from the Big House between Saline and Ann Arbor Hills.
August 20th, 2015 at 2:52 PM ^
And that turned out well. Plus is there a reason not to like Schiano outside of him being a douche?
August 20th, 2015 at 3:01 PM ^
he did turn the Michigan HC job down. Although in retrospect we should probably be thanking him for that.
My feelings on Schiano are now neutral.
August 20th, 2015 at 3:39 PM ^
August 20th, 2015 at 2:18 PM ^
I left that it looks like he fumbled it....well, after that, we are now pulling your scholarship...better luck next time
August 20th, 2015 at 2:21 PM ^
Fleck seems like a pretty neat guy. He's gonna get a big time job sooner rather than later.
August 20th, 2015 at 2:24 PM ^
Fleck seems like a good dude, and I think he has a good coaching future ahead of him. Congrats to that kid.
August 20th, 2015 at 2:28 PM ^
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August 20th, 2015 at 2:53 PM ^
That was pretty awesome, and indeed, a very creative delivery too as right in the middle of practice is about the last place where you would expect that to happen. Awesome work, Coach Fleck and congratulations to that kid.
August 20th, 2015 at 2:54 PM ^
Awesome. Good for that kid, hope he has a good year.
August 20th, 2015 at 2:55 PM ^
And will be pulling for him and his team. Glad we don't face him this year
I think he'll be gone after this year IMO