Fleck to the NFL??

[regoratsginrom]

If Frost's name ever actually comes up in NFL gossip, Moos will call in extra Brinks trucks loaded with cash to deliver the mega-extension.

Likely not something we will ever need to worry about.

 

[Lincoln100]

I'm not as down on Fleck as many posters here, but I don't think his schtick would go over well with NFL players.

he's going to have his underwear pulled over his head within about 20 minutes of walking into the facilities.

 

[HBK4life_rivals100467]

he's going to have his underwear pulled over his head within about 20 minutes of walking into the facilities.

And a boat oar shoved up his ***.

 

[HuskersNC]

And a boat oar shoved up his ***.

I thought he always kept one shoved up there just in case he needed an extra.

 

[mgbreeze]

Not true at all. Minnesota had won 8+ games 3 of the 4 seasons before Fleck got there. 31-21 (.596) overall. Fleck took over a successful program, with a winning culture. He has been 26-19 (.578) in his 4 years. The fact that PJ Fleck has made people believe he has worked miracles and made a disaster of a program ELIET just speaks to his used car salesman quality.

This is 100% accurate and drives me nuts that the narrative ignores the Kill/Claeys era. Those guys were the miracle workers, not Fleck.

 

[TheBeav815]

Not true at all. Minnesota had won 8+ games 3 of the 4 seasons before Fleck got there. 31-21 (.596) overall. Fleck took over a successful program, with a winning culture. He has been 26-19 (.578) in his 4 years. The fact that PJ Fleck has made people believe he has worked miracles and made a disaster of a program ELIET just speaks to his used car salesman quality.

 

[TheBeav815]

This is 100% accurate and drives me nuts that the narrative ignores the Kill/Claeys era. Those guys were the miracle workers, not Fleck.

I somehow managed to forget that Jerry Kill ever existed and I'm not sure how that happened.

 

[Headcard]

 

[Huskerz99]

Maybe, or maybe he's smart enough to read people and size up situations so that he adapts himself to the characteristics of a successful coach. Choose a philosophy on offense and defense, hire good people and form a cohesive team and culture. We know he'd have no trouble making difficult decisions. He approaches college football very much like a for profit business. It would be difficult with so many millionaire, entitled athletes with varying agendas though. He might fail in the NFL, but he could probably always be above average in college.

Exactly. Fleck wouldn’t coach the same in the NFL like running up and down the sidelines. But clearly it gets 18-22 year olds excited so why not? He can find what gets 23-35 year olds excited im sure which is play good football otherwise we are all fired. Clearly the guy has a winning mentality and believes in what he does.

 

[Headcard]

Exactly. Fleck wouldn’t coach the same in the NFL like running up and down the sidelines. But clearly it gets 18-22 year olds excited so why not? He can find what gets 23-35 year olds excited im sure which is play good football otherwise we are all fired. Clearly the guy has a winning mentality and believes in what he does.

I 100% believe he will do the same ridiculous antics no matter where he is. That is just who he is. He doesn’t do that stuff for the kids, he does it for himself. He is a shameless self promoter.

 

[JohnRossEwing]

You guys are assuming that is the only way he can coach. He’s motivating the way he thinks it will work where he is at. Why do you think he would “row the boat” the same way in the pros?

When I coached my daughters 4th grade basketball team I did some things differently than when I coached 8th grade boys. “Sharing time” at the start of practice and a game of knockout at the end of every practice as a reward for a good practice worked for the girls but would have been ridiculous for the older boys.

Fleck is a smart guy, goood coach, played and coached in the nfl, has been a successful college coach and he just turned 40. Husker fans hate the guy but an objective view is that he has been a success and will have a lot of opportunities that are a step up from where he is.

All that said I wonder if he won’t hang on and see if he can land the MI job after Harbaugh. His annoying (I agree he is annoying) approach would fit their fan base to a t and Fleck does seem more like a college guy.

They let girls play sports???

I kid, sort of.

I have coached HS girls before, I find them to be easier to coach than the HS boys.

 

[John_J_Rambo_rivals315142]

Exactly. Fleck wouldn’t coach the same in the NFL like running up and down the sidelines. But clearly it gets 18-22 year olds excited so why not? He can find what gets 23-35 year olds excited im sure which is play good football otherwise we are all fired. Clearly the guy has a winning mentality and believes in what he does.

pete carroll and sean mcvay can be found regularly running up and down the sidelines during NFL games.

 

[Headcard]

pete carroll and sean mcvay can be found regularly running up and down the sidelines during NFL games.

Come on. Pete Carroll doesn’t act like a fool, like PJ Fleck. Fleck is an act, a con man in teal pants.

 

[TheBeav815]

Come on. Pete Carroll doesn’t act like a fool, like PJ Fleck. Fleck is an act, a con man in teal pants.

Yeah, you'd never get grown adults in this country to support a con man...

 

[Headcard]

Yeah, you'd never get grown adults in this country to support a con man...

 

[PeliniTheCrutch_rivals294365]

He would get bent over in the NFL...

...and it would be beautiful.

 

[PeliniTheCrutch_rivals294365]

Remember in Heartbreak Ridge when they brought in The Swede to regulate and Gunny Highway took care of ****?

Yeah, this would be the complete opposite of that.

 

[V1nufanx4]

Remember in Heartbreak Ridge when they brought in The Swede to regulate and Gunny Highway took care of ****?

Yeah, this would be the complete opposite of that.

Clint Eastwood made a lot of great movies, Heartbreak Ridge ain’t one of them .

 

[WHCSC]

Clint Eastwood made a lot of great movies, Heartbreak Ridge ain’t one of them .

Sacrilege

 

[PeliniTheCrutch_rivals294365]

Clint Eastwood made a lot of great movies, Heartbreak Ridge ain’t one of them .

Well no ****.

 

[73 Red I]

I think he's a douche canoe but he's taken Minnesota from an absolute doormat of a program to a winning team. The "players coach" thing in the NFL is overplayed. NFL players want to win just like HS and college kids do. I'd be happy to see him go because odds are his replacement would be a worse coach.

How many of you work for a boss you don't like but you keep showing up for the paycheck? It's the same thing.

Parcels and Belichik are two of the most notorious curmudgeons in the NFL. Dudes wanted to play for them because they won rings. Ditka was a first rate a-hole and his own DC was the first one in line to wanna knock him out. But it was fine as long as they were winning.

Minnesota was not a doormat when Fleck took over. Jerry Kill had put the program on a solid base as opposed to Nebraska's previous two coaches

 

[Huskerz99]

Minnesota was not a doormat when Fleck took over. Jerry Kill had put the program on a solid base as opposed to Nebraska's previous two coaches

Yes. pelini was terrible and Frost is amazing regardless of what the results say. This isn’t a results based business at all.

 

[steinek11]

I somehow managed to forget that Jerry Kill ever existed and I'm not sure how that happened.

It really chapped kills hide when flick s*** all over his staff during his first year

 

[JohnRossEwing]

It really chapped kills hide when flick s*** all over his staff during his first year

Yeah it did.

Kill is sort of an old school hardass and 99% of the time coaches never crap on other coaches because they know they will someday need a handout errrrr job again.

But Flex has done an amazing job creating the "It was the other staffs fault and this is year zero, not year one" idea.