Minnesota has offered Fleck the job
...according to the Huge Show.
Huge is now claiming that they are close:
Sources tell me Minnesota is close to a deal with PJ Fleck.
— HUGE (@Hugeshow) January 5, 2017
January 5th, 2017 at 2:27 PM ^
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January 5th, 2017 at 4:00 PM ^
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January 5th, 2017 at 2:42 PM ^
HUGE is like, the best twitter username ever.
January 5th, 2017 at 4:24 PM ^
Oops, no politics.
January 5th, 2017 at 8:47 PM ^
Huge is a flaming dickhead. I could not listen anymore. He is a flaming pile of human ego. He is totally intolerable. I do not believe anything that he has ever said. And...I am dumber for have listened to him.
January 6th, 2017 at 10:07 AM ^
Agreed. Listening to him is a HUGE waste of time. He'll say something one day and totally flip the next. He's a parrot who loves hearing himself talk.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:28 PM ^
Is Huge a credible source though?
January 5th, 2017 at 2:30 PM ^
Hugely credible.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:30 PM ^
No idea. He's really patting himself on the back, at any rate.
I've been spot on about everything connected to Minnesota/Fleck since last Saturday. https://t.co/DWGQJjaQu1
— HUGE (@Hugeshow) January 5, 2017
January 5th, 2017 at 2:35 PM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 2:35 PM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 2:28 PM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 2:32 PM ^
Huge is terrible. Worse than Valenti.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:38 PM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 2:51 PM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 2:51 PM ^
Huge is stupid
Valenti is an asshole but not stupid
January 5th, 2017 at 6:55 PM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 7:27 PM ^
Huge's show originates from there.
January 5th, 2017 at 9:40 PM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 10:31 PM ^
is actually a pretty good interviewer even though he is a clown, I'll admit that.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:33 PM ^
I would say a Power 5 team coming off a 9-win season in a relatively weak division is about the best possible situation for him.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:35 PM ^
In the short term, he could have to deal with some malcontents over the suspensions/Claeys firing. But big picture, yeah, it's not that bad.
January 5th, 2017 at 3:37 PM ^
That will be over by the time he touches down in Minneapolis. You don't think the players would rather play for Fleck than Claeys?
January 5th, 2017 at 3:48 PM ^
It depends. They seemed pretty attached to Claeys and mad at their administration. Fleck would be the "new guy" that the same administration brought in.
Also, when he arrived at WMU he promptly ran a bunch of guys off to make room for his own recruits.
January 5th, 2017 at 4:47 PM ^
They are upset. There may be some attrition. Fleck specializes in motivation-type stuff, though, and I suspect he'll have the right touch to calm things down if he goes.
January 5th, 2017 at 5:45 PM ^
of their commits. He took over a 7-5 team and went 1-11 in his first season. He doesn't seem like the type of coach to try to smooth things over. More likely he'll be ready to clean house and start from scratch.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:50 PM ^
if there was any hesitation from the top tier programs to hire him right out of the MAC, this seems like a good stepping stone to get there, based on existing talent (there seems to be some) and relatively easy division. If he's going to get one of the top jobs eventually, this would be like his Utah for Meyer, MSU for Saban, Cincinatti for Kelly, Louisville for Strong, etc. Fits similarly with those programs.
It is not a Rutgers or even a Maryland situation where getting to double digit wins will be much more difficult.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:34 PM ^
Is it that bad of a job though? I think he can compete in the B1G West
January 5th, 2017 at 4:00 PM ^
Minnesota is a pretty good team, too.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:49 PM ^
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January 5th, 2017 at 4:12 PM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 2:31 PM ^
Didnt PJ Fleck say he will say until WMU doesn't want him?
January 5th, 2017 at 2:33 PM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 2:35 PM ^
I thought WMU already signed him to a new contract, no?
January 5th, 2017 at 2:38 PM ^
But in college football contracts mean jack-squat it seems and people can break them as they see fit.
I wish my industry took that position. It would be nice to have an employment agreement where if was fired my employer had to pay me but if I quit I could go work anywhere I want.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:45 PM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 3:10 PM ^
anyone can try to negotiate those kinds of deals into an employment contract. If your employer doesn't bite, it's because you aren't valuable enough/your skills are enough of a commodity. Not many of us are among the best couple hundred in the world at what we do.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:48 PM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 2:55 PM ^
Minnesota does play MSU next year so it would still probably happen.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:49 PM ^
If where you're going pays your former employer for the remainder of your contract, as is what is almost certainly going to happen here, I don't see how it's any different.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:58 PM ^
They do have to pay their old team when they leave, though. Remember all the mess over RR's West Virginia buyout?
January 5th, 2017 at 3:29 PM ^
from that mess. Soured my view on Rodriguez.
January 5th, 2017 at 3:42 PM ^
Buyout provisions are in the contracts, and they can work both ways. Remember that when RR came to Michigan, he had to pay West Virginia. So UM apparently paid for that. So it's not that the "contracts mean jack-squat"; instead, they specify who pays how much to whom depending on how the relationship ends.
January 5th, 2017 at 5:43 PM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 2:38 PM ^
He can still walk away. He probably just has to pay a little more now.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:43 PM ^
probably has a low buy out, or possibly a list of scenarios where he is allowed to leave with little or no buy out.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:42 PM ^
he held off on signing the new contract. Nothing to lose by waiting for the current coaching carousel to finish.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:31 PM ^
Sparty's top candiidate. Too bad.