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RE: PJ Fleck to Minnesota Confirmed.
(01-06-2017 11:53 AM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  
(01-06-2017 11:51 AM)RitzHuskie Wrote:  I will say this in seriousness, I will be very disappointed in Carey if he does not poach at least 3 recruits from WMU. He needs to get a little dirty here as is the nature of college football.

We will see, it will certainly help if we had already offered some of the guys who will de-commit

There are a couple from our own backyard. Naperville, Kankakee, etc. No reason he should not at least give them a call. We have the open spots. I think this year we can take the max of 25 recruits, so why not give it a shot?
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RE: PJ Fleck to Minnesota Confirmed.
(01-06-2017 11:07 AM)sterling1man Wrote:  
(01-06-2017 09:45 AM)UIHuskie Wrote:  
(01-06-2017 09:22 AM)PrideinthePack2 Wrote:  Fleck could make the Big Ten title game next season. Getting Nebraska/Wisconsin/Illinois at home. Visiting Iowa/Northwestern/Purdue. Three opponents from the East yet to be determined, two of them should be home games.

I'd be really surprised if they won the West. They lose a lot off of their defense, which they relied heavily on (their offense was mediocre at best), as well as their QB, and they have a bit of ground to make up on Wisconsin and Iowa. The crossovers next year (Maryland, Michigan State, at Michigan) are more difficult than this past year's (Rutgers, at Maryland, at Penn State). This has nothing to do with the B1G, but their non-conference also includes a road game at an Oregon State team they struggled with in Minneapolis this past season.

Add in a total overhaul of the coaching staff and I think it would be pretty surprising if they made the B1G title game. They should be decent, though.

PJ inherits a program where FB players are angry and transferring out and are very angry with the administration.
It is a total mess.

It takes several years to rebuild a program.

Jerry Kill and Tracey Clay did a great job resuscitating Gopher FB.

PJ has to win the trust of a team , angry with their administration, while not alienating that administration.

He has not had enough time to recruit at Mn.for next year.

If PJ can stop Mn FB players transferring out and get 6 wins and a post season in this situation he will have accomplished an incredible feat.

The problem he might face is unrealistic expectations from fans and haters alike.

Will the Mn football players, administration and fans give him several years required to build a B1G contender?

I tried a quick google search but couldn't find the answer, how many players transferred from Minnesota?
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RE: PJ Fleck to Minnesota Confirmed.
(01-06-2017 12:13 PM)PrideinthePack2 Wrote:  
(01-06-2017 11:07 AM)sterling1man Wrote:  
(01-06-2017 09:45 AM)UIHuskie Wrote:  
(01-06-2017 09:22 AM)PrideinthePack2 Wrote:  Fleck could make the Big Ten title game next season. Getting Nebraska/Wisconsin/Illinois at home. Visiting Iowa/Northwestern/Purdue. Three opponents from the East yet to be determined, two of them should be home games.

I'd be really surprised if they won the West. They lose a lot off of their defense, which they relied heavily on (their offense was mediocre at best), as well as their QB, and they have a bit of ground to make up on Wisconsin and Iowa. The crossovers next year (Maryland, Michigan State, at Michigan) are more difficult than this past year's (Rutgers, at Maryland, at Penn State). This has nothing to do with the B1G, but their non-conference also includes a road game at an Oregon State team they struggled with in Minneapolis this past season.

Add in a total overhaul of the coaching staff and I think it would be pretty surprising if they made the B1G title game. They should be decent, though.

PJ inherits a program where FB players are angry and transferring out and are very angry with the administration.
It is a total mess.

It takes several years to rebuild a program.

Jerry Kill and Tracey Clay did a great job resuscitating Gopher FB.

PJ has to win the trust of a team , angry with their administration, while not alienating that administration.

He has not had enough time to recruit at Mn.for next year.

If PJ can stop Mn FB players transferring out and get 6 wins and a post season in this situation he will have accomplished an incredible feat.

The problem he might face is unrealistic expectations from fans and haters alike.

Will the Mn football players, administration and fans give him several years required to build a B1G contender?

I tried a quick google search but couldn't find the answer, how many players transferred from Minnesota?

Zero thus far
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RE: PJ Fleck to Minnesota Confirmed.
Several of the accused ten players have said that they would transfer out.

Please do not misconstrue, that I am condoning abusing a person, and or alleged gang rape.
No means No, even after a person might have said yes.

In Mn the whole FB team stood behind these 10 players accused of gang rape.

Maybe they were guilty and the entire team by extension was guilty of siding with them or

They were treated unfairly in the sense that there was misunderstanding, or did not receive a fair hearing and were used as scape goats to make a political statement?

Whatever the truth may be, a real mess awaites PJ.

The acrimony between the administration and the FB team is not going away immediately.

He will not inherit a coherent, happy to receive him team united in their resolve to win a B1G title.
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I'd be very interested in poaching quite a few of those highly touted recruits...

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RE: PJ Fleck to Minnesota Confirmed.
Another Huskie joining PJ in Minny...Matt Simon.
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Simon is from Minnesota. Great move for him.
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Interesting, I thought WMU trademarked the whole "Row the Boat" theme. PJ has already updated his twitter account with the heading below:

Head Football Coach at the University of Minnesota! Ski-U-Mah! Row The Boat!
https://twitter.com/Coach_Fleck
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(01-06-2017 02:18 PM)NIUSAE Wrote:  Simon is from Minnesota. Great move for him.

I was a big fan of Simon. Had a great career at receiver for NIU.
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(01-06-2017 02:55 PM)NIU32 Wrote:  Interesting, I thought WMU trademarked the whole "Row the Boat" theme. PJ has already updated his twitter account with the heading below:

Head Football Coach at the University of Minnesota! Ski-U-Mah! Row The Boat!
https://twitter.com/Coach_Fleck

I'm glad we don't have to share conferences with him anymore. The rest of the Big Ten will hate him, but he thrives off the hate. Lol. Minnesota may suck next year, but once they buy into it, it will make them tough to beat if he can recreate the culture he had at WMU. I can already see it Fleck trash talking Harbaugh......
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(01-06-2017 02:55 PM)NIU32 Wrote:  Ski-U-Mah!

For those interested this is pronounced: SKY-YOU-MA
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What's the definition?
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just saw this tweet. i know doeren probably wasnt his biggest fan after he accepeted the OC job then left, but I thought him and Kill were pretty tight?

Nadine Babu ‏@NadineBabu 3h3 hours ago

Reusse on PJ Fleck: Very unpopular with his colleagues at Northern Illinois including Jerry Kill. #Gophers
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(01-05-2017 10:39 PM)thehappyhuskie Wrote:  
(01-05-2017 10:24 PM)JoeNovak Wrote:  
(01-05-2017 10:22 PM)HuskiePride12 Wrote:  Good opportunity for us to grab some other verbals

You have to think that top MAC recruiting class will all jump ship. Especially after a sales pitch from PJ and then leaving

well played. drop the oars. row no mo.

i think PJ should take "naw the wood" since they are the gophers. my gopher knowledge doesn't extend much past what I've seen in Caddy Shack.

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PJ Fleck to Minnesota Confirmed.
(01-06-2017 03:40 PM)HuskieFootball Addict Wrote:  
(01-05-2017 10:39 PM)thehappyhuskie Wrote:  
(01-05-2017 10:24 PM)JoeNovak Wrote:  
(01-05-2017 10:22 PM)HuskiePride12 Wrote:  Good opportunity for us to grab some other verbals

You have to think that top MAC recruiting class will all jump ship. Especially after a sales pitch from PJ and then leaving

well played. drop the oars. row no mo.

i think PJ should take "naw the wood" since they are the gophers. my gopher knowledge doesn't extend much past what I've seen in Caddy Shack.

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Or "chop the wood" and they will have axes on everything and he will talk about getting Paul bunyans axe back. Book it!! Haha


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I know it has no oar reference, but I like "Gopher broke"
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(01-06-2017 03:30 PM)NIUSAE Wrote:  What's the definition?

It's pretty lame:

Quote:This famous Minnesota phrase Ski-U-Mah (pronounced SKY-YOU-MAH) is more than 115 years old. In 1884, two Minnesota rugby players, John W. Adams and Win Sargent, tried to think of a fitting team yell. They used the word “Ski”, a Sioux battle cry meaning victory, and combined it with “U-Mah” (representing the University of Minnesota and rhyming with “rah-rah-rah”) to create a team cheer. The phrase stuck and was incorporated into both official school songs, “Hail Minnesota” and more commonly in the “Minnesota Rouser.”

The Minnesota Rouser is awful as well, especially the end around :50. Think trying to say Minnesota in just two syllables in an artificially low voice, like :Mnsota, Mnsota.



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RE: PJ Fleck to Minnesota Confirmed.
Time will tell if Fleck is the real deal or managed to catch lightening for one year.
I think Fleck's antics were "new-age" annoying, but you can't argue with success. He turned the program around and WMU had an outstanding year.

How Fleck's tactics will work at Minny and the rest of the B10 will be interesting to see. I'm always glad to see an NIU alum succeed, and am happy that Fleck is rising in the world of college football.

I was kind of amused that the WMU fan base bought so much into Fleck's "I'm staying, this is my family" routine. I guess they were hoping against hope that the money wasn't an issue, but it's never about the money, right?(LOL). WMU may have actually dodged a bullet.
They could have signed an expensive, lengthy contract and had buyer's remorse several years down the road after a losing season or two(sounds familiar to NIU fans)

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Cast Your Rod

Which in NIUs situation, has a much different meaning.
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Denzel Houston - 3 Star QB/ATH - de-committed from WMU today
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